Next Year in Jerusalem

09/04/2017 – י״ג בניסן ה׳תשע״ז – י״ג בניסן ה׳תשע״ז – 14:33

Pesach (Passover) seder is in a few days. What does Next Year in Jerusalem mean to you? If you are not living in Israel, you need to move to Israel NOW!! Look at all the things you are missing. Pesach Shopping You know exactly what you can buy in every Store. and in many store everything is without Kitniyot. – Leavened foods concealed behind plastic at Jerusalem supermarket during Passover The White plastic film covering the shelves of Chametz is what our local store dose, but a lot of stores remove all Chametz completely weeks before Pesach. All the Dairy is Kosher for Pesach at least a week before Pesach. I personal like Rami Levi Mehadrin in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem. The products have no Kitniyot. Click to Download the Printable Hebrew-English Haggadah-Chabad Remember to Cout the Omer. Sefirat HaOmer Chart
A Country of Chessid (Kindness) The IDF helping with Pesach Food Boxes for the poor.
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yosef “Today thank God most of the nation of Israel is here in the land of Israel.” Be part of the Majority. Make Aliyah Today! It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH \| UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 \| Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il Be sure to try out a Wonder Pot-סיר פלא. It is great when you do not have a Kosher for Pesach large oven. You can use it like an oven on the stovetop. Wonder Pot (Hebrew: סיר פלא‎, seer peh-leh) is an Israeli invention for baking on top of a gas stove rather than in an oven. It consists of three parts: an aluminium pot shaped like a Bundt pan except smooth-sided rather than fluted, a hooded cover perforated with venting holes, and a thick, round, slightly domed metal disc with a center hole that is placed between the pot and the flame.A Wonder Pot can be used to bake cakes, casseroles, rice, potatoes, apples, and even meat and chicken.
Pesach Wonder Pot סיר פלא Recipe – Baked Potato סיר פלא-תפוחי אדמה Place 6 – 10 small or Medium Potatoes in the bottom of the Wonder Pot סיר פלא, they can even be standing up, Place lid on and Bake on Medium Heat Check the Potatoes Medium Potatoes – 1 hour: If they are soft and done. If not fully baked cook for another 30 minutes You can also Cut up Potatoes, Yams, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Beets, or any vegetable into chunks or slices. Drizzle Olive Oil on top and Bake	Wonder Pot-סיר פלא-potato-תפוחי אדמה
Pesach Wonder Pot סיר פלא Recipe – Potato Knishes
first boil the clean potatoes	Chop up fresh onions and fresh large garlic then Brown then together in Olive oil be sure to use fresh garlic of stead of the small dried garlic from China.
Be sure to use fresh garlic of stead of the small dried garlic from China.	After boiling the Potatoes, drain the Potatoes and peel them.
Mix everything except matzoh meal then roll into big balls and roll in matzoh meal.	The Wonder Pot: bottom flame heat diffuser, the Pot and top cover with holes to let the heat out.
Place the heat flame diffuser on the center of the burner facing down so that the center dimple is facing down and the rim is up.	Place The Wonder Pot, סיר פלא, on top of the flame heat diffuser so that the bottom grove of the pot is on the rim of the flame heat diffuser.
Put the Potato Knishes in wonder baker all around, and bake for ½ hour and check and then another ½ hour til cooked, check so it doesn’t burn. Use a medium flame. Absolutely delicious.	Use a medium to low flame. Absolutely delicious.
It’s done.	Wonder Pot-סיר פלא-potato-תפוחי אדמה
Pesach Wonder Pot סיר פלא Recipe Potato Knishes 5 Cups mashed potatoes 3 eggs ¾ Cup matzoh meal salt and pepper to taste chopped up fresh garlic optional 2 onions olive oil to line pot Brown onions and garlic (if using) in pan. Mix everything except matzoh meal and roll into big balls and roll in matzoh meal, place in wonder baker all around, and bake for ½ hour and check and then another ½ hour til cooked, check so it doesn’t burn. Use a medium flame. Absolutely delicious.
Carol Umbehocker’s Delicious Squash Kugel for Passover Baked Squash Kugel for Passover 3 lb. (1.36 Kg) Yellow summer squash ½ Cup chopped onions ½ Cup Matzoh meal 2 eggs 1/2 Cup of vegetable oil or 1 stick margarine (Kitniyot) divided in half 1 teaspoon Salt or to taste 1 Tablespoon. sugar ½ teaspoon pepper to taste Wash and cut up the squash. Boil until tender. Drain thoroughly, then mash. Add all ingredients to squash and ½ stick of melted margarine. Melt remaining margarine. Pour mixture into baking dish then spread melted margarine over top and sprinkle with matzo meal. Bake at 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for 1 hour or until top is brown. TOP
Try fresh steamed vegetables as a side dish
Try the Potato Knishes with steamed vegetables.	Try the Potato Knishes with steamed vegetables.
Pesach Wonder Baker Pot סיר פלא Recipe-Wonder Pot Classic Cake By: Yaara Holtzman http://www.kan-naim.co.il/artical.asp?id=4462
“מתכוני פסח מיוחדים ל”סיר פלא זוכרים את ’סיר-הפלא יש לו תחייה מחודשת מכינים בו עוגות, שאגב לא מביישות אף אופה מקצועית, על… הגאז! מאת: יערה הולצמן orange-apricot זוכרים את ’סיר-הפלא?’ כן, סיר המתכת העגול עם החור, שהסבתות שלנו, השתמשו בו בימי ה’צנע’? ובכן, יש לו תחייה מחודשת! היות ולהרבה משפחות אין תנור מיוחד לפסח ולא כולם נוהגים להכשיר את התנור הרגיל. לפיכך, מכינים עוגות, שאגב לא מביישות אף אופה מקצועית, על… הגאז! עוגת ’סיר פלא’ קלאסית החומרים: 6 ביצים מופרדות 1 כוס סוכר ¾ כוס קמח תפוחי אדמה ¾ כוס שמן 1 כוס אגוזים קצוצים 1 כפית קינמון 1 תפוח עץ או גזר 1 אבקת אפיה אופן ההכנה: מערבבים את החלמונים עם ¾ כוס סוכר ומוסיפים את קמח תפוחי האדמה, האגוזים, אבקת האפייה, השמן והקינמון. מגררים תפוח עץ או גזר ומוסיפים לתערובת. בנפרד, מקציפים את החלבונים עם ¼ כוס סוכר. מוסיפים לתערובת בתנועות קיפול. משמנים את ’סיר הפלא’ ושופכים פנימה את התערובת. סוגרים את הסיר. מחממים את טבעת המתכת המיוחדת שרוכשים עם סיר ’ואופים’ ע”ג אש בינונית – נמוכה, למשך ¾ שעה. עוגת שלוש שכבות החומרים: 6 ביצים מופרדות 2 כפות קקאו 2 כפות קמח תפוחי אדמה 1 חבילה קוקוס 3 כפות שמן 2 כפות יין 1 אבקת אפייה אופן ההכנה: להקציף חלבונים עם 1 כוס סוכר. בנפרד להקציף חלמונים עם ½ כוס סוכר. להוסיף לתערובת החלמונים שמן, קקאו, קמח תפוחי אדמה ויין. Cake_sirpela מחצית מקערת החלבונים המוקצפים להכניס לקערת החלמונים בתנועות עטיפה. לקצף החלבונים הנותר להוסיף את הקוקוס. לשמן את ’סיר הפלא’ ולשפוך את מחצית מתערובת החלמונים לסיר. להוסיף את קצף החלבונים והקוקוס ולשטח על גבי השכבה השנייה בעזרת כף. לשפוך את יתרת תערובת החלמונים מלמעלה. לסגור את הסיר. לחמם את טבעת המתכת המיוחדת שרוכשים עם הסיר ו’לאפות’ ע”ג אש בינונית – נמוכה, למשך ¾ שעה. * הכותבת יערה הולצמן, למדה עיצוב, ועבדה בתור ארט-דירקטורית וקופירייטרית במשרדי פרסום שונים. כיום היא עסוקה בעיקר בגידול ילדים, בישול וספונג’ה, ובין לבין היא גם “חוטאת” בכתיבה. * מובא באדיבות אתר aish של “אש התורה” שהיא רשת בינלאומית וא-פוליטית של מרכזים לחינוך יהודי.	Special Passover Wonder Pot recipes {This is a traslation into English via Google} Remember the wonder pot has a reassertion prepare cakes, which by the way is not put to shame even a professional baker, the … gas! By: Yaara Holtzman Remember the ‘wonder pot?’ The metal pot with a round hole, our grandmothers, used during H’tzna? Well, it has a revival! Since many families have no special oven for Passover and not all of them tend to use the regular oven. Therefore, make cakes, which by the way is not put to shame even a professional baker, the … gas! Wonder Pot Classic Cake Ingredients: 6 eggs, separated 1 cup sugar ¾ cup potato flour ¾ cup oil 1 cup chopped nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 apple or carrot 1 baking powder Preparation: Mix the egg yolks with ¾ cup sugar and add the flour, potatoes, nuts, baking powder, and cinnamon oil. Grate an apple or carrot and add to the mixture. Separately, beat the egg yolks with ¼ cup sugar. Fold add to the mix. Grease the ‘Wonder pot and pour in the mixture. Close the pot. Place the metal ring on the Burner Flang facing up, put the Wonder pot on the ring and bake ‘with on medium heat – Low, for ¾ hour. Three-layer cake Ingredients: 1 ½ cup sugar 6 eggs, separated 2 tablespoons cocoa 2 tablespoons potato flour 1 package coconut 3 tablespoons oil 2 tablespoons wine Baking powder 1 Preparation: Whisk egg whites with 1 cup of sugar. Separately whisk egg yolks with ½ cup sugar. Add the egg yolk mixture of oil, cocoa, flour, potatoes and wine. Half a bowl of whites put in a bowl of egg yolks wrapping movements. Egg whites add the remaining coconut. Lubricate the ‘Wonder pot and pour half of the egg yolk mixture into the pot. Add the egg whites and coconut and flatten onto the second layer with a spoon. Pour the remaining egg mixture on top. Close the pot. Place the metal ring on the Burner Flang facing up, put the Wonder pot on the ring and ‘bake’ with on medium heat – Low, for ¾ hour. * The author Yaara Holtzman, studied design and worked as art director and copywriter in various advertising agencies. She is currently busy with raising children, cooking and mop up, and in between is also a “sinner” in writing. Excerpted courtesy of a aish of “Aish HaTorah” which is an international network and a-political centers of Jewish Education.
From epicurious.com Here is a Torte without Potato flour or Potato Starch that normally contains Sulfites used as a preservative or whitening agent that is lethal to asthmatics. Mock Chestnut Torte by Marcy Goldman \| Epicurious 1998 A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking Mock Chestnut Torte Yield: Makes 14 to 18 servings ingredients Torte 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted Passover margarine 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 6 large eggs, separated 1 1/2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes, fresh or canned 1 teaspoon Passover rum extract (optional) 10 ounces good-quality semi-sweet chocolate, melted and cooled 1/4 teaspoon salt Chocolate Ganache Glaze 1/2 cup water 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped Toppings (optional) Unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted Curls of semi-sweet chocolate Pureed strawberries or raspberries preparation Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9-inch springform pan with baking parchment. Torte: In a mixing bowl, cream the unsalted margarine or butter with the 1/3 cup sugar. Blend in the egg yolks, then the mashed sweet potatoes, rum extract (if using), and cooled chocolate. In another bowl, with clean beaters, whip the egg whites gently until they are a bit foamy. Then add in the salt and whip on a higher speed, slowly dusting in the two tablespoons of sugar to form stiff, glossy (but not dry) peaks. Fold one third of the egg whites into the sweet potato/chocolate mixture and work them in well to loosen the batter. Then, gently fold in the remaining egg whites, blending well but taking care not to deflate the mixture. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 40 minutes. The cake rises and looks dry, and slightly cracked on top when done. The middle should be soft but firm. Cool in the pan for 20 minutes, then remove to a wire rack. At this point, the cake can be frozen for up to a month. Even if serving it the same day, chill the cake for an hour or two before finishing it with the ganache glaze. Chocolate Ganache Glaze: In a double boiler, bring the water to a gentle boil and add the chopped chocolate all at once. Remove from the heat and stir briskly with a wire whisk until all the chocolate melts and you have a thick glaze or sauce-like topping. Refrigerate for an hour or so. (You can also make this ahead and refrigerate it for up to a week or two. Simply warm it to the right temperature for glazing the cake.) Invert the cake onto a cardboard circle or cake board so that the smooth, flat bottom faces up. Do not be dismayed if this is not a high cake — it is a torte and is meant to be a little less than statuesque. Pour the glaze over the cake and, using a metal spatula, even out the glaze and spread it along the sides. Instead of the glaze, you can also simply sift some cocoa over the top of the cake or decorate it with curls of chocolate (using a vegetable peeler and a warmish chocolate bar). The cake can also be offered with a pureed raspberry or strawberry sauce, garnished with chocolate shavings, or left as is, with a citrus leaf, a sweetheart rose, or several berries in the center. Source Information Reprinted with permission from A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking by Marcy Goldman. © 2009 Whitecap Books, Ltd. Epicurious.com © Condé Nast Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.
When Erev Pesach is Shabbat Daily Halachic Corner – 336 – Pesach 2021 – Rav Dayan Elgrod!
Real Pesach in Jerusalem The Passover Recipe That You DON’T Want to Miss! Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yosef “Today thank God most of the nation of Israel is here in the land of Israel.” Be part of the Majority. Make Aliyah Today! It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH \| UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 \| Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il Now that the majority of Jews are in their homeland we can have Korban Pesach! Bring out the Mint jelly! Kotel, Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot Is Korban Pesach Obligatory Today?
Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part I – Introduction Published on Dec 19, 2016We must wait for Moshiach to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth?The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth?Building the Holy Temple will cause World War III. Fact or myth?Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world.This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization .SOURCES: Jerusalem is the center of the World – Title: Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblat, welches in der Stadt Hannover, meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen Description: Depicting the world as a cloverleaf, this cartographic curiosity reflects the traditional Medieval world view of three continents. breaking the glass: BT Talmud Berachot 30,31 fruit was lost: Sotah 9, 12 all the Torah’s commandments are for all of israel to fulfill – Rambam, Igeret HaShmad (Letter on Persecution), Yitzchak Shilat Edition, Volume I, pp. 57-58 Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot, Positive Commandments number 20 *Rashi on BT Sukkah 41:a, Ezekiel 43:11 (“so that they keep: They will learn the matters of the measurements from your mouth so that they will know how to do them at the time of the end.”) The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-…
Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part II: Falling from Heaven Published on Feb 6, 2017 The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth? Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to this question and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world. This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO: Old World Map -Jerusalem City Hall Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot, Shoresh Shlishi Rambam, 13 Principles of Faith, Introduction to Tractate Sanhedrin Rambam, Igeret HaShmad Deut. 29:28 Rambam, Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah 9,1 Sefer HaIkarim 3:16 Maharal Tiferet Yisrael 51 ‘clearly according to halacha it is a mitzva for Israel to build the Beit HaMikdash, Rambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira 1,1 Aruch L’Ner on Sukkah 41.A, on Rashi ‘Ei Nami’ Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot 20 Or HaChaim on Shemot 25:8 Sifre BaMidbar, 92 S’Mag, Positive Commandments 163 Sanhedrin 17.b, Shavuot 15.a, Jerusalem Sanhedrin 1,3, Rambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira 6,11 The Mitzvot are for Israel to Fulfill (G-d commands, we fulfill); G-d does not do the commandments: Ramchal Derech Hashem 1:2:2; Makot 23b; Devarim 6:24-25; 30:11; Bereshith Rabbah 44:1; Vayikra Rabbah 13:3; Tanchuma, Shemini 8; Midrash Tehillim 18:25; Yalkut Shimoni 2:121; Rambam Moreh Nevuchim 3:26-27; Avodat HaKodesh, Chelek HaAvodah 3; Shnei Luchot HaBrit, Shaar HaGadol 1:48b; Maharal Tiferet Yisrael 7. Opinions of Rashi/Tosafot: Sukkah 41:a, Rosh Hashana 30:a, Shavuot 15:b source for information about R. Y. ben Chanina B’reishith Rabbah 64 Ezekial 43:11, Rashi says ‘so that they will know to do them’ source for R. Yehiel of Paris…Kaftor Va’Ferach, Rabbi Ashtori HaParchi, Chapter 6 The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-…
Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part III: Mashiach vs the People Published on Mar 23, 2017 We must wait for the messiah to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth? Quoting directly from Israel’s most illustrious sages, Rabbi Richman explodes myth after myth concerning Moshiach and his role in the building of the Holy Temple. From previous chapters in the Temple Institute’s Holy Temple Myth Busters Series: The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth? Building the Holy Temple will cause World War III. Fact or myth? Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world. This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO: Maimonides Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Beit HaBechira 1,1 Maimonides Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Melachim 11,1 Maimonides Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Melachim 12 Malachi 3:1 Pesikta Rabati 36 Maimonides, Sefer Igeret HaShmad The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-…
Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part IV: Korban Pesach: To Be Or Not To Be? Published on Apr 3, 2017 The Passover Offering is a thing of the past. It’s not relevant today. Fact or myth?Quoting directly from Israel’s most illustrious sages, Rabbi Richman explains why it is not only possible to bring the Korban Pesach today, but it is imperative to do so.From previous chapters in the Temple Institute’s Holy Temple Myth Busters Series:We must wait for the messiah to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth?The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth?Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world.This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization.SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO:Exodus Chapter 12Numbers 9:13Kritot 22:bRambam Hilchot Teshuva 8, 1Rambam Hilchot Biyat HaMikdash, Chapter 4, 7Chasam Sofer Responsa, Yoreh Deah #236R. Ashtori HaParchi, Kaftor V’Ferach, Chapter 6Ya’avetz Responsa, Section I, #99Maharatz Chajes, Kuntrus Acharon, Avodat HaMikdash 76Rambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira Chapter 6, 15Rambam end of Hilchot Klei HaMikdash, Maharatz Chajes Kuntrus Acharon Chapter 2HaRav Tzvi Hersch Kalisher, Drishat Tzion, Additions to Ma’amar Kadishin, Ma’alat Eretz Noshavat 5, Neilat Sha’arimRambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira Chapter 7, 23HaRav Yitzchak Itinga, Respona Mahari, Sec. I, Orach Chaim 88The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-temple-myth-busters-sources.htm These sheep are in Jerusalem outside our window Kohanim in uniform Arab Sheep grazing on Jewish Jerusalem land
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Rabbi Sacks http://www.ttidbits.com/1225/1225whole.pdf Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Why Civilisations Die In her recent “The Watchman’s Rattle”, subtitled ‘Thinking our way out of extinction’, Rebecca Costa delivers a fascinating account of how civilisations die. Their problems become too complex. Societies reach what she calls a cognitive threshold. They simply can’t chart a path from the present to the future. The example she gives is the Mayans. For a period of three and a half thousand years, between 2600BCE and 900CE, they developed an extraordinary civilisation, spreading over what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize with an estimated population of 15 million people. Not only were they master potters, weavers, architects and farmers. They developed an intricate cylindrical calendar system, with celestial charts to track the movements of the stars and predict weather patterns. They had their own unique form of writing as well as an advanced mathematical system. Most impressively they developed a water-supply infrastructure involving a complex network of reservoirs, canals, dams and levees. Then suddenly, for reasons we still don’t fully understand, the entire system collapsed. Sometime between the middle of the eighth and ninth century the majority of the Mayan people simply disappeared. There have been many theories as to why it happened. It may have been a prolonged drought, overpopulation, internecine wars, a devastating epidemic, food shortages, or a combination of these and other factors. One way or another, having survived for 35 centuries, Mayan civilisation failed and became extinct. Rebecca Costa’s argument is that whatever the causes, the Mayan collapse, like the fall of the Roman Empire, and the Khmer Empire of thirteenth century Cambodia, occurred because problems became too many and complicated for the people of that time and place to solve. There was cognitive overload, and systems broke down. It can happen to any civilisation. It may, she says, be happening to ours. The first sign of breakdown is gridlock. Instead of dealing with what everyone can see are major problems, people continue as usual and simply pass their problems on to the next generation. The second sign is a retreat into irrationality. Since people can no longer cope with the facts, they take refuge in religious consolations. The Mayans took to offering sacrifices. Archeologists have uncovered gruesome evidence of human sacrifice on a vast scale. It seems that, unable to solve their problems rationally, the Mayans focused on placating the gods by manically making offerings to them. So apparently did the Khmer. Which makes the case of Jews and Judaism fascinating. They faced two centuries of crisis under Roman rule between Pompey’s conquest in 63 BCE and the collapse of the Bar Kochba rebellion in 135 CE. They were hopelessly factionalised. Long before the Great Rebellion against Rome and the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews were expecting some major cataclysm. What is remarkable is that they did not focus obsessively on sacrifices, like the Mayans and the Khmer. Instead they focused on finding substitutes for sacrifice. One was gemillat chassadim, acts of kindness. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai comforted Rabbi Yehoshua, who wondered how Israel would atone for its sins without sacrifices, with the words, “My son we have another atonement as effective as this: acts of kindness, as it is written (Hosea 6:6), ‘I desire kindness and not sacrifice'” (Avot d’Rabbi Natan 8). Another was Torah study. The sages interpreted Malachi’s words (1:11), “In every place offerings are presented to My name”, to refer to scholars who study the laws of sacrifice. (Menachot 100a). “One who recites the order of sacrifices is as if he had brought them” (Taanit 27b). Another was prayer. Hosea said, “Take words with you and return to the Lord … We will offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls” (Hosea 14:2-3), implying that words could take the place of sacrifice. “He who prays in the house of prayer is as if he brought a pure oblation” (Talmud Yerushalmi, B’rachot 5:1). Yet another was T’shuva. The Psalm (51:19) says “the sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit.” From this the sages inferred that “if a person repents it is accounted to him as if he had gone up to Jerusalem and built the Temple and the altar and offered on it all the sacrifices ordained in the Torah” (Vayikra Rabba 7:2). A fifth was fasting. Since going without food diminished a person’s fat and blood, it counted as a substitute for the fat and blood of a sacrifice (B’rachot 17a). A sixth was hospitality. “As long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel, but now a person’s table atones for him” (B’rachot 55a). And so on. What is striking in hindsight is how, rather than clinging obsessively to the past, sages like Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai thought forward to a worstcase-scenario future. The great question raised by Tzav, which is all about different kinds of sacrifice, is not “Why were sacrifices commanded in the first place?” but rather, given how central they were to the religious life of Israel in Temple times, how did Judaism survive without them? The short answer is that overwhelmingly the prophets, the sages, and the Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages realised that sacrifices were symbolic enactments of processes of mind, heart and deed that could be expressed in other ways as well. We can encounter the will of God by Torah study, engage in the service of God by prayer, make financial sacrifice by charity, create sacred fellowship by hospitality and so on. Jews did not abandon the past. We still refer constantly to the sacrifices in our prayers. But they did not cling to the past. Nor did they take refuge in irrationality. They thought through the future and created institutions like the synagogue and house of study and school that could be built anywhere and sustain Jewish identity even in the most adverse conditions. That is no small achievement. The world’s greatest civilisations have all, in time, become extinct while Judaism has always survived. In one sense that was surely Divine Providence. But in another it was the foresight of people like Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai who resisted cognitive breakdown, created solutions today for the problems of tomorrow, who did not seek refuge in the irrational, and who quietly built the Jewish future. Surely there is a lesson here for the Jewish people today: Plan generations ahead. Think at least 25 years into the future. Contemplate worst-case scenarios. Ask what we would do, if… What saved the Jewish people was their ability, despite their deep and abiding faith, never to let go of rational thought, and despite their loyalty to the past, to keep planning for the future.
JerusalemCats Comment: On the other hand you have this: This is a very short clip of a much longer video from the The Ruderman Family Foundation on facebook. Knesset Member Amir Ohana to american leftist Jew If I will have to choose
From Esser Agaroth: Rashi suggests the possibility that only 20% of Israel left Egypt, at the time of our great exodus from there. How so? וַיַּסֵּב אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָעָם דֶּרֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּר, יַם-סוּף; וַחֲמֻשִׁים עָלוּ בְנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם. (שמות יג,יח) But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up (hamushim) armed out of the land of Egypt. (Ex. 13:18) On the word hamushim, he offers an alternative translation to “armed.” דבר אחר: חמושים אחד מחמשה יצאו, וארבעה חלקים מתו בשלשת ימי אפילה. Another thing: one fifth of five [fifths] left, and four parts (fifths) died in the [plague of the] three days of darkness. Several sources, such as the Kol HaTor, suggest parallels between our exodus from exile in Egypt and how we will complete our exodus from the current exile of Edom, including the possibility that only four fifths of us will make it out this time as well. Who knows? There might even be three days of darkness. However, this time final time around, will these days of darkness necessarily be physical? Instead, they could be spiritual, and unfortunately, the may have already begun for European [or American] Jewry. May our recalling of the exodus from Egyptian exile this Pesach (Passover) inspire those Jews still entrenched in Europe, to complete their own Exodus. JerusalemCats Comment: Something to think about: What percentage of Jews made it out of Spain in 1492. 10%? What percentage of Jews made it out of Europe in 1939 before the Holocaust. 10%? From Holocaust Encyclopedia The Jewish communities of eastern Europe were devastated. In 1933, Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe, numbering over three million. By 1950, the Jewish population of Poland was reduced to about 45,000. The Soviet Union had the largest remaining Jewish population, with some two million Jews. Romania’s Jewish population was nearly 757,000 in 1930 and fell to approximately 280,000 (1950). Most of these demographic losses were due to the Holocaust, the rest to postwar emigration from Europe. Before the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, Europe had a vibrant and mature Jewish culture. By 1945, most European Jews—two out of every three—had been killed. Most of the surviving remnant of European Jewry decided to leave Europe. Hundreds of thousands established new lives in Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, South America, and South Africa.
Caroline Glick The American Jewish Community’s Moment to Choose
As for the risks living in Israel with Hamas, Fatah (PA) and the other crazies;To quote General George S. Patton “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. “ “You (the Arabs) have a choice, The peace of prosperity or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours” Just look at all the attacks to the Jewish Community in the US! Come home to Israel while you still can. Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH \| UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 \| Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna
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Preparing for Pesach

