Dafnah a leftist Secular Jew ..Her Story and Her Turnaround after An Arab Spoke to Her

 

To mark the year since October 7, Danny Wise of Ami Magazine conducted 38 interviews focusing on the rebuilding efforts of the Israeli communities in the Gaza envelope. Among his interviews, he met with a woman named Dafnah from Kibbuz Re’im. She had been the cultural director of the kibbutz and was one of the organizers of the Nova Festival.

Touring the kibbutz, she showed him her charred house and the room in which her mother and children, Shira and Meir, were found murdered together. She is the lone survivor of her family. Wise writes that throughout the conversation he thought of Kristallnacht and the destroyed shuls. He asked her if the terrorists destroyed any shuls in the communities along the Gaza envelope.

Dafnah responded,

 "Of course not. Not a single beit knesset was damaged in all 21 Gaza kibbutzim." 

Wise didn’t understand, how could no shul have been attacked, no Sefer Torah burned? 

She explained, "It wasn't a miracle. How could they damage something that doesn't exist?" Most of the communities didn’t have designated or active shuls. Dafnah, went on to explain, "If you want to understand the day after, you have to understand the day before.”

Wise writes:

Rabbi Shlomo Raanan runs an organization called Ayelet Hashachar which seeks to bring outreach to irreligious kibbutzim. He came up with the idea of a basketball game between yeshivah bachuram and the kibbutzniks of Reim. 

The game was set to take place on Chol Hamoed, October 2, just days before the massacre. Dafnah had led the charge to cancel the game. To her, the match wasn't just a friendly contest; it was a Trojan horse, a way for religious influence to creep into the kibbutz. "I was furious," she told me. "This was outrageous. We didn't need outsiders telling us who a good Jew is," she said, pulling out her phone and scrolling through old messages. She showed me the texts she had sent to Rabbi Raanan, warning him not to bring his religious mission to her doorstep. "Cancel this game immediately," she wrote. "If you don't, we'll all block the entrance with our bodies." In the spirit of peace, Rabbi Raanan canceled the game.

But five days later, the massacre came. Just over the border, in the tunnels of Gaza, Dafna found herself held hostage, face to face with the forces that had torn her world apart. "I said to an older guard in Arabic, why do you torture me? For 20 years, I've made programs for Arab and Jewish. The Jews are your cousins." As she pleaded in the darkness for some recognition of their shared humanity, she was met not with empathy but with a cold dismissal.

"You are not a descendent of Ibrahim! You are not a Jew!" he spat. "You are a European colonialist who stole our land! 

It was in that moment, Dafnah said, that something broke. Or perhaps, something began to be repaired. The accusation hit hard. Like many in the kibbutz movement, Dafnah had spent her life defining herself more as an Israeli than a Jew, and more dedicated to reconciling Arabs and Israelis than healing the divides between different groups of Jews.

Religion had always been secondary to her identity. But now, in the depths of that tunnel, being denied her Jewishness by a Hamas fighter, she experienced a crisis of self.

 "I started screaming, Ana Yahudiun, Ana Yahudiun, I am a Jew I am a Jew!" The guards restrained her, taping her mouth

 But for Dafnah, the internal shift had already occurred.

 "For the first time in my life I saw my soul; I saw that I am a Jew. "All my life," Dafnah reflected, "I've been part of this community. We didn't see ourselves as Jews, in the traditional sense. When I traveled overseas and someone asked if I was Jewish, I'd correct them. “No, I'm Israeli”; I'd say.

But when he called me a colonialist, it hit me. He didn't see me as a Jew because I didn't see myself as a Jew.

Dafnah paused for a moment, her eyes wandering over the ruined landscape. 

"Every Arab village has a mosque. Christian settlements build churches. And here, we have nothing. Nothing to say that we are Jews. And in that moment, realized that if we were going to rebuild, we needed to reclaim our identity." "I will tell you," Dafnah said, "I took upon myself the new beit knesset project. When we rebuild, our beit knesset will be the most beautiful structure on the kibbutz.”

