A captured Syrian soldier in As-Suwayda reveals they were told to impersonate Bedouins and slaughter Druze civilians, including women and children.
He claims their next mission was to advance toward Tel Aviv to “liberate Jerusalem.”
Monday, July 21, 2025
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Here’s A Look At the Beliefs And History of the Druze
The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam.
Most Druze religious practices are shrouded in secrecy, with outsiders not allowed to convert and intermarriage strongly discouraged.
More than half the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981.
Here’s a look at the Druze sect:
The principles Druze live by
A core social doctrine for Druze is defending their brothers, meaning defending one another, said Makram Rabah, assistant professor of history at the American University of Beirut.
“If a Druze person anywhere in the world needed the help of another Druze person, he would automatically get it,” said Rabah. “You’re part of a bigger community.”
He stressed how social and cultural rituals keep the community together. “They’re a big tribe,” he said.
Intermarriage is not encouraged. Rabah said mainstream Druze would shun people who marry outside the sect. “You are under the risk of being isolated socially and community wise,” he said.
How Druze have interacted with the Syrian government
Syria’s Druze have a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s powerhouses. They were heavily involved in revolts against Ottoman and French colonial rule to establish the modern Syrian state.
The Druze largely celebrated the downfall in December of Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad but were divided over interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s rule.
The latest violence has left the community more skeptical of Syria’s new leadership and doubtful of peaceful coexistence.
In Israel, members of the Druze community had called for intervention to protect the Druze in Syria.
Druze have armed militias
Multiple Druze armed militias have existed for years, originally set up to protect their communities against Islamic State group fighters and drug smugglers coming in from the eastern desert.
Assad reluctantly gave Druze a degree of autonomy, as they wanted to avoid being involved on the front lines. The Druze were exempted from conscription into the Syrian army and instead set up local armed factions made of workers and farmers to patrol their areas.
Since Assad’s ouster, the Druze have been reluctant to lay down their arms, with the recent violence, torture, abductions, and murders justifying the move.
Ben-Gvir Demands That A-G Be Forced To Adhere To Her Own Guidelines
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Sunday sent a letter to Justice Minister Yariv Levin in which he demands that Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara be forced to adhere to the guidelines that she herself set and bear the cost of her personal defense in the Supreme Court’s discussions regarding her dismissal by the government.
In the past, Baharav-Miara instructed ministers, including Ben-Gvir, to hire their own representation concerning petitions against their continued tenure. However, now that she herself is in that position, she has not hired her own representation but is using the resources of the State Attorney’s Office to defend herself.
Ben Gvir stated in the letter, “It is astonishing to see how someone who sets guidelines for the government blatantly deviates from them when it concerns herself. The Attorney General not only thwarts the government’s policy since the day she took office but also uses public funds and employees to fight against the Israeli government in a petition dealing with her dismissal. The public should not pay for her defense, nor should the employees who report to her.”
Ben Gvir noted that according to Baharav-Miara’s own directive, elected officials cannot be represented by the state regarding petitions against their continued tenure. But now, contrary to the rules she set, she is using the petitions department in the State Attorney’s Office to defend herself, in a clear conflict of interest and at the expense of the taxpayer.
“The list of reasons for which the government is obligated to dismiss her is longer than the sea. And now, there is also a brimming bucket of hypocrisy, double standards, and contempt for elected officials and the public as a whole,” Ben-Gvir concluded.
Israeli Supreme Court Rules Women Must Be Allowed to Take Rabbinate Exams
DIN: Please Note:
This has nothing to do with giving women semicha in any way, shape, or form. Passing the rabbinate tests results in several benefits, e.g., it can be recognized as the equivalent of a college degree in certain contexts. What the court ruled is that women cannot be denied the opportunity to take the exams in order to receive those benefits.
And another important point:
Nobody has gone OTD because of an Israeli Supreme Court decision. What drives thousands of Jews away from Torah today and is the greatest threat to Judaism, is when yiddishkeit is perverted and fake chumros and halachos are made up. The anti Torah threat, is overwhelmingly from within.
Israel’s Supreme Court last week ruled that the Chief Rabbinate must allow women to take its rabbinic exams. The justices said excluding women from the exams — which are tied to academic equivalency and government employment — is unconstitutional.
“The exclusion of women from these exams constitutes illegal discrimination,” wrote Justice Ofer Grosskopf in the ruling. “A public authority in Israel cannot deny services based on gender.”
The exams test knowledge of Jewish law in areas like kosher slaughter and family purity. While they don’t grant the title of “rabbi,” passing them enables men to qualify for roles in the religious public sector. Women were previously barred.
Several groups, including ITIM and Kolech, brought the case.
The Chief Rabbinate had proposed a separate track for women, but the court dismissed that as inherently unequal. Former Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef had even threatened to cancel the exams rather than open them to women.
Justice Daphne Barak-Erez responded pointedly: “These are women of Torah, women of halacha, who seek recognition. The state cannot slam the door on them.”
