'Shoot anyone who starts a fire'

 The Knesset Interior Affairs Committee convened on Wednesday morning to discuss the burning of waste in the Arab territories in Judea and Samaria.

Knesset members presented the implications of the phenomenon on the health of the residents and the environment.

MK Tzvi Succot (Religious Zionists) warned of the severity of the situation, saying: "During the Meron disaster, 45 people were killed; here, thousands of people are being killed. People here are dying from the fires, there are stillbirths, and people are lying in the hospital. It is shameful. As a member of the coalition, I'm embarrassed to say this, unfortunately, the IDF is not involved.

He added, "This is terrorism that injures and kills thousands of people. We may have to form a commission of inquiry. We have to send the Air Force and tell them to shoot anyone who starts a fire."

Committee Chairman MK Yitzhak Kroizer and Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman second the aggressive classification of the issue, and said: "It is true that it's terrorism. Anyone who starts a fire must be shot. Terrorism must be treated as terrorism."

Other MKs referred to the wave of arson as a "security threat" and called for decisive action by the security forces, including the use of the Air Force and stopping the perpetrators in real-time.

Slabodka Dinner Disrupted by Landaus/Peleg Fringe Vile Attacks on Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch

 

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Note: The Boro-Park Scoop and YeshivaWorld are lying when they wrote that this was Neturei Karta! Neturei Karta are not goires any of the Litvishe Leaders, these are Pro-Landau supporters that want Rav Hirsch to quit Degel, because he is not extreme enough! 

Do not be fooled by these false reports! They are hiding the fact that there is now an open rift between the supporters of Rav Landay and Rab Hirsch! There are Zero Pashkivilim Against Rav Landau, even though they are supposedly on the same political party Degel.

Notice the hate they have for each other! זו תורה וזו שכרה

Pro-Landau/Peleg activists staged a protest Tuesday night at 51st Street and 14th Avenue in Boro Park, hurling vulgar slogans at HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a as guests arrived for the Slabodka Yeshiva dinner.

The Pro_landau chayos spewed rhetoric so crude and dishonorable that even longtime observers of Peleg antics described the display targeting one of the generation’s leading gedolei Torah as “a new low.”

Inside the hall, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch — unfazed, unshaken, and wholly above the chaos outside — entered to thunderous singing from a packed crowd. The ovation underscored the deep reverence held for the Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva, a towering gadol whose gadlus b’Torah and decades of hadracha have earned him global reverence.

The protest has drawn strong communal condemnation, with many leaders reiterating that Peleg represents no recognized Torah authority and operates entirely outside normative Jewish life.

To summarize: Harav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a brought with him Torah and Yiras Shamayim.Peleg brought with them bizayon and chillul hashem.

Trump invites Netanyahu to the White House, What will he do now to Pressure Israel???

 

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

US President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to travel to Washington “in the near future” during a phone conversation Monday night, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

The call followed a series of statements from Trump urging Israel to avoid any steps that could unsettle Syria’s new leadership while regional tensions remain volatile.

Trump publicly praised what he described as recent progress inside Syria, writing on Truth Social that “the United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the country of Syria.”

He said Washington had done “everything within our power to make sure the Government of Syria continues to do what was intended,” adding that lifting what he called “very strong and biting sanctions” had contributed to these developments. Trump said that this move “was truly appreciated by Syria, its leadership, and its people!”

Chiloni principals of High School Join Satmar to Prohibit Student to Put on Tefillin

 The Satmar Rebbe, as recorded in the sefer Yirei Hashem, ruled that it is halachically forbidden to put on Tefillin for Chilonim — a direct criticism of the Chabad initiative.

Yes, I know it sounds unbelievable, but in Satmar, this kind of ruling is par for the course.

Take this case: a young student, whose brother was badly injured in Gaza, wanted to put on Tefillin in his brother’s merit. He even recruited other boys to join him. Yet the school’s menhalim, apparently mindful of the Satmar “fatwa,” refused to allow it.

And here’s the irony: I can already hear people saying, “See, the Chilonim are against Tefillin.” But they conveniently ignore the fact that Satmar itself has officially taken that stance too.

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Civil War Between Backers of Rav Dov Landau and Rav Hirsch

 This whole “we are all Leshem Shamayim” line is pure malarkey. Nobody buys it — not even their own followers.

For months, a quiet war was brewing between the supporters of Rav Landau and those of Rav Hirsch. Now the conflict has burst into the open. What we’re seeing is a full‑blown power struggle among the so‑called “gedoilim,” and at this stage Rav Hirsch appears to be pulling ahead.

Grab the popcorn — the show has just begun. 

Associates of Rabbi Dov Lando, one of the leaders of Degel Hatorah, are trying to replace all Degel Hatorah MKs in the next Knesset, with politicians who are obedient to the rabbi - and this, in light of the fact that most of the MKs in the party currently obey Rabbi Hirsch, the de facto leader of the Lithuanian public.