On Simchas Torah, Dafnah lost her family, but she found herself. They died, but her Jewish identity was born.

Trump "Mi-She'Beirach!

 

Michael Bloomberg Turns His Back on the Jewish People Joins Soros and Donates $50m to Harris!

 Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has reportedly donated $50 million to back Kamala Harris

The news of Bloomberg’s financial support comes just one week before election day, with the polling between Harris and Donald Trump neck and neck. High-profile billionaires have been picking sides in the hotly contested presidential race - with Bloomberg joining George Soros in backing Kamala Harris while Elon Musk is very firmly in Donald Trump’s camp.

Bloomberg, known for donations late in the campaign season, is said to have reached into his very deep pockets after months of arm-twisting by uber-wealthy associates.

Gates is  said to have donated $50m to the Harris campaign amid concerns over a second Trump presidency, the Times previously reported, though he has stopped short of giving a public endorsement. Conway donated at least $600,000 while Hoffman has given more than $9m to the super PAC.

A person familiar with the situation told the Times that Bloomberg met with Harris’s economic team to give feedback on her economic plan. The vice president then called Bloomberg to offer her appreciation for his expertise.

Bloomberg, 82, has endorsed and supported Democratic presidential candidates since 2012 and earlier this year donated nearly $20m to a super PAC – though that was supporting President Joe Biden’s re-election bid at the time.

The latest donation went to the Future Forward USA Action super PAC that backs Harris. Bloomberg has not commented on the multi-million dollar support.

So far this election cycle, he has individually donated more than $42m to Democrat candidates, according to federal disclosures. But even combined with the recent $50m donation, that is still considerably less than the more than $151m he gave during the 2020 election cycle.

The former mayor, who switched his party affiliation from Independent to Democrat in 2018, has a net worth of more than $104 billion.

In an attempt to defeat Trump in 2020, Bloomberg threw his name into the ring of potential Democratic candidates alongside Harris. He spent more than one billion dollars on the ultimately unsuccessful campaign.

News of the donation comes after billionaire Warren Buffett issued a statement saying he was not endorsing either candidate despite having previously backed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Hezbollah Commander Captured Alive Provides Extensive Intel Info

A map of the terror sites uncovered during the interrogations of the Hezbollah commander and terrorists.

The IDF revealed on Tuesday that a Hezbollah commander surrendered to Golani forces about two weeks ago and provided valuable intelligence information to his interrogators.

While operating in southern Lebanon two weeks ago, Golani forces found a tunnel inside a Hezbollah command post in Ayta ash-Shab. Several terrorists were cornered in the tunnel, including Hassan Akil Javad, the commander of Hezbollah’s Ayta ash-Shab region.

The forces surrounded the military command post, and after the terrorists surrendered, they were captured, detained, and interrogated by field investigators from Unit 504 [IDF intelligence]. They were then taken to the unit’s detention facility for further questioning.

“During the interrogation of the terrorists, they detailed numerous terrorist infrastructures spread throughout the Ayta ash-Shab area,” the IDF stated. “These findings helped the forces on the ground to locate and destroy terrorist infrastructure in a targeted manner and prepare for threats in the area.”

Javad is the highest-ranking Hezbollah official to be captured since the war began in the north, Army Radio reported. As a basis of comparison, no Hamas commander of a similar rank was captured alive in Gaza since the war began there.

According to the report, the fact that the IDF revealed that a senior commander provided sensitive intelligence information is rare and is intended to undermine the terrorists’ trust in its commanders.

Insane Whoopi Goldberg warns Trump will break up interracial marriages by deporting the spouses of White men

 

Whoopi now says Trump is going to break up interracial marriages...

deport the wives...

And 'put the white guy with someone else'

This is certifiably insane.

They're losing, and it's making them go nuts. pic.twitter.com/8hYK2oybsP

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 28, 2024

5,000-year-old site in Beit Shemesh offers clues to how cities developed in Israel... This Site Existed During Avraham Aveenu's Lfetime!

