כִּֽי־תֵצֵ֥א לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה עַל־אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Monday, September 8, 2025
Former Chareidie Girls now Harassing Charedie Protesters With Non_ Tzneesdik Tactics
Charedi yeshiva student,Charedi soldier neutralize terrorists ...Reports say that the Bus Driver Was Involved!
The two terrorists who carried out a deadly shooting attack Monday morning at the Ramot Junction in Jerusalem were neutralized by a haredi yeshiva student and a squad commander in the IDF's haredi Hashmonaim Brigade.
The yeshiva student's brother-in-law told Kol Barama Radio: "My brother-in-law was on his way to the yeshiva, he has a gun he inherited from his grandfather, and he received the license thanks to [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir's reform. He emptied the entire magazine on the terrorists. Eyewitnesses claim that the driver was a partner in the attack."
Six people were killed in the attack, including three people in their 30s and a man and a woman in their 50s. Seven others were injured, one critically and four seriously.
A large number of IDF forces were deployed to the scene, and the crossings around Jerusalem were closed. The investigation into the terrorists' identities continues, led by the IDF's Central Command, Israel Police, and ISA.
Among the injured is Rabbi Yaakov Sharabani, one of the leaders of the "Maor Torah" yeshiva and son-in-law of the yeshiva's dean, Rabbi Avraham Salim. Rabbi Sharabani was lightly injured and was taken to the hospital in stable condition; the public is asked to pray for Yaakov Haim, the son of Tamar Ibon.
Haredi journalist Menachem Kolodetsky requested that the public pray for the complete recovery of his cousin, Tova Gittel, the daughter of Miriam Shoshana, a resident of Ramot who was injured in the attack. She is in her eighth month of pregnancy, expecting her first child.
Levi Yitzhak Pash of Kol Torah Yeshiva, killed in shooting attack
The Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem announced early Monday afternoon that yeshiva employee and maintenance man Levi Yitzhak Pash was one of those killed in a Ramot Junction terror attack.
The Monday morning terror attack left six dead, including Pash, and 12 others injured.
In a statement, the yeshiva said that Pash "did many good deeds, gave of his money, and often occupied himself with learning Torah." The statement also added that Pash was well-known in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem as a dedicated person who was always involved in acts of kindness.
His funeral will leave from the yeshiva later today.
New study overturns 100 years of evolutionary dogma
For over a century, the reigning dogma in evolution has been that mutations — changes in the DNA — arise as blind accidents in the genome, leaving the survival of the fittest to separate the beneficial ones from the detrimental.
Now, groundbreaking research presents a fundamental challenge to that dogma, showing that nature’s most famous adaptive mutations do not arise randomly at all.
Despite the long-held belief that mutations are random, it has never been possible to observe individual mutations as they arise naturally. Prof. Adi Livnat of University of Haifa, director of the Sagol Lab for Evolution Research, lead author Dr. Daniel Melamed, and the team recently developed the most accurate mutation-detection method to date, crossing this barrier.
In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), this team of scientists from Israel and Ghana showed that a mutation of major evolutionary importance, the APOL1 1024A>G mutation, which protects against the most common form of African sleeping sickness, while increasing the risk of kidney disease in people with two copies, originates de novo significantly more frequently exactly where it is needed: in sub-Saharan Africans compared to Europeans and in the precise location in the gene where it is protective.
“These results are completely unexpected from the random-mutation point of view. From that view, individual mutations are not supposed to arise more frequently where needed,” said Livnat.
These findings strikingly parallel the group’s earlier results showing that the HbS mutation, which protects against malaria while causing sickle cell anemia in homozygotes, originates de novo more frequently precisely in the gene and population where it is needed.
Israel May Allow Jews to stay at Joseph's Tomb for three days during Rosh Hashanah
Defense Minister Israel Katz is considering allowing Jews to stay at Joseph's Tomb for more than three consecutive days during the Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) holiday, Ynet reported.
According to the report, Rabbi Yossi Elitzur, head of the "Od Yosef Chai" Yeshiva in Shechem (Nablus), recently sent a letter to Minister Katz requesting permission for the yeshiva students to celebrate Rosh Hashanah at Joseph's Tomb. The letter was also signed by Knesset member Tzvi Succot and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
"On Rosh Hashanah, Joseph was released from prison," the letter noted, adding, "It is time for the Ministry of Defense, under your leadership, to correct this situation and send an important message that 'Am Israel chai,' (the people of Israel live on - ed.), remember their holy sites well, and will not abandon them again."
