Shana Tovah ........

 

Wishing all the entire Jewish people 

Health and  Wealth and Time to enjoy them

One-third of Netanyahu’s voters believe COVID-19 was sent by G-d

 One quarter of Jewish Israelis, and more than one-third of Jews who voted for Benjamin Netanyahu, believes the coronavirus was sent by G-d as a punishment or to send a message, according to an annual survey. 

The survey, put out by Hiddush, which advocates for religious freedom and pluralism in Israel, also found that 70% of Israelis reject the notion that criticism of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, conduct during the pandemic stems from bigotry as opposed to how haredi communities have conducted themselves. 

Scenes of large haredi gatherings have spread across the Israeli media this year, while haredi politicians, who are in the coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, have successfully dialed back restrictions on gathering in the community. In recent weeks — though after the survey was taken — they have advocated unsuccessfully for a group of Hasidic Jews to make a pilgrimage to Ukraine and successfully pushed for a universal lockdown in Israel to carry an exemption for synagogue attendance. 

“They basically bent Netanyahu in terms of rejecting sound medical recommendations and catering to their pressure,” said Hiddush’s founder, Rabbi Uri Regev, an outspoken opponent of haredi influence on Israeli policy. “So what you have is an ongoing public resentment of the haredi conduct in this pandemic.”

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Shanah Tova From Around the World

Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich releases video with Rosh Hashanah greetings from children in a myriad of languages.

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Second Bais Ha'Mikdash Inkwell Found in Gush Etzion

 

During archaeological work at the Khirbet Brakhot archaeological excavation site in Gush Etzion, a rare archaeological find was discovered - an intact inkwell dating to the end of the Second Temple period.

The works were carried out under the leadership of the Archaeology Unit in the Civil Administration, in collaboration with Herzog College.

The inkwell, which was discovered inside a large building dating to the Second Temple period - is made of a flat-bottomed clay cylinder with a round handle and a narrow opening with an inward-sloping rim - through which the ink and pen were inserted. Inkwells from this period are considered a rare find, and similar finds have been found in only about a dozen sites across the country.

The discovery of the inkwell strengthens the hypothesis that literacy was relatively common among the Jewish population in Israel during the Second Temple period. The inkwell probably belonged to a scribe or merchant who lived there in the years leading up to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

An archaeology staff officer at the Civil Administration, Hanania Hizami, said: "The rare finds discovered at the archaeological excavation site join a wealth of finds discovered by the Archaeology Unit at the Civil Administration and constitute historical and national cultural assets. I am pleased with the fact that we continue to uncover various archaeological finds, which contribute greatly to the study of Jewish history in the area. I would like to thank Dr. Dvir Raviv, Haim Shkulnik and Dr. Yitzhak Maitlis who led the arcaheological excavations and contributed to the discovery of the finds."

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Israel Coronavirus Lockdown to Begin at 2:00 p.m.

The lockdown on the State of Israel meant to reduce the spread of the coronavirus will begin on Friday at 2:00 p.m.

During the lockdown, 7,000 police officers and soldiers will be deployed across the country to enforce the the restrictions.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a press conference Thursday night, following emergency consultations with senior health officials in a teleconference, regarding the possibility of imposing stricter restrictions during the upcoming lockdown.

“We are about to enter the second lockdown since the coronavirus pandemic broke out across the globe,” said Netanyahu.

“This lockdown is important, this lockdown is necessary, and in this lockdown we will all stand together.”

Netanyahu said that during his visit this week to Washington DC, he spoke with Vice President Mike Pence about cooperation between the two countries in efforts to combat the pandemic.

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Israeli, Dubai diamond exchanges ink trade deal

 

The Israeli Diamond Exchanges announce that is has struck a deal to boost trade with its Dubai counterpart in the wake of the peace deal between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Israel is a world leader in the polishing of large diamonds. Dubai, a regional financial hub, also hosts an emerging diamond trade, which in 2019 exported diamonds worth upward of $23 billion.

The Israeli Diamond Exchange will open an office in Dubai, while the Dubai Multi Commodities Center, an economic free zone, will do the same in Ramat Gan, where the IDE is based.