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Traditional shmurah matzah for your Passover table
Avoiding Weight-Gain and Constipation during Passover
What Should Diabetics Do Regarding Seder?
6 Best Food Choices for Healthy Heart
The Top Five Immune-Building Super Spices

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Practices and Halacha for Seder Night
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Avoiding Weight-Gain and Constipation during Passover

14April2024 by Lazer Brody

Avoiding Weight-Gain and Constipation during Passover

Passover Seder Plate

Today’s post is coming before you do your big Passover grocery shopping. This will help you make the right choices in the supermarket, as well as when planning and serving meals.

Passover’s Change in Diet

Passover is the freedom holiday – freedom from all types of bondage, mental and physical. But, with the drastic change in diet, many people become slaves to weight-gain and constipation. It doesn’t have to be that way. Proper matza consumption, when done in accordance with the Rambam’s principles, is actually fantastic for overall health. Following a few simple guidelines will enable you to jump over the hurdles of matza-related health problems. Here are a few important tips to remember during Passover; follow them, and you’ll enjoy freedom from both constipation and weight gain. You’ll also save a lot of money.

Purchasing Tips

Stock up heavy on fresh fruits and vegetables. They’re full of fiber. Fiber not only lowers LDL cholesterol but enhances good digestion.
Don’t purchase manufactured Kosher for Passover (KP) cookies, cakes and the like. They’re expensive and unhealthy, low in fiber and very high in sugar content and in price tag.
By avoiding KP manufactured foods, you’ll save money and protect your health. Your own homemade foods will not only be healthier, but they’ll be on a higher kosher standard as well.
Fish is a great alternative to meat and poultry, especially when eating heavy meals every day. A main meal of baked salmon with baked potato or sweet potato and a leafy salad is a super-healthy meal with protein, omega 3 and plenty of fiber.
Shun the soft drinks and stock up on mineral water or carbonated water.
Purchase whole-grain matza – wheat, spelt or oat – and avoid the cheap white-flour industrial square matzas.
Don’t buy ready-made fruit juices. Squeeze your own.

Eating Tips

Twenty minutes before your meal with matza, drink at least two glasses of water. Try to avoid drinking during the meal, unless it’s dry red wine or water or seltzer mixed with dry red wine at at least one part wine to three parts water.
Chew matza slowly and thoroughly, enabling your saliva to act upon the matza until it becomes a soft paste in your mouth. Only then, swallow. You’ll eat slower and will be satiated by eating much less. What’s more, the saliva plays an important role in digesting carbohydrates.
Fresh and leafy veggies and increased fiber intake are a must during Passover – give them your highest eating priority.
Don’t multi-task while eating, especially while eating matza. The brain treats matza like potato chips, so if you munch without thinking about what you’re eating and how much, then the calories pile up fast.
Set aside daily time for exercise, especially walks with the family. This is great for both health and relationships.
Make sure to eat a minimum of other carbs. Treat sugar, especially white sugar, as if it’s not kosher for Passover. From a health standpoint, it’s not kosher all year long.
Avoid all soft drinks, even the ones with artificial sweeteners, for the body has no idea how to digest such chemicals. Drink water, seltzer and dry red wine.

Follow the above tips, and you’ll feel great, both during the Passover holiday and afterward. Plus, you’ll avoid the disappointment of weight-gain. G-d bless for easy Passover preparations and a lovely Passover holiday!

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What Should Diabetics Do Regarding Seder?

10 Nissan 5774 April 10, 2014 http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/2014/04/what-should-diabetics-do-regarding-seder/

Don’t ignore Diabetes

The following information was released by the spokesman’s office for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel pertaining to how a diabetic may contend with the yomtov demands of seder night. The responses were provided by Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau Shlita.

This refers to a diabetics using diet, tablets or injections of insulin.

The Mitzvah of 4 Cups of Wine:
A diabetic may fulfill the mitzvah by drinking four cups of grape juice. Every 100cc of grape juice is less than 70 calories. Therefore, one may fulfill one’s obligation if one drinks the majority of a revi’is for the first three cups, and an entire revi’is for the last cup. If he drank 45cc (32cc) for the first three cups and 90cc (which is 63 calories) he will end up having ingested 160 calories.

In cases of need, one may drink only a majority of a revi’is for the last cup too.

The Mitzvah of Eating Matzah:
Each machine made matzah contains 100 calories. One may be lenient and measure the shiur for matzah as being one-half of a machine matzah. We eat this amount three times; for achilas matzah, the korech sandwich, and the afikomen. Therefore, one may have to eat fewer calories than one is accustomed to during the meal (like rice/potatoes) towards fulfilling the mitzvah of matzah.

Eating Charoses:
One may avoid eating charoses if one wishes or one may eat a minute amount.

A diabetic who uses injects insulin numerous times or receives insulin via a pump usually checks blood sugar levels a number of times daily to adjust each dose. Such a person may ingest the wine and matzah and adjust the insulin accordingly to compensate, giving oneself a bit more than usual to address the increase in blood sugar.

Click on the Word document to the right for the original Hebrew text: What Does a Diabetic do on seder night

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6 Best Food Choices for Healthy Heart

31March2024 by Lazer Brody

6 Best Food Choices for Healthy Heart

Mediterranean Diet

Fitness is 80% eating and 20% physical activity. Heart health is no exception. Although many people shy at the word “exercise”, few people back away from food. Therefore, good heart health begins in the kitchen. Let’s see what cardio-compatible eating looks like and how beneficial and tasty it is.

The Rambam and the Mediterranean Diet

Maimonides, aka “The Rambam”, was a 12th CE Torah scholar, physician, and scientist. His laws of nutrition outshine all of the fad and extreme diets that come and go. Born in Spain, he lived in Morocco and in Egypt, where he was the personal physician of Saladin, the king of Egypt. Today’s Mediterranean diet conforms closely to the Rambam’s food choices, which I sorted into six categories, as follows:

1. Vegetables and Fruits

Veggies are the all-star of the heart healthy diet. They’re nutritionally dense and packed with vitamins and minerals. They also contain phytochemicals that work synergistically for cardio health in a way that not even scientists understand. Cruciferous veggies prevent clogged arteries. Green veggies contain chlorophyll, which the heart loves. Leafy greens deliver fiber, which reduce both cholesterol and blood pressure. Veggies should be the bulk of our diet. Eat them at every meal, for they are filling and contain few calories. While fruit is also vitamin-rich and heart healthy, a person should limit fruit intake to less than 4 servings per day because of their high sugar content. Cranberries, red grapes and blueberries are especially good for the heart.

