“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Reuven Shmerling Murdered by his own Arab employees
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Scene of discovery (Photo: MDA) |
Reuven Shmerling, 70, was found stabbed to death in the Arab town of Kafr Qasim, located in central Israel.
The victim's body was found by his son in a factory the victim owned in the Kafr Qasim industrial zone. Police and Magen David Adom first responders were called to the scene following the discovery.
The body showed signs of severe abuse.
MDA volunteers attempted to resuscitate the victim, but were forced to declare his death.
MDA Adi Marciano said, "When we arrived at the scene we were led to a building where we found a man of about seventy lying unconscious. He was not breathing and had no heartbeat. We performed medical tests and he did not show any signs of life. We were forced to declare his death at the scene."
Police are investigating the murder, and suspect the Jew hired Arab workers from the area, and the workers beat him to death during an argument.
"The police investigation into the incident in the industrial area of Kafr Qasim is continuing," an Israel Police spokesperson said. "We have confirmed that the Israeli man was murdered and police units are searching for suspects who could have been in the area at the time of the incident."
The victim, a long-time resident of the town of Elkana in western Samaria, is survived by his wife, Hana, and the couple's four children.
A spokesperson for the Elkana Local Council said, "Elkana expresses sorrow and shock at the murder of our friend Reuven Shmerling, who was murdered by evil murderers two hours ago in Kafr Qasim. We share in the family's mourning. The Council and community's hearts are with the family during these difficult hours."
Funeral details have not yet been announced.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
When Tom Petty hung out with an Orthodox rock band in Israel
He came to Israel in the late 1980s; he and his Heartbreakers were backing a decidedly out-of-sorts Bob Dylan.
A video clip that’s been dug up in the last few hours shows him, then-drummer Stan Lynch and other bandmates in listening mode near the Western Wall with a member of the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, getting a speedy tutorial on the holy places, Jerusalem’s Jewish and Muslim narratives, and the effectiveness of prayer.
As ever, Petty is hidden behind his shades and, though evidently interested, thoroughly understated. “That’s pretty wild, right,” he drawls to Lynch after the mini-lecture, as the two of them stroll off toward the Wall.
Eight Top Executives of Auertbach's fantatic Charedi newspaper to be indicted for blackmail
The followers of the fanatic R' Shmuel Auerbach, are basically evil sadistic people by nature, who enjoy tormenting others.
They found a way to do it with the backing of Daas Torah!
By throwing rocks and beating up Chareidie Soldiers, they fulfill their sadistic craving of seeing others in pain..by having their naive sheep sit on highways, preventing innocent people from going to work, home and shul, with the approval of an old geezer that they call a "gadol," they are able to "elevate" their miserable existence and call it a Mitzvah!
They have formed a Mafia to extort money from innocent business people .... but as the saying goes all "thieves are eventually caught."
The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office has decided to indict eight workers from the Hapeles newspaper for conspiracy to commit a crime, harassment, and blackmail.
Hapeles is the mouthpiece of the extremist Jerusalem Faction, which is connected with Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach and has been locked in a power struggle with the mainstream haredi community ever since the death of Torah Sage Rabbi Sholom Elyashiv in 2012. The Jerusalem Faction considers Bnei Brak-based Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman - the spiritual leader of the non-hasidic Lithuanian haredi community to be an illegitimate leader and has rejected his authority, splitting the hierarchical haredi world.
According to police, Hapeles CEO Natan Grossman and employees Shmuel Elyashiv, Avraham Trager, Chaim Yavrov, Netanel Shtapfer, Shabtai Fein, Yisrael Israel Tropper and Moshe Berliman embarked on a deliberate harassment campaign against haredi business owners after major haredi rabbis banned advertising with Hapeles, causing the publication's revenues to drop.
Police described how Hapeles pressured businesses into advertising with them by harassing and threatening company officials with ultimatums, warning that the failure to do so would be seen as an insult to a large segment of the haredi population and would have serious consequences. The harassment of the targeted officials reportedly occurred on a daily basis.
The indictments come a day after the Israeli Advertising Agency decided to yank all taxpayer-funded ads from Hapeles in light of its virulent opposition to haredi IDF soldiers.
The move was approved by the Justice, Defense, and Internal Security Ministers, who decided that the government should not be supporting Hapeles when it has been running virulent incitement against haredi IDF soldiers for years.
Police described how Hapeles pressured businesses into advertising with them by harassing and threatening company officials with ultimatums, warning that the failure to do so would be seen as an insult to a large segment of the haredi population and would have serious consequences. The harassment of the targeted officials reportedly occurred on a daily basis.
The indictments come a day after the Israeli Advertising Agency decided to yank all taxpayer-funded ads from Hapeles in light of its virulent opposition to haredi IDF soldiers.
The move was approved by the Justice, Defense, and Internal Security Ministers, who decided that the government should not be supporting Hapeles when it has been running virulent incitement against haredi IDF soldiers for years.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Israeli Government yanks advertising from anti-Zionist Charedi newspaper
Very very interesting..... who would think that the fanatical anti-Zionists would be taking money from the government and then biting the hand that fed them ........
