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One-third of Netanyahu’s voters believe COVID-19 was sent by G-d

 One quarter of Jewish Israelis, and more than one-third of Jews who voted for Benjamin Netanyahu, believes the coronavirus was sent by G-d as a punishment or to send a message, according to an annual survey. 

The survey, put out by Hiddush, which advocates for religious freedom and pluralism in Israel, also found that 70% of Israelis reject the notion that criticism of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, conduct during the pandemic stems from bigotry as opposed to how haredi communities have conducted themselves. 

Scenes of large haredi gatherings have spread across the Israeli media this year, while haredi politicians, who are in the coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, have successfully dialed back restrictions on gathering in the community. In recent weeks — though after the survey was taken — they have advocated unsuccessfully for a group of Hasidic Jews to make a pilgrimage to Ukraine and successfully pushed for a universal lockdown in Israel to carry an exemption for synagogue attendance. 

“They basically bent Netanyahu in terms of rejecting sound medical recommendations and catering to their pressure,” said Hiddush’s founder, Rabbi Uri Regev, an outspoken opponent of haredi influence on Israeli policy. “So what you have is an ongoing public resentment of the haredi conduct in this pandemic.”

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Shanah Tova From Around the World

Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich releases video with Rosh Hashanah greetings from children in a myriad of languages.

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Second Bais Ha'Mikdash Inkwell Found in Gush Etzion

 

During archaeological work at the Khirbet Brakhot archaeological excavation site in Gush Etzion, a rare archaeological find was discovered - an intact inkwell dating to the end of the Second Temple period.

The works were carried out under the leadership of the Archaeology Unit in the Civil Administration, in collaboration with Herzog College.

The inkwell, which was discovered inside a large building dating to the Second Temple period - is made of a flat-bottomed clay cylinder with a round handle and a narrow opening with an inward-sloping rim - through which the ink and pen were inserted. Inkwells from this period are considered a rare find, and similar finds have been found in only about a dozen sites across the country.

The discovery of the inkwell strengthens the hypothesis that literacy was relatively common among the Jewish population in Israel during the Second Temple period. The inkwell probably belonged to a scribe or merchant who lived there in the years leading up to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

An archaeology staff officer at the Civil Administration, Hanania Hizami, said: "The rare finds discovered at the archaeological excavation site join a wealth of finds discovered by the Archaeology Unit at the Civil Administration and constitute historical and national cultural assets. I am pleased with the fact that we continue to uncover various archaeological finds, which contribute greatly to the study of Jewish history in the area. I would like to thank Dr. Dvir Raviv, Haim Shkulnik and Dr. Yitzhak Maitlis who led the arcaheological excavations and contributed to the discovery of the finds."

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Israel Coronavirus Lockdown to Begin at 2:00 p.m.

The lockdown on the State of Israel meant to reduce the spread of the coronavirus will begin on Friday at 2:00 p.m.

During the lockdown, 7,000 police officers and soldiers will be deployed across the country to enforce the the restrictions.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a press conference Thursday night, following emergency consultations with senior health officials in a teleconference, regarding the possibility of imposing stricter restrictions during the upcoming lockdown.

“We are about to enter the second lockdown since the coronavirus pandemic broke out across the globe,” said Netanyahu.

“This lockdown is important, this lockdown is necessary, and in this lockdown we will all stand together.”

Netanyahu said that during his visit this week to Washington DC, he spoke with Vice President Mike Pence about cooperation between the two countries in efforts to combat the pandemic.

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Israeli, Dubai diamond exchanges ink trade deal

 

The Israeli Diamond Exchanges announce that is has struck a deal to boost trade with its Dubai counterpart in the wake of the peace deal between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Israel is a world leader in the polishing of large diamonds. Dubai, a regional financial hub, also hosts an emerging diamond trade, which in 2019 exported diamonds worth upward of $23 billion.

The Israeli Diamond Exchange will open an office in Dubai, while the Dubai Multi Commodities Center, an economic free zone, will do the same in Ramat Gan, where the IDE is based.

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Kerry 2016 Arrogant Statement: 'There will be no peace in Middle East without the Palestinians'm... How Did That Age?

 

Shortly after the ceremony on the White House lawn where the normalization agreements were signed with the UAE and Bahrain, vigilant surfers posted on social media a speech delivered by former Secretary of State John Kerry, in 2016.

The netizens noted that in his speech, Kerry asserted that "there will be no peace in the Middle East without the Palestinians" and attached sardonic comments to the clip.

Speaking in 2016, Kerry said, "There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear to all of you. I've heard some prominent politicians in Israel sometimes say, 'Well, the Arab world is somewhere else now. We just have to reach out to them. We can work on a few things with the Arab world and we'll deal with the Palestinians. No, no, no, and no,' said Kerry then.

