Early Israeli Polls Show Netanyahu in Lead!

Elections are a necessary step  According to polls, Netanyahu has no rivals for the job. It is not merely that nearly three times as many people think that Netanyahu is the best person to serve as prime minister when compared to his closest contender, Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog. It’s also that the polls show right-wing parties picking up seats, while Lapid’s party is likely to lose more than half it seats in the Knesset. In recent days I met a man with an impressive military combat background. At the start of his many years in the army, he served in Sayeret Matkal, the IDF's elite reconnaissance unit, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The man explained that for fighters in the unit, loyalty to the team is a supreme value. Violating that is an attack on the soldiers' most basic ethos. The man I was speaking to said that fighters in the unit were prepared to face a lot, but would never accept anyone breaking the loyalty code, because it was a matter of life and death. When the prime minister realized that former Finance Minister Yair Lapid and his cohort were cooking something up behind his back and trying to curry favor with the American administration by attacking the unity of Jerusalem and government decisions, he said, "That's it." Disloyalty by a cabinet member is unforgiveable. An early election is a must, because the harm caused to the citizens of Israel by a government in which every minister makes his own calculations is 10 times greater than the cost of holding early elections. I have no doubt that U.S. President Barack Obama, like Yair Lapid and Hatnuah leader Tzipi Livni, is sorry about the decision to hold an early Knesset election. Netanyahu will continue to fight with whoever succeeds Obama to keep the land of Israel intact. Not even a week has passed since the prime minister and finance minister's fateful meeting, and spokespeople from Lapid's Yesh Atid party are already letting the people of Israel know what will happen in the election.  The evil ghost of Tommy Lapid will once again appear, and his son and heir will proclaim excitedly that the ultra-Orthodox are the greatest disaster to befall the people of Zion. The same anti-Semitic headlines will appear again, exuding hate. Of course, the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) sector can be criticized, but to blame it for Lapid's ineffectiveness as finance minister when they were in the opposition throughout his term, is pure malice. Salvos of pure hatred will also be flung at the settlers -- "those religious people" who have lived in Judea and Samaria for years and serve as the first line of defense for the residents of Tel Aviv. The most idealistic public in Israeli society, which carries the weight of the country's settlement and security, will be turned into an obstacle to peace. Neither the recalcitrant Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas nor Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh are the stumbling block, but rather the Israeli settlers who are fulfilling Zionism at its best. The Yesh Atid people will make the election about the state of Tel Aviv vs. everyone else. But even in Tel Aviv there are citizens who understand that the walls of our existence cannot be built from bricks of hatred. Another central motif from Yesh Atid, Hatnuah, and Meretz will be drowning the citizens of Israel in a flood of clinical depression. The Left has been an expert at this for years. The worse things are, the better it is for the Left. Morning, noon and night we hear about the chasms, the inequality in Israeli society, about poverty and housing prices. As if most of the voters for the center-left parties didn't come from the affluent sectors. The tycoons, the lobbyists, the contractors, and the new rich vote for the Left, while the weaker sectors vote for the Likud and the Right. The campaign by Yesh Atid and Hatnuah will focus relentlessly on the prime minister. Bibiphobia will reach new heights. They will unleash all their ongoing frustration on Netanyahu, frustration that has its roots in the simple fact that all the Left's candidates for prime minister have the faith of only single digit's worth of support from the public. In our geopolitical reality, we need an experienced leadership that can face a world that is mostly hostile toward the state of Israel. The public has already learned that delusional concessions and agreements don't bring peace any closer -- they encourage war. Soon we'll hold elections and the people will have their say. The results will no doubt be crystal clear.  Most of the Israeli people lean Right, love their homeland, and are holding on to it forever, refusing to buy the baseless dreams of the Left.

