ZAKA chief Yehuda Meshi Zahav dies

 

The former chairman of the ZAKA response organization died early Wednesday morning, more than a year after a suicide attempt.

Yehuda Meshi Zahav passed away before dawn Wednesday at Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem. He was 62.

In April 2021, Meshi Zahav was found unconscious after he attempted to commit suicide.

A month earlier, police opened a criminal investigation against Meshi Zahav, after allegations came to light in a report published by Haaretz. In that report, six accusers -both male and female - claimed Meshi-Zahav sexually exploited or raped them as far back as the 1980s.

Some of the accusers were minors at the time of the alleged assaults.

Meshi Zahav left a suicide note in which he expressed remorse for his actions, without elaborating.

"I am sorry. My punishment I have received already. Try to remember the good that I did;
try to always remember what I forgot: 'There is an Eye that sees, an Ear that hears, and all your deeds are written in a Book.' (Ethics of the Fathers, 2:1)”

“My love always, and I am very humiliated, Yehuda."

Meshi Zahav is survived by his wife, Batsheva, and their seven children.

Part 2..........Israel TV Expose Sexual Abuse And Cover-Up In Religious Zionist Girls School

Hannah Katsman 

23h  · 

Summary of the second installment of the series about sexual abuse in ulpanot appearing on Kan 11 news this week. I will post the video when it goes up.

The presenter said that after yesterday's story, they received many more accounts.

The witness is Tzofnat Levanon from Maaleh Adumim. Only in recent years did she realize what happened to her. A few months ago she wrote about it on FB, and thirty girls wrote to her with similar experiences.

Maaleh Adumim was considered a very good ulpana. The teachers were mostly women, but there were a few male figures, who were known as "the rav".

Lebanon's account:

"I want to say his name. Eli Tubul. He was very welcoming, he offered to talk about faith with us. He kept approaching me and inviting me to talk, this was in tenth grade. I tried to avoid him, I didn't understand how bizarre it was that I should want avoid a teacher like that. I didn't want to be alone with him.

One time he caught me coming up the stairs and drew me into his office, I couldn't refuse, I tried to stay near the door, he closed it, and came closer, much closer, asking 'what did I do, did I hurt you?', and I said I wanted to go home, it was Thursday afternoon, but he trapped me near the wall, he put his hands on either side of my face on the wall, he breathed on me, at that moment I had a blackout, I have patches of memories, I only remember little bits, the next I remember I found myself outside of his room, I now know that this is a reaction to trauma and sexual abuse. I remember my sigh of relief, I went home, and I didn't return for two weeks. But no one noticed, because I went to volunteer, and then I didn't go to his classes or the discussions he held.

I didn't understand what happened. Only years later, and this is the most humiliating, in twelfth grade, I thought before Yom Kippur that I needed to respect the rabbis more. So I decided I had been disrespectful to him, and I went to apologize. But he seemed to know why I was there, he said 'I'm so happy you came, and you can tell me what's wrong,' it was very clear that he knew, it was a strange reaction. It was very humiliating, we didn't know the language, we didn't know how to say it, sex was a bad word, they told us not to be 'there,' not to play on this field, but because he was the only male, or one of two, we put our sexual feelings onto them, he was young, cute, blond, he didn't have any idea either. He told us once that he had learned that he had to keep distance and he is working on it, can you imagine? It's strange.

Years later, while I was on a date with a religious man, he came in with his wife. He came to our table and greeted me warmly. I stood and exchanged a few words with him. After I sat down my date asked, 'What did he do to you?' I said that he sexually abused me in tenth grade. This was the first time I had said it.

A friend who had a similar story called Takana. They said they had received many complaints but they were in the gray zone. After a few years, he left to a boys' high school where he is still teaching.

Now, looking back, I can see the change that I underwent between ninth and tenth grade, a subtle but definite change. I was quiet and gentle and not provocative. If someone would have opened the door, like my date did, I would have understood what happened. And every young girl needs to know.

Tubul sent a statement to the program denying the accusations.

Paul Krugman the Noble Prize Winner in Economics Prediction in 2020

Nobel Prize winner in economics 😂 pic.twitter.com/0skIS3BGzX

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 27, 2022

Old "katchke" Pelosi Shoves little girl during photo shoot for her mother a newly elected Republican Latino Representative

 

Slow motion replay of the Pelosi push pic.twitter.com/2GIrjJkrgo

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 27, 2022

Monkey will teach you how to make an omelet

 

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Palestinian Bully Starts up with the wrong Jew on the Light Rail

 

A Palestinian tried to attack the wrong Jew on the light rail in Jerusalem.