 

Archaeologists have unearthed a large settlement on the outskirts of Beit Shemesh dating from the early Bronze Age some 5,000 years ago, providing “a view of the beginning of the urbanization process in the Land of Israel,” the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday.

Exactly who inhabited the site is unknown, but it may have been inhabited by the ancestors of the biblical Canaanites, said archaeologist Ariel Shatil, a graduate student at the University of Haifa and one of the directors of the dig, speaking to The Times of Israel by phone.

“It’s a very ancient period, and they didn’t leave much” in the way of written materials, Shatil said, adding that it’s possible that these were “among the people who developed into what we know as Canaanites, but we really don’t know.”

The Canaanites, portrayed in the Hebrew Bible as local antagonists of the Israelites as they were conquering the Land of Israel, are usually considered by archaeologists and historians to have been a civilization and culture that coalesced around 2,000 BCE, about a millennium after the recently excavated settlement.

The site, dubbed Hurvat Husham, “is exceptional not only because of its size, but because it reveals to us some of the first characteristics of the transition from village life to urban life,” the archaeologists said.

The findings at the site include a large public building, likely a “cultic worship site,” which contained a room with a unique collection of intact clay vessels, the IAA said.

Adjacent to and surrounding this building, the archaeologists found rows of large standing stones, which were set in place “even before this enclosed public building was erected,” the researchers said.

UNRWA inflamed Jew-hatred by keeping Gazans penned inside Gaza

 

The continuing failure of the United Nations and UNRWA, its refugee agency that serves only Palestinia Arabs, to remove Gaza’s children, women, the sick and the elderly from 8 refugee camps inside Gaza to the relative safety offered by 10 refugee camps located in Jordan and 12 refugee camps located in Syria - or anywhere else in the world - has been a monumental failure, dereliction of duty and lack of concern for the welfare of the 650356 refugees living in Gaza and already registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

Keeping these registered refugees penned inside Gaza for the last year has seen the Israel-Gaza war prolonged and civilian casualties and damage to property substantially increased - as Israel was:

• Slowed down in eliminating those Gazan terrorists responsible for invading Israel and murdering 1200 people, raping and beheading, hospitalizing 14970 whilst internally displacing 150000 Israelis on 7 October 2023
• Hampered in its efforts to release 252 hostages forcefully abducted in Israel and taken to Gaza
• Required to confront Gaza’s civilians being used as human shields by the perpetrators of the 7 October 2023 atrocities seeking to escape being killed or captured
• Prevented from speedily destroying the extensive underground network of attack tunnels containing weapons, manufacturing and storage facilities located under hospitals, mosques, schools, commercial and residential buildings

Unsuccessful attempts by the UN to procure a ceasefire – rather than demanding the unconditional surrender of Gaza’s Hamas Government – underscored the UN’s concern more with allowing Gaza to survive to fight another day rather than see these Gazan terrrorist monsters and their infrastructure wiped out and destroyed.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process - Tor Wennesland – declared in his statement published on 20 October:

“Nowhere is safe in Gaza.”

What a briliant conclusion in the midst of war!

Yet the UN and UNWRA continue to abdicate their mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestinian Arab refugees in Gaza by keeping them penned in Gaza in a war zone.

On 25 August the UN announced that nine staff working for UNRWA in Gaza would be sacked because they may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel. This will surely just be the tip of the iceberg in outing many more of the 13000 UNRWA employees in Gaza.

Prolonging the conflict continues to inflame Jew-hatred worldwide as the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations detail in their monthly newsletter dated 24 October:

• In the Middle East, in Africa, Asia and Europe and in North America: webinars, press releases, warnings, articles and events relating to the ongoing conflict in Gaza
• At the United Nations: On 31 October, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will organize the briefing “International legal responsibilities for preventing genocide, holding perpetrators of war crimes accountable, and for ending the unlawful occupation of Palestine”. The briefing will feature presentations by the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese; and on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng; as well as a Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, Chris Sidoti.
• On 21 October, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, accused the Israeli authorities of continuing to deny humanitarian missions access to the north of Gaza with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege.