Netanyahu should run against Obama & Abbas instead of Livni & Lapid

David Weinberg

by David Weinberg

Running for re-election, against whom? In order to win the elections that have been foisted upon him, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must run a focused campaign against Israel's bona fide foes, not against the novice and petty politicians with whom he has been squabbling. His kvetching about Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid only diminishes him in the eyes of voters. Whiny rants about anarchy in the coalition won't advance Netanyahu too far. Instead, Netanyahu must market himself as a leader who transcends the local mud-slinging and who can responsibly navigate a path for Israel in the face of the many regional and international threats. To put it another way:  Netanyahu indeed has rivals worth running against, but they are not Livni and Lapid, nor Avigdor Lieberman and Naftali Bennett. Netanyahu should be running against U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Obama has made it clear that in coming period he is "not going to be able to manage" to fully defend Israel in international forums. Abbas is seeking condemnation, isolation, criminalization and boycott of Israel, alongside recognition of virtual Palestinian statehood. Obama is going to smirk from the sidelines. Obama himself will undoubtedly turn up the pressure on Israel in various ways in an attempt to precipitously force Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines. He isn't going to leave Israel alone for one single day. And we already know that the U.S. president has decided to acquiesce on Iran's near-nuclear status. So, Israel has tough challenges ahead, and needs a leader who will stand firm. Netanyahu can and should say forthrightly to the Israeli public: I have stood strong against Obama's unfriendly pressures for six years. Re-elect me in order to see Israel through the ominous final two years of the Obama administration. This is messaging that would be both real and resonant. Israelis fear and resent Obama administration policies, even as they still overwhelmingly believe in America and the American-Israeli alliance.  A Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies public opinion poll demonstrated this week that the Israeli public believes that the Obama administration has greatly weakened America's standing in the Middle East, and thinks that its policies on Iran, ISIS and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are truly "bad." This is a key electoral calling card for Netanyahu: Standing tall against a hostile world. It will become even more so if and when the Obama administration and European leaders attempt to intervene in the Israeli election campaign by warning the Israeli public that Israel can expect increased international isolation if Netanyahu is re-elected. Such intervention will likely backfire and actually benefit Netanyahu, as it has in past campaigns, but I suspect Obama and associates won't be able to resist. In fact, I assume that one of the genuine reasons Netanyahu is going to the polls now is directly linked to such expected pressures. Israel can't be expected to launch any risky diplomatic ventures while in electoral flux. By casting Israel into election mode for a lengthy period of time -- it could be July before a new government settles into its cabinet seats -- Netanyahu is running down the clock on Obama. That is not a bad diplomatic strategy at all; perfectly legitimate and understandable to the Israeli voter. After all, Netanyahu came to office in order to put a long-term break on the galloping withdrawals of the Oslo era. Netanyahu should find a way to own up to this strategy, even though it's not politically correct to admit to this in diplomatic company. I think he'll be rewarded by the Israeli public. Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog, Livni and Obama may consider Netanyahu a cowardly failure (or "chickenshit") because he won't match the follies of his predecessors and risk the country's security with territorial withdrawals that could result in the creation of another terror state on Israel's doorstep. But Israelis understand that Netanyahu's willingness to say no to Obama is all that stands between them and another fiasco like the destruction of Gush Katif and the gifting of Gaza to Hamas. And consider this too: Wouldn't it be sweet to see Netanyahu outlast Obama in office? Then there is Abbas.  Herzog can go on and on about the need to cut a deal with Abbas, and Livni can ridiculously and pompously assert with certainty that "With me in the negotiating room, peace is attainable" -- but the Israeli public knows better. Abbas is washed up as a peace partner, certainly since he partnered with Hamas, launched a campaign of lies and incitement regarding the Temple Mount, and lauded terrorists who attacked Israelis in Jerusalem.  Everybody in Israel remembers Abbas' monstrous speech at U.N. in September outrageously accusing Israel of "genocide" in Gaza. Netanyahu can capitalize on this, by highlighting the flimsiness and fancifulness of the opposition's belief in Abbas. I won't let us be suckered by Abbas again -- Netanyahu can assert, and it will resonate. Israeli society needed another election campaign just now like a hole in the head. So much invective, radical rhetoric, and ugliness is ahead -- all of it cynically hyped and exaggerated for campaign purposes. Ugh. Therefore, Netanyahu must rise above the fray and focus on the big picture. There are concrete, looming challenges ahead, and nobody else running in this campaign is true prime ministerial material. That's not just an argument for re-election by default. It's a robust and realistic campaign platform.

