Religious Researcher: "If Grinberg Wins ..Beit Shemesh will Become another "Poor Frum Town "

Shmuel Grinberg 

  Religious Researcher in a Gloomy Assessment

 Beit Shemesh will lose its non-Orthodox residents and become another poor ultra-Orthodox town* 

Tomer Persico, researcher and lecturer in the fields of world religions, after finding out about Shmulik Greenberg's Night of Agreements in Beit Shemesh with Chareide Parties

*Beit Shemesh started the last act of its tragedy play today,* a play that describes the transition from a suburb of Jerusalem, which until the nineties was a traditional-secular, to an ultra-Orthodox city.

Aliza Bloch is expected to be rejected in the mayoral elections. The ultra-Orthodox representatives will completely control the municipality, and it is possible to assume that *the municipality itself will lose its professional employees and be filled with cronies and businessmen.

Funds will be directed to ultra-Orthodox interests out of political and non-professional considerations, various regulations will appear on the streets and limit the lives of the secular, slowly pushing them out.

The city itself will lose its non-Orthodox residents and become another poor ultra-Orthodox town. As Eli Yishai said at the time about Beit Shemesh when he opposed the idea of ​​splitting into two cities, secular and ultra-Orthodox: *"An ultra-orthodox city is without recognition, without taxes, without industry. It is not right to do that."* So here we are, just without the split.

Now, according to the agreement between Dagel Torah and Shas, this time Shas voters will support Dagel's candidate, Greenberg, and in the next elections both parties *will support a candidate from Shas, whichever (that is, whoever Deri chooses).*

Think for a moment until this deal disdains the democratic process: a man based on party affiliation, *treats the ultra-Orthodox as a herd that will vote according to the instructions of its leaders,* does not allow the city representative to continue with the mayor if they want him to, *and does not give any motive to the current mayor. to do a good job, because he is not continuing for another term anyway.*

Bloch herself said yesterday that the ultra-Orthodox want to determine "who will be the mayor in the next 15 years, which party will get what. *We want to have Bnei Brak here who will vote 30 years in advance who will be the mayor.?"*

Complete destruction of logic and the democratic process - and all under the auspices of democracy. 

The sequel?

lack of professionalism, lack of vitality, and decline of the city. This is the Beit Shemesh sunset.*

*חוקר הדתות בפרשנות קודרת: בית שמש תאבד את תושביה הלא-חרדים ותהפוך לעוד עיירה חרדית ענייה*

 תומר פֶּרְסיקוֹ, חוקר ומרצה בתחומי דתות העולם, בפרשנות מעניינת לאחר ליל ההסכמים של שמוליק גרינברג בבית שמש:

*‏בית שמש התחילה היום את המערכה האחרונה במחזה הטרגדיה שלה,* מחזה שמתאר את המעבר מעיר פרוורית של ירושלים, שעד שנות התשעים היתה מסורתית-חילונית, לעיר חרדית.

עליזה בלוך צפויה להיות מודחת בבחירות מראשות העיר. נציגי החרדים ישלטו בערייה באופן מוחלט, ואפשר לשער *שהערייה עצמה תאבד את עובדיה המקצועיים ותתמלא במקורבים ועסקנים.* כספים יופנו לאינטרסים חרדיים מתוך שיקולים פוליטיים ולא מקצועיים, תקנות שונות יצוצו ברחובות ויגבילו את חיי החילונים, שאט אט ידחקו החוצה.

העיר עצמה תאבד את תושביה הלא-חרדים ותהפוך לעוד עיירה חרדית ענייה. כפי שאמר בזמנו אלי ישי על בית שמש כשהתנגד לרעיון לפצל אותה לשתי ערים, חילונית וחרדית: *"עיר חרדית תהיה בלי הכנסות, בלי מסים, בלי תעשייה. זה לא נכון לעשות את זה".* אז הנה לנו, רק בלי הפיצול.