In response, the Defense Minister's office said: "In light of the great importance of Jewish prayers at the Tomb of Joseph, the Defense Minister will examine the matter and make a decision after consulting with security officials."
The IDF left the tomb's compound about 25 years ago, even though it was defined as an Israeli enclave within Area A. Since then, access to the site has been allowed only a few times a year, coordinated in advance with the IDF and under heavy security. During this period, Palestinian Authority Arabs have vandalized the compound several times.
Ben-Gvir Lashes Out After Israel’s High Court Rules That Imprisoned Terrorists Must Be Given More Food
Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled Sunday that the state has failed to meet its legal obligation to provide Palestinian security prisoners with sufficient food and ordered authorities to immediately rectify the situation.
The court, in a 2–1 ruling, sided with petitions brought by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Gisha, which accused National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and the Israel Prison Service of deliberately cutting food rations to levels below subsistence. Justices Daphne Barak-Erez, Ofer Grosskopf, and David Mintz all agreed that Israeli law obligates the state to ensure food “sufficient to enable a basic existence.” But Barak-Erez and Grosskopf concluded the state has not met that standard. Writing for the majority, Barak-Erez pointed to evidence that rations for Palestinian prisoners had fallen below the legal threshold. “The painful testimonies of freed hostages show that a stricter food regime [for Palestinian prisoners] does not improve the suffering of our kidnapped brothers who are still in captivity, and even the opposite,” she wrote. Grosskopf added that the state “has not sufficiently demonstrated” it is carrying out its nutritional obligations. Mintz dissented, insisting that the state’s approved menus and food provisions were consistent with a legally acceptable minimum standard. “The High Court of Justice ordered a halt to Ben Gvir’s policy of starving security prisoners,” said Oded Feller, an attorney for ACRI. “A state does not starve people, regardless of what they have done. This policy, which lasted nearly two years, turned prisons in Israel into torture camps, and according to testimonies from hostages, also led to increased abuse of them.” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir immediately lashed out at the court. “Our hostages in Gaza have no High Court to defend them. The murderous Nukhba terrorists and abominable rapists have, to our disgrace, the High Court protecting them,” Ben Gvir said. He vowed to maintain a policy of providing only “the most minimal conditions under the law.” Justice Minister Yariv Levin echoed the criticism, accusing the court of misplaced priorities. “While the hostages are being starved in the tunnels, a duo of judges in the High Court require that the food given to the worst terrorists be improved,” Levin said. |
How Did The Shin Bet Trace Hamas Spokesman Abu Obeida?
The IDF, with the assistance of the Shin Bet, succeeded last week in eliminating a key figure in Hamas, Abu Obeida, the terrorist organization’s spokesman, or by his full name Huthayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout. The intelligence behind the assassination of Obeida, a shadowy figure who appeared only in a Khaffiya for his reports, reveals a high level of deception which enabled the success of the operation.
According to open source intelligence (OSINT) reports online, the IDF permitted on August 18 the publication of fake news that 4 Israeli soldiers were missing and others had been killed in a Hamas ambush. Al- Jazeera quickly reverberated the fake report and then its producers pushed senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rasha, to call Abu Obeida to confirm the story.
Israel was able to intercept the call to Obeida and thus track his location, which was a new apartment he had recently rented. A short time later he was eliminated. Abu Obeida’s brother was also arrested a few weeks before his elimination, and he may have provided further information which enabled the assassination to take place.In another embarrassment to Hamas, the IDF published on Friday a picture of Abu Obeida standing together with other senior officials- Mohammed Deif (since eliminated) and two other senior Hamas brigadiers, one of who has also been eliminated. The picture was initially released by Hamas itself but with blurred faces, as the organization did not want their identities known.
Following the exposure of this unblurred and clear image of Abu Obaida by the IDF, Gazan channels began calling the Al Jazeera journalist, Tamer Al-Mishal, “a collaborator”, after he was the only one who had the documentation without the blurring.
Mordechai Weberman Who Became a Christian Illegally Selling The Anglican Church Jerusalem Properties
Two historic properties in the heart of Jerusalem, valued at tens of millions of shekels, are at the center of what Anglican associations operating in Israel are calling a serious and sophisticated fraud scheme. A key figure in the story converted to Christianity. According to the associations, this man allegedly planned a years-long scheme to seize control of the properties.