Dealing with violence and abuse in the religious world

Yeshiva University Dean of Students Dr. Chaim Nissel 
 Photo credit: Israel Hayom staff

What unique challenges face victims of abuse in religious communities and is the religious world equipped to deal with them? 

• Watch as Israel Hayom editor Steve Ganot speaks to Yeshiva University's Dr. Chaim Nissel about abuse in the Orthodox world.

While victims and survivors of abuse and violence face stigma in virtually every community, it is typically even more so the case in religious communities, according to Yeshiva University Dean of Students Dr. Chaim Nissel.

Nissel, formerly the university's head of counseling, spoke about preventing suicide among victims of violence and abuse at an international conference titled "The Jewish Community Confronts Violence & Abuse" in Jerusalem earlier this week.

He says that some of the challenges facing abuse victims in religious communities include concerns about reputation and the impact reporting the abuse would have on one's family.

As the Orthodox Jewish community becomes better informed about what violence and abuse victims suffer through learning about issues like stigma and suicide prevention, they will be able to offer better resources for victims within the community.

Watch as Israel Hayom host Steve Ganot speaks to Nissel about changing attitudes toward the issues of violence and abuse in religious communities and how to support those around you who may be suffering from abuse or suicidal thoughts.

Naive Hillary Clinton:"America should 'empathize' and 'show respect' to its enemies"

Hillary Clinton has come under fire after saying that America should 'empathize'' with its enemies.

Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. to promote female leadership, the former U.S. Secretary of State also said the country should show 'respect' to those fighting against it.

Using an approach she dubs 'smart power' - which women are apparently uniquely positioned to deploy - she urged Americans to use 'every possible tool and partner' to advance peace. 

This approach means 'showing respect, even for one's enemies; trying to understand and, insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view,' she said. 

The front-runner Democratic nominee's speech, specifically focusing on female leadership in foreign conflicts and relations, was held in the university's famed Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

Within minutes of the 67-year-old's appearance being broadcast, she was being criticized by social media users across America for her 'ridiculous' attitude toward the country's enemies.

Many people condemned her comments in the context of the U.S.'s recent airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS), which has taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria, Fox News reported. 

Addressing Clinton directly, one Twitter user wrote: 'You have NO understanding of ISIS or ANY of America's enemies. Empathizing with killers only ensures your demise.'

Another user, named Sally LeMaster, told the politician: 'You know what, If you're so gung-ho to "empathize with America's enemies," go turn yourself over to them & see what happens.'

And Dr Sha Clark described her views simply as 'baloney'.

Away from social media, former Marine Lieutenant Colonel, Oliver North, now a Fox News host, described Clinton's comments as 'naive' and 'irrational'.

'I can’t think of a presidential candidate who would have said those kinds of things,' he said. 

'If you’re going to run for president of the United States, you cannot talk that way about the people who intend to kill us. Who are dying to kill us... This is capitulation.'

Karl Rove, ex-George W. Bush adviser, added that Clinton's remarks were the 'wrong language'. 

During the speech, Clinton also told listeners: 'Women are not just victims of conflict. They are agents of peace and agents of change.'

And she claimed 'smart power' would help to 'define problems' and 'determine solutions'.

Earlier this week, it was reported that Clinton's speech at Georgetown University was met with tepid enthusiasm from students, with just half of seats in the reception hall appearing to be filled.

Pictures and video discovered by the Daily Caller showed empty clusters throughout the 750-seat auditorium in which she spoke as part of the security conference.