He surely didn't expect him to fight back. The days of being weak and apologetic are over. pic.twitter.com/CW8RDAPt6T

— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) June 28, 2022

Arab Construction Workers in Ramat Beit Shemesh Beating the hell out of each other

 

Yated Neeman Blasts Belz For Causing ‘Serious Harm To Jewish Education’ Over Govt. Funding BUT Never talked about the Gerer Pogroms or The Monster Walder

 

So a Jew beating the hell out of another Jew doesn't " pierce the heart of loyal Jews?"

How about the Yated knowing for years that Walder was a monster and yet allowed him to write a column in the paper, that doesn't "pierce the heart of loyal Jews.?"

These hypocritical Litvishe scum are worried about Belzer children? Or are they worried that Chareidim are finally realizing that having children without an education is detrimental to their being able to make a living. Litvishe RY are terrified that their own naïve sheep are waking up and realizing that poverty is no longer an option, and will demand a secular education, instead of having to schnoor all their lives. 

Kudos to the Belzer Rebbe. 

 In the wake of the recent agreements reached between Belz chasidim and the Israeli ministry of education, Education Minister Shasha-Biton and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, the schools and cheders of Belz which maintain higher standards of secular studies will receive special funding. However the controversial agreement has been sharply criticized by the Yated Neeman newspaper, reflecting a split in ideological approaches between the Lithuanians and the Chasidic group.

Under the headline “Huge concern due to blunt interference and serious harm to chareidi education”, the newspaper claims that this is a generic plot using economic incentives to pierce at the heart of loyal Jews, all in order that Talmudei Torah and rebbes should change their goals and their essential character.

Yated also claims that the agreement signed by Belz will compel teachers in chareidi education to undergo external pedagogic instruction by the “heretical” education ministry.

Recently Belz representatives explained that their goal is to set up a separate stream since the Chinuch Atzmai refused to accept them in its system.

Belz MK Eichler said in an interview with Kol Chai’s Betzalel Kahn that “whatever the public knows about this program are lies spread by those who are not Belz chasidim, who seek to conscript chareidim to the IDF and who are part of those seeking to destroy the chareidi public from within. All the reports in the media are lies and fabrications.

Eichler added that “they accused us of making a state chareidi system but this is not the case. Up until now there was discrimination between those who were not members of Chinuch Atzmai or Maayan Chinuch Torani and the Belz teaching staff received 50% of what the Chinuch Atzmai is paying.”

Eichler denied that the Education Ministry would supervise new educational content, claiming that the new program would not be supervised by the education ministry but rather by an external supervisor.

Gag order in Moshe Kleinerman case ...Suspect Arrested (not an Arab)

 

An Israeli court on Tuesday issued a gag order regarding a development in the investigation of the disappearance of missing teen Moishe Kleinerman.

It was issued at the request of the police following the arrest of a suspect in the case.

Channel 14 News reported that “the arrested suspect saw Moishe after his disappearance and the police are very fearful for his life. However, the fear is not of Arab terror activity. It is believed that he is still in the country and did not cross Israel’s borders.”

The order, prohibiting the publication of any details of the investigation, including developments and the identity of suspects, is valid for a month.

Moishe has been missing for 94 days.

Earlier on Tuesday, Chareidi journalist Ariel Elharar published a moving message that Moishe’s mother, Gitty Kleinerman, received from a Jew in the US.

He wrote: “I wanted to update you that there’s no shul or mikveh throughout the US that doesn’t have a notice in the entrance calling for the public to daven for your son.”

“I saw a Chassidish boy crying next to the notice. When I asked him why he’s crying, he responded: ‘What do you mean? It’s my brother. He’s already missing for three months. How could I not be in tzaar and daven for him?'”

“Also I met a dear Jew this morning and he gave me $300 to give to you and conveyed his hopes that Moishe will return home soon, b’ezras Hashem.”

“All of Am Yisrael is with you. You’re not alone. Besuros Tovos.”

Elharar also published photos of messages of chizzuk for the Kleinermans hung in shteibelach in Kiryat Sefer.

Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition

 

Walking past the countless photos of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-native Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was passing the faces of his own relatives without even knowing it.

For Patt, a 40-year-old software engineer now working for Google, that sort of conundrum presented the potential for a creative solution. And so he set to work creating and developing From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to people living today.

Patt has a personal stake in the project: Three of his four grandparents are Holocaust survivors from Poland, and he wants to help his grandmother find photos of the members of her family murdered by the Nazis