Bunch of hypocrites ..... telling everyone not to take money from the government and was first in line to take Satmar blood money for their mosdos .... and now we find out, that they were on the take all this time.....
Israel's Government Advertising Agency has decided to yank all government advertising from the Charedi Hapeles publication in wake of the newspaper's extremist stance against Charedi IDF soldiers.
The move was approved by the Justice, Defense, and Internal Security Ministers, who decided that the government should not be supporting Hapeles when it has been running virulent incitement against Charedi IDF soldiers for years.
Hapeles is the mouthpiece of the extremist Jerusalem Faction, which is connected with Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach and has been locked in a power struggle with the mainstream haredi community ever since the death of Torah Sage Rabbi Sholom Elyashiv in 2012.
The Jerusalem Faction considers Bnei Brak-based Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman to be an illegitimate leader, and has revolted against his authority, splitting the hierarchical Charedi world.
In May, police arrested senior members of Hapeles over blackmail allegations.
According to authorities, Hapeles pressured businesses into advertising with them by harassing and threatening company officials with ultimatums, warning that the failure to do so would be seen as an insult to a large segment of the Charedi population and would have serious consequences. The harassment of the targeted officials reportedly occurred on a daily basis.
MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu) had appealed to the Government Advertising Agency in February to cease advertising in Hapeles, writing that "the newspaper is one of the central mediums inciting against IDF enlistment and encouraging rioting".
Face of Evil: Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada
DEADLIEST IN US HISTORY:
More Than 58 Dead, 515 Wounded In Massacre At Vegas Music Festival
The shooter has been identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, from Mesquite Nevada. He opened fire from 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay Hotel during a Jason Aldean concert that has thus far led to the deaths of over 58 people and 500 injuries. He is believed to have been an accountant with no criminal record. He had a private pilot license and it also appears that he was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against another Las Vegas hotel.
A federal law enforcement official said a cache of weapons was found inside the hotel room where Paddock died, and investigators believe the suspect used the vantage point to fire on the crowd below gathered for an outdoor country music concert.
Police blocked off the road to the suspect’s home in Mesquite, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Records show that Paddock resided at 1372 Babbling Brook Court in a house he purchased in 2015.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department obtained a search warrant and officers are en route to search Paddock’s home, said Quinn Barrett, public information officer for the Mesquite Police Department. He said the department had secured the home and the perimeter around it but is playing only a supportive role in the investigation.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
'Spain backs statehood for Palestine - but not Catalonia?'
Dep. Defense Minister blasts Spanish hypocrisy, treatment of Catalonia voters, notes Spain's decades-long support for Palestinian statehood.
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) blasted the Spanish government’s crackdown against a regional referendum in the province of Catalonia Sunday, which left nearly 500 people injured, most of them pro-independence demonstrators.
Spanish security forces blocked polling stations across Catalonia, including the regional capital of Barcelona. Police broke into 319 voting stations, local authorities said, and clashed with crowds of voters at other stations.
Catalonia, a semi-autonomous region within the Kingdom of Spain, held the referendum vote Sunday, despite protests by the central Spanish government in Madrid, which declared the plebiscite illegal.
Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who supports a Catalan separation from Spain, said earlier that if the referendum saw a majority of “yes” votes, he would declare an independent Catalonia within 48 hours.
The Spanish government, however, has declared the referendum illegal and ordered security forces to bar voters from entering polling stations.
“There has not been a referendum or anything remotely similar,” Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said.
Deputy Minister Ben-Dahan slammed Madrid’s crackdown on the referendum, noting Spain’s decades-long support for Palestinian statehood.
“For many years, Spain lectured us about how we need to give [national] rights to the Palestinian Arabs,” wrote Ben-Dahan on Twitter. “Today we see their hypocrisy, as [Spain] doesn’t even allow the Catalans to hold a referendum on independence.”
Vermont Police Probe Says No Evidence Of Bias When Brooklyn Rabbi Was Stopped
I was disgusted at the initial reports of this incident; however, I was diosssapointed after seeing the dashcam video, and realizing how Rabbi Beryl Fink falsely reported this story, and falsely raised the issue of ethnic bias, when it never existed.
First of all, Fink and his family claimed that he was doing between 55-65 mph. The state trooper (according to communications on his two way radio from the video), stated that he was clocked with radar, at 83 mph.
What meshuganah goes 18 mph over the speed limit, on a two way rural highway, at night?
By Fink's own admission, he stated that he couldn't see very well at night, and that was why he hesitated to initially pull off to the soft shoulder.
Watch the shoulder from the video, and there was adequate room, for him to have initially pulled his car over to the right very quickly, instead of leading the trooper on a 4.5 mile chase.
In addition, the trooper was very professional, and treated the Rabbi with courtesy. He was even more respectful than NYPD cops are, when they pull cars over.
I'm afraid that the Rabbi brought this incident on himself, and falsely reported anti-semitism, when it never existed.
Dov Hikind erred, also.
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