Rule of thumb: stick to natural, unprocessed veggies and fruits. Avoid commercial fruit juices for the are super-high caloric and high in sugar. Natural fruit sugar is healthiest when eaten naturally, with the fruit’s pulp and fiber. What’s more, the higher the percentage of veggies and fruit in your diet, the healthier you’ll be. Your food bill will also be substantially lower. With both health and budget benefits, veggies and fruit should be the bulk of your diet, as they are of the Mediterranean diet.

2. Quality Protein

Here too, natural is the key word. Fish, especially omega-3 rich fish such as sardines, salmon and mackerel are wonderful sources of protein. So are nuts and seeds, especially almonds, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. Poultry, lean beef and eggs also have a big protein clout. Contrary to popular belief, one need not fear cholesterol as long as sugar and empty-carb intake is low. Don’t forget beans and lentils.

The Standard American Diet (acronym SAD, for that’s what it does to your heart) is loaded with processed, smoked and junk-food that’s inundated with chemical additives. Categorically avoid them, for they’re both unhealthy and outrageously expensive per portion.

3. Quality Fats

The “Low Fat” food products producers have given fat a bad rap in order to dupe consumers into buying their unhealthy processed products. Natural fat is healthy, because the body cannot absorb most vitamins without it.

My favorite sources of healthy natural fats are cold-pressed oils (olive, sesame and flax), avocados and omega-3 rich foods such as walnuts, sardines and salmon. As a rule of thumb, if a fat is liquid at room temperature, it’s most likely unsaturated. Coconuts and dark chocolate are also healthy sources of fat, but eat them in limitation.

4. Whole Grains

Not all carbs are criminal. Empty and refined carbs, such as white flour, white sugar and their derivatives, raise blood-sugar levels then crash, because they are nutrient-sparse and fly through the body. Avoid them at all costs.

Whole grains are the carbs of choice. Bake with whole-wheat flour. Even better, use spelt – it tastes great, it’s nutritious and it can’t be genetically modified. Complex carbs such as potatoes, yams, beans, peas and fresh corn are loaded with fiber, vitamins and minerals. Here too, always choose natural over processed. If you purchase whole-grain baked goods and pasta, make sure the additives are minimal.

5. Natural Spices

These are my favorites. Your heart will love them.

6. Red Wine

A staple of Mediterranean diets is dry red wine. I contains a wide range of active compounds – polyphenols – with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that are ever-so-healthy for the heart. It also has the antioxidant resveratrol, whose source is the skin of grapes. Resveratrol reduces cholesterol and lower blood pressure.

The Takeaway

The more you eat naturally, the happier and healthier you’ll be. You’ll be amazed how leaving the processed and fast foods on the supermarket shelf will make your heart and your pocket happier. G-d bless for great health!

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The Top Five Immune-Building Super Spices

16August2023 by Lazer Brody

The Top Five Immune-Building Super Spices

All-Star Spices

Plants, roots and herbs – all members of the vegetative level of creation – are loaded with phytochemicals.

Hashem’s Pharmacy

Phytochemicals are part of Hashem’s Pharmacy, the goodies of creation. These are naturally occurring chemical compounds that the Creator instilled in foodstuffs to keep us healthy, vibrant and immune to disease. While combining modern research, traditional Talmudic sources and my own experience in diet and nutritional coaching, I put together an All-Star team. This is starting lineup of the Top 5 immune-building Super Spices that we all really need with the weather getting colder.

Combining flu-season and constant COVID threats, these 5 spices are a naturally effective front-line of defense. These all-stars should always appear in your pantry. Include them in the starting lineup of your meal ingredients. Why? They are loaded with all types of powerful antioxidants with anti-inflammatory immune-system benefits. The added bonus is that these all-stars are effective fertility-enhancers as well.

Vax or No-Vax

Whether you’re a pro-vaccer or an anti-vaccer, these top 5 super spices should be regulars in your salads and cooking ingredients. They’ll protect against COVID like they protect against other viruses. And, even if a person becomes infected, they’ll help him bounce back to health much quicker.

Whenever you can attain them in the fresh state, that’s optimal. If fresh is not available, use dried whole. If dried whole is not available, use dried ground. Stay away from manufacturer or heat-tampered spices and commercial mixtures, which contain chemical additives that are counter-productive.

Meet the All-Stars

Natural herbs and spices have no side effects and the body readily absorbs them. In that respect, commercial vitamins and so-called immune-boosting meds and pharmaceuticals are no match for our top five. Combine them with proper personal hygiene, and G-d willing, you’ll stay healthy all year long. Meet the all-star spices:

#1: Garlic

Prefer fresh garlic cloves to dried and powder. Garlic is the captain of the team in that it supercharges the immune system, wards off colds and flu, enhances fertility, boosts heart health and combats LDL cholesterol. It’s one of nature’s leading prebiotics. As such, garlic promotes probiotic growth, the beneficial bacteria that keep your gut healthy. Garlic reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases, has anti-tumor effects, and lowers blood glucose levels. Its juice has powerful anti-bacterial properties that can help readily heal a sty in the eye. Chop it in your salads and eat at least a good sized clove a day.

If you’re worried about garlic breath, chewing on a fresh sprig of parsley will sweeten your breath almost immediately. Garlic merited it’s #1 slot on the Top Ten because of its compound allicin. Allicin converts to a number of sulphur-containing compounds that boost the disease-fighting response of white blood cells in the body when they encounter viruses, such as the common cold or flu. Although there is no clinically-proven evidence that garlic protects against corona-virus, it’s immune-boosting properties will certainly strengthen the body’s ability to fight it or recover from it.

#2: Ginger

India tradition and literature cites ginger as a prime immune booster. Ginger boasts phytochemical properties that exceed 60+ trace minerals, 30+ amino acids and more than 500 enzymes and coenzymes. They all work together to calm reactivity, fight bacteria and parasites. They also relieve migraine headaches, stimulate B12 production (critical for vegans!), fight colds and flu, relax the throat and flush the muscles of the excess lactic acid the creates soreness after a tough workout. If you wonder why the Chinese or Indian dish you tried to cook doesn’t taste authentic, it’s because you forgot the ginger!

#3: Turmeric

This is one of the most powerful India-originated spices with over 300 nutrients including calcium, fiber, iron, and zinc. Turmeric has cogent anti-inflammatory properties that boost immunity. It also contains anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties. These further help strengthen the body’s immune function. In Israel, we have the fresh turmeric root in the winter and spring. It’s loaded with xanthophyll and beta-carotene, a cogent antioxidant and loaded with Vitamins A and C. A salad or dish with a starting lineup of ingredients that includes fresh garlic, fresh ginger and chopped turmeric root is a strong defense against disease, aging and infertility. It’s great for your respiratory system too. Where you can’t get fresh, opt for organic dried.

#4: Hot Peppers

These little hotties contain capsaicin, an amazing phytochemical that helped prevent spoilage in warm climates before the invention of refrigeration. Capsaicin’s anti-microbial properties inhibit as much as 75% of bacteria growth. This makes hot peppers a mighty protector against infection. They benefit the digestive tract by reducing the acidity that causes ulcers. They also help produce saliva and stimulates gastric juices aiding digestion. Hold on – we’re not finished yet. Hot peppers lower LDL cholesterol, increase blood flow, mitigate migraines and promote heart health. They increase metabolism and promote weight loss. They’re great for the skin, fight cancer cells and prevent colds and allergies. They are also a wonderful fertility enhancer that’s effective well past middle age.

#5: Cinnamon

One of the important components of cinnamon – Cinnamaldehyde – fights respiratory tract infections caused by fungi. This beautifully aromatic spice, which together with turmeric are two of the eleven spices that make up the ritual incense ketoret mentioned in the Torah. Cinnamon not only tastes great, it’s a rich source of antioxidants. It also helps in giving a major boost to your immune system. What’s more, it lowers blood sugar levels and lowers one’s chances of suffering from heart disease, including high LDL cholesterol and hypertension.

The Takeaway

In summary, put these top 5 super-spices in your daily diet and G-d willing you’ll boost your immunity and ward off illness. Combine the “Super 5” with overall healthy eating and regular exercise, and you’ll be dancing at the weddings of your great grandchildren. Every blessing for your good health, LB

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Pesach Seder From Rav Shalom Arush

Chut Shel Chessed

By Rav Shalom Arush Shilita

Practices and Halacha for Seder Night

Everything starts with Emuna. A person prepares himself as well as he can and prays as much as he can and he has a desire that everything will go ok, but Hashem has his plan and therefore everything begins with Emuna that ‘everything is for the best’ and ‘this is the way Hashem wants it to be’. When Rabbenu wrote that there is a concept of “lo b’seder” (not ok/not in order), it means that there is ‘seder’ (things are ok/things are in order) from the point of view of Hashem, but from the point of view of man, it seems that things are not b’seder (not ok) and that person needs to accept it with Emuna.

The Seder Plate

One should arrange the table and the seder plate on erev Chag, during the day. We arrange the seder plate is according to the Ari (that means in the shape of two ‘segolim’ [a Hebrew vowel with three dots]). We place the three matzot (representing the sefirot – chachma, bina and daat) and place over them a nice cloth, and on the plate we place the zeroa (shankbone) on the right side (representing the sefira of chessed), the egg on the left side (representing the sefira of gevura), the maror that we bless on under the two of them in the middle (representing the sefira of tiferet). The charoset goes below the shankbone (representing the sefira of netzach), the carpas (parsley) goes below the egg (representing the sefira of hod) and the maror that we use for ‘corech’ goes below the two of them in the middle (representing the sefira of yesod) (and the plate itself represents the sefira of malchut); as follows:

Egg Shankbone

Maror (for bracha)

Parsley Charoshet

Maror (for corech)

A person should be careful to eat and sleep on erev Pesach in order to be awake for Seder night. Especially children whose comfort is the most important thing on Seder night (because the main mitzvah is ‘to tell it to your children’). It is therefore appropriate that children stay awake until at least the end of ‘magid’.

After the Ma’ariv prayer of Yom Tov, when you return home to prepare the seder, all the married men (including a newly married man in his first year) should wear a kittel (white cloak) and put his steimel or hat on and keep it on for the whole seder. Bachurim over the age of bar mitzvah should wear their ‘bekesha’ and wear their hat for the whole seder. (A person can remove their hat during eating the meal).

Before beginning the Haggadah, everyone should say together: “I hereby bind myself in this Pesach Seder, in the Kiddush, in the eating of the parsley, in the Haggadah, in the eating of the matzah, in the eating of the maror, in the korech, in the meal, in the eating of the afikoman, in the birkat hamazon, in the saying of Hallel, in the piyutim, in the divrei Torah, in the singing of Shir HaShirim – to all the true Tzaddikim of the generation, and to all of the true Tzaddikim resting in the dust, the Holy ones resting in the ground, and especially to our Holy Rabbi the Tzaddik and foundation of the world, the flowing stream and source of wisdom, Rabbenu Nachman ben Simcha ben Feige, whose merit should be upon us and on all Israel, Amen.”

Kaddesh

Before making Kiddush, the leader of the seder should inform everyone: “I will have the intention to fulfil the obligation on your behalf in all of the blessings on the wine, on the Kiddush and on the Shechechiyanu. It is your obligation to intend that the blessing of shechechiyanu should cover the mitzvahs of eating the matza and on the entire Pesach itself. Also, after making Kiddush, everyone should drink while leaning to the left.” Everyone should say the “l’shem yichud…” (“for the sake of the unification…”) which appears in most Haggadahs and also say the prayer for preparing oneself to drink the four cups of wine [which appears below – at the end of this sheet].

Ideally (l’chatchila) one should drink only red wine, (it doesn’t matter if it is sweet or dry wine and it’s also permitted to drink pasteurised wine and one doesn’t need to be careful to drink only ‘fresh’ wine (yayin chai)). The amount to drink is 86 ml (in our community we don’t follow the measures of the Chazon Ish, whether for strictness or leniency, and whether d’rabban or d’oraita). For someone who finds it difficult to drink just wine, he should mix 86 ml of wine with grape juice (it doesn’t matter how much grape juice he adds, because he juice comes only to weaken the taste of the wine). If this is also difficult for a person, he can mix less than 86 ml of wine with grape juice, and he should drink 86 ml of this mixture. If even this is difficult for him, and he knows that even the minimum amount of wine will ruin his seder night, he can drink just grape juice.

When pouring the cup, each person should pour for another, and not pour for himself as this shows the way of freedom.

At the time of drinking wine, one should lean (we lean when drinking the four cups and also when eating the matza and eating the corech/sandwich). The way of leaning is to be careful to lean with the body to the left side and also to support ones left arm on the armrest of a chair. Also women need to lean in every place that men need to lean.

Urchatz

One should explain to the children that there is a halacha that if a person eats something dipped in a liquid, one should wash his hands before eating it. Even though the whole year we are lenient not to follow this law, on seder night we are strict on this in order to cause the children to ask questions and to stay interested.

Carpas

One should take care to specifically buy the vegetable called ‘carpas’ (ie “celery”) because there are important kabbalistic issues in this (and one should be careful to buy vegetables that are grown free of worms!). The leader of the seder should remind everyone that eating the carpas is a preparation for eating the maror and his intention should be that his bracha “…borei peri ha’adamah” that he makes on the carpas also covers the maror. A person should not eat more than a kazayit of carpas in order not to obligate himself to make an ‘after bracha’. (If he erred and ate more than a kazayit, he does not make an after bracha). Also, we do not lean while eating the carpas because it teaches about the bitterness of the slavery and leaning is a sign of freedom. One should leave a little of the carpas on the seder plate because according to the kabbalah the seder plate should remain complete until after eating the matza and maror.

Yachatz

Before breaking the middle matza, the leader of the seder should announce in a loud voice in order that everyone hears: “Just like we break the matza, Hashem split the sea into twelve parts when we left Egypt.” This matza should be split into two pieces, the larger piece into the shape of the Hebrew letter “vav” and the smaller piece into the shape of the Hebrew letter “dalet” or into a square shape.

The smaller piece should be returned to the seder plate to its place between the other two complete matzahs, and the larger piece in the shape of a “vav” should be used for the afikoman. One should hide it, in order to stimulate interest in the children, and to cause them to remain awake until eating the afikoman which is towards the end of the seder. If a child finds the afikoman and asks for a present to give it back, it is on the father to give him whatever he asks for (unless there is an educational or halachic problem with giving him his request).

Magid

Before reading the Haggadah (ie ‘magid’) one should read the passage from the Zohar that appears in some Haggadahs, which explains the importance of the Haggadah. The Haggadah is read together out loud by all those present and with ‘crying out’ as described by Rabbenu [see Likutei Moharan, 20:10] and there are sections that are sung together (like “Ha Lachma Anya” etc, and each family should follow its own customs in this regard). We read a section together and then stop and explain that section (sometimes explaining the section beforehand, and the entire seder should follow the same pattern, in a way comfortable for you). One should be careful however not to overly lengthen the explanations. In principle, one should explain the section of Rabban Gamliel “anyone who did not say these three things on Pesach did not fulfil his obligation, and these are Pesach, Matza and Maror. Pesach which are forefathers ate at the time the Temple stood for what reason… Matza which we eat for what reason… Maror which we eat for what reason…”

One should remember that the main reason for reading the Haggadah is for the children (“Ve’hagadata levanecha”) therefore it is on the father to prepare the Haggadah before seder night and to think about which points will awaken the children. There are midrashim on the Haggadah which are very stimulating which are able to add newness and interest for children.

When we reach the questions in the Haggadah, meaning “Ma Nishtana”, one can give each child a section to say, and not only to the youngest child, and when the children ask any questions on seder night, it is a mitzvah to answer them immediately and not to wait until later, because this is the principle mitzvah. If the children have midrashim and chiddushim to tell on the Haggadah and on leaving Egypt, one should encourage them as the main mitzvah of the Haggadah is for the children. In any event, it is recommended to save the chiddushim for during the meal, in order that the reading of the Haggadah does not continue on too long.

When we pour out drops of wine when we say “dam, v’aish, v’timrot ashan”, and for the ten plagues etc (a total of 16 drops), we take a broken pottery dish or disposable plastic cup and the leader of the seder only pours out the 16 drops from his cup into this dish/plastic cup, and with him at the same time his neighbor pours 16 drops of water (this is in remembrance of the plague of blood that within one vessel there was blood from the side the Egyptian drank and water from the side the Jew drank; and also that wine hints to the dinim (judgements) and water hints to the kindnesses and we do this in order to sweeten the judgements). Once all the drops have been poured out we throw away the broken vessel/plastic cup used.