עכשיו, על פי הסיכום בין דגל התורה לש"ס, הפעם בוחרי ש"ס יתמכו במועמד דגל, גרינברג, ובבחירות הבאות שתי המפלגות *יתמכו במועמד מטעם ש"ס, יהיה אשר יהיה (כלומר מי שדרעי יבחר).*

חישבו רגע עד כמה הדיל הזה בז להליך הדמוקרטי: בוחרים אדם על פי שיוך מפלגתי, *מתייחסים לחרדים כאל עדר שיצביע על פי הוראת מנהיגיו,* לא מאפשרים לתושבי העיר להמשיך עם ראש העיר אם הם מרוצים ממנו, *ולא נותנים שום מניע לראש העיר הנוכחי לעשות עבודה טובה, כי ממילא הוא לא ממשיך לקדנציה נוספת.*

בלוך אמרה אתמול בעצמה כי החרדים רוצים לקבוע "מי יהיה ראש העיר ב-15 השנים הבאות, איזו מפלגה תקבל מה. *רוצים להיות פה בני ברק שיודעים 30 שנה מראש מי יהיה ראש העיר".*

הרס מוחלט של ההגיון וההליך הדמוקרטי - והכל בחסות הדמוקרטיה. *ההמשך: חוסר מקצועיות, שחיתות, ודעיכה של העיר. שקיעת בית שמש.*

Dutch king defies calls of over 200 mosques not to visit Holocaust museum with Israeli president

 The Dutch king has defied calls from more than 200 mosques to call off his attendance at the opening of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam alongside Israel’s president on Sunday.

The National Holocaust Museum was said to be too much of a “great significant and national importance” for King Willem-Alexander, 56, not to be at the inauguration, according to the Netherlands Government Information Service.

Isaac Herzog’s attendance was described as “a huge blow to anyone who cares about the fate of the Palestinian people and values justice” by the K7 alliance of Dutch mosques.

The organization argued that the Dutch government should not receive the Israeli dignitary, adding: “But certainly not by our king. We therefore ask his majesty not to participate in Herzog’s reception.”

It criticized the president for signing an artillery shell with the phrase “I rely on you” before it was fired toward the Gaza Strip.

Details of his trip to Amsterdam for the museum opening were on Wednesday leaked to Israeli media.

The Coward Chief Rabb Yosef: 'If they force us to enlist, we will leave Israel'

You know what?? Pack your bags and get out! We don't need Jews in Israel who don't want to be there. Don't threaten us. Get out!! By by Charlie don't let the door hit you on the way out! You can move to the Satmar Town of KJ they welcome Sfardim" whom they derogatory call "frankinim" 

 The Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, commented Saturday evening on the haredi draft law.

“There are Yeshiva students who go to reserves. Not everyone merits to learn Torah. Everyone merits to be a student, and Torah students are exempt from army service under any circumstances, no matter what. If they force us to go to the army, we will all leave Israel. We will buy tickets and leave. There can be no such thing,” he claimed.

“All the secular community understands this, and they need to understand that without Torah, without study halls, without yeshivas, there will be no existence and no success for the army. The soldiers succeed in the merit of those studying Torah. Everyone needs to say this with pride - we are studying Torah, and it is the Torah that protects us.”

Who says you don't take your money with you when you die? 2 Women Drove a Man’s Body to a Bank to Withdraw His Money

Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital.

Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged Tuesday in Ashtabula with gross abuse of a corpse and theft from a person in a protected class, according to Ashtabula Municipal Court records.

Police said they were called Monday evening and told that two women had dropped off a body at the Ashtabula County Medical Center emergency room without identifying the person or themselves. A few hours later, one of them contacted the hospital with information on the deceased, who was then identified as 80-year-old Douglas Layman of Ashtabula.

Officers responded to Layman’s residence and made contact with Casbohm and Feralo, who told them they had found Layman deceased earlier at the home where all three resided. Police allege that, with the help of a third unnamed person, they placed Layman in the front seat of his car and drove to a bank where they withdrew “an undisclosed amount of money” from his account.

Layman’s body “was placed in the vehicle in such a manner that he would be visible to bank staff in order to make the withdrawal,” Ashtabula Police Chief Robert Stell said in a news release Thursday. Stell told the (Ashtabula) Star Beacon that the bank ”had allowed this previously as long as they were accompanied by him.”

Lt. Mike Palinkas told WEWS-TV that one of the women had been in a live-in relationship with Layman for several years while the other had been staying there for a few months. The women said it was normal for them to take money from the account, but Palinkas said he didn’t have a full explanation for why they went there that day.

“Allegedly, they wanted to pay some bills but outside of that, there wasn’t a specific motivation provided,” Palinkas said.