This is at least the second time in recent weeks that Clinton has been unable to pack a room during an appearance as she decides whether she wants to carry her political party's torch in 2016.

In late October,the politician served as the headliner at a rally for Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, who was campaigning to become the Bay State's chief executive at the time.

After the event at the University of Maryland's College Park campus was over, Brown's staff claimed that more than a 1,000 supporters came out to see Clinton.

However, it was later evident that there were far fewer attendees, as most of the nose-bleed seats on one side of the gymnasium were empty, as were areas of the bleachers on the side.  

Obama Considering Sanctions on Israel but Wants Congress to Remove Sanctions on Iran

The Obama administration is refusing to discuss reports that emerged early Thursday claiming that the White House is considering imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem.

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dodged several questions on Thursday when confronted with reports that the administration had held secret internal meetings to discuss taking action against Israel for its ongoing building in East Jerusalem.

The classified meetings were reportedly held several weeks ago and included officials from both the State Department and White House, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which first reported on the meetings.

The possibility of sanctioning Israel for its ongoing construction sends a signal that the Obama administration is willing to go further in its denunciations of Israel then any previous White House.

At the same time, the White House is vigorously pushing Congress against passing new sanctions on Iran.

When asked to address the reports Thursday afternoon, Harf declined to take a stance.

“I’m obviously not going to comment one way or another on reported internal deliberations,” she said. “We’ve made clear our position on settlement activity publicly and that hasn’t changed.”

When pressed to address whether the White House has reached a point at which it believes its harsh rhetoric against Israel is not enough, Harf again demurred, stating that she would not “address hypotheticals.”

A White House National Security Council (NSC) official also would not comment on the report when contacted Thursday by the Washington Free Beacon.

News of the supposed meeting leaked to the press though Israeli officials who were apparently apprised of the discussion.

Senior Israeli officials told Haaretz “that White House officials held a classified discussion a few weeks ago about the possibility of taking active measures against the settlements,” according to the report.

The discussion about levying sanctions on Israel reportedly began after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s October meeting at the White House and the subsequent battle between Washington and Jerusalem over settlement construction.

The thought of the White House leveling sanctions on Israel as it works to lessen those already imposed on Iran prompted consternation on Capitol Hill and throughout the pro-Israel world.

One senior congressional aide who works on the issue of Israel expressed shock that a White House could even discuss such action.

“If these reports are true, this would mark a new era of unprecedented hostility from the White House against our strongest ally in the Middle East,” the source said. “It’s impossible not to notice the irony of the administration mulling sanctions on Israel while threatening to veto new sanctions against Iran.”

The aide added: “The president should be forewarned that taking such action against Israel would yield tremendous pushback from Congress.”

Those in the pro-Israel world expressed a similar view when reached for comment.

“Even this administration, which has been historically hostile to our Israeli allies, even as they worked overtime to bomb the enemies of Iranian proxies across the Middle East, could not possibly be so aggressively committed to undermining our alliances as to levy sanctions against Israel at the same time they’re lifting them on Iran,” said one senior official with a pro-Israel organization who agreed to speak only on background.

Others took a more critical view.

“The Obama administration is against sanctions on Iran, but for them on Israel,” said Noah Pollak, executive director of the pro-Israel organization Emergency Committee for Israel. “Is [White House deputy national security adviser] Ben Rhodes wearing a green headband to work these days?”

The Rami Levy Store Attack: Choose, or We Will

Paula R. Stern

Paula R. Stern is the Founder and Documentation Manager of WritePoint, a technical writing company.

by Paula Stern

Life teaches us many things, if we are willing to learn them.

Today, my 14 year old daughter once again learned fear. She was on her way back from a school trip when a terrorist attacked the Rami Levy supermarket branch in Mishor Adumim,  the industrial area just to the east of our home. 