There is a custom in some communities that when we say “in every generation a person is obligated to see himself as if he was coming out of Egypt…” the lady of the house lifts up the seder plate and waves it in a circle over the heads of each of those present and blesses each of them as she wishes.

The Second Cup

Before drinking the second cup of wine, the leader of the seder should remind all present (including men) to drink the wine while leaning. All should say together the “l’shem yichud” that appears in Haggadahs and also the special prayer before drinking the four cups [as written out at end of this article]. There are those that follow the Shulchan Aruch not to make a bracha on the second cup and those that follow the Rama who says to make a bracha.

Rachtza

Before washing the hands, the leader of the seder should remind those present that the only mitzvah d’oraitta (Torah commandment) that we still have on seder night since the destruction of the Temple (that it should be rebuilt speedily in our day) is the mitzvah to eat matza. The rest of the mitzvot are only Rabbinic nowadays. Therefore everyone should intend to fulfill the mitzvah of eating matza for the sake of the Torah commandment “ba’erev tochlu matzot” (“in the evening you shall eat matza”).

Motei Matza

The matza for seder night for the mitzvah of eating matza should be handmade shmura matza (meaning guarded from the time of harvesting). (One who wants to eat ‘soft matza’ has on whom to rely. However, the custom is to eat hard matza). The matza used for the ‘corech’ can be machine-made matza, and so too the matza used for the rest of the days of Pesach should also be machine-made matza particularly. [This is explained by the Yalkut Yosef for two reasons, firstly there are those who believe that machine matza is more ‘mehudar’ and secondly as handmade are more expensive, there is no need to spend the extra money – and if a person has money to spend he is advised to buy the less expensive machine made ones and give the saving to the poor].

The leader of the seder should give out matza to all present in order that it is in front of them before reciting the bracha. The seder plate and the matza should remain by the leader of the seder and there is no need to give each person matza from the seder plate, rather he should give each person from other matza which is on the table. For the purpose of eating the Mitzvah Matza each person should be given an amount of two kazaytim (each kazayit is 27g for Sephardim who go according to weight, or the volume of a matchbox according to Ashkenazim who go according to volume). Therefore machine made matza which is generally around 32-33g, for Sephardim one would take approx 85% of a sheet of matza for each kazayit (those machine matzahs which are made at 27g each would mean a whole sheet for each kazayit). For Ashkenazim who go after volume, the amount would be approx a third of a sheet of matza for each kazayit.

Before eating the matza, one should say the ‘l’shem yichud” which appears in the Haggadah. After making the bracha, dip the matza in salt and also in charoset. One should eat the matza while leaning and without stopping, but meaning to eat in a natural not rushed way and without simply swallowing down the matza. One should not look at the clock at all! Because the main thing in eating continuously is to eat in a normal way, and therefore there is no need to be concerned about how much time it takes as to eat normally certainly fulfils one’s obligation. And we know the words of Rabbenu who told us that it is not our way to follow strictures, even on Pesach.

Maror

For the purpose of Maror, one should take lettuce leaves for each one of those present (and be careful to buy vegetables grown free of worms). Before eating the maror, dip it in charoset and shake off the charoset from the leaves in order not to cancel out the taste of the maror. Say the “l’shem yichud” which appears in the Haggadah, and eat the maror without leaning. The way of eating it should be the way one normally eats lettuce, comfortably and without pausing, and without looking at the clock at all.

Charoset should be made from the following ingredients: dates, nuts, apples, ginger and wine.

Corech

For the purpose of corech, one can use machine made matzot. One should take a kazayit of matza from the bottom piece and a kazayit of maror (if there is not enough matza in the bottom piece for all those present, one can take other shmura matza) dip them in charoset (and now there is no need to shake off the charoset), say the section in the Haggadah “Zecher lemikdash ke’Hillel” and eat while leaning, without a bracha. The way of eating should be relaxed and without pausing and without looking at the clock at all.

One shouldn’t speak between washing his hands for matza (Rachtza) until after eating the corech. After the fact, if one did speak after eating the matza, he doesn’t need to make a new bracha.

Shulchan Orech

There are those who have a custom to eat eggs at the beginning of the meal. At the meal, we do not each sharp (charif) food, instead only sweet food. (Therefore also the meat or chicken on this night should be marinated in sweet sauce, for example honey etc). One should not eat roasted meat at this meal, even roasted chicken. A wise person will not eat too much in order that he will have an appetite for the afikoman and not eat it on a full stomach.

Tzafon

One should be careful to eat the afikoman before midnight (halachic chatzot). However, Hallel can be said after chatzot. Ideally (l’chatchila), one should give to all present a small piece of matza from the afikoman and if there is not enough matza he should take from other shmura matza, and one can also use machine made matza. One should eat a kazayit of matza while leaning (including women), for the purpose of the afikoman in memory of the korban Pesach, and there are those who are strict to eat an additional kazayit of matza that was eaten at the time with the korban Pesach. Those who are strict to do so will be blessed. Before eating one should say the “l’shem yichud” appearing in the Haggadah. The way of eating should be relaxed and continuous and without looking at the clock at all. After eating the afikoman, one shouldn’t eat anything else and it is permitted only to drink the final two cups of wine, and water, in order that the taste of the afikoman should remain in one’s mouth.

Barech and the Third Cup

Before birkat hamazon, the leader of the seder should remind those present (including women) to drink the wine while leaning. Before drinking the third cup, everyone should say together the “l’shem yichud” and also the prayer prepared for drinking the four cups.

After birkat hamazon and drinking the third cup, pour the cup of wine for Eliyahu Hanavi, and make sure the cup is large and nice (mehuderet). Afterwards, open the door and say “Baruch ha ba Eliyahu Hanavi zachor la tov” and “Shefoch Hamatech” (as appears in the Haggadah).

Hallel

The Hallel should be sung like they sing it in Chut Shel Chessed, and when you get to the place where it says “Hodo Lashem Ki Tov, Ki Leolam Chasdo” and also “Ana Hashem Hoshia Na” one should say it like we do in prayers, meaning the leader says it out loud and the others reply, in the usual way).

The Fourth Cup

Before drinking the fourth cup of wine, the leader of the seder should remind those present (including women) to drink the wine while leaning. Before drinking the fourth cup, everyone should say together the “l’shem yichud” and also the prayer prepared for drinking the four cups. There are those who follow the Shulchan Aruch not to make a bracha for the fourth cup, and there are those who follow the Rema to make a bracha. After drinking the fourth cup, one should not eat anything and not drink anything other than water.

Nirtza

After saying the prayer “Chasal Seder Pesach”, one should sing all the piyutim and songs written in the Haggadah whose foundations are the heights of Holiness.

After completing the Haggadah, sing Shir HaShirim together.

A person is obligated to study the laws of Pesach and Yetziat Mitraim and to tell stories of the miracles and wonders that Hashem did for our forefathers until sleep overcomes him. And all that increase the telling of Yetziat Mitzraim is very praiseworthy and Hashem is glorified by him, as it says “Israel in whom I glorify myself”.

If a person performs the seder as set out, he is assured of being “ratzui” (desirable) before Hashem, and he will merit (B’ezrat Hashem) to rebuild the Beit HaMikdash, and to eat from the sacrifices and the Pesach offering, and will merit a sweet and pleasant long life with the complete redemption, Amen.

Prayer Before Drinking the Four Cups of Wine

[Note: Insert the appropriate wording for each of the four cups.]

Behold, I hereby bind myself in the positive obligation of drinking four cups of wine, on this festival of Pesach, to all the true Tzaddikim of our generation and to all the true Tzaddikim who rest in the dust, the Holy ones who rest in the ground, and in particular to our Holy Rabbenu, the foundation of the world, the flowing stream and source of wisdom, Rabbenu Nachman the son of Simcha, the son of Feige, whose merit shall protect us and all of Israel, Amen.

For the sake of the unification of the Holy One Blessed Be He and the Shechina in awe and love, and in love and awe, to unify the Holy name of Havaya, the letter yud and the letter hei and the letter vav and the letter hei, in a complete unification for the sake of all Israel. I hereby prepare myself to fulfill the will of Hashem to fulfill the mitzvah of drinking the [first / second / third / fourth] cup from the four cups, which corresponds to the letter [yud / first hei / vav / last hei] oftheHoly name Havaya which is [Chochma / Bina / Tiferet / Malchut].

May it be Your will, Hashem, my G-d and G-d of our forefathers, that I merit through drinking this cup to “the one who merits will be made a head” that I merit to rectify my mind, for wisdom, for an expanded mind (mochin d’gadlut). And that I merit through drinking this wine that my mind is uplifted and my intellect expanded until I rise up to the root of intellect (daat), which is an aspect of the root of Torah and mitzvot, through which I will merit to desire and strengthen myself to fulfill the Torah completely, and save me from “the one who does not merit will be made poor”, save me from a contracted mind (mochin d’katnut) and from sadness.

That I merit from drinking this wine to “the one who merits will be happy” that I merit wine that makes one happy, and merit great happiness and very great joy, and through this to increase in telling stories of leaving Egypt, and save me from “the one who does not merit will be made desolate” and save me from wine which causes drunkedness, and that I will merit from drinking this wine to clarify and rectify the imagination completely, which is Holy Emuna. And that I merit by drinking this wine to wake up from sleeping in materiality and spirituality, meaning that I merit to be bound to Hashem always and guard me that I do not fall into sleeping in materiality and spirituality, and that I merit in drinking this wine to rectify the blemish of Adam HaRishon that drank the wine which Chava squeezed for him.

Master of the Universe, make it that by drinking this [first / second / third / fourth] cup of wine, that I merit [complete faith / prayer / miracles / the Land of Israel], that I merit the Holiness of the Land of Israel completely, and that now already the Holiness of the Land of Israel shall be revealed. And nullify from me completely the husk of [the “storm wind” / the “great cloud” / the “blazing fire” / “Noga”] and nullify from me completely [the spirit of foolishness / the spirit of licentiousness / the spirit of arrogance / the spirit of impurity].

This cup shall correspond to the language of redemption of [“v’hotzaiti etchem” (I took you out) / “v’hitzalti etchem” (I saved you) / “V’ga’alti etchem” (I redeemed you) / “v’lakachti etchem” (I took you out)]. And may it be Your will my G-d and G-d of my forefathers that you take all of Your people Israel from all four corners of the world and bring them quickly to the Land of Israel, and bring our righteous Moshiach and build our Holy Temple and reveal Your Kingship completely, Amen.

May the pleasantness of the Lord our G-d be upon us, and the work of our hands establish for us, and the work of our hands establish it (“va yehi noam Hashem Elokenu alenu umaaseh yadenu konnena alenu unmaaseh yadenu konnenehu”).

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The Temple Institute’s 5th Annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day

On Sunday, April 6, Rosh Chodesh Nisan, (the first day of the month of Nisan), called by Torah, “the first of your months,” (Exodus 12:2), at the conclusion of a full day of divrei Torah and explication on the practical considerations of performing the korban Pesach – Passover offering – in our day, the gathering of students and Jews desirous of being as ready as possible for the renewal of the korban Pesach came together one more time in a courtyard of the Old City of Jerusalem, to take part in what may best be described as a Passover offering rehearsal. Led by the Director of the Temple Institute, and Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, the Institute’s Founder, with the assistance of licensed experts in the practice of shechitah – Jewish ritual slaughter – the purpose of the event was two-fold: to perform a kosher shechita of the year-old lamb, while providing a detailed explanation to the students as to the intricacies and necessities of the kosher slaughter, which began with the inspection of the lamb for physical blemishes, the presence of which would render the lamb unqualified for kosher shechita, and concluding with the actual slaughter of the animal, in a precise and Biblically mandated fashion that ensures a quick and painless demise.

The second aspect of the instruction, and what made this lesson unique, was the in-depth explanation by the Director of the aspects of the avodah – ritual service – that would accompany the shechita, if this were, in fact, a korban Pesach. To this end, two silver mizrakim – vessels designed to contain the blood of the lamb, (and created by the Temple Institute), were employed. In an actual Passover offering these vessels, once filled with the blood of the lamb, would be handed by one priest to the next, as the last in line would dash the blood against the Temple altar, as commanded in Torah.Silver trumpets, also produced by the Temple Institute, were blown, in simulation of the actual Passover offering service, and the special Hallel (Psalms of praise) were sung, just as the Levites would have sung them in the courtyard of the Holy Temple, after the offering of each korban Pesach.The entire teaching, which concluded with the dressing of the lamb, was conducted in a hushed and introspective atmosphere. Although it was but a demonstration of a korban Pesach, nevertheless, the awesome responsibility of taking the life of G-d’s creature, as He has commanded us to do, filled us with contrition and humility. The fleeting nature of our physical life and the recognition of the Divine image in which we human beings are created, filled our hearts.Against this, and in contrast to the sobriety of the lesson, were the events of the past few days, in which representatives of a local animal rights group twice brought the organizers of the symposium into court, in an attempt to prevent the Passover offering rehearsal from taking place. In an effort seemingly more geared toward publicity than protest, their attempt to turn the teaching into a gruesome spectacle failed utterly. Exposed only was their unfortunate ignorance of Torah, and we can only hope that they take stock of themselves and begin to learn the traditions of our people. But in successfully flouting the politically correct doctrine of the post-modern godless humanism they were attempting to foist not only upon us, but upon the entire Jewish nation, we did experience an inkling of what the Israelites must have felt when, while still in Egypt, they performed the original korban Pesach in full view of the horrified Egyptians, who worshipped as gods the very lambs that were being slaughtered.

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Is Passover cleaning getting you stressed out, tired out, and flipping out with your kids and husband? Rabbi Scheinberg Shlit”a says: Don’t go overboard, Jewish mom! If you are starting to look like the woman in this video, I recommend that you print up Rabbi Scheinberg’s thorough but easy room-by-room instructions as a sanity-preserving guideline for Passover cleaning. This is long, so I’ve marked the highlights in bold.

CLEAN FOR PESACH AND ENJOY THE SEDER! by Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
Edited By Rabbi Moshe Finkelstein Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem
Pesach 5765

These notes are based on the responsa of Moreinu veRabbeinu HaGaon HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, shlita, rosh yeshivas Torah Ore, to questions posed by women attending his regular talks. They have been compiled by a group of his students. The notes also include Hebrew sources and footnotes, which are not reproduced here.

PREFACE

In former times, wealthy people who had large houses also had many servants who did their bidding, while poor people, who could not afford servants, lived in small homes with one or two rooms. Understandably, the pre-Passover chores of the rich were performed by the servants, while the poor, who had only their one or two rooms to clean, a few pieces of furniture, a minimum of utensils, and some clothing, took care of their needs themselves.

In those days, cleaning was hard. Tables were made of raw wood, requiring them to be scrubbed or even to be shaven to ensure that no pieces of food were hidden in the cracks. Earthen or wooden floors also needed to be thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed.

Today, we seem to be caught in a trap. The average modern home is larger than formerly. Furniture, utensils and clothing are much more plentiful. The average home today can compare with the more affluent homes of previous generations. However, we do not have the servants that they had, so that today, all the chores fall on the woman of the home. At the same time she still feels obligated to clean and scrub as they did formerly, even though she has laminated furniture and tiled floors, making this type of cleaning unnecessary.

As a result of this, the pressure of pre-Pesach cleaning has reached unnecessary and overwhelming levels. The housewife often becomes overly nervous, unable to enjoy the holiday joy of Passover and unable to perform the mitzvos and obligations of the Seder night.

INTRODUCTION

Passover, like every other yom tov, must be enjoyed by every member of the family, including women. This is an obligation clearly defined in the Torah as explained by our Sages. We can understand a person dreading Tisha B’Av but Pesach is to be looked forward to and anticipated with joy. Every woman should be well rested, relaxed and alert at the Seder table so that she can fulfill all the Torah and Rabbinic obligations and follow the Haggadah with the rest of the family. Clearly, the performance of her pre- Passover duties must be balanced against her Passover obligations.

Pre-Passover cleaning is required to avoid the danger of transgressing any Torah or Rabbinic prohibition of having chometz in the house on Pesach. It is evident from the responsa of the Rosh Hayeshiva shlita that this need not be excessive.

It is not the intention here to abolish traditions which have been passed down by Klal Yisroel from generation to generation. Nevertheless, some practices adopted by women in the Passover cleaning today are not an actual continuation of the old traditions. For example, if a person does not sell his chometz, of course it is necessary to check his utensils and to wash off any chometz left on them, or to render the chometz inedible. But if the chometz is sold, then washing the pots, pans and dishes which are going to be locked away is not necessary.