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Kerry 2016 Arrogant Statement: 'There will be no peace in Middle East without the Palestinians'm... How Did That Age?

 

Shortly after the ceremony on the White House lawn where the normalization agreements were signed with the UAE and Bahrain, vigilant surfers posted on social media a speech delivered by former Secretary of State John Kerry, in 2016.

The netizens noted that in his speech, Kerry asserted that "there will be no peace in the Middle East without the Palestinians" and attached sardonic comments to the clip.

Speaking in 2016, Kerry said, "There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear to all of you. I've heard some prominent politicians in Israel sometimes say, 'Well, the Arab world is somewhere else now. We just have to reach out to them. We can work on a few things with the Arab world and we'll deal with the Palestinians. No, no, no, and no,' said Kerry then.

He went on to add that "I can tell you, I reaffirmed that last week when I talked to the leaders of the Arab community, there will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that. It's a difficult reality."

Kerry's clip was first uploaded to social media by Udi Aventhal, a senior at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, and soon went viral. "John Kerry with a 2016 statement about the Middle East aging like milk in a sauna," wrote Noam Bloom, one of the editors of the American Tablet magazine.

Rebecca Heinrich, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote "just the opposite; it's amazing." National Review reporter Pradip Shanker added that "Has anyone ever been mistaken in a more cruel way than this?"

Also a JTA news agency reporter, Joel Patlin, added an ironic tweet and wrote "I was wondering why there isn't a single tweet praising the signing of the historic peace deals yesterday on John Kerry's Twitter account. Now I know. It's scary to see how many foreign policy experts were wrong. But it is even more outrageous that few of them even admit it."

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Watch Totally Phony Joe Biden Point and Wave at Nobody

 Watch a totally insincere Joe Biden try to fool the cameras into thinking anyone actually showed up to see him:... the yente Hillary always did that ...

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Asher Bitton 62 Father 0f 15 Seriously Injured in Rocket Attack

 

An Israeli man who was seriously wounded in a rocket attack on Tuesday was delivering food to the needy in the southern city of Ashdod when he was hit by shrapnel, hit family said Wednesday.

Asher Biton, 62, a father of 15, was making his rounds when Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into Israel at the same time as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was signing peace deals with the UAE and Bahrain at the White House in Washington.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, soldiers operating the Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one of the incoming projectiles.

The second rocket struck a street in Ashkelon.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said Biton sustained shrapnel wounds to his upper body from the rocket. A second man, 28, suffered light injuries to his extremities from broken glass. Four other people suffered anxiety attacks as a result of the rocket fire, medics said.

Biton was originally described as in moderate condition, but doctors at the Assuta Hospital later said his situation deteriorated.

Doctors decided not to operate on Biton, fearing that he would not survive the operation, and have decided to wait until his condition improves. However, the hospital said his life was not in danger.

His wife, Rivka Biton, said the family watched news reports of the attack and saw his car, where he had been making a delivery.

“I called him and there was no answer,” she told Channel 12 TV on Wednesday. “Then someone accidentally answered and I heard shouting and police and ambulances. I grabbed a taxi and flew to the scene.”

She said he saved his life by lying on the floor and putting his arms over his head when the rocket sirens went off.

“He has a lot of internal injuries,” she said. “I still feel like we are in a nightmare that I have not woken up from.

The rocket attacks on Ashkelon and Ashdod came as a signing ceremony was taking place in Washington to mark the establishment of formal ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain.

“On this historic night of peace, we received a reminder from our enemies that we must always be strong and prepared to defend Israeli citizens on all fronts and at all times — and this we will do,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said in response to the attack.

Terror groups in the Strip have in the past attempted to interrupt major Israeli festivities with attacks. Indeed, television footage of the signing ceremony on Tuesday night was accompanied by information from the IDF Home Front Command about the areas where rocket sirens were triggered.

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1000 yeshiva students infected with corona, some allegedly on purpose

 

זו תורה וזו שכרה

At least a thousand seminary students in Israel have been infected with the coronavirus in the past month due to a combination of students infecting each other on purpose and alleged negligence by yeshiva administrators, the Kikar Hashabbat  news website reported Wednesday.