As her bus passed it, she heard sirens and someone with an Internet connection announced that there had been a terror attack. In those confusing first minutes, it was reported that two people had been shot. She called me right away, afraid that I had decided to do our weekly shopping this afternoon.

In the last Intifada, I gave my children strict instructions - if something blows up in Israel, I don't care where or when, you call me Immediately. Now, they call me not to tell me they are fine, but to see where I am.

"Where are you?" she asked. Thirty minutes later, my 18-year-old son did the same.

For the first I answered, "at home." For the second, I simply said, "not at Rami Levy."

When my daughter got home, she looked at me and said, "it's getting closer." Her "it" consists of so many things - evil, terror, violence.

"First it was Jerusalem, now Mishor Adumim. Next it will be Maale Adumim." Such sadness in a child, such resignation.

I found myself wanting to reassure her and so I responded with inanities, such as "Mishor Adumim has hundreds of Arabs working there"  - where Arabs don't work, they can't stab and shoot innocent people. But of course, hundreds of Arabs come into my town of Maale Adumim daily to work as well.

Then I said, "and there's no light rail here. They just jump on the train in Shuafat and go wherever they want." But even without a light rail, they can kill in Jerusalem and in Maale Adumim, Tel Aviv, Netanya, Ofra, Kfar Sava, Eilat - it really doesn't matter where.

I shop at Rami Levy every week, sometimes on Wednesdays, usually on Thursdays, sometimes on Fridays. I made a decision long ago. I can never afford to give the kind of charity that Rami Levy, whose generosity is legendary and whose prices are aimed at the poor, can afford to give. I can never do the amazing things he has done by having Jews and Arabs work together. So I do what I can - which is shop there and show my support that way.

Most of the bag packers in the Mishor Adumim store are Arabs, and they work beside one who is Jewish and wears a kippah. Most of the stockers are Arab. One of the managers is an Arab and he works beside a Jewish assistant manager.

I know some of the workers by name, others simply by face. One lived in America for a few years and speaks English very well. "Hey there," he says each time he sees me and then asks how I'm doing. I know the guys behind the meat counter, behind the cheese counter, in the vegetable aisles. I know the Arab assistant manager and some of the Arab cashiers.

I think I can tell the difference between those Arabs that tolerate us so that they can have work and those who care about having good lives and being decent. There is one Arab worker there who looks so sad after each attack that I wonder if he too feels angry or just senses the angry vibrations that fill the store in the hours and days that follow terror.

Over the 20+ years that I have lived here, I have met many Arabs who just want to live in peace, just want to give their children the best chances in life - good education, good medical care. They just want to live. "With this one," I'll often say, "with this one we could have peace." But we don't hear them.

I once had an Arab contractor bring an Arab worker into my home. The worker was wearing a t-shirt with a map of Israel on the front and blood dripping from a wound (in a Jewish star) around where Jerusalem would be, and somewhere in the mess of the shirt was the Palestinian flag. I asked the contractor to go outside so I could "show him something" and then I told him to get that worker out of my house immediately and if he brought him back, he and the rest of the workers could pack their bags as well.

With that one, we can't make peace, I thought as I watched him leave my home. I called security and reported him as well. If someone says he is going to kill you, Elie Wiesel once said, believe him. The message on that worker's shirt was that Jewish blood would flow.

Jewish blood flowed today in a store where I shop every week. I thought about going there today and decided I'd go tomorrow. My daughter thought of going there today, but didn't. Two Jews did go today, and they are in the hospital now.

Rami Levy has done special things to offer equality in employment, so this attack had a message. It targeted a place and a man who is at the forefront of attempting to mend the problems between ordinary Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. There isn't a single time I shop there that I don't interact with the Arabs there.

In these hours after the attack, there are two lessons we can come away with. Which one rises to the top will depend more on the Arabs than on us.

The first message that we could take is the one we've been trying to believe all along, but now we wonder why we ever thought it was the right one. We thought it was the extremists, not the main. We thought there might be, somewhere buried deep below, a path to peace, a way to live together.