One might be tempted to insist on doing the extra work anyway — to be machmir (stringent). However, in these stringencies lies the grave danger of causing many laxities and brushing aside many mitzvohs completely, including Torah and Rabbinic obligations which women are required to do on Passover and particularly during the Seder.

Many women like to do more “cleaning” than the bare minimum, to such an extent, that some even incorporate their general “spring cleaning” into their required pre-Passover chores. These extra exertions should not prevent them from fulfilling their obligations on Passover, and particularly on the Seder night.

GENERAL NOTES

A. All property and possessions must be cleaned and checked to make sure that they are free of all chometz, except in the following cases: B. If, during the year, chometz is not brought into a place, that place does not have to be cleaned out or checked for chometz. C. Any article which is not used on Pesach does not need to be checked for chometz, provided it is put away properly and the chometz in it is sold. D. Crumbs which have been rendered completely inedible [C.J. Weisberg explains: by coating with small amount of household cleaner] to the extent that they are not fit to be eaten by a dog are not considered chometz. E. The general obligation to check for and destroy crumbs does not apply if the crumbs are less than the size of an olive (kezayis) and are dirty or spoiled enough to prevent a person from eating them. F. The household cleaner (mentioned below) used must spoil the crumbs slightly to the extent that people would refrain from eating them. G. It is customary that any item to be kashered should not be used for 24 hours prior to kashering, in order that it should not be a ben- yomo.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

1) CLOTHING CLOSETS: If there is some significant possibility that chometz went into them, they should be checked for fully edible crumbs of chometz, besides large pieces of chometz. If the probability that chometz entered these places is remote, a rav can be consulted to clarify the conditions under which they do not have to be checked. This includes chests, dressers, basements, and all other similar places (see General Note E).

2) FLOORS: We don’t have earthen floors with deep cracks in them. It is sufficient for tiled or covered floors to be swept and washed with a household floor cleaner. Cracks and spaces between tiles do not have to be checked if the cleaning solution reaches into them.

3) FOOD CABINETS: If the cabinet is not going to be used on Passover, then you just have to lock it or seal it in a manner that will remind you not to use it on Passover and sell it with the chometz (see General Notes C & E ). If the cabinet is going to be used on Pesach, take out all the food and wash it with a rag soaked in a household cleaner. Be sure the cleansing agent reaches into all the cracks and soaks into any crumbs that might be left there. The usual practice is to line the cabinets.

4) REFRIGERATOR: Take the food out, and wash it with a rag soaked in a household cleaner. The racks are usually covered. (It is advisable to leave holes for air circulation.)

5) KASHERING SINKS: Clean the sinks (see General Note G), and pour a kettle of boiling water into them and on their sides. Some people pour hot water mixed with bleach down the drain. The usual practice today is to use an insert, or line the sinks (e.g. aluminum foil, contact paper). If not difficult, this practice should be followed.

6) FAUCETS (TAPS): Cleaning, without any other kashering procedure, is sufficient.

7) MARBLE AND STAINLESS STEEL COUNTERS: If they were used for hot chometz they should first be cleaned well. They should either be completely covered so that nothing Pesach’dik touches them or (if it will not ruin the countertop) pour boiling hot water on them (see General Note G). Many people do both.

8 TABLETOPS: Wash them with a household cleaner. The usual practice is to cover the tables.

9) KASHERING RANGE/OVEN/STOVE-TOP: Wash the top and side surface areas with a rag soaked in a strong household cleaner. Clean the knobs well. Grates can be kashered by first cleaning them well (see General Note G), then put them back on the stove, and then lighting all the burners, raising them to their maximum heat, putting on a blech while the burners are on. This spreads the heat over the whole top and intensifies the heat on the grates. Let it burn for 5 – 10 minutes. [Be careful that the knobs don’t melt.] After kashering, the usual practice today is to cover the stove-top with aluminum foil (being extremely careful not to block the air inlets around the burners and on the back of the stove, as this could create poisonous fumes in the room).

* OVEN: If you want to use the oven: (a) First clean the oven well with an oven cleaner (e.g. Easy-Off). Make sure that it reaches into all the cracks and around the screws. (After using the oven cleaner, there is no need for further cleaning). (see General Note G). Then heat the inside of the oven by turning the oven on to its highest temperature for about one hour. (b) If your oven has a turbo option (a fan which circulates the heat ), consult a rav about your particular type. (c) After kashering, if the oven door has a glass window, preferably cover the entire inside of the door with aluminum foil. (d) If a closed oven insert is available, this would be preferable. In this case, only washing and cleaning are necessary. (e) Do not use the chometz-dik oven racks for Pesach. If this is difficult, then one can kasher the racks with the same procedure as for the oven, placing them as close as possible to the heating element.

If the oven is not going to be used: None of the above is necessary. Just make certain that there is no edible chometz inside, tape it closed well and see below #10.

10) POTS, PANS, DISHES, & SILVERWARE (CUTLERY): Whatever is not going to be used for Pesach should either be locked up, or put away and sealed in a manner which will remind you not to use them on Pesach. If there is a possibility of actual chometz in them, the chometz should be sold (see General Note C.). If you do not sell chometz, then they should be either washed or soaked in a household cleaner; it is not necessary to scrub them. (Concerning kashering utensils for Pesach consult a rav.)

TIP: To clean Stainless steel Counters, Pots and Pans – Use oven cleaner on all your Stainless Steel Pots and Pans. Wear Rubber Gloves and have good ventilation! Wait 20 Minutes then scrub and wash clean.

TIP: To clean a Water Urns קומקומ that has calcium from Hard Water – Pour a bottle of Vinagar in it and let stand overnight. Then wipe out with a cloth.

11) FOOD PROCESSOR/MIXER: A rav should be consulted.

12) DISH TOWELS: If one does not have a Pesach’dik set of dish towels, then one’s regular dish towels may be used if they are washed with a detergent and no food remains attached to them. (It is customary to have a set of Pesach’dik dish towels.)

13) PESACH TABLECLOTHS: These can be ironed with the same iron as is used during the rest of the year.

14) CLOTHES, BLANKETS, POCKETS, ETC.: If they have been washed in detergent or dry cleaned, then there is no need for them to be checked (see General Note E). Otherwise they need to be cleaned and checked thoroughly by brushing or shaking them out well. However, if there is a possibility of crumbs between the stitches or in a hidden crevice which cannot be shaken out, then they must be wiped with a rag which has been soaked in a detergent. Clothes which will not be worn on Pesach do not have to be checked, but they should be put away and the chometz in them sold (see General Notes C. and Sec. 10 on Pots and Pans).

15) SIDDURIM, BENCHERS, SEFORIM, BOOKS: If there is a chance that they contain chometz, then they should either be put away and sold with other chometz utensils (see General Notes C.), or cleaned and checked well.

16) TOYS: If there is edible chometz, then it should be either removed, or rendered inedible (see General Notes E). There is no need to scrub them.

17) TECHINA & OTHER KITNIYOS (legumes): May be used after the house has been cleaned for Pesach. They should not be cooked in utensils that will be used on Pesach, and certainly not on Pesach itself (according to the Ashkenaz minhag).

20) LAST MINUTE PREPARATIONS: For example, setting the table, etc., should be completed early enough in the day, so that you will be able to rest a little bit. Be ready to start the seder immediately after ma’ariv, to ensure that the children won’t fall asleep at the Seder.

21) ENJOY PESACH! Try to make the Pesach chores easy for yourself. Don’t do unnecessary hard work. Don’t do unnecessary cleaning. You can be like a Queen and you must enjoy your Pesach!

10 Adar, 5762. Jerusalem, Israel

Pesach Crisis Cleaning Checklist

April 13, 2008 by Hannah Katsman http://www.amotherinisrael.com/pesach-crisis-cleaning

When it comes to Passover I don’t like to talk about where I’m “holding,” because I don’t want to hear that my neighbor has set her seder table while my house looks like a tornado ran through it. But those who are inspired by others’ progress should look here.

This is for readers having trouble getting started with Pesach preparations. It’s all practical; no inspiring words tonight.

Mom in Israel’s Guide to Pesach Cleaning

Make a schedule including a column for each day. Mark any appointments you have, and pencil in the Pesach chores that are left. Try to distribute the heavy jobs among different days, according to when you will have help.

Keep in mind that anything you plan to kasher must be cleaned carefully and cannot come into contact with hot chametz for 24 hours prior to kashering.

Anything not coming into contact with food does not need to be cleaned, only checked for pieces of edible chametz.

Here are the jobs, in some kind of logical order. Skip anything that doesn’t apply to you.

The refrigerator and freezer. Empty them and clean carefully.
Chametzdik Menus. As you empty cabinets and the refrigerator/freezer, sort food into the following categories: Kosher for Pesach, eat before Pesach, sell (chametz), put aside (not chametz, but not KFP either), and give away/throw out. If you need more food, add it to your shopping list. Make menus for the meals until Pesach.
Cover one shelf of the fridge and freezer with newspaper for the last of the chametzdik food.
Cabinets. Empty out and line one or two cabinets for Pesach food as early as possible. Continue to prepare cabinets as you finish up the cooking and can put away utensils you no longer need. If you come across an item that you haven’t used since last Pesach, give it away.
Don’t clean more cabinets than you need. Wipe off the crumbs and gook, and ignore stains. If it’s convenient, put Pesach utensils in the cabinets as you prepare them.
Bedrooms. The kids should do their own, if they are old enough. If you are compelled to clean every toy small children might use during the holiday, set aside a few and pack up the rest. Check backpacks, pockets, purses and drawers. Don’t clean them.
Plan menus for Shabbat and the seder. Make them simple. Mark down any items not on your standard shopping list.
Shopping. The longer you wait, the more crowded the stores. Pick a calm, quiet time to write the list, and don’t forget non-food items like toilet paper, dish and laundry detergent, candles, toothbrushes and cleaning supplies. Avoid going to more than one or two stores, and if no one in the family can help, go with a neighbor (at least in Israel).
Set aside utensils to be kashered. Arrange for the sale of chametz.
Clean the car. Or at least check it.
Keep up with the household laundry. If the leader of your seder wears a kittel (special white robe) is it clean? Any summer clothes you want to take out? Ironing? Linens? Tablecloths and dish towels?
Check that medicines are kosher for Passover.
Scrub the top of the stove, grates, and knobs.
Clean and kasher the oven.
Clean and kasher the dishwasher. Since this involves taking it apart and cleaning a million pieces individually, you may decide it’s possible to survive without it. Ours is electronic so the timer will be useless anyway by the time the seder rolls around this year.
Vacuum the sofa, or at least pull up the cushions and look for chametz. Maybe you’ll find something good.
Polish silver. Not essential but niceï¿½maybe you can find an available pre-teen.
Haircuts and clothes shopping, if necessary.
Kasher utensils.
Finally, clean, kasher and cover the counters and sinks.
Cook. Start with the items that keep well. As soon as I “turn over” the kitchen I make the mayonnaise, hard-boiled eggs, and egg noodles. The kids make the “ice cream” (sherbet). (I bought two boxes of macaroons; no baking for me.) Then I do the soup, haroset, meat and vegetables, leaving the horseradish for last. I calculate the vegetables I need and prepare them at the same time. For example, if I need carrots for soup, pot roast and carrot salad, I peel them all at once. Chopped onions also keep in the refrigerator. I wash all greens at once, dry them on towels, and store in the refrigerator.
Last minute items: Wash floors, empty garbage and vacuum canister, open packages, set timers, and check the refrigerator and cabinets for chametzdik food.

Allow time after every task to clean up and “put out fires” that have built up elsewhere, and to make sure your kids are fed and supervised. Get them involved whenever you can (see below). Take frequent breaks to eat, drink, and rest. Alternate heavy and light jobs, sitting and standing. Try to sweep and do a light mop at the end of each day (ha).

Wishing you all happy cleaning, and pleasant memories of this time for ourselves and our children.

Kitniyot List

OU Kosher Staff https://oukosher.org/passover/guidelines/food-items/kitniyot-list/

The following are considered Kitniyot:
Beans
Buckwheat
Caraway
Cardamom
Corn
Edamame
Fennel
Fenugreek
Lentils
Millet
Mustard
Peas
Poppy Seeds
Rapeseed (Canola oil)
Rice
Sesame Seeds
Soybeans
Sunflower Seeds

The following are not considered Kitniyot, but may require special checking:
Anise
Carob
Chia Seeds
Coriander
Cottonseed
Cumin
Guar Gum
Linseed
Locust Bean Gum
Saffron

The following may be Kitniyot and are therefore not used:
Amaranth
Peanuts

Pesach and Halachic Issues with Pets

https://www.star-k.org/kashrus-kurrents.php

Chometz from the five grains¹⁶ is assur b’hanaa on Pesach, i.e. we are forbidden to eat it or derive benefit from it. One may not even have chometz in his possession on Pesach.

The following commonly listed items found on pet food ingredient panels are not acceptable for Pesach: Wheat (cracked, flour, germ, gluten, ground, grouts, middlings, starch¹⁷), barley (cracked, flour), oats (flour, grouts, hulled), pasta, rye, and brewer’s dried yeast. Note: Any questionable ingredient should be reviewed by a competent Rabbinic authority. Dog and cat food made with gravy or sauce generally contain chometz.¹⁸

Kitniyos

legumes, such as rice and beans, may be fed to animals even though they are not eaten by Ashkenazic Jews. The following commonly listed items found on pet food ingredient panels are acceptable for animals on Pesach: Beans, buckwheat, brewer’s rice,¹⁹ corn, grain sorghum (milo), millet, peanuts, peas, rice, safflower, sesame, soybeans, soy flour, and sunflower.

What is Kitniyot?

OU Kosher Staff

In addition to the Torah’s restrictions on owning, eating and benefiting from chametz, an Ashkenazic minhag developed in the middle ages to not eat certain foods known collectively as “kitniyot”. The Mishnah Berurah (453:6 & 464:5) cites three reasons for the minhag (a) kitniyot is harvested and processed in the same manner as chametz, (b) it is ground into flour and baked just like chametz [so people may mistakenly believe that if they can eat kitniyot, they can also eat chametz], ( c ) it may have chametz grains mixed into it [so people who eat kitniyot may inadvertently be eating chametz]. Although initially there were those who objected to the minhag, it has become an accepted part of Pesach in all Ashkenazic communities.

Which foods are kitniyot

The earlier Poskim mention that rice, buckwheat/kasha, millet, beans, lentils, peas, sesame seeds and mustard are included in the minhag (see Beis Yosef O.C. 453, Rema 453:1 & 464:1 and Mishnah Berurah 453:4, 7 & 11) and it is generally accepted that corn (see below), green beans, snow peas, sugar-snap peas, chickpeas, soybeans, sunflower and poppy seeds are also forbidden. On the other hand, potatoes (see below), coffee, tea, garlic, nuts, radishes and olives and not treated as kitniyot (see Sha’arei Teshuvah 453:1, Chayei Adam 127:7 and others). Iggeros Moshe (O.C. III:63) assumes that peanuts are not kitniyot but notes that some have a custom to be machmir. Some other examples of foods which are or aren’t kitniyot will be noted below and in the “Derivatives of kitniyot” section.

Iggeros Moshe explains that the minhag to not eat kitniyot developed differently than other minhagim and therefore rules that only foods which we know were specifically included in the minhag are forbidden. [See also Chok Yaakov 453:9 who makes a similar point]. With this he explains the generally accepted custom to not consider potatoes to be kitniyot even though logically they should be, as follows: the minhag of kitniyot can be dated back at least until Maharil, who died in 1427, and potatoes didn’t come to Europe until the 16th century, so potatoes were a “new” vegetable which wasn’t included in the minhag. An important “exception” to the aforementioned rule that “new” vegetables aren’t included in the minhag, is corn/maize which Mishnah Berurah 453:4 and others rule is kitniyot even though it was introduced to Europe after the minhag had already begun.

As a rule, spices are not considered to be kitniyot and Rema 453:1 makes a point of noting that anise/dill and coriander are not kitniyot. Taz 462:3 notes that all spices should be checked before Pesach to establish that no chametz-grains are mixed in, and elsewhere Taz (453:1) specifically notes that anise and coriander seeds should be thoroughly checked. In addition, Taz and Magen Avraham (453:3) discuss whether fennel, cumin and caraway seeds (i.e. three variations of “Kimmel” ) can possibly be checked (and used) for Pesach. Thus, as a rule, spices are not kitniyot but require special care to guarantee that no chametz-grains are mixed into them. Some hashgochos consider fenugreek to be kitniyot while others do not, and the surprising ramifications of this question will be noted towards the end of the article.