The newsletter is entirely anti-Israel – omitting any mention of supportive pro-Israel meetings such as the Second International Pro-Israel Summit held in Budapest on 2 October organized by the Center for Fundamental Rights. And most significantly, not encouraging any efforts to send families and children out of Gaza.

The United Nations and its terrorist-ridden UNRWA have become hopelessly conflicted and compromised.

by David Singer

Message from Rabbi Goldberg's widow to Rabbi Amar

 

Rachel Goldberg, widow of the late Rabbi Avi Goldberg who fell in Lebanon, discussed the draft law with the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, who came to pay a shiva call.

"It's like on Friday, when all the children help tidy up and clean the house for Shabbat, everyone cleans. One person doesn’t sit at the table and pray that the house will be clean. Everyone has to clean. Everyone has to clean. And whoever doesn't, it's not educational to give him something in return. It's not educational, not Jewish and not moral," Goldberg told Rabbi Amar.

She added, "What I'm saying is: people, you know the truth, remove this fake belief from your hearts, the walls we've built over fifty years. Remove it."

"I also call on people who are not religious, take responsibility for the fact that you are now distant. People who do not know and are evading their army service, take responsibility. Connect to our identity and it will be good for you, because your soul will hear the goodness of the Torah. Avi knew how to say good ideas, he knew how to talk about spirituality and that truth and honesty – that is the spirit of God," she concluded.

'Hezbollah down to just 20% of its rocket capabilities'

 

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the Hezbollah terrorist organization has lost an estimated 80 percent of the rocket-firing capabilities it had prior to the beginning of Operation Northern Arrows.

“I estimate the remaining capacity of the missiles and rockets to be around 20 percent, and in addition, it is not organized in the way that it used to be organized, in a way that Hezbollah could fire larger volleys,” Gallant said during a visit to the IDF Northern Command base in Tzfat (Safed) Tuesday evening.

“There is a deep connection between our strike in Iran and what is happening to Hezbollah. Iran understands that Hezbollah does not have the ability to respond, and Hezbollah understands that it cannot rely on Iran," Gallant added.

Before the current conflict, Hezbollah had amassed an arsenal of an estimated 150,000 rockets and attack drones. Hezbollah fired over 8,000 rockets at northern Israel in the eleven months following the October 7, 2023 massacre committed by the Hamas terrorist organization, which Hezbollah launched its attacks in support of. Hezbollah's near-daily rocket attacks caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes and communities for over a year, and killed dozens of people, including 12 Druze children who were killed in a rocket strike on a playground in Majdal Shams in July.

In September, Israel launched Operation Northern Arrows to remove the Hezbollah threat and allow the residents of northern Israel to return to their homes in safety and security.

US airlines have to automatically refund travelers for canceled, 'significantly changed' flights: What to know

 

Under the new policy, passengers will receive a refund if their flight is canceled or significantly changed, and they do not accept alternative transportation or travel credits offered. 

According to the DOT, a "significant change" is defined as a situation where a flight's departure or arrival time is altered by more than three hours domestically and six hours internationally. 

This definition also includes changes in departure or arrival airports, an increase in the number of connections or connections at different airports. 

It also applies in cases when a passenger is downgraded to a lower class of service or if flights are switched to planes that are less accessible or accommodating to a person with a disability, according to the rules. 

Passengers that file a mishandled baggage report can get a refund of their checked bag fee if it is not delivered within 12 hours of their domestic flight arriving at the gate. 

For international flights, passengers will be refunded if the bag doesn't arrive between 15 and 30 hours of their international flight arriving at the gate, depending on the length of the flight.

Passengers can be refunded if they paid for a service, such as Wi-Fi, seat selection or inflight entertainment that the airline failed to provide.