“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

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

New Video From Oct. 7th Shows "Innocent" Gazans Celebrating Hostages, Dead Israelis

 



 As the world seeks to create an unnatural distinction between “civilian” Gazans and the members of the Hamas terrorist organization, it is important to note that the ordinary Gazans were not just complicit in the Oct. 7th massacre, with some actively taking part in the arson, rape and abduction of Israelis, but also gave strong support to Hamas for its actions.

A video clip taken on October 7th and recently revealed shows a stolen car carrying Israeli hostages, either dead or alive, with a huge mob following the car and calling out its support for Hamas actions.



 In another clip, Gazans can be seen jumping for joy when they witness hostages being brought back into Gaza.


Despite Biden's Opposition Israel hired 65,000 Foreigners to Replace Palestinian Construction Workers

 

Israel will work to bring in 65,000 foreign workers from India, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan to replace Palestinian construction laborers amid the war with Hamas, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Sunday.

Hamas killed around 1,200 people, including foreign workers, in a massive attack launched from Gaza on Oct. 7, which included the firing of thousands of rockets and the infiltration of terrorist forces.

Before the attacks, some 190,000 Palestinians, nearly all from Judea and Samaria, were employed throughout Israel. More than 95,000 of them worked in construction.

In addition, thousands of foreign workers fled the country, while many Israelis have been called up for reserve duty, leading to a situation where half of Israel’s building sites have been closed down.

The new batches of foreign workers are expected to touch down in Tel Aviv in the coming weeks as Jerusalem aims to avoid a dramatic rise in real estate prices, the Construction and Housing Ministry said on Sunday.

An official in the Prime Minister’s Office declined to say on Monday whether the decision to recruit workers in India, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan reflected a policy change going forward.

In late October, Israel authorized the entry of 8,000 Arab workers from Judea and Samaria amid a severe shortage of labor. With the approval of security services, Palestinians were dispatched to “vital” industrial areas, food factories, medical facilities and burial societies, an official told JNS.

Earlier this month, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that it is considering a pilot to admit additional Palestinian workers aged 45 and older who have undergone security screening and hold existing entry permits.

Plans to let in even more Palestinians have been met with dismay by coalition and opposition lawmakers alike.

In a December vote, the measure was opposed by almost all 15 members of the Socioeconomic Cabinet, which is smaller than the full government but includes the finance and economy ministers.

“Letting workers from the territory of an enemy population into Israel during a war is a terrible mistake that will cost blood,” Minister-without-Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar said at the time.

Monday, February 5, 2024

Police Dress Up as Chareidim to Catch Arab Stone Throwers




Jailed Palestinian terrorist serving life in Israel for five murders 'holds key to ceasefire in Gaza' with Hamas determined to exchange him for captured Israeli hostages

                                                                  

A jailed Palestinian terrorist serving life for five murders is said to be top of Hamas' list for any exchange of prisoners for Israeli hostages. 

Marwan Barghouti, a veteran West Bank leader who was jailed in 2002 for murder, is known as the 'Palestinian Nelson Mandela' to his supporters and is seen as the key to a ceasefire in Gaza

However, the Israeli government has not yet agreed to his release or confirmed that it is now inevitable, despite many negotiators believing it was close

A statement in Barghouti's name called for support for Hamas in the current war, something which his wife denies. Following this, his family says he was brutalized in prison, transferred to solitary confinement and held in the dark with loud music playing for days. 

The Israeli prison authorities have not commented on the specific allegations but say they 'operate strictly according to rules and procedures

Ramban's Aliyah in 1267

 

Imprint of the personal seal of the Ramban, found at Tel Kissan, Israel. You can see an image of the actual seal here.


It was in his twilight years that the great Ramban (R. Moshe ben Nachman, “Nahmanides” in Christian Renaissance parlance) left Girona, in the northeast of Spain, where he had resided all his life. Born c. 1194, he departed Spain for Israel in 1267, aged over seventy. The legacy he left behind was a rich, complex, and enduring one that would continue to shape Sefardi culture in Spain for generations to come. It consisted of a robust halachic tradition nurtured in the “school” of the Ramban, eventually settling at the great beit midrash (study hall) of Barcelona and encompassing the scholarship of the RashbaRitva, and Ran, to name but a few of the most prominent of Ramban’s protégés and students-of-students. In addition to this, an early school of Kabbalistic tradition runs through the intellectual legacy of the Ramban. Scholars debate whether and to what extent Ramban’s Kabbala was a part of the Gironese school, or whether it belongs to another strain altogether. It was, to be sure, one of the most important pre-Zoharic esoteric traditions circulating in Spain. Together this twin legacy of halachic rigor and esoteric wisdom would characterize Sefardi intellectual culture in the Christian period.

In some regards, there are lines of similarity to be drawn between the trajectories of the Ramban, the exemplar of Christian Sefard, and of R. Yehuda ha-Levi, the paragon of Muslim Sefarad. Both men were not only steeped in the local Sefardi culture of their time, they were celebrated representatives of it. Both turned away, in later life, from the institutions they had built and towards the faraway promised Land. And both men had deep spiritual stirrings that led them to undertake aliyah. However, the character of Ramban’s move is strikingly different from R. Yehuda ha-Levi’s. Ha-Levi’s aliyah—which has been described as a pilgrimage—was intensively documented, in a spiritual sense, in his poetry and embedded in his philosophy. There are also many physical documents, such as letters, attesting to his pilgrimage. It was a principled turning-away, a statement about the nature of life in Spain. Ramban, in contrast, despite deep feeling for Eretz Yisrael and a sustained exploration of its spiritual dimensions in his work, left Spain as a matter of necessity and less so as a turning-away. Ramban’s move occurred more abruptly, with less explicit literary exposition, though he left rich testimony to his aliyah in his works, as we’ll see.

Watch Gazans Starving to death ..... Video Taken Last Week

 


Black Couple Recently Converted To Orthodox Judaism Decided to make Aliyah!

 

No No No! Don't Try This at Home!

 I hope he never runs out of cherries!!

Mark Zell Leader of Republican Party Agrees With Ben Gvir " Biden is taking Israel Down"


 Mark Zell, Leader of the Republican Party in Israel, Responds to Ben Gvir's Interview: 

'Ben Gvir's remark is quite accurate. It is reasonable to assume that most Israelis would agree.'

Beit Shemesh Mourns One of their Own !




Yisrael Asulin eulogized his brother, Sergeant First Class (res.) Shimon Yehoshua Asulin, 24 years old, who fought in the 924th Engineering Battalion of the Harel Brigade and was killed in action in southern Gaza.

Shimon was a student in the Midbara KeEden Hesder Yeshiva in Mitzpe Ramon, and the son of Rabbi Rafi Asulin, the dean of the Sha'alei Torah Yeshiva high school in Beit Shemesh.