From Chabad.org What is Chametz?

https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1755/jewish/1-What-Is-Chametz.htm

Chametz is “leaven” — any food that’s made of grain and water that have been allowed to ferment and “rise.” Bread, cereal, cake, cookies, pizza, pasta, and beer are blatant examples of chametz; but any food that contains grain or grain derivatives can be, and often is, chametz. Practically speaking, any processed food that is not certified “Kosher for Passover” may potentially include chametz ingredients.

Chametz is the antithesis of matzah, the unleavened bread we eat on Passover to recall the haste in which we left Egypt, and the humble faith by which we merited redemption. Matzah is the symbol of the Exodus, a central component of the Seder rituals, and the heart of the “Festival of Matzot” (as Passover is called in the Torah). And the flip-side of eating matzah is getting rid of chametz — and the egotism and spiritual coarseness it represents.

Guide To “Real” Chometz

https://www.star-k.org/kashrus-kurrents.php

PRODUCT	“REAL” CHOMETZ?
Barley (if pearled, raw and packaged)	No
Beer	Follow Family Custom¹
Bread	Yes
Cake	Yes
Cake mixes (dry)	No
Cereal with primary ingredient of wheat, oats, or barley	Yes
Chometz content is more than a k’zayis. The chometz can be eaten in a time span of kdai achilas pras² (e.g. box of Froot Loops cereal)	Yes
Chometz content is more than a k’zayis. The chometz can not be eaten b’kdai achilas pras² (e.g. box of Cap ‘N Crunch cereal)	No
Chometz content in entire package is less than a k’zayis but is greater than 1/60 of the product (e.g. Corn Flakes cereal)	No
Chometz content is less than 1/60 of the product	Not chometz ⁴
Chometz Nokshe (e.g. chometz glue)	No
Condiments containing vinegar (e.g. ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, pickles)	No
Cooked on chometz equipment (not during Pesach) but contains no chometz in the product.	Not chometz³
Cookies	Yes
Detergents	Not chometz⁴
Extracts	No
Farfel Mix	Yes
Flour	No
Food Coloring	No
Ketchup	No
Kitniyos	Not chometz³
Licorice	Yes
Malt flavoring (in product)	No
Maltodextrin	No
Maltose (in product)	No
Mayonnaise	No
Medicine containing chometz	No
Modified food starch (from unknown sources)	No
Mustard	No
Pasta	Yes
Pickles	No
Pretzels	Yes
Products non-edible even for canine consumption (nifsal mayachilas kelev)	Not chometz³
Rolled Oats	Yes
Vanillin and Ethyl vanillin	No
Vinegar (from unknown sources)	No
Vitamin tablets containing chometz	No
Wheat gluten (unknown amount in product)	Yes
Wheat protein (unknown amount in product)	Yes
Whiskey	Follow Family Custom¹
Yeast (Baker’s)	Not chometz³
Yeast extract	No

1. Some individuals sell this chometz, others do not. One should follow his family custom.2. Kdai achilas pras is the amount of time it takes to eat the volume of buttered bread equaling 3-4 eggs (approximately 2-4 minutes). For example, if one eats a bowl of Foot Loops cereal, he will eat a k’zayis of chometz within 2-4 minutes. However, if one eats Cap’N Crunch cereal, he will not eat a k’zayis of chometz fast enough as the amount of chometz in Cap’N Crunch cereal is relatively minimal.3. These products are not chometz. One may even retain possession on Pesach. Sale is not necessary (mutar b’hana’ah b’Pesach). The product may not be eaten on Pesach.4. These products are not chometz. One may even retain possession on Pesach. Sale is not necessary (mutar b’hana’ah b’Pesach).

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The Third Temple – Dayenu

24/07/2013 – י״ז באב ה׳תשע״ג – י״ז באב ה׳תשע״ג – 18:21

Dayenu

From the Pesach Haggadah How many levels of favors has the Omnipresent One bestowed upon us:

If He had brought us out from Egypt, and had not carried out judgments against them Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had carried out judgments against them, and not against their idols Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had destroyed their idols, and had not smitten their first-born Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had smitten their first-born, and had not given us their wealth Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had given us their wealth, and had not split the sea for us Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had split the sea for us, and had not taken us through it on dry land Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had taken us through the sea on dry land, and had not drowned our oppressors in it Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had drowned our oppressors in it, and had not supplied our needs in the desert for forty years Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had supplied our needs in the desert for forty years, and had not fed us the manna Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had fed us the manna, and had not given us the Shabbat Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had given us the Shabbat, and had not brought us before Mount Sinai Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had brought us before Mount Sinai, and had not given us the Torah Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had given us the Torah, and had not brought us into the land of Israel Dayenu, it would have sufficed us!

If He had brought us into the land of Israel, and had not built for us the Beit Habechirah (Chosen House; the Beit Hamikdash) Dayenu, it would have sufficed us! Historic Omer Barley Offering Held in Jerusalem ט’ז ניסן תשע״ה Counting The Omer ספירת העומר

As you can see from the last line of Dayenu which we say every Pesach (Passover) the Beit Hamikdash is the final step of ending the Exile.

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God gives the 3rd Temple

Amen? pic.twitter.com/bCD5gWnIXZ

— daniel hanukayeb (@LionsOfZion_ORG) April 18, 2025

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Amen?

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http://harhakodesh.co.il/ The Har Hakodesh (lit. “The Holy Mountain”) website includes educational material about the history of the Temple Mount, which was the site of the First Temple and Second Temple. The Temples were the focus of divine service for the Jewish nation.

From Tomer Devorah: A Jewish website that aims to teach Israelis about the Temple has been met with an angry backlash from the Arab Muslim community.

The Har Hakodesh (lit. “The Holy Mountain”) website includes educational material about the history of the Temple Mount, which was the site of the First Temple and Second Temple. The Temples were the focus of divine service for the Jewish nation.

The site also includes stunning photographs of the Temple Mount, including pictures taken by a non-Jewish photographer from parts of the Mount which Jews may not enter.

And of course; Muslim Anger over Virtual ‘Third Temple’

They need to grow up and to quote Golda Mier – Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

“בית מקדש שלישי בירושלים Third Beit HaMikdash Holy Temple in Jerusalem; And rebuild Jerusalem the holy city soon in our days! Blessed are You, O Lord, Who will rebuild Jerusalem in His mercy.

The Temple institute is in a new location.

The Temple Institute’s Holy Temple Visitors Center

Bringing the Awesome World of the Holy Temple to an Unprecedented Level of Understanding The Temple Institute is delighted to announce that after twenty five years of introducing visitors the world over to the sacred vessels of the Holy Temple and the dream, along with the practical measures being taken for rebuilding the Holy Temple, our headquarters are now located in a new, expanded facility, which includes a brand new Visitors Center. Just a few hundred meters from our former location the new center is located just above the Yehudah HaLevy stairs which lead from Jerusalem’s Old City Jewish Quarter down to the Western Wall Plaza facing the Temple Mount.

Efrat Chief Rabbi Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a Kohen himself, gets measured for his own set of Kohanim garments

mourning maze Temple Institute.org

Historic Omer Barley Offering Held in Jerusalem

ט’ז ניסן תשע״ה On Saturday night/Sunday, the 16th of Nisan 5775, the Temple Institute, in cooperation with the Women on Behalf of the Holy Temple, performed a reenactment and training session for kohanim of the Omer harvesting and offering of the new barley crop in the land of Israel. The Omer offering is a Torah commandment to be performed every year in the Holy Temple. It marks the first day of the fifty day countdown between the start of Passover and the festival of Shavuot commemorating the receiving of Torah at Sinai.

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The Children are READY – kohanim children in uniform at the kotel 5782

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Has American Jewry fallen to this with Pesach פסח (Passover)?

An American Passover Greeting Card 2015 A family was ordering a McDonald’s like Clown Passover Happy Meal Voice on Speaker: “Welcome to the Seder Shack. May I take your order?” Father: “Yes, We’ll have three Matzo Meals, some Maror Nuggets with the special Seder Sauce, and a SuperSize kosher grape juice shake.” Son: “Dad, don’t forget the collectible Elijah cation figure!” The Card States: ” Passover in the not-so-distant future.”

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PSA to my Israeli friends: Passover flavors of Israeli-owned Ben & Jerry’s are out now including the holiday favorite: Charoset!! #Passover 🫓 pic.twitter.com/SNLkeg0IoE

— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) March 16, 2023

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Another reason to make Aliyah!

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Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, searches for leavened bread, also called chametz, at Chabad of Uptown April 17, 2008 in Houston. The candle is used to search for the chametz, while a feather is used to sweep it in to a wooden spoon. All three items are burned along with the chametz. The burning of leavened bread represents the eradication of the ego and all of the negative energies associated with the ego according to Jewish religious scripture. Pesach, or Passover, celebrates freedom. Egypt represents the limitation of ourselves. The observance of Passover is an exercise in being better today than we were yesterday and unleashing personal boundaries to drive ourselves to perfection.
Thursday, April 17, 2008, in HOUSTON. ( Eric Kayne / Chronicle )

13 Nissan Did you remember to sell your chametz? Your local Chabad rabbi can help, or complete an online “Authorization for the Sale of Chametz” form by clicking here.Search for the chametz after dark (click here for the exact time). Recite the blessing prior to the search, and the nullification of the chametz (Kol Chamira) following the search. Click here for more information on the search and removal of chametz.

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Burning-Chametz”

Burning and Nullifying the Chametz the day before Pesach פסח (Passover)

14 Nissan
The day before Passover
Stop eating chametz before the end of the fourth seasonal hour (click here for the exact time).

Burn your remaining (unsold) chametz before the fifth seasonal hour (click here for the exact time).

When burning you chametz be sure to throw your iPhone or Smartphone into the fire.

Place The Wonder Pot, סיר פלא, on top of the flame heat diffuser so that the bottom grove of the pot is on the rim of the flame heat diffuser.

14 Nissan
The day before Passover

Start Cooking for Pesach פסח (Passover)

Seder-A family affair

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An Israeli Pesach Seder סדר פסח (Passover Seder)

IDF Passover Seder

At the Seder when you say “Next year in Jerusalem” really talk to your family about making Aliyah (immigration to Israel) and come on home to your real home and homeland!

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Holiday Havdalah

We Are Living The Passover Story

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22 Mar 1989, San Francisco, California, USA — Jewish Family Celebrating Seder — Image by © Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS

-15 Nissan Pesach Night
Light the Passover candles, reciting blessings 3 & 4. Click here for the blessings, and here for local candle-lighting times. Click here for a summary of the laws of Yom Tov. Pesach Seder סדר פסח (Passover Seder): The Seder contains the observance of many biblical and rabbinical mitzvot, including: eating matzah, eating maror (bitter herbs), drinking four cups of wine, relating the story of the Exodus to our children, reclining as a symbol of freedom, etc. (Click here for a How-To Seder guide.)To locate a public Seder near you, please click here.The first night of Passover is referred to as leil shimurim (a night of guarding), based on Exodus 12:42.

—15 Nissan Pesach Morning
1st day of Passover Morning service. Full Hallel is recited. Two Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark.
Torah reading: Exodus 12:21–51 and Numbers 28:16–25.
Haftorah: Joshua 3:5–7, 5:2–6:1, 6:27.Beginning with the Musaf Amidah, we recite morid hatal, the prayer for dew, and we omit the prayer for rain. This practice continues until Shemini Atzeret, the day after Sukkot.The priests bless the congregation with the priestly blessing during the Musaf prayer.Festive lunch meal.According to Chabad custom, complete Hallel is recited during Maariv evening prayers, followed by the “Counting of the Omer.” We count the 1st day of the Omer. The counting of the Omer is recited during each of the next 49 days, leading up to the holiday of Shavuot on the 50th day. The 49 days embody the 49 steps of self-improvement—beginning with the departure from our “personal” Egypt, until our arrival at Mount Sinai, when we are ready to accept the wisdom of the Torah. —16 Nissan Pesach Night If you live in Eretz Israel You have 1st Night of Chol Hamoed Pesach (intermediate days)If you live outside of Eretz Israel You have a Second Seder: After dark, light candles for the second day of Passover, using an existing flame, and recite blessings 2 & 4. Click here for the blessings, and here for local candle-lighting times.The Seder contains the observance of many biblical and rabbinical mitzvot, including: eating matzah, eating maror (bitter herbs), drinking four cups of wine, relating the story of the Exodus to our children, reclining as a symbol of freedom, etc. (Click here for a How-To Seder guide.) Havdalah is incorporated into the Kiddush prayer. We look at the holiday candles for the blessing on fire and do not recite the blessing on spices.

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Holiday Havdalah

By Naftali Silberberg
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/611296/jewish/Holiday-Havdalah.htm

Holiday havdalah can be divided into two categories: 1) Havdalah recited at the conclusion of a holiday. 2) The special havdalah recited on a holiday which falls on Saturday night. Havdalah is made when entering a day of lesser holiness. Since Shabbat is holier than all the holidays, we recite the havdalah when Shabbat leads into a holiday. Following the same logic, havdalah is not recited if a holiday leads into Shabbat.

Havdalah at the Conclusion of a Holiday

Havdalah is only made when entering a day of lesser holiness

Havdalah is recited at the conclusion of the following biblical holidays: Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur; the first days of Sukkot; Simchat Torah; Passover, both its first and last days; and Shavuot.

If the final day of the holiday was Shabbat, then the exact same havdalah procedure as a typical Saturday night is followed. If the holiday ended on another weeknight, the procedure is very similar to the Shabbat havdalah, but with some differences:

In some communities, the prefatory verses (from “Hinei E-l” until the wine blessing) are omitted. Many communities, however, including Chabad, do recite these verses.
Spices and a havdalah candle are not used. The exception to this rule is the Yom Kippur havdalah, which includes the blessing on a havdalah candle. The Yom Kippur havdalah candle is kindled from a fire which burnt throughout the holiday, such as a yahrtzeit candle.
The V’yiten lecha prayer is not recited following a holiday, nor is it customary to partake of a Melaveh Malka meal. (The Atah chonantanu insert is included in the post-holiday evening prayer.)
If one forgets to make havdalah following a holiday, it can be recited until sundown of the following day.

Havdalah From Shabbat to a Holiday (“Yaknahaz”)

Whether a holiday begins on a Saturday night or if Saturday night ushers in the second day of a holiday, that night’s holiday kiddush incorporates within itself the havdalah for Shabbat as well.

The whole text of the kiddush/havdalah can be found in your standard or holiday prayer book. The following is the basic procedure:

For the havdalah candle we use the standard holiday candles

The order of the night’s kiddush/havdalah is: 1) The wine blessing. 2) The holiday kiddush blessing. 3) The blessing on the candle. 4) The havdalah blessing — which is different than the standard Shabbat havdalah blessing. 5) The Shehecheyanu blessing (aside for the last days of Passover when it is not recited).
No spices are used.
For the havdalah candle we use the standard holiday candles which are on the table. It is not necessary to conjoin two candles. During this havdalah, many, including Chabad, have the custom to only gaze at the candles after reciting the candle blessing without looking at the fingernails.

Note: There are many activities which are forbidden on Shabbat but permissible on a holiday. All such activities must wait until one verbally “separates” between Shabbat and the holiday. This, however, does not have to wait for kiddush/havdalah, as a special havdalah themed insert, the Vatodi’enu paragraph, is inserted in the Amidah of the night’s prayers. Alternatively, one can say: “Baruch hamavdil bayn kodesh likodesh” — “Blessed is the One who separates between (the) holiness (of Shabbat) and (the) holiness (of the holiday).”

By Naftali Silberberg

Rabbi Naftali Silberberg is a writer, editor and director of the curriculum department at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Rabbi Silberberg resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Chaya Mushka, and their three children.

Havdalah Blessing for Motzei Shabbat and Yom Tov

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When Erev Pesach Is Shabbat

Guidelines for Passover when it begins on Saturday night

By Menachem Posner https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/5025853/jewish/When-Erev-Pesach-Is-Shabbat.htm

Approximately once every nine years, Passover begins on Saturday night. This means that erev Pesach, the day before Passover, coincides with Shabbat, bringing with it a number of unique laws and guidelines. Let’s address them chronologically.

Fast of the Firstborn

It is an ancient tradition for the firstborns to fast on the day before Passover. Since we (generally) do not fast on Shabbat, which is a day of feasting, or on Friday which may interfere with our Shabbat joy, this fast is observed on Thursday, 12 Nissan. The widespread custom is for firstborns to participate in a siyum or another celebratory event that overrides the fast and allows them to eat for the remainder of the day. This, too, is done on Thursday.