Students returned to studies at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul in the lead up to the Rosh Hashana holiday marking the Ten Days of Atonement before the annual Yom Kippur fast.

At the Torah B’Tiferet yeshiva in Elad where some 800 young men were studying in “capsules” where groups of students are supposed to remain separated to reduce infection, 100 students became infected after only one day of classes, the report said.

“My son entered the yeshiva for Elul and I sent him with [reservations], but I knew there were responsible and serious managers there,” one parent said. “But from the beginning, my son told us that something is wrong.”

“There is no supervision of the boys, no one knows what is going on inside the boarding school, and also students who have symptoms are not isolated from the other boys, but stay to sleep in the same room,” the parent said.

A student at the Rina Shel Torah yeshiva in Karmiel said there are about 300 boys there sick with coronavirus, but most of them intentionally infected themselves by sharing a waterpipe with “sick guys with symptoms and guys it was not clear if they were infected.”

The student said the goal was to get sick and recover so that the students begin studying in the fall session “without capsules and in a calm and relaxed way.”

The report cited other yeshivas around the country where students and staff are not following health guidelines and even those who are known to be infected circulate freely without masks. The problems were attributed to the “lack of basic training created between the yeshiva world and the Ministry of Health.”

While the current Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein of the Likud Party, is himself religious, his predecessor at the start of the pandemic was Rabbi Yaakov Litzman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party. Litzman was infected earlier this year after reportedly attending morning prayers at a synagogue despite regulations from his own ministry at the time banning group prayer.

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John Podhoretz of the New York Post Admits He Was Wrong About Trump

 Watching the historic agreement normalizing ­relations between Israel and two Arab states at the White House — an event neither I nor anyone else who has watched the Middle East closely for the past half-century ever really thought would happen — I had to acknowledge to myself how wrong I had been.

Back in 2018, when Team Trump announced it was going to move the US Embassy in ­Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, I didn’t think it was all that big a deal — even though I was and remain a resolute and ­unconditional supporter of the Jewish state.

I thought it was a nice gesture that acknowledged an undeniable reality, which is that Israel’s capital is Jerusalem. Moreover, the move was fully in keeping with the 1995 law that mandated the embassy move by 1999 — a law the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations had “suspended” every six months since 1999 on the largely spurious grounds that doing so would pose a danger to our security.

But the move didn’t mean much beyond that, I thought.

Oh, I was wrong — though I’m happy to say I was right in dismissing the doom-and-gloom warnings of the foreign-policy establishment about how destabilizing and dangerous it would be for the United States to make the move.

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Eli Rozenberg 26 year-old, Now El Al Majority Shareholder

After speculation that has lasted months, it is now being reported that the new majority shareholder of El Al is a 26-year-old chareidi Jew, by the name of Eli Rozenberg.

The news, reported by Globes.com, came after El Al formally put their shares up on the public market on Wednesday.

Notably missing in the bidding process were Meir Gurvitz (MBD son-in-law) and David Sapir, who had previously expressed interest in purchasing the airline, leaving Rozenberg the sole bidder.

Rozenberg purchased 43% of the company’s shares, making him the controlling shareholder. The shares were reportedly purchased for approximately $100 million.

Eli Rozenberg is the son of New York businessman Kenny Rozenberg, the founder and CEO of Centers Health Care.

Eli had previously formed the Aviation Eagles Wings company while working towards purchasing the airline. In doing so, he famously recruited former US envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt to serve as his adviser. 

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Breslov Ladies Make Hafganah For Those Stuck At Ukraine Border, Blaming Deri For Crisis

 

Interesting... first they recklessly shipped off their toddlers to Uman ...now they are protesting ...In Israel its unheard that Chareidie women would go protest in public ....

but no one is messing with the Breslovers ...

In what has not previously been seen before in Israel, Chareidi women staged a protest on Wednesday afternoon.

The Hafganah was held outside the home of Minister Aryeh Deri in Haf Nof, Jerusalem. The women are blaming Deri for the crisis that has been unfolding the past few days, where around 2,500 Breslover Chassidim are stuck between Belarus and Ukraine, trying to make it to Uman for Rosh Hashanah.