A senior member of the national Degel Hatorah tells City News: 

"The attempted putsch in question will not succeed, given the trend of hardening of Rabbi Lando's associates, who see with their eyes wide open how the party is slipping through their fingers in favor of Rav Hirsch

 מקורביו של הרב דוב לנדו, ממנהיגי דגל התורה, מנסים לקדם מהלך של החלפת כל ח"כי דגל התורה בכנסת הבאה, עם פוליטיקאים הממושמעים לרב - וזאת, לאור העובדה שרוב הח"כים במפלגה כיום ממושמעים דווקא למרן הרב הירש, המנהיג בפועל של הציבור הליטאי.

בכיר ב'דגל התורה' הארצית אומר ל'חדשות העיר': "ניסיון הפוטש המדובר ככה"נ לא יצליח, נוכח מגמת ההיחשלות של מקורבי הרב לנדו, שרואים בעיניים כלות איך המפלגה נשמטת להם מבין האצבעות לטובת הרב הירש".

Is this the Redemption?

 Is this the country we have been waiting for? Absolutely! It’s not yet total light, but it has a lot of light.

by Harav Shlomo Aviner Shlitah 

It seems that many people have forgotten the very first teaching of the Jerusalem Talmud:

“One time, Rabbi Chiya the Great and Rabbi Shimon ben Chalafta were strolling through the Arbel Valley as morning approached, and they saw the breaking of dawn. Rabbi Chiya said to Rabbi Shimon, ‘Such is Israel’s Redemption. At first it is gradual, but the further it moves along, the faster it is.” (Jerusalem Talmud, at the beginning of Berachot).

Countless times I have passed through that area, during the seven years I lived on Kibbutz Lavi in the Lower Galilee, and now, as well, since my daughter lives there in Kfar Zeitim, near the Sea of Galilee. 

Were Rabbi Chiya to see all of this, he would burst with pleasure and pride at how gloriously Eretz Yisrael is being rebuilt and how plentifully it is bearing its fruits. Indeed, this is one of the points that distinguish the intelligent from the less intelligent: 

the understanding that there are phenomena that do not occur all at once but involve a prolonged, painful, gradual process.

To what may this be compared? To sunrise. The sun doesn’t suddenly appear out of total darkness. Rather, first comes dawn, the brightening of the east, sunrise, and at noon the sun appears in all its might. It is the same with the start of Redemption. Light and darkness intermingle. There are clouds - ups and downs, crises and setbacks, difficulties and complications.

And why is that?

 Would it be too hard for G-d to bring Redemption all at once, instantaneously? 

Certainly not, but such is G-d’s will, that we should be partners in Redemption, and such is the nature of people, that they are not angels but just people with weaknesses, mistakes and oversights.

Therefore, if we see problems along the way, we mustn’t despair. We mustn’t think we have erred in our direction. All the questions only prove that our country does not constitute the complete Redemption but only its first flowerings. Or, more precisely, we are already at an advanced stage of our Redemption process.

One might say: “I can agree to the Redemption’s proceeding gradually, but not to its regressing and to our losing what we have already gained.” If so, however, my response is that G-d does not need your consent.

Moreover, you’ve forgotten that the Jerusalem Talmud brings as a first example of gradual Redemption, the Purim miracle, which began with Mordechai’s exposing the plot against King Achashverosh. 

Yet one can ask: Wasn’t that success followed by a decree to exterminate all the Jews, men, women and children?

The commentary on Sefer Charedim provides an answer to this: 

The “gradualness” referred to relates to the increase in light, yet it is also possible that within this process there will be times of great darkness.

You’ve also forgotten that when Moshe came to redeem Israel, at first the situation deteriorated and Pharaoh hardened his decrees, as Ramban explains at the end of Shemot.

The rule is this: the Redemption is not a sudden burst of light like the moon at midday, but light and darkness in coexistence. We rejoice over that light on Israel Independence Day, and we weep over that darkness on Tisha B’Av, and struggle to rectify it.

Therefore, in the Pesach Haggadah, we seek a “day that is neither day nor night.” We certainly long for a situation of total day, but we know that there is an intermediate situation of neither day nor night, and even for that we cannot possibly offer enough thanks, in comparison to the previous situation that was total darkness. 

The source is the Prophets, from Zechariah 14:7:

 “There shall be one day which shall be known as Hashem’s, not day, and not night, but it shall come to pass that at evening time there shall be light.” It shall not be entirely like the future Redemption, nor as difficult as the exile (Rashi, Radak).

Don’t worry. We are not stuck half-way through. “Shall I bring her there but not assist in the birth? Shall I begin to assist her but stop? - the word of G-d” (Isaiah 66:9). Rashi explains: “Shall I bring the woman to the birthing stone but not open her womb to remove her fetus? Shall I start something without being able to finish?”