More About Fast of the Firstborn

Search for Chametz

On the night before Passover we search for chametz (which we are forbidden to own or eat on Passover) by candlelight. Since this cannot be done on Friday night, which is Shabbat, we do it after nightfall on Thursday.

How to Search

Destroying Chametz

The last bits of chametz must be burned the day before Passover, before the fifth halachic hour of the day. Since this cannot be done on Shabbat, the burning of the chametz takes place at the same time on Friday, even though we keep just enough chametz to eat at the Friday night and Shabbat morning meals.

Burning the Chametz

The Sale of Chametz

All chametz that we wish to save for use after Passover must be sold to a non-Jew and then repurchased after the holiday has passed. This sale typically takes place on the morning before Passover. Since buying and selling are forbidden on Shabbat, the sale is transacted (by the community rabbi on behalf of his community) on Friday.

Sell Your Chametz Online

Eating Chametz on Shabbat

Since the house cannot be cleaned on Shabbat, all the cleaning must be finished on Friday. Yet it is a mitzvah to eat bread at the Friday night and Shabbat morning meals.

It is also forbidden to eat matzah at this time, in order that we enjoy it on Passover eve with gusto. (It is possible to eat kosher-for-Passover egg matzah, since one may not use this matzah for the seder. According to Ashkenazi custom, all healthy people must finish eating egg matzah before the latest time to eat chametz, like bread. For more on this, see Is Egg Matzah Kosher for Passover?)

In practice, we retain a small quantity of chametz, carefully kept away from our food and utensils, all of which are strictly kosher for Passover by this time.

On Shabbat morning, services are held early so that the Shabbat meal, which requires two challah loaves (which are chametz), can be concluded before the deadline.

On a practical note, it is advisable to prepare small rolls, one per meal for each participant, which can be distributed and eaten without the use of a knife.

Make sure that you eat all the chametz that has been left for Shabbat before the deadline (which you can calculate here), as chametz cannot be sold, burned, or taken out to the street on Shabbat. Any remaining challah pieces and crumbs should be flushed down the toilet. At this point, we say the second Kol Chamira declaration, disowning any leftover chametz.

Shabbat Hagadol

The Shabbat before Passover is known as Shabbat Hagadol, “the Great Shabbat” (read why this is so). It is the Chabad custom to only read the special Shabbat Hagadol Haftarah1 in years like this, when Shabbat Hagadol is the day before Passover.

Like every Shabbat Hagadol, after the Minchah services on Shabbat afternoon, it is customary to read a selection of texts from the Haggadah, beginning from the words, avadim hayinu, “We were slaves…”

Print a Haggadah Here

Preparing for the Seder

Shabbat is a day of rest, and we may not start preparing on Shabbat for after Shabbat. As such, setting the table, cooking, and preparing can only be done once night has fallen on Saturday night. Before these tasks may be commenced, one should say bah-rookh hah-mahv-deel bayn koh-desh leh-koh-desh, “Blessed is He Who divides between the sacred (Shabbat) and the sacred (holiday).”

Even though cooking is allowed on yom tov (with certain caveats), it is forbidden to kindle a fire from scratch. So if you wish to have your oven and/or stove on over yom tov, be sure to make sure the fire is on before Shabbat, even though no cooking is allowed on Shabbat itself.

How to Prepare the Seder Items

Malachi 3:4-24.

By Menachem Posner
Rabbi Menachem Posner serves as managing editor at Chabad.org, the world’s largest Jewish informational website. He has been writing, researching, and editing for Chabad.org since 2006, when he received his rabbinic degree from Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. He lives in Chicago, Ill., with his family.

ISRAEL AT WAR 5786: Iran: Operation Roaring Lion

28/02/2026 – י״ב באדר ה׳תשפ״ו – י״ב באדר ה׳תשפ״ו – 20:00

ISRAEL Connection People

Israeli technology doesn’t just power AI and help fight cancer, it brings people together. pic.twitter.com/fxP8y8VnEl

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) March 1, 2026

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Israeli technology doesn’t just power AI and help fight cancer, it brings people together.

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Tips for Israelis
1March2026-2 Days before Purim
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Modi’in Illit family celebrates the birth of their 21st child
Newborn babies wrapped in life itself
Israeli hospitals moved underground
Joy and stoicism in the bunkers of Tel Aviv
A couple holds their wedding in an bomb shelter of Tel Aviv
A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE FROM AN ISRAELI PILOT TO THE CHILDREN
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from the intelligence headquarters rooftop
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THE LARGEST MILITARY FLYOVER IN IDF HISTORY
Iranian lies
Iranian Neighborliness IRAN’S REGIONAL DIPLOMACY
Security official: Half of the Missiles from Iran had cluster warheads
Missile attack on Beit Shemesh killed 9 civilians including 4 children

Where Iran fired it’s missiles and Drones

Tips for Israelis

Tips for Israelis.

How to determine if that sound was an exploding missile interception or thunder:

If your phone didn’t give you a heart attack a minute ago with its endless screeching, it’s thunder.

Follow me for more tips.

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) March 19, 2026

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Tips for Israelis.

How to determine if that sound was an exploding missile interception or thunder:

If your phone didn’t give you a heart attack a minute ago with its endless screeching, it’s thunder.

Follow me for more tips.

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1March2026-2 Days before Purim

🔦SPOTLIGHT: ONE OF THE PROUDEST JEWS

Under the sky, with sirens ringing out, Ben Goldstein steps forward and simply exudes what it means to be a proud Jew in the Land of Israel.

If you’re looking for inspiration, find Ben Goldstein and follow his channels. pic.twitter.com/bAf0x1tG68

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 1, 2026

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🔦SPOTLIGHT: ONE OF THE PROUDEST JEWS

Under the sky, with sirens ringing out, Ben Goldstein steps forward and simply exudes what it means to be a proud Jew in the Land of Israel.

If you’re looking for inspiration, find Ben Goldstein and follow his channels.

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Nefesh B’Nefesh-We’re here for you

We’re here for you ❤️

Once again we find ourselves as a nation seeking safety from ongoing sirens throughout the country. It is important to know where to turn for our physical safety as well as emotional safety.

As always, the Answers team is here for you to listen, guide and… pic.twitter.com/n5afaQCDGs

— Nefesh B’Nefesh (@NefeshBNefesh) March 1, 2026

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We’re here for you ❤️

Once again we find ourselves as a nation seeking safety from ongoing sirens throughout the country. It is important to know where to turn for our physical safety as well as emotional safety.

As always, the Answers team is here for you to listen, guide and connect with emotional resources during this time. We can be reached from Sunday–Thursday 9 AM–5 PM at *3680 or answers@nbn.org.il.

Resources and support links: http://linktr.ee/nbn_aliyah

– @PikudHaoref1 (Home Front Command) should always be your first point of reference for public preparedness and safety. Phone: 104

– Natal Israel’s trauma center
– Eran Emotional crisis hotline

All Health Funds are offering emotional assistance:

Clalit – 03-7472010
Macabi – *3555
Leumit – 1700507507, *507
Meuhedet – *3833

Based on guidance from Dr. Yonit Schorr, a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Jerusalem and former Clinical Research Psychologist at the Boston Veterans Hospital and National Center for PTSD, there are several ways to help yourself and your loved ones during stressful times. Emotions such as fear, anger, or feeling “numb” are normal reactions to stress, and sharing feelings can help reduce tension within families. The sound of sirens can naturally trigger panic, so modeling calm and explaining what is happening — especially to children — can help create a sense of security. It’s also important to listen without judgment, allowing both adults and children to express feelings and ask questions, even when there are no clear answers.

Families should try to limit exposure to anxiety-arousing media and focus only on reliable headlines, as repeated footage can increase distress, particularly for children. Keeping familiar routines, making time for simple comforting activities, and staying connected with others can help restore balance. As Dr. Schorr reminds us through the “oxygen mask” analogy, self-care is essential — rest when you can, exercise, eat nourishing meals, listen to music, take walks, call friends, and focus on what helps you stay physically and emotionally resilient.

NBN wishes you a safe and joyous Chag Purim!

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Arutz Sheva http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Modi’in Illit family celebrates the birth of their 21st child

Modi’in Illit family celebrates the birth of their 21st child, all born as singletons. The eldest child is only 22, meaning the family has added nearly one child per year over two decades.

Israel National News / Published: 10March2026, 11:07 AM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423679

A well-known family in Modi’in Illit celebrated the birth of their 21st child yesterday (Monday) at Ma’ayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak.

The case is particularly unusual, as all 21 children were born as singletons, with no multiples among them.

According to the Haredi news channel HaPargod, the eldest child in the family is only 22 years old. This means that over just more than two decades, the family has welcomed nearly one child every year.

At present, all the children still live at home with their parents and are unmarried.

The family’s story has drawn significant attention in the neighborhood, mainly due to the sheer number of children and the fact that every birth was a singleton. Many local residents have already expressed willingness to assist the family with support and logistics during the early days following the birth.

While there have been a few reports in recent years of families with a similar number of children, those cases typically included multiple sets of twins. This family’s string of singleton births makes their case exceptionally rare.

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Newborn babies wrapped in life itself

Newborn babies at Beilinson Hospital were wrapped in blue and white as a reminder of what we are fighting for: life itself.

📸 @Beilinson_ENG pic.twitter.com/vrcNIuNfjm

— Israel ישראל (@Israel) March 8, 2026

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Newborn babies at Beilinson Hospital were wrapped in blue and white as a reminder of what we are fighting for: life itself.

📸 @Beilinson_ENG

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Israeli hospitals moved underground

Israeli hospitals moved underground. This is a picture of civic responsibility. Take a lesson world. Underground is for civilians, not terrorists. pic.twitter.com/mJsa9q3k3H

— Inside_Israel_Intel (@inside_IL_intel) February 28, 2026

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Israeli hospitals moved underground. This is a picture of civic responsibility. Take a lesson world. Underground is for civilians, not terrorists.

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Joy and stoicism in the bunkers of Tel Aviv

Joy and stoicism in the bunkers of Tel Aviv right now as Israelis await the incoming Iranain retaliation that everyone knew would come. Praying and singing. Booms in the background. pic.twitter.com/iG4Wr2ipNJ

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) February 28, 2026

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Joy and stoicism in the bunkers of Tel Aviv right now as Israelis await the incoming Iranain retaliation that everyone knew would come. Praying and singing. Booms in the background.

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A couple holds their wedding in an bomb shelter of Tel Aviv

🇮🇱 Resilience in Israel

As ballistic missiles from the Iranian regime are fired at Israeli cities and sirens sound, life goes on.
A couple holds their wedding in an underground parking lot converted into a bomb shelter.

Love will not be interrupted.
Mazel Tov! 💙 pic.twitter.com/N3c6vRGnWh

— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) March 4, 2026

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🇮🇱 Resilience in Israel

As ballistic missiles from the Iranian regime are fired at Israeli cities and sirens sound, life goes on.
A couple holds their wedding in an underground parking lot converted into a bomb shelter.

Love will not be interrupted.
Mazel Tov! 💙

StandWithUs-tweet-4March2026-couple holds their wedding in an bomb shelter of Tel Aviv

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A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE FROM AN ISRAELI PILOT TO THE CHILDREN

🇮🇱 A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE FROM AN ISRAELI PILOT TO THE CHILDREN

An Israeli Air Force pilot recorded a message for children who may be sitting in protected rooms tonight.

“You’re not alone.
When I fly high above your homes, my entire mission is to protect you.

Maybe you’re in a… pic.twitter.com/HIay7lSXx5

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 1, 2026

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🇮🇱 A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE FROM AN ISRAELI PILOT TO THE CHILDREN

An Israeli Air Force pilot recorded a message for children who may be sitting in protected rooms tonight.

“You’re not alone.
When I fly high above your homes, my entire mission is to protect you.

Maybe you’re in a shelter right now. Maybe it’s a little scary.
But there are thousands of us doing everything we can to keep you safe.

When I’m in the cockpit, I think about your smiles, your games, the hugs you give your parents.

Every time you go into the safe room on time, you’re part of our team. Our team of heroes.

If your heart is beating fast, take a deep breath. Hold your brother or sister’s hand. Listen to a song you love.

And think of me flying above you, guarding the sky like an invisible shield surrounding you.”

He ends with:

“You are not alone. You are loved. You are protected. And I am here for you, even when you can’t see me.”

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Charlie Hebdo-10March2026-Iran-for a French supreme guide

Allons-nous manquer de guides suprêmes ?

👉 Dossier Municipales à Nantes : dépôt de bilan
👉 Iran : pour un guide suprême français
👉 Novlangue : la trumpisation de la science

En vente mercredi ! pic.twitter.com/BAPPcmMozA

— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) March 10, 2026

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Allons-nous manquer de guides suprêmes ?

👉 Dossier Municipales à Nantes : dépôt de bilan
👉 Iran : pour un guide suprême français
👉 Novlangue : la trumpisation de la science

En vente mercredi !
Translated from French
Are we running out of supreme guides?

👉 Municipal Elections in Nantes: filing for bankruptcy
👉 Iran: for a French supreme guide
👉 Novlangue: the Trumpification of science

On sale Wednesday!

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5 March 2026 at 10:27 am New York Time https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-us-israel-conflict-2026/card/russia-says-iran-conflict-not-our-war–O2B3TxlnWcvV5aoZjFOF

Russia Says Iran Conflict ‘Not Our War’

By Thomas Grove

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia hadn’t received any official requests for aid from Iran and that Moscow had no intention of getting involved in the conflict, despite the close ties between the Kremlin and Tehran.

“It’s not our war,” he said on state television. “We’re seeing a constantly increasing number of countries that are being dragged into the conflict. We’re doing what corresponds to our interests.” Russia and Iran signed a strategic partnership last year and are united in trying to disrupt the U.S.-led order, but Moscow has largely stayed out of the conflict, publicly offering only support at the United Nations.

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“Iran Says School Massacre” and the Media Repeats: How a Regime Claim Became a Viral Headline

Key Takeaways: Iran’s state broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), claimed that the U.S. had targeted the Shajareh Tayyebeh school. Western outlets soon picked up the story without attributing it to regime-backed media….

Sharon Levy 1March2026 6:37 pm< https://honestreporting.com/iran-says-and-the-media-repeats-from-regime-claim-to-viral-headline/

How a Regime Claim Became a Viral Headline

Key Takeaways:

Iran’s state broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), claimed that the U.S. had targeted the Shajareh Tayyebeh school. Western outlets soon picked up the story without attributing it to regime-backed media.
The media omitted that the Iranian regime exploited the civilian infrastructure of the school as it was located in an IRGC complex and, therefore, was not the target of the strike.
The story spread rapidly without independent verification, illustrating how unconfirmed claims can go viral and shape international perception before facts are fully examined.

On Saturday, February 28, Israel and the U.S. launched a joint military operation against the Iranian regime, targeting senior leadership, including Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, and military commanders. The operation has also seen a significant targeting of military infrastructure, including air defense systems, missile launchers, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command centers.

The Iranian regime, like its terrorist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, has embedded its infrastructure within civilian locations. As protests broke out at the beginning of 2026, the movement of weapons and military equipment into protected civilian locations, such as schools and hospitals, was widely observed. This prompted Iranian civilians to take protective measures and warn one another of the dual use of protected spaces.

Geolocation/Correction/Additional Info:

1. Confirmed geolocation: The Imam Ali school in Arak, Iran (34.088253, 49.687137) @GeoConfirmed .
2. The photo is from as early as January 8th, 2026 – Per earliest reports it just depicts them as “Security forces”.
3. This school appears… https://t.co/6y7INfX8Fx pic.twitter.com/JWAZJ34bch

— Tal Hagin (@talhagin) January 27, 2026

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Geolocation/Correction/Additional Info:

1. Confirmed geolocation: The Imam Ali school in Arak, Iran (34.088253, 49.687137) @GeoConfirmed .
2. The photo is from as early as January 8th, 2026 – Per earliest reports it just depicts them as “Security forces”.
3. This school appears to have been used in the past as a staging ground for Tehran Riot Police, an example from 2022:
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Straight out of Hamas playbook…

In preparation for a possible US strike, the regime in Iran has relocated its IRGC forces from official bases to SCHOOLS.

Theyre doing this to maximize civilian casualties (specifically children) for propaganda purposes.