There is a severe food shortage, and many children are among the group – some as young as three-years-old. They were sleeping on the cold concrete with no blankets, no food  or drink for a few days. As we reported earlier Wednesday, the Belarusian government set up huge tents and chemical toilets for the Breslover chassidim earlier today, and truck have been bringing food from Uman for the group.

On Tuesday Minister Aryeh Deri sent a letter to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, requesting that he allow the chassidim, who have been waiting at the border for two weeks in difficult conditions, into Ukraine for humanitarian reasons.

As of now, the Ukrainian Government is holding strong in their decision that no one will be allowed into Ukraine due to COVID-19. This entire group knew this prior to their trip.

In one video, a group of children are lined up in front of Ukrainian soldiers holding signs chanting “Bibi, Deri, Litzman go home” – as they blame the three for the crisis.

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The art of the peace deal, Trump’s masterful détente:

Before Tuesday’s remarkable events began at the White House, Palestinians in the West Bank dutifully protested the decisions by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to recognize Israel’s right to exist. Later, during the ceremony, Palestinians in Gaza fired two rockets into southern Israel, inflicting minor injuries on two civilians.

The rage of the Arab Street ain’t what it used to be.

Even the limited expressions of anger were mostly for television cameras. The Palestinians could have had their own state several times over the last two decades, but could never take yes for an answer, so now the train of history has left them standing at the station.

They accuse their fellow ­Arabs of betrayal and stabbing them in the back. But in fact, it is two generations of Palestinian leadership that have betrayed their own people and forfeited their veto over peace.

They lost that veto because Donald Trump took it from them. The president, breaking the mold set by his predecessors. Still, he offered the Palestinians a deal, the “deal of the century,” he called it, but they responded with insults and intransigence.

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Alan Dershowitz files $300 million defamation suit against "Fake News" CNN

 Famed attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz filed a defamation suit against CNN on Tuesday seeking $300 million for what he called a "willful, deliberate, malicious effort to destroy my credibility."

Dershowitz told Fox News that CNN selectively edited a clip of his remarks from the Senate floor during President Trump's impeachment trial where he broke down the illegalities surrounding a "quid pro quo" as a member of the president's defense team.

The Constitutional scholar alleges in the lawsuit that the news outlet propagated a “sea of lies” by re-airing only part of his quote, which he believes was part of a deliberate effort "from the very top" to frame him for claiming “that the President of the United States could commit illegal acts as long as he thought it would help his reelection and that his reelection was in the public interest," The Wrap reported.

"What CNN did here, and it pains me to say this because, you know, I have friends over there. What they did is they just totally doctored the tape," Dershowitz told Sean Hannity on Tuesday.

" If they had just show the part where I said if he does anything illegal he can be impeached -- Dershowitz trailed off, "but they doctored the tape to take that out."

Dershowitz said he plans to donate any awarding to "charities and to good causes," emphasizing that he's "not doing this for myself.

"I'm doing this to hold them accountable," he explained. "They made a deliberate, willful decision we believe from the very top to purposely doctor the tape to make it look like I said something that was crazy, that a president can do anything, that he can commit crimes.

"Of course I never said that -- I don’t believe it. I spent an hour in front of the Senate two days earlier saying if the president commits a crime he can be impeached and that was a whole thesis of my presentation," Dershowitz said.

"CNN knew that and they doctored the tape and edited the tape to make me say exactly the opposite. Shame on them," he continued,. "They’re going to have to pay and some good charities are going to benefit from CNN's willful deliberate malicious effort to destroy my credibility as a constitutional scholar."

CNN did not respond to Fox News' request for comment.

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I Was Radicalized. Now, I've Dedicated My Career to Combating Anti-Semitism

 

by KASIM HAFEEZ

As I watch the trailer for the forthcoming documentary Never Again?, it's strange to 
hear myself talking about how I hated America and believed the Jews were responsible 
for all the evil in the world. But that was the reality of the person I was—a person I 
would be forced to confront during the making of this film. As I traveled to places of 
once-great significance in my life, especially after a long day of shooting, I became, 
in some ways, a spectator to my own life. I would remember the moments and details 
that led me into that darkest corner of the human mind, where one sheds any 
pretense of basic humanity in pursuit of an unjust and evil cause.
Thankfully, that person no longer exists. And in the 13 years since I changed 
my views, I've seen the world around me change—and the same ideology that once 
poisoned my mind grow, mutate and continue to poison the minds of young people
 all over the world.