HaRav Avraham Yitzhak Kook z"l writes, “In the end of days, a silent movement has arisen [the Zionist Movement] full of strengths and desires, full of contradictions and contrasts, full of light and darkness, and seeking to reach the shore of Jewish Salvation. It represents a small light from the light of the Messiah (Orot, Yisrael U-Techiyato 20).

Rabbi Kook terms it a small light, yet compared to the darkness of the Exile, it is an enormous light indeed!

Is this the country we have been waiting for?

Absolutely! It’s not yet total light, but it has a lot of light, and in spite of all of the difficulties and struggles we face, the light is getting brighter.

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Lapid sparks uproar: Strip voting rights from Charedie draft dodgers - but not Arabs

 

Opposition leader MK Yair Lapid sparked a political storm on Sunday evening with remarks about a bill his party intends to submit, under which voting rights would be revoked from those who do not enlist in the IDF, while the law would not apply to the Arab public.

Lapid said, “I don’t know who invented this phrase that the right to vote is sacred. It is not sacred. In a democratic state, there are rights and obligations, and one depends on the other - they cannot be separated.”

He added that his law would target those found fit for service but who choose not to report: “For example, the Arab public in Israel is not summoned to enlist, so it does not apply to them. Or people with mental or physical conditions who cannot enlist - it does not apply to them either. It applies only to those who received a draft order, are healthy, and can report to the induction center but choose not to. They are offenders.”

Lapid added that he also intends to submit a separate bill to revoke voting rights from prisoners: “I also intend to submit, alongside this, a law stating that prisoners will not be able to vote in Israel, as well as those who fail to report to the induction center.”

In response, the Shas party sharply attacked the Yesh Atid chairman, stating: “Yair Lapid, who hastened to clarify that he did not intend to revoke voting rights from Arabs but only from haredim, revealed his true face and the depth of his hatred toward Jews who observe Torah and mitzvot. According to Lapid, Jews who love the land, study Torah, and pray daily for the safety of IDF soldiers are worth less than Arabs, some of whom support Palestinian terror. Shameful and disgraceful.”

MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) also responded harshly to Lapid’s remarks, saying: “Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Chikli, you need not look abroad for battles against antisemites - Yair Lapid is right here in the Israeli parliament, with ideas that even antisemites abroad would not dare voice today. Will Lapid and Liberman’s next law be a ban on haredim driving on Israeli roads paved with state funds?”

Trump threatening sanctions on Israeli Judges over Netanyahu pardon

 

A senior Likud minister claimed that President Donald Trump may impose sanctions on Israeli judicial officials if they refuse to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his ongoing criminal trial.

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman made the explosive statement during an interview with i24 News on Sunday, suggesting that Trump could take unprecedented measures to ensure Netanyahu’s trial concludes without a conviction or plea deal.

“President Trump said [Netanyahu should be pardoned] in a very clear way, I think, and he expressed his opinion,” Silman said, referencing Trump’s seemingly off-the-cuff remark to President Isaac Herzog during his October address to the Knesset.

“And I think now, President Herzog needs to rise to the occasion and make a decision for the good of the security of Israel. And if President Herzog doesn’t know how to act for the benefit of Israel and for the nation, for brotherhood and unity, I think that, yes, President Trump may take additional steps and will be forced to intervene,” she continued.

Silman added that potential consequences imposed by Trump, should a pardon not be granted, “may include sanctions and other things on senior officials in the judicial system.”

On Sunday, Netanyahu’s attorneys sent a formal letter to Herzog requesting that he grant the prime minister a pardon. Notably, the request did not include any admission of guilt — which some legal experts say is required for a pardon to be granted, though the matter remains disputed.

In a video statement released the same day, Netanyahu told the public he had submitted the request for the good of the country, while reiterating that he is the victim of unfair prosecution by a weaponized justice system.

Herzog’s office acknowledged receipt of the letter and said it is currently reviewing the request.

Pope Leo XIV who represents the religion that murdered millions of Jews Doubles Down on a 2-State Solution

 Pope Leo XIV the representative of a bunch of murderers and rapists, doubled down Sunday insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying in his first airborne news conference that it was the “only solution” that could guarantee justice for both sides. 

No one pointed out to this moron that the word "Palestine" doesn't even appear once in the entire New Testament and that his own God lived and died in Israel.

Leo made the comments as he flew from Istanbul to Beirut for the second and final leg of his maiden voyage as pope. Though Leo has been fielding journalists’ questions at informal gatherings at his country house, the brief encounter marked his first news conference as pope and followed the tradition of his predecessors of using his trips to engage with the media. But it was limited to two questions from Turkish journalists.

The American pope was asked by a Turkish journalist about his private talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and whether they discussed the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Leo confirmed they had, and said that Turkey had an “important role to play” in both conflicts, noting that Erdogan’s government had already helped facilitate low-level negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war.