The second message is to surrender to the opposite approach. Maybe the lesson of today's attack is that there is a fundamental flaw in the Rami Levy way of thinking. 

If you are bent on attacking us, our homes, our stores, our buses and trains, we surrender. Perhaps it is time to build the very apartheid state you accuse us of having. You know it is a lie - and yet you continue to tell the world that Israel is a segregationist society. You shop where we do, work where we do. You travel on the same buses and trains, go to the same hospitals. 

In the last month or so, one learned Rabbi was gunned down and critically injured, three others were axed or shot to death. An infant was murdered, two Druze policemen killed for attempting to stop terror attacks in progress. A young woman who came across the world to align her life and beliefs with Israel was murdered, another beautiful young woman was run over and then stabbed on the same day that a young soldier was killed in Tel Aviv. Thousands of rock attacks, buses have been shot at and firebombed.

Perhaps the time has come to explain to the Arabs that we will walk away with one of these lessons, not both. 

The first would encourage us to give them a bit more time while they readjust a society that has incorrectly glorified violence, death and martyrdom. 

The second option would be to embrace the very society they accuse us of having; to become the very society they are forcing us to be.

We can separate ourselves to protect our children, fire all the workers, restrict all the shoppers.

We can say:

 Go build your own roads, your own hospitals. Shop in your stores, not ours and be healed by your doctors, not ours. Run your own buses and get off our trains.

We have the power to make all the lies you tell the world come true, to be your worst nightmare. Because we want to live, we want our children to live. 

Time is running short.

Choose the lesson you want us to take from today's attack. Choose, or we will.

60 Chareidim Enlist into Air Force

Amid great tensions over hareidi enlistment, about 60 hareidi soldiers joined the ranks of the IAF Tuesday as part of the Shahar Kahol project, writes the IAF Website.

The new recruits will be integrated into a variety of professions and rolesin the IAF, including programmers in the IAF's Ofek computer unit, software inspectors, network administrators and information securityprofessionals, certified electricians, mechanical engineering equipment operators and technicians.

After about three weeks' basic training at the Uvda base, they will begin courses at the College of Management Academic Studies, after which they will receive professional certificates.

“All of the training for hareidi soldiers is carried out separately, in gender-segregated battalions in which the soldiers receive all they need for living their religious way of life," explained the IAF's Captain Moshe Prigan.

By the end of 2014, about 400 young hareidi men will have joined the IAF in the Shahar Kahol project, which is meant to benefit both the IAF and the hareidi sector. 

Two new positions have recently been opened up to Shahar Kahol enlistees: the first is that of application developer, in cooperation with Microsoft, and the second is that of intelligence investigator.

Daniel Gozlan, 24, who is married with a 5-month-old baby girl, was among those who enlisted Tuesday, and is to serve as a certified electrician after undergoing training.

“I am glad that the military enables people like me to enlist and study a proper profession, and serve while maintaining our lifestyle,” he told theIAF Website.

The issue of hareidi enlistment has seen great tensions over the past year amid an Enlistment Law forcing the hareidi draft which has been strongly opposed. 

More recently the question of enlistment has been cast in further doubt given the Knesset debate on the "religionization" of the IDF, which former IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen. (res.) Rabbi Avichai Ronski condemned as being anti-Semitic.

Amateur Photographer Releases New Photos Of Har Nof Attack

Police forces arrive on scene shooting dead the 2 terrorist. Officer Saif is seen on the right. See Terrorist coming out of Shul (Photo: Zohar Ross)

See Officer Saif on right!

See two dead terrorists

New images taken by an amateur photographer of the deadly attack at Har Nof’s Bnei Torah synagogue have been published.

Ynet News (http://bit.ly/15QZzzb ) reports that Zohar Ross who lives next door to the building next to the synagogue, was woken up by his son Nov. 18, and said he heard gun shots and saw people running outside.