To thwart the alleged takeover, the associations petitioned the Jerusalem District Court for temporary injunctions in a one-sided proceeding, and their request was granted, according to a Yisrael Hayom report.
According to the associations, the affair began in 2020, when Mordechai Weberman began an unexpected rapprochement with the Anglican Church and was officially baptized as a Christian. During these years, Weberman found work with CMJ (Church’s Ministry among Jewish People), a British organization founded in 1809 that has operated in Jerusalem for nearly 200 years. CMJ is the parent organization of the Vincent Society and the Israeli Trust of the Anglican Church, which run the church’s school and own the historical properties.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Shloimy Werdiger Drags R"Y to a Disastrous Meeting With Israeli Ambassador Leiter and then Threatens Netanyahu "We Won't Sit Idly By"
Shloimy Werdiger, the “Shaven Bekishe” Gerer who styles himself as Chairman of the Agudah board of trustees, decided it was a bright idea to haul three Roshei Yeshiva — Rav Elya Brudny (Mir), Rav Aharon Feldman (the anti-Israel spokesman from Ner Yisroel), and Rav Malkiel Kotler (Lakewood) — down to Washington, D.C. for a meeting with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter.
The goal? Convince the Ambassador that yeshiva bochurim shouldn’t be drafted because their Torah learning is supposedly more important than saving lives. Jewish lives. In Israel.
The result? An embarrassing fiasco.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, everything.
Turns out Shloimy forgot to do the most basic homework. Like, say, Googling the Ambassador. Because Yechiel Leiter isn’t just an Israeli diplomat — he’s the grieving father of Moshe Yedidya hy”d, an IDF soldier murdered at the very start of the war in Gaza. A fact known to literally every cab driver in Jerusalem and every falafel vendor in Tel Aviv. Everyone, that is, except the Agudah delegation.
So there they were, waltzing in with their “don’t-draft-the-bochurim” pitch — only to learn mid-meeting that the man across the table had buried his son in uniform.
Ami Magazine breathlessly reported that Rav Feldman “shed tears.” Yes, tears!
Yes he shed tears but only when he was suddenly confronted face-to-face with a grieving father. A reality so foreign to him, because despite spending six months a year in Israel, he has never once engaged with those families, never once attended a shiva, never once acknowledged their pain.
And then comes the punchline:
Shloimy Werdiger tells Ami, the meeting was a “chizzuk for Eretz Yisrael.”
Excuse me while I choke on my kugel. Chizzuk? For whom exactly? The widows? The orphans? The five frum families in Ramat Beit Shemesh who lost sons in Gaza? The thousands of IDF soldiers fighting right now? Please.
The only chizzuk was for Shloimy’s ego when Hamodia, Yated, and HaMevaser printed his photo.
Even the Israeli Embassy didn’t bother writing it up. Agudah didn’t either. Why? Because it was a trainwreck.
The Ambassador, a gentleman, smiled politely, made small talk, and silently prayed for them to leave his office. After Moshe Yedidya’s name came up, the room collapsed faster than a bad cholent pot. What can you possibly say to a bereaved father — that your children deserve protection while his gave his life?
This is the disconnect. This is the contempt. A leadership class that weeps for well-fed bochurim who spent three nights in jail, but has no tears for those who fall al kiddush Hashem in defense of the Jewish people.
And what does Werdiger do? Leak to the frum press that the meeting was “tight-lipped.” In reality, it was just humiliating.
And then — the pièce de résistance — Shloimy blusters:
“We’re not going to sit idly by while they persecute bnei yeshiva!”
Really?
Persecute?!
The government hasn’t stopped anyone from learning. Even Rav Zilberstein admits it. All they’re asking is that those eligible serve. But no, in Shloimy’s world, filling out an army form is the new Spanish Inquisition.
What is being asked is simple: again.... that those eligible, serve.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues to pour hundreds of millions into Torah institutions —(to the tune of 800,000 shekels) more in a single year than Werdiger has or will ever raise in his entire life.
But the “Bekishe Chairman” still thinks Netanyahu is trembling at his threats. Word has it (rumor, of course) that when Bibi read in the Yated that Shloimy wouldn’t “sit idly by,” he grabbed Sarah, screaming and kicking, by the collar and bolted to a bunker in Tel Aviv.
The truth is obvious:
The Washington trip wasn’t chizzuk. It was contempt.
It wasn’t leadership. It was a disgrace.