It's important to note that my radicalization did not take place in a madrasa in Pakistan
 or a university in Damascus; I was born and raised in England. I was raised to hate 
in a country that should largely be proud of its ambition to be truly tolerant.

My grandparents had come to the United Kingdom from Pakistan in the 1960s in 
search of a better life. My British family was, and remains, devoutly Sunni Muslim. 
They settled, and I grew up in, a predominantly Pakistani Muslim neighborhood in 
Nottingham. Sadly, the insular nature of the community in which I grew up, which is 
mirrored  throughout both the United Kingdom and Western Europe, led to a situation
 where my grandparents would never learn to read, write or speak fluent English.

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8 Indonesians who refused to wear masks forced to dig graves for COVID victims

 

Authorities in Indonesia have forced eight people who refused to wear masks in public to dig graves for coronavirus victims on the island of Java, the Jakarta Times reported Tuesday.

"We only had three gravediggers," the district governor told the newspaper. "So I thought we could put these people to work."

The governor said he hoped the move would deter other citizens from flouting public health orders.

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Hell hath no fury like peaceniks who get upstaged

 by Ruthie Blum

Israeli protesters gathered on Sunday night along the highway to Ben-Gurion International Airport, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was headed to board a flight to the United States.

With their usual chants of "crime minister" and other trite anti-Bibi mantras, these self-anointed guardians of freedom and democracy – members of the so-called "peace camp" – were livid that the premier was on his way to Washington, DC.

That the purpose of his trip was to sign the U.-brokered Abraham Accords – a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates and declaration of peace with Bahrain – didn't matter to them. On the contrary, it became another excuse for their outrage.

A mere two or so hours earlier, Netanyahu had announced that the steep and steady rise in coronavirus morbidity made a three-week countrywide lockdown necessary. As if this weren't sufficient cause for exasperation, even among his supporters, his detractors took the opportunity to rail against him for going off to a "cocktail party" at the White House, leaving Israelis ill in every sense of the word, thanks to his government's failed COVID-19 policies.

Yes, they insist, he is responsible simultaneously for the increasing mortality rate and disintegrating workforce – for opening up the economy too soon on the one hand and for not "having a proper plan" to prevent the spread of the virus on the other.

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'Mincha' at the White House

 Dozens of attendees at the signing of the Abraham Accords at the White House Tuesday joined in afternoon mincha prayers on the White House lawn.

The worshippers included a number of Republican party activists and senior American Jewish officials.

The mincha prayers were held on the White House lawn shortly after the ceremony for the signing of the peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and Israel and Bahrain.

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Chaos at Ukraine Border Where Thousands of Breslovers Are Left Stranded ... Sleeping on the Highway Like Dogs

No one has yet explained WHY these Breslovers ignored multiple explicit warnings on every form of media in EY and elsewhere, especially the Ukrainian foreign ministry website, that they would NOT be allowed in.

 Is there any rational explanation for adult yidden, presumably not suffering from any form dementia, to ignore such warnings and put themselves and in some cases little children at risk?

And who gave them a heter to bring little children to Uman? To torture them? Why do little children have to subjected to sleeping in dirt on the floor, with no showers? I would prosecute the parents or take their children away from them ... there are many people who cannot have children, I would hand the children over to them .. so they can be treated like humans... 

As of earlier today, hundreds of Chassidim are stuck in the demilitarized zone between the two counties Belarus and Ukraine and are facing Ukrainian soldiers on the border of their destination country. According to reports in the Israeli media, the situation between the soldiers and the Chassidim has become tense. The Chassidim are stuck without the option of returning to Belarus nor entering Ukraine.

Those present are calling upon the Israeli Foreign Ministry to intervene on behalf of the nearly 2,500 people stuck, including women and children. The food and water supplies available to the Chassidim are dwindling.

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