Casbohm was arraigned and ordered held on $5,000 bond while Feralo is scheduled for arraignment next week. It’s unclear whether they have attorneys; numbers listed in their names had been disconnected. A message was sent to the county public defender’s office seeking comment if the office was defending one or both.

Police said they continue to investigate and other charges are possible. The coroner’s office said an autopsy to determine the cause of Layman’s death could take up to eight months.

 

22 Years After Shocking Grand Canyon Crash, Lone Survivor Chana Daskal Laid to Rest in Monsey

 The only survivor of a tragic helicopter crash that took the lives of five young members of Brooklyn’s Jewish community on a Grand Canyon sightseeing trip in 2001 passed away on March 9th in Monsey.

47 year old Chana Daskal lived in Seagate, but had been staying most recently in Monsey because of an illness that was unrelated to the injuries she sustained in the deadly crash. Dozens of people turned out amid steady rains for a Motzei Shabbos funeral for Daskal that was held at the home where she had been staying, with burial taking place at the Har Shalom Cemetery in Airmont.

Daskal, her husband David, Aryeh Zvi Fastag, Shayie Lichtenstein and Avi and Barbara Wajsbaum, were all returning from their aerial tour of the Grand Canyon on August 11th when their helicopter crashed into the 5,500 foot Grand Walsh Cliffs in the Arizona desert some 60 miles away from Los Angeles.

Daskal sustained life-threatening injuries in the crash, which took the lives of everyone else aboard the Eurocopter AS350, including pilot Kevin Innocenti. The Los Angeles Times (lat.ms/3wNLrbU) reported that the crash took place at 2:30 PM, with flaming wreckage of the helicopter scattered around the area.

All six passengers were thrown clear of the helicopter when it slammed into the ground on the desolate mountain, according to The New York Times (nyti.ms/3veDTyp), with just the pilot remaining inside.

“It was demolished,” said Steve Johnson, a spokesperson for the Mohave County, Arizona, sheriff’s office. “The only things recognizable were the tail and rotor blades.”

Daskal, the mother of two young boys, was found by rescuers pinned under the helicopter’s burning tail section and was airlifted to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, with burns over 80 percent of her body. She sustained a broken back in the crash and had both of her legs amputated.

According to the Arizona Daily Sun (bit.ly/3TtTWlm), Daskal was hospitalized in Las Vegas for five months before she was airlifted to Staten Island University Medical Center’s regional burn center in January 2002. At the time, she thanked those who rescued her, as well as the medical team who treated her and surrounded her with love and prayers.

“Without them I would not have had the strength to survive everything that has happened to me,” said Daskal, who noted that she was confident that G-d had had a reason for keeping her alive.

The National Transportation Safety Board ultimately found that the crash was caused by a pilot error, reported the Associated Press (bit.ly/48QpHcC). Daskal settled a lawsuit for $38 million in 2005 against the estate of the pilot, the helicopter manufacturer and the tour company, which had charged $317 per person for the three-hour tour, which included a picnic along the Colorado River.

Daskal’s medical bills had topped $11 million by 2005, and her lawyer, Gary Robb, estimated that her future care could cost $23 million. At the time of the settlement, it was ranked as the largest pretrial cash settlement for a personal injury case in the United States.

Spain the kicked out all its Jews Now Wants to Kick Jews Out Of Israel and Create a State for Arabs

 

 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Saturday that he will propose that Spain’s parliament recognizes a Palestinian state. 

So where will the 7 million Jews go? He says that "this is out of moral conviction". Here is a guy whose ancestors expelled all its Jews from his country, and now wants to take a giant piece of Israel and give it to a bunch of uncivilized barbarians "Moral Conviction" my tuches!

“I will propose granting Spain’s recognition to the Palestinian state,” Sánchez said. “I do this out of moral conviction, for a just cause and because it is the only way that the two states, Israel and Palestine, can live together in peace.”

Sánchez added his voice to a chorus of other European leaders and government officials who have said that they could support a two-state solution in the Middle East as international frustration grows with Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territories.

French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that it’s not “taboo” for France to recognize a Palestinian state. British Foreign Minister David Cameron said that the United Kingdom could officially recognize a Palestinian state after a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Sánchez said that his position on the conflict in the Gaza Strip is much like his country’s support for Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion more than two years ago.

He stressed that Spain demanded “respect for international law from Russia, and from Israel, for the violence to end, the recognition of two states, and for humanitarian aid to reach Gaza.”