And above all, it revealed how utterly disconnected this Agudah leadership is from the real struggles of Am Yisrael in its hour of war.
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Tonight: Total lunar eclipse visible across Israel
This evening, Sunday, 7 September 2025, a spectacular astronomical event will occur: a total lunar eclipse, also known as "blood moon", that will be visible across the country.
The eclipse will be unusually long — the phase of totality will last about 80 minutes. The peak of the eclipse will occur at 21:12.
The lunar eclipse is expected to be visible in the skies over Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
The eclipse is called a "blood moon" because, during totality, sunlight passes through Earth's atmosphere, is refracted and scattered — mainly at longer red wavelengths — and reaches the Moon, which takes on a deep red color.
The next total lunar eclipse is expected to take place on March 3.
Saudi Arabia Signals Agreement for UAE to Reconsider Ties With Israel if West Bank Annexation Advances
Saudi Arabia has quietly given the United Arab Emirates a green light to pull back from its normalization deal with Israel if Jerusalem moves ahead with annexation in the West Bank, according to a report by Israel’s Kan news outlet.
The development, cited by a source close to the Saudi royal family, comes after a closed-door meeting last week in Riyadh between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed. The official Saudi Press Agency acknowledged the meeting, saying the leaders discussed “the latest developments in Palestine,” though it made no mention of annexation.
Kan quoted the source as saying both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi agreed that rolling back participation in the Abraham Accords would be a “realistic” response to Israeli annexation moves. The source added that such a step would also bring ongoing Saudi-Israeli normalization talks to a standstill.
The warning underscores the fragility of the Abraham Accords, signed in 2020 when the UAE normalized ties with Israel in return for then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelving annexation plans. That breakthrough was widely believed to have Saudi Arabia’s tacit blessing.
In recent weeks, Abu Dhabi has issued a series of increasingly sharp warnings to Israel against renewed annexation efforts. These included an on-the-record interview with The Times of Israel, an official UAE government statement, and private messages relayed through backchannels. The Washington Post reported that the warnings were serious enough to push Netanyahu’s government to remove annexation from the agenda of a scheduled cabinet meeting Thursday night.
The Saudi intervention comes as Riyadh has ramped up its criticism of Israel over the war in Gaza. Earlier, the kingdom accused Israel of “genocide” against Palestinians in a strongly worded statement. While that communiqué did not reference annexation, Kan’s reporting suggests the issue is very much at the center of high-level Saudi-Emirati coordination.
Any Emirati withdrawal from the Abraham Accords would mark the first unraveling of the landmark U.S.-brokered agreements and could trigger a wider diplomatic crisis across the region. For Netanyahu, already under intense domestic and international pressure, the warning from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi presents yet another red line he is now forced to navigate.
So? Who was right after all???? WZO Certifies Recent Election, Confirming Frum And Right-Wing Majority For First Time Ever
The results of the 2025 World Zionist Congress elections were officially certified this week, confirming a dramatic shift in representation: for the first time, frum and right-wing slates together hold a majority in the American delegation.
The certification followed months of disputes over voting irregularities, including fraudulent ballots, that were ultimately resolved by the American Zionist Movement’s election tribunal and the Zionist Supreme Court in Jerusalem.
According to the American Zionist Movement, which oversees the U.S. elections, a record-breaking 224,969 valid votes were cast—nearly double the turnout of 2020 and the highest in history. Twenty-two slates competed for 155 American seats, which make up almost one-third of the body’s elected membership. Delegates from across the world will join representatives from Israel at the 39th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, scheduled for October 28–30.
The World Zionist Congress, founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, determines the allocation of over $1 billion annually through the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael (JNF-KKL), and Keren Hayesod. Decisions made at the congress affect Jewish education, settlement initiatives, and the character of Jewish communal life in Israel and the Diaspora.
This year’s results highlight the growing presence of the Orthodox community within the WZO’s political framework. Am Yisrael Chai captured 21 seats, while Eretz HaKodesh secured 19. Combined with the Orthodox Israel Coalition–Mizrachi, which won 18 seats, the religious bloc now holds significant influence, an outcome unthinkable just a decade ago.
Other religious and right-wing groups also gained ground, while some centrist and progressive factions lost strength. The Reform movement’s “Vote Reform” slate remained the largest single faction, winning 33 seats, though fewer than the 39 it held in the last congress. The Conservative movement’s Mercaz USA gained modestly to 19 seats, while progressive lists such as Hatikvah dropped sharply.