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Riots against the Tziyoinim
from EMAILIM BATORAH
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A Land in Which Tradition Breathes and Changes Flow ...The Daughters of Tzlafchad!
The instructions for dividing the Land of Israel had just been delivered to Moshe. Larger shevatim were granted broader tracts of territory.
To ensure fairness and to prevent suspicions of favoritism, the process was governed by a supernatural lottery or goral, not human judgment. Everything seemed ready. The long-awaited Divine promise was at last unfolding: we were poised to enter the Land of Hashem. Every shevet and every family had been counted and prepared.
All except for one. Thirty-eight years earlier, a man named Tzelafchad had died in the desert, for reasons the Torah does not disclose. He left behind no sons. As inheritance passes along the male line, his absence cast a shadow over the future, threatening to erase his legacy.
No sons meant no one to carry his name forward, no one to inherit his portion of land and no anchor to the soil of Israel.
His five daughters stepped forward, approaching Moshe in search of a solution. Moshe is confronted with a challenge he cannot resolve alone. How can he uphold halachic integrity while addressing their rightful yearning?
Uncertain, he refers their case to Hashem.
Both the Chazon Ish and Rav Eliyashiv Wrote that "Everyone is required to Defend Israel in Milchemes Mitzva"
by Menachim Rehat as printed in the pamphlet Matzav Huruach
Loosely translated to English
This is not the first time that the Chareidie leadership has lost sight of reality who unfortunately stand on the sidelines while others have been serving for 400 days, their families falling apart, their businesses collapsing, and their health severely undermined; this callousness will never be forgotten and will be remembered forever
The greatest poskim including the Chazon Ish and Rabbi Elyashiv require going out to defend Israel
1. At two historical junctures, the Charedie leadership lost the ability to see reality that was expected of them.
The first time was about 80 years ago, when the biggest disaster befell our people.
At the time, the leadership did not read the map correctly and instructed its followers not to immigrate to the Land of Israel and to continue to cling to the impurity of exile, a move that ended with the loss of millions of our brothers in the furnaces of Auschwitz.
The second time, is happening now, right before our eyes, when Talmedei Chachamim and Torah scholars insist on preventing their followers, through all kinds of political twists, from coming to Israel's aid from the hand of the oppressor that insists on killing all of us even at these very moments.
So they yell, as is the custom of Satmar and the Peleg,: "We shall be killed and not transgress. 'We will die and not enlist.'
Listen to the rhetoric of Minister Meir Porush in the Knesset plenum:
"If they had told us at the establishment of the State that it would look the way it does today, that we would not be able to study Torah in the Land of Israel, they would arrest yeshiva students who study Torah... In my opinion, Agudat Yisrael would say that it does not want a Jewish state."
So That's it? Burn down the club. Is A third exile preferable?
Liberman warns Iran is ‘obsessed’ with revenge, calls for Israel to strike first
Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman said Saturday that Iran is “obsessed” with seeking revenge against Israel following the 12-day war between the two enemy nations, warning that Jerusalem will have to strike again at some point.
Liberman, who heads the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, told the Channel 12 news program “Meet the Press” that revenge is “all the Iranian leadership thinks about.”
“I could tell you the same thing that the intelligence assessments and officials say” about Iran’s nuclear capabilities in the wake of the Israeli and US strikes, he added, saying “they all speak of around one to two years” for Iran to reconstitute its nuclear program.
While Tehran’s nuclear ambitions will remain a problem, Liberman said, “what is more worrying is that all Iran is currently obsessed with is waging a war of revenge” against Israel.
“That’s the only thing that interests them right now. A war of revenge, that’s it,” he stated.
When asked if he thinks that means Israel should attack Iran again, Liberman answered that “it would be worthwhile for us to strike first again.”
“This time, Iran wants to deliver the first blow,” he said.
He also said, “It’s not just theoretical” that Iran is working to revive its nuclear program.
“And what worries me most are the ballistic missiles,” Liberman said. “You saw what happened here when just 26 missiles landed inside Israel and the level of damage that it caused.”
“They are preparing for a major strike,” he continued, adding that Iran has thousands of missiles. “Imagine if it wasn’t just 26 missiles that impact Israel, what if it were 260 missiles? What kind of damage would that cause?”
Therefore, “we have no other choice” but to strike Iran first, according to Liberman, who said that is what he would do if he were in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position. “I hope that is what they are planning.”
“And I would tell the Mossad to work toward one goal: regime change,” he said, arguing that total regime change is the only way to ensure that Iran is not a threat to Israel.
Iran and Israel last exchanged blows after the Israeli military launched a surprise assault on nuclear and military targets inside Iran on June 13, 2025, kicking off a 12-day war between the two sides.
Israel said its assault was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.
Though Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, it enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. The Islamic Republic had taken recent steps toward weaponization, Israel said during the war.
Iran retaliated against Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 29 people and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals. Iran also attacked a US base in Qatar in retaliation for Washington’s strikes.
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