His comments at a rights conference in the city of Bilbao came as aid shipments were headed for Gaza amid the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and a new international willingness to work around Israeli restrictions.

Five months after Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage, Israel’s military has battered the territory, killing more than 30,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Israel Has a Population of Almost 5 Million Women with an 85-Year Life Expectancy

 

As of the end of 2023, Israel’s population of women was 4,949,800, of whom approximately 31.3% were aged 0-17, approximately 54.8% were aged 18-64, and approximately 13.9% were aged 65 and over. This, and other data on the status of Israeli women, was released by the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of International Women’s Day 2024, to be observed Friday, March 7.

In Israel, Muslim women marry at an earlier age than other segments of the population. Their average age of marriage is 23.5, compared to 25.4 among Druze women, 25.6 among Jewish women and 27.6 among Christian women. (This data is from the year 2022).

In 2022, the average age of all Israeli women who gave birth increased to 30.7, a year and eight months higher compared to the average age in 2000.

The average number of children that a woman in Israel is expected to give birth to during her lifetime (Total Fertility Rate) is 2.89, higher than the average in OECD countries, which is 1.58.

In 2023, approximately 1.2 million Israeli women (35% of the total) are mothers of children who are up to the age of 17. Of them, 90% live with their spouse.

Women in Israel live longer than men. Their life expectancy in 2022 was 84.8 years, compared to just 80.7 among men.

However, Israeli women are only expected to live 79.7% of their lives without health problems that impair functioning, as opposed to men who are expected to live 83.1% of their lives without such problems.

US Kills 5 Innocent Gazans and Children with the Humanitarian Airdrops which are Turning Deadly

 The United States has killed at least two innocent Gazans with the airdropped humanitarian aid shipments that President Joe Biden ordered dropped into enemy territory, according to a report on Galei Tzahal.

 Torat_IDF reports that five Gazans were killed by the deadly US airdrops, condemned the US for their deaths, and called on the US to stop sending supplies to Hamas.

Besides the killed Gazans, multiple people were also wounded by the impact from the US aid. Videos from within Gaza show children chasing after the shipments as they land. At least two of those killed by the US are reported to be children.

Israeli citizens have been protesting the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Hamas terror stronghold, as the shipments delay Hamas’s surrender and allows them to continue to hold Israeli citizens hostage.

On Thursday, Biden announced he will also set up a seaport to get even more humanitarian aid into Gaza for the Gazan civilians, which Hamas then takes for themselves.

Unfortunately, the one step that would actually get civilians out of danger – facilitating and allowing their exit from the Gaza war zone, is not on the table. The US, Egypt and the world are holding the Gazans hostage to create a “Palestinian” state and perpetuate the conflict.

CNN’s "Klavta" Amanpour slammed for saying Terrorist is ‘Mandela’ to Palestinians

 Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international anchor, is being denounced and mocked widely for a recent social media post about Marwan Barghouti.

“To many Israelis, he’s a terrorist. To many Palestinians, he’s their Mandela,” she wrote of the convicted murderer, widely believed to have directed the first and second intifadas, which killed and wounded thousands of Israeli civilians.

Amanpour has previously apologized for comments about Jews and Israel. She said live on air that she “misspoke” 12 days after she said that Rabbi Leo Dee’s unarmed wife and two daughters were killed in a “shootout.”

Biden Says He told Netanyahu that he wants him to come a "Jesus Meeting"

 

I'm curious if President Biden ever told the leader of any of the 49 majority Muslim countries that they would be having a "come to Jesus" meeting, or is that language reserved for the only Jewish country in the world? 🤔 https://t.co/SuzXUP1SXi

— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) March 8, 2024

 President Joe Biden ‘s growing frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to mount, with the Democrat captured on a hot mic saying that he and the Israeli leader will need to have a “come to Jesus meeting.”

The comments by Biden came as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., on the floor of the House chamber following Thursday night’s State of the Union address.

In the exchange, Bennet congratulates Biden on his speech and urges the president to keep pressing Netanyahu on growing humanitarian concerns in Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were also part of the brief conversation.

Biden then responds using Netanyahu’s nickname, saying, “I told him, Bibi, and don’t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting.”

An aide to the president standing nearby then speaks quietly into the president’s ear, appearing to alert Biden that microphones remained on as he worked the room.

“I’m on a hot mic here,” Biden says after being alerted. “Good. That’s good.”