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When the IDF targeted an IRGC compound in Minab, southern Iran, Iran’s state broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), immediately claimed that the U.S. had purposefully targeted the Shajareh Tayyebeh school full of young girls. Al Jazeera soon published the story, blaming Israel for the deaths of children.

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The Western media, without questioning the credibility of the source, immediately reported on the strike and followed Al Jazeera’s lead by holding Israel responsible. In doing so, the media further amplified and legitimized claims from the same regime that has spent the past two months executing its own civilians in the streets protesting for freedom.

The same outlets that included a caveat about their inability to independently verify the number of protesters killed by the regime were the same ones that published and continuously updated alleged casualty figures without any verification other than a regime source. This is not to say that innocent civilians may not have died in the strike, but they were certainly not the target of Israel or the U.S. Moreover, a civilian building was purposefully exploited by the Iranian regime, putting civilians in immediate danger.

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“Iran says,” and the media repeats. Without verification.

An evil regime that only weeks ago was killing its own people and covering it up is now trusted not to create false narratives against Israel?

Two and a half years of publishing Hamas propaganda, and the media still… https://t.co/sIVUMfGBp0

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) February 28, 2026

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1/
“Iran says,” and the media repeats. Without verification.

An evil regime that only weeks ago was killing its own people and covering it up is now trusted not to create false narratives against Israel?

Two and a half years of publishing Hamas propaganda, and the media still haven’t learned. Does the al-Ahli hospital incident ring any bells?

Sadly, @Telegraph isn’t the only one. 🧵
The Telegraph-tweet-28February2026-
🚨 Fifty-one schoolgirls were killed and 60 were injured when a strike destroyed a girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, Iranian media has reported

Follow the latest ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/02/raf-akrotiri-cyprus-drone-strike-us-israel-iran-war/

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Analysis of the Strike

The school, reportedly intended to be for the children of military personnel, was built directly next to an IRGC naval base, according to anti-regime media. Independent geolocation analysts further indicated that the Shajareh Tayyebeh school was located in the same premises as the Sayyid al-Shohada barracks of the IRGC Navy’s Asef Brigade. While it remains unclear whether many civilians were present in the area at the time of the strike, witnesses have reported that the school was not targeted but rather the adjacent IRGC buildings, where missiles were reportedly being stored.

This information was, of course, omitted from IRIB’s reporting of the strike. As a result, when Western outlets covered the story, the school’s proximity to – and apparent integration with – an IRGC military complex was missing from the coverage.

And now more proof: reviewing maps and satellite images shows that the girls’ school “Shajareh Tayebeh of the IRGC Navy Minab” is located adjacent to and within the compound of several buildings belonging to the IRGC; including the “Martyr Absalan Clinic” belonging to the Medical… https://t.co/Np1MFP0hNL pic.twitter.com/hmMUxQJ1ho

— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) February 28, 2026

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And now more proof: reviewing maps and satellite images shows that the girls’ school “Shajareh Tayebeh of the IRGC Navy Minab” is located adjacent to and within the compound of several buildings belonging to the IRGC; including the “Martyr Absalan Clinic” belonging to the Medical Command of the IRGC Navy and the “Seyyed al-Shohada Cultural Complex of the IRGC.”

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The Iranian Embassy in Austria continued with the disinformation campaign on behalf of the regime, sharing a now-viral image on X of a backpack that reportedly belongs to one of the schoolgirls killed in the strike. However, research analysts have found the photo to be AI-generated, as a Google Gemini watermark was detected hidden in the image.

The photo of the pink backpack being used here very likely isn’t real – but AI-generated.

This is both based on the glossy features of the image, which are currently common amongst AI models – As well as the detection of a Google Gemini watermark imbedded in the image: https://t.co/jGANvierX8 pic.twitter.com/8eqFAX15Mc

— Tal Hagin (@talhagin) March 1, 2026

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The photo of the pink backpack being used here very likely isn’t real – but AI-generated.

This is both based on the glossy features of the image, which are currently common amongst AI models – As well as the detection of a Google Gemini watermark imbedded in the image:

Tal Hagin-tweet-1March2026-The photo AI-generated

Adding to the uncertainty surrounding the already disputed casualty figures, basic questions remain unanswered, most notably who exactly was killed in the strike. As of the time of writing, The Telegraph reported 165 casualties, including 81 pupils, citing Iranian sources. That leaves 84 individuals not identified in the public breakdown. And given that the school was located within an IRGC compound, it is legitimate to ask whether any of the remaining casualties were affiliated with the regime, a distinction that has not been clarified.

The Minab school story is getting increasingly weird.
The latest claim is that 165 people were supposedly killed in the strike, yet only 81 are described as pupils – less than half of the total.
Which raises an obvious question: who were the 84 adults supposedly killed there? https://t.co/qj7N8taKQu pic.twitter.com/skCpD5L1bD

— Mark Zlochin – מארק זלוצ’ין༝ (@MarkZlochin) March 1, 2026

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The Minab school story is getting increasingly weird.
The latest claim is that 165 people were supposedly killed in the strike, yet only 81 are described as pupils – less than half of the total.
Which raises an obvious question: who were the 84 adults supposedly killed there?

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The disinformation does not stop at pro-regime sources. A widely-circulated photograph online purported to show a misfired IRGC missile that had fallen inside Iranian territory and struck the school, shifting the blame onto the Iranian regime. However, independent analysts found that the school was located more than 1,000 kilometers from where the photo was taken. They also show that the structure in the photograph faced a direction inconsistent with the alleged missile trajectory, making it unlikely that the image depicted the Shajareh Tayyebeh school.

An image from Zanjan falsely used to claim that a misfired IRGC ballistic missile was what hit the Minab girls school.

Location [POV]: 36.684951, 48.488164
MFMQ+X7M Zanjan, Zanjan Province, Iran@GeoConfirmed @FaytuksNetwork

Geolocated with @talhagin https://t.co/bI9bsjiYyQ pic.twitter.com/l3zMnUMabh

— Stinky (@Stinky915846091) February 28, 2026

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An image from Zanjan falsely used to claim that a misfired IRGC ballistic missile was what hit the Minab girls school.

Location [POV]: 36.684951, 48.488164
MFMQ+X7M Zanjan, Zanjan Province, Iran
@GeoConfirmed @FaytuksNetwork

Geolocated with @talhagin

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The Iranian regime has taken a page out of Hamas’ notebook. For the past two and a half years, Hamas has made exaggerated and false claims, which the media repeatedly amplified before doing their own due diligence. Corrections, when they came, rarely traveled as far as the original headlines. That same cycle of rapid accusation, viral spread, and delayed scrutiny is now playing out in Iran.

The nature of war between Israel and the Iranian regime means that vast amounts of information are released in real time, often before facts can be fully verified. When reporting omits key context or relies heavily on regime-affiliated sources, narratives can solidify before the truth has a chance to catch up, leaving the public with a distorted understanding of events.

In a time of instantaneous reporting and with clear evidence that narratives are being deliberately shaped for strategic purposes, rigorous scrutiny by the media is essential to ensure the truth prevails.

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What needs to be done.

Dramatic: cleared for publication – tonight an Iranian missile struck the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

In Israel, there are already those calling on Bibi to allow the construction of the Temple. pic.twitter.com/ytYVNxSHyC

— daniel hanuka📟 🇮🇱 (@LionsOfZion_ORG) March 3, 2026

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Dramatic: cleared for publication – tonight an Iranian missile struck the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

In Israel, there are already those calling on Bibi to allow the construction of the Temple.

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Israel-Haters Furious Over Al-Aqsa Closure During Iran War

David Lange – 3March2026 – https://www.israellycool.com/2026/03/03/israel-haters-furious-over-al-aqsa-closure-during-iran-war/

Israel-haters are furious because it is a day ending in Y and Israel still exists. But also over something more specific: Israel closed al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israel has closed al-Aqsa Mosque for the third consecutive day, preventing Palestinian Muslims from praying at the site during the holy month of Ramadan, in what has been described as an unprecedented violation.

Palestinians warn that the move forms part of a broader Israeli strategy to exploit security tensions to impose further restrictions and consolidate control over al-Aqsa Mosque.

The closure comes under what Israeli authorities describe as a state of emergency following its launch of a war with Iran on Saturday.

The mosque, located in occupied East Jerusalem, will remain shut until further notice, with only essential activity permitted.

Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem and one of al-Aqsa’s senior imams, condemned the “unjustified” decision.

He told Al Jazeera the closure “signifies police control under the pretext of security”.

“It contravenes freedom of worship and suggests that the occupation authorities are asserting control over the mosque and stripping the Islamic Waqf of its authority to administer it.”

The closure during Ramadan is unprecedented in recent memory, as al-Aqsa Mosque is rarely shut to worshippers.

That’s right. Israel closed al-Aqsa Mosque because rockets have been raining down on Israel. There is no pretext – it are facts. The same emergency regulations apply to synagogues. To public events. To everyone – which has put a hell of a dampener on Purim this year, let me tell you!

Yet here we have the haters essentially complaining about the fact we are protecting Muslims – including the ones who hate us – essentially from themselves.

The same report inadvertently reinforces this by mentioning other occasions we closed the site:

Israeli forces briefly closed the site in 2014 and again in 2017 amid heightened tensions in Jerusalem. In 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the move as a “declaration of war”.

The mosque was also closed during the Covid-19 pandemic on public health grounds. Aside from that period, no prolonged closure had been recorded since Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967.

However, Israel shut the site during the 12-day war with Iran in June, a move many Palestinians viewed as unprecedented at the time.

What makes this complaint even more ridiculous? It was made even after this happened:

The warhead of an Iranian missile hit a site just several dozen meters from the Old City of Jerusalem, and just several hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, during the course of Saturday, police announced on Sunday.

According to police, an explosion was heard and smoke was seen rising from a site just west of the Old City on Saturday morning, shortly after the beginning of the latest armed conflict with Iran.

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The Old City of Jerusalem includes some of the most important holy sites in the world, including the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, the holiest sites in the world for Jews; as well as the al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam; and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed by Christians to be the site of the crucifixion of Jesus.

Israel is protecting the site from the very people who claim to be its “defenders” in Tehran. Not that these particular people we are protecting likely appreciate it. In fact, I suspect most, if not all, of them are praying for more rockets.

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11March2026 Elder of Ziyon https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2026/03/jordan-complains-al-aqsa-is-closed-for.html

Jordan complains Al Aqsa is closed for the war. But the Kotel is closed, too.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry issued a press release condemning Israel for closing Al Aqsa Mosque during the war, calling it ” a clear violation of international law and international humanitarian law.”

The official spokesman on behalf of the Ministry, Ambassador Fouad Al-Majali, confirmed that the absolute kingdom rejected and denial of this illegal and unjustified action, and for the Israeli authorities to continue its provocative actions in the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque / Holy Holy Haram and towards the worshippers, stressing that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian sanctities.

This is a lie. Even if you consider Israel to be an occupier of Jerusalem, it is responsible for to “ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety,” under international law as codified in the Hague Regulations article 43.

Arab media is falsely claiming that Israel has no restrictions on Jews in Jerusalem. Palestine Today says “Jerusalemites confirm that these measures are applied only to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while life continues normally in the rest of the city, including markets and public areas.”

Again, a lie. Here is a screenshot of what the Kotel looks like today from its live camera.

kotel closed

Israel restricts all gatherings of more than 50 people unless they can easily reach a shelter quickly.

As much as the Jordanians and Palestinians pretend that Israel is discriminating against Muslims and Christians, the facts always show them to be liars.

Old City Jerusalem under missile attack

The Iranian regime is firing missiles at Jerusalem, Israel’s capital.
One of them struck a few hundred meters from the Old City, the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Protecting lives & worshippers’ safety comes first. That is why prayer at all… pic.twitter.com/9xh6SEARmA

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) March 12, 2026

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The Iranian regime is firing missiles at Jerusalem, Israel’s capital.
One of them struck a few hundred meters from the Old City, the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Protecting lives & worshippers’ safety comes first. That is why prayer at all holy sites has been temporarily suspended.

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the Islamic Republic has launched missile strikes aimed against civilians in 7 different countries over the past 48 hours.

the Islamic Republic has launched missile strikes aimed against civilians in 7 different countries over the past 48 hours. pic.twitter.com/h1SHk3982T

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) March 1, 2026

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the Islamic Republic has launched missile strikes aimed against civilians in 7 different countries over the past 48 hours.

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Map-Europe within range of Iranian missiles-21March2026

pic.twitter.com/2bOCV7rePc

— amir s (@amir_persian_) March 22, 2026

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Iran has demonstrated a range of at least 4,000km for their ballistic missiles.

Practically all of Europe is within Iran’s range.

Will Europe wake up now? Or will they wait to get hit?

(Map: ISW)

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UK has no defences to stop Iranian missiles and would be forced to rely on US and Europe to stop them as it’s revealed they can now hit London

By GLEN OWEN POLITICAL EDITOR
Published: 00:39 GMT, 22 March 2026 | Updated: 07:04 GMT, 22 March 2026 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15668053/UK-defences-Iranian-missiles-rely-US-Europe-stop-London.html

Britain would be forced to rely on American missile defence systems stationed in Europe if Iran launched a rocket attack on the UK similar to the one attempted on Diego Garcia this weekend.

The warning came after Tehran fired two ballistic missiles on Friday night towards the base in the Indian Ocean, which is jointly operated by the US and the UK.

The island lies 2,360 miles from Iran, well beyond the 1,240 miles which was thought to be the outer limit of the regime’s reach.

It potentially puts Paris, 2,609 miles away, and even London – 2,750 miles – within Iran’s range if, as some strategists fear, the country uses its Simorgh space launch technology to extend its missile range. RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus is just 1,000 miles from Tehran.

And Israel warned last night that that Iran’s new missile can hit Europe.

IDF chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, in a video released on Saturday night. said: ‘Iran launched a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 4,000km towards an American target on the island of Diego Garcia.

‘The missiles were not intended to hit Israel. Their range reaches the capitals of Europe. Berlin, Paris and Rome are all within direct threat range.’ The IDF later added that London is also in range.

Steve Prest, a retired Royal Navy commodore, said: ‘Ballistic missiles are space rockets. They launch, they go really high up and they come down really fast. If you’ve got a space programme, you’ve got a ballistic missile programme.’

In a ballistic attack, defence experts say Britain would be forced to rely on American SM-3 defence systems stationed across Eastern Europe, or the Patriot missiles used by the Germans, to intercept rockets.

The attempted strike on Diego Garcia came as Sir Keir Starmer extended permission for the US to use British bases to launch attacks on the Strait of Hormuz to protect shipping from Iranian assaults.

Neither of the missiles fired at Diego Garcia hit their target, with one believed to have been shot down by a US warship’s SM-3 interceptor and the other failing in flight.

Diego Garcia-Khorramshahr-4 missile

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir of covering up the attempted attack on Diego Garcia, saying the Prime Minister needed to ‘come clean’ over the details of the launch.

Government sources confirmed the attack happened before an official statement later said it had allowed the US military to launch strikes on Iran from the island base to help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. This came as:

The US used ‘bunker buster’ bombs in a reported attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. The munition was designed to be dropped from B-2 stealth bombers to destroy targets up to 200ft underground;
The American military claimed that Tehran’s ability to threaten ships passing through the Straits of Hormuz had been ‘degraded’;
The UAE released a joint statement from 22 countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Bahrain and Australia, demanding that Tehran reopen the Straits of Hormuz to shipping;
Prices of vegetables in supermarkets could rise within weeks as the war in Iran makes the cost of fertiliser and energy soar;
Holidaymakers were scrambling to book flights and switch destinations to avoid the threat of spiralling fares and disruption caused by the war;
Motorists could face a 1970s-style 50mph speed limit in an attempt to save fuel under emergency plans;
Sir Keir promised Cyprus that the British airbase on the island will not be used by the Americans to strike Iran.

The Prime Minister spoke to Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and made a commitment that RAF Akrotiri would not be involved in his agreement with Mr Trump on the use of British bases in the war.

This comes after Mr Christodoulides warned last week that when the war finishes, he will demand negotiations about the future of Britain’s ‘colonial’ military bases on the island.

General Sir Richard Barrons, a former Commander in Chief of British forces, said on Saturday that Iran’s power may have been ‘serially underestimated’.

General Sir Richard, who headed the UK’s Joint Forces Command between 2013 and 2016, said it was previously thought that ‘Iran’s missiles had a range of only 2,000 kilometres [1,240 miles] and Diego Garcia is 3,800 kilometres [2,360 miles] away from Iran’.

He was responding to questