One is going to serve our beautiful country and one trying to destroy it!
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Tens of Thousands of Kollel guys and Avreichim Excited about Having a Day Off and Not having to Learn While Collecting their Checks
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| Avreichim enjoying their ride to Yerushalayim this morning |
I walked into my Kollel this morning, as I do every day. But today, the Beis Medrash was “more or less empty.” אין קול ואין עונה
What does that mean? It means the Baalei Batim—those who come out of love for Torah, unpaid and uncelebrated—were there, learning as always.
But the Avreichim? The ones on the payroll? Gone. Even the Rosh Kollel was missing.
Where were they?
They were in Yerushalayim, protesting. Not for the dead hostages rotting in Gaza tunnels. Not for the soldiers sent to the front three and four times over. Not for the widows, orphans, and shattered families. No. They were protesting for a draft dodger.
No rabbi called for a day of protest when our brothers were kidnapped. No mass rally when soldiers died defending our land. But today, thousands closed their Gemarras to chant slogans and pray!
Will someone please make a cogent argument why a milchemet mitzvah—which overrides Shabbos and Yom Kippur according to all respected poskim—is somehow not a mitzvah for Charedim?
Will someone justify how a massive segment of Israeli society takes every benefit—housing, stipends, protection—yet refuses to share in the burden of defending the nation?
And yes, they’ll still get paid today. For a day spent not in Torah, but in politics. For turning their backs on their brothers in arms. For choosing division over unity.
Hashem yerachem.
Thousands of Chareidim will NOT join the protest today because they all became Chilonim
None of those in the video ever served in the IDF! So much for the argument that the being the IDF will make them not frum.....
Latest Quinnipiac poll Cuomo gets 60% Jewish Vote Mamdani gets 16%
The latest Quinnipiac poll has:
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) October 30, 2025
- Cuomo getting 60% of the Jewish vote
- Mamdani getting 16%
The “40% poll” was an op designed to demoralize Jewish voters pic.twitter.com/Ljb9hVMpOg
Israel bars Red Cross from visiting jailed terrorists
By World Israel News Staff
Israel’s defense chief on Wednesday banned members of the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting with jailed Arab terrorists, citing security concerns.
According to a statement by the Israeli Defense Ministry, the decision was made based on recommendations presented by the Shin Bet security agency and after Defense Minister Israel Katz (Likud) was convinced that allowing such visits would endanger state security.
The blanket ban prohibits ICRC officials from meeting with the thousands of Arab terrorists held in custody under the Law on the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants, including thousands of detainees captured during or after October 7, 2023.
Those detainees include terrorists directly involved in the Oct. 7 massacres.
“The opinions presented to me indicate without any doubt that visits by the Red Cross to the terrorists in prison would seriously harm the security of the state,” said Katz. “The security of the state and of our citizens comes before everything else.”
The decision comes following pressure from within the government and the leadership of Israel’s prison system not to permit the ICRC visits.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has lobbied for a ban on the ICRC visits, a position supported by the Israel Prison Service and its commissioner, Kobi Yaakobi.
In contrast, the National Security Council had opposed a sweeping ban on the ICRC visits, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly backing the NSC’s position.
Netanyahu and the NSC had reportedly favored allowing the ICRC some visitation rights, considering the group a less overtly hostile alternative to United Nations-linked agencies that have also demanded third-party visits to jailed Arab terrorists.
Blogger Tracks Down Hamas Supporter who worked in Yerushalayim Gas Station ... Could Have Been Catastrophe
Yedidya Epstein says he tracked Yaman Obeid for months after noticing alarming posts showing weapons and Hamas propaganda.
When he learned Obeid was working at a gas station near Jerusalem ahead of tomorrow’s major rally, he alerted police. Yassam officers arrived quickly and arrested Obeid before any attack could occur.
Red Cross Partnered With Hamas To Stage Fake ‘Recovery’ of Hostage Remains in Gaza
The International Committee of the Red Cross staged a Fake Hostage Recovery remains in Gaza and then called it “unacceptable,” but the Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the organization of being complicit in the charade.
“We appreciate the Red Cross condemnation of Hamas’s staged ‘burials’ and ‘discoveries’ of hostage bodies, which they previously extracted from Hamas holding sites,” the Israeli ministry stated on Wednesday.
“There seems to be a gap between what the Red Cross office knows and reality, given footage of Red Cross staff at the deception,” the ministry said. “We trust the Red Cross will take action regarding lies their staff apparently report upwards.”
A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office told JNS that the terror organization tried to pull a fast one on both Israel and on U.S. President Donald Trump.”
“Hamas cheated President Trump. Hamas also cheated the Red Cross during this process,” the spokesman told JNS. “We want to believe they weren’t part of this.”
“Their role is to execute the mission to bring our hostages back home,” he added.
The Red Cross told JNS on Tuesday that it hadn’t been aware that a slain hostage’s body “had been placed there prior to their arrival.”
Drone footage, which the Israeli military posted online, shows terrorists throwing the body out of a window into a pit and covering it with dirt, in front of what appeared to be a Red Cross team. The Red Cross staff appeared to look on as the remains were reburied.
The Red Cross denied the sequence of events, which the video footage appeared to show, in its statement to JNS on Tuesday.
“Our team only observed what appeared to be the recovery of remains without prior knowledge of the circumstances leading up to it,” it said.
The Red Cross added that “it is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged, when so much depends on this agreement being upheld and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.”
The Israel Defense Forces stated that the video shows that Hamas “is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies, while in fact holding deceased hostages whose remains it refuses to release as required by the agreement.”
The IDF said that the terror group is also making “false claims of shortages in engineering equipment, equipment that is clearly unnecessary for the transfer of remains, and therefore these claims do not constitute an obstacle to the return of the remaining deceased hostages.”
Under Trump’s peace plan, Hamas committed to handing over all 48 hostages—living and deceased—on Oct. 13. Israel liberated 20 living captives that day, but Hamas has slow-walked the return of the 28 bodies.
On Monday night, Hamas released the remains of Israeli hostage Ofir Tzarfati, whose body Israel had already retrieved, and not a 16th body, in violation of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal in the Strip.
Israel recovered Tzarfati’s body from Gaza as part of a military operation in 2023, the Prime Minister’s Office stated. It added that Hamas’s refusal to return a new hostage body constituted a “clear violation” of the deal.
On Saturday, Trump urged Hamas to return the remains of deceased hostages the terrorists still hold within 48 hours or face action by “the other countries involved” in the agreement.
An urgent discussion between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of the Israeli security establishment ended on Tuesday without any decision on Jerusalem’s response to Hamas’s ceasefire violations.
A senior Israeli official told Israel’s Channel 12 that the IDF presented a series of possible moves, including renewing attacks on the Strip. Netanyahu reportedly said that there needed to be coordination with the Trump administration to determine the next step.
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