The elections were not without controversy. Shas was initially disqualified over ballot issues but was later reinstated with two seats. Achdut Israel, another slate, was disqualified completely after investigators found evidence of fraudulent registrations.
Smaller groups also managed to carve out a presence. Aish Ha’am, linked to Aish HaTorah, secured five seats, while newcomers like Kol Israel, Vision, and the Israeli American Council each won four.
Huckabee: US never asked Israel not to annex Judea, Samaria
“The United States has never asked Israel not to apply sovereignty” in Judea and Samaria, Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told broadcaster Channel 14 on Friday.
Huckabee’s statement came on the backdrop of Hebrew-language reports claiming that Washington asked Jerusalem not to advance policies that could cause harm the stability of the Palestinian Authority.
“I have repeatedly said that the United States respects Israel as a sovereign state and will not tell Israel what to do. That’s also what Secretary of State Rubio said just last week,” Channel 14 quoted the American envoy as saying in response to these reports.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “abruptly” canceled a Cabinet discussion on a plan to annex part of Judea and Samaria, Channel 14 reported.
The report provided several reasons for the cancelation, including American pressure not to press forward with this agenda.
An unnamed Israeli official reportedly said that the meeting was only postposed due to schedule congestion.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday that an “unusual message” delivered by the United Arab Emirates had prompted Netanyahu and several senior ministers to remove the annexation plan from the Cabinet’s agenda.
“Annexation would be a red line for my government, and that means there can be no lasting peace. It would foreclose the idea of regional integration and be the death knell of the two-state solution,” Special Envoy of the Emirati Foreign Ministry Lana Nusseibeh told Hebrew and international media on Tuesday.
It was reportedly the first time an Emirati official has publicly put under question the Abraham Accords, which the UAE and Bahrain were the first Arab countries to sign onto on Sept. 15, 2020.
The public message followed several warnings in diplomatic back-channels, which were met with silence by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, according to the Post.
Asked by reporters on Thursday in Ecuador to comment on this development, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “What you’re seeing with [Judea and Samaria] and the annexation, that’s not a final thing—that’s something being discussed among some elements of Israeli politics. I’m not going to opine on that today.”
He went on to say that Washington had harsh words for world leaders, who have said that they plan to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
“We told all these countries, ‘If you guys do this recognition stuff—it’s all fake, it’s not even real,” Rubio told reporters during the diplomatic visit to Quito, Ecuador. “If you do it, you’re going to create really big problems.”
Rubio is expected to visit Israel on Sept. 14.
Trump weighs ban on Iranian diplomats from Costco
The Trump administration is considering imposing travel restrictions on the Iranian delegation at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York City, including bans on shopping at membership-based wholesalers popular with economically-isolated governments.
The Associated Press reported on an internal U.S. State Department memo, which details potential restrictions on delegations from Iran, Brazil, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
The report comes after the department announced last week that it was denying visas for officials from the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization, including Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who was scheduled to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level debate week, which begins on Sept. 23.
The AP reports that discussions on Iranian restrictions are ongoing.
The United States, as the U.N. host country, typically must agree to provide visas to visiting diplomats but has made exceptions based on national security.
More often, it has instead granted visas but restricted travel to the U.N. district, which is a defined area including the U.N. headquarters and the surrounding neighborhood. This provision has often been applied to visiting Iranian officials.
The internal memo indicates the Trump administration is considering banning the Iranians from shopping at stores such as Costco and Sam’s Club without obtaining permission from the State Department.
Iranian diplomats are known to shop at such wholesalers to purchase items in bulk and at discount rates that aren’t available back home due to sanctions and other economic restrictions.
The memo reportedly stated that the department was weighing broader wholesale club membership restrictions on foreign diplomats posted in the United States.
Jewish Leaders Cancel Meeting With Macron Ahead of UN Assembly
French President Emmanuel Macron had planned to meet with senior leaders of the American Jewish community on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, but the meeting has been canceled, i24NEWS reported.
The cancellation was attributed to scheduling conflicts with the Jewish High Holidays and widespread opposition within the community. Groups considered for the meeting included AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee. Sources said community leaders were concerned that a photo opportunity with Macron could be used to bolster his image, despite disagreements over his positions on Israel, rising antisemitism in France, and France’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state.
While Macron may still meet with some individual representatives in the future, the report noted that the broader American Jewish community would not have welcomed the visit.