He went on to add that "I can tell you, I reaffirmed that last week when I talked to the leaders of the Arab community, there will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that. It's a difficult reality."

Kerry's clip was first uploaded to social media by Udi Aventhal, a senior at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, and soon went viral. "John Kerry with a 2016 statement about the Middle East aging like milk in a sauna," wrote Noam Bloom, one of the editors of the American Tablet magazine.

Rebecca Heinrich, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote "just the opposite; it's amazing." National Review reporter Pradip Shanker added that "Has anyone ever been mistaken in a more cruel way than this?"

Also a JTA news agency reporter, Joel Patlin, added an ironic tweet and wrote "I was wondering why there isn't a single tweet praising the signing of the historic peace deals yesterday on John Kerry's Twitter account. Now I know. It's scary to see how many foreign policy experts were wrong. But it is even more outrageous that few of them even admit it."

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Watch Totally Phony Joe Biden Point and Wave at Nobody

 Watch a totally insincere Joe Biden try to fool the cameras into thinking anyone actually showed up to see him:... the yente Hillary always did that ...

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Asher Bitton 62 Father 0f 15 Seriously Injured in Rocket Attack

 

An Israeli man who was seriously wounded in a rocket attack on Tuesday was delivering food to the needy in the southern city of Ashdod when he was hit by shrapnel, hit family said Wednesday.

Asher Biton, 62, a father of 15, was making his rounds when Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into Israel at the same time as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was signing peace deals with the UAE and Bahrain at the White House in Washington.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, soldiers operating the Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one of the incoming projectiles.

The second rocket struck a street in Ashkelon.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said Biton sustained shrapnel wounds to his upper body from the rocket. A second man, 28, suffered light injuries to his extremities from broken glass. Four other people suffered anxiety attacks as a result of the rocket fire, medics said.

Biton was originally described as in moderate condition, but doctors at the Assuta Hospital later said his situation deteriorated.

Doctors decided not to operate on Biton, fearing that he would not survive the operation, and have decided to wait until his condition improves. However, the hospital said his life was not in danger.

His wife, Rivka Biton, said the family watched news reports of the attack and saw his car, where he had been making a delivery.

“I called him and there was no answer,” she told Channel 12 TV on Wednesday. “Then someone accidentally answered and I heard shouting and police and ambulances. I grabbed a taxi and flew to the scene.”

She said he saved his life by lying on the floor and putting his arms over his head when the rocket sirens went off.

“He has a lot of internal injuries,” she said. “I still feel like we are in a nightmare that I have not woken up from.

The rocket attacks on Ashkelon and Ashdod came as a signing ceremony was taking place in Washington to mark the establishment of formal ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain.

“On this historic night of peace, we received a reminder from our enemies that we must always be strong and prepared to defend Israeli citizens on all fronts and at all times — and this we will do,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said in response to the attack.

Terror groups in the Strip have in the past attempted to interrupt major Israeli festivities with attacks. Indeed, television footage of the signing ceremony on Tuesday night was accompanied by information from the IDF Home Front Command about the areas where rocket sirens were triggered.

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1000 yeshiva students infected with corona, some allegedly on purpose

 

זו תורה וזו שכרה

At least a thousand seminary students in Israel have been infected with the coronavirus in the past month due to a combination of students infecting each other on purpose and alleged negligence by yeshiva administrators, the Kikar Hashabbat  news website reported Wednesday.

Students returned to studies at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul in the lead up to the Rosh Hashana holiday marking the Ten Days of Atonement before the annual Yom Kippur fast.

At the Torah B’Tiferet yeshiva in Elad where some 800 young men were studying in “capsules” where groups of students are supposed to remain separated to reduce infection, 100 students became infected after only one day of classes, the report said.

“My son entered the yeshiva for Elul and I sent him with [reservations], but I knew there were responsible and serious managers there,” one parent said. “But from the beginning, my son told us that something is wrong.”

“There is no supervision of the boys, no one knows what is going on inside the boarding school, and also students who have symptoms are not isolated from the other boys, but stay to sleep in the same room,” the parent said.

A student at the Rina Shel Torah yeshiva in Karmiel said there are about 300 boys there sick with coronavirus, but most of them intentionally infected themselves by sharing a waterpipe with “sick guys with symptoms and guys it was not clear if they were infected.”

The student said the goal was to get sick and recover so that the students begin studying in the fall session “without capsules and in a calm and relaxed way.”

The report cited other yeshivas around the country where students and staff are not following health guidelines and even those who are known to be infected circulate freely without masks. The problems were attributed to the “lack of basic training created between the yeshiva world and the Ministry of Health.”

While the current Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein of the Likud Party, is himself religious, his predecessor at the start of the pandemic was Rabbi Yaakov Litzman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party. Litzman was infected earlier this year after reportedly attending morning prayers at a synagogue despite regulations from his own ministry at the time banning group prayer.

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