“I ran to the balcony, and the first thing I saw was Shmuel Goldstein running out and shouting ‘there’s a massacre inside.’ I told my wife to call the police and grabbed my camera,” said Ross.

Traffic policeman Itzik Weizmann arrived on the scene, along with traffic cop Zidan Sif. Both drew their guns and Weizmann was about to go into the synagogue when he heard a shot. He shot at the terrorists inside, but missed. The terrorists – cousins Ghassan and Uday Abu-Jamal – then moved toward the exit.

“I have eye contact,” Zidan Sif called out.

The first attacker exited the synagogue holding a knife and ran toward Sif. Police opened fire on the first attacker, and the second was close behind. He exited the synagogue yelling “Allahu Akbar” and carrying a knife and gun.

“I was so focused on documenting this inferno,” Ross said, “I did not even realize what horror was unfolding in front of me. But I felt I had to photograph the terrorists, in case they managed to escape.”

Shots were fired and Sif and the second terrorist were dead.

The attack also claimed the lives of Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Rabbi Kalman Levine, Rabbi Moshe Twersky and Kupinsky Aryeh inside the synagogue.

Information taken from Ynet News

Frum Parties Make a Kiddush Hashem by Making Threats Against Yishai Warning Him Not to Start a Party

Yishai

B"H, we have peace in Eretz Yisroel. How do I know!

I know, because when the Religious parties in Israel start fighting with each other, that's a sign that everything else is ok...

They would get a lot more seats in the Knesset if they were united, and that would bring more $$$$$

to the kollilim! 

But, the Satan got involved, and wants to make sure that there is no unity amongst the frum parties, so that the Kollel guys shouldn't, G-D Forbid, live up to their promise in the Ketubah to support their wives!

So what does the "Sitra Achra" do to pull this off? 

First he make sure that they should rip each others heads off, ....just like in the Dor Haflagah.

Second, knowing that the frum guys will never join the army, he divides them anyway,he makes sure that some of the frum voters should back Rav Shteinman, who holds that the Yeshiva Bochrim sign up for the army, but not go,

and some of them should hold like Rav Shmuel Auerbach who holds that they shouldn't even sign up!

To make sure that all this goes smoothly without a hitch, he throws a wrench in, and gets Yishai to start his own party.
Then he puts a cherry on top, by getting another frum guy to threaten Yishai, that he will stab him.... 
The Satan knows that the Bochrim in Yeshiva have alot of time on their hands and will go in fire for their Rosh Yeshivos and even if it means hurting your opposition, just like they learned in their musser sedorim.

Meanwhile, the Sitra Achra is happy that at this time he doesn't need to deal with the Satmar hooligans, because they don't vote. 
They only vote for Gay and pro abortion candidates that stand for everything the Torah forbids!

A real Kiddush Hashem....can't wait till all this plays out!

Amid rumors that he is likely to announce his break from Shas to launch his own independent party, former Shas leader MK Eli Yishai received death threats. The latest threat warns him that if he announces his own party “I will stab you”. The threat was made over the phone.

Knesset security officials about two weeks ago assigned a bodyguard to Yishai fearing his outspoken right-wing views may have resulted in threats against him.

Policeman Going To Daven Attacked in Meah Shearim

NO! NO! NO! Not by Arabs! 
By Frum Jews! 
Where?
In Meah Shearim!
Yup....
Guys, keep giving those monsters business by shopping in their stores..
and don't forget to vote for all the frum parties!

A Policeman in uniform that was heading to a minyan in Meah Shearim was attacked. The policeman had to call for assistance to extricate himself from the attack.

It would appear the presence of a person in an Israel Police uniform is sufficient reason for some to go on the offensive. In this case it was an officer simply looking to daven.

Israel Police officials told the media they view the attack against a uniformed policeman as very serious and they will do everything possible to apprehend the suspects responsible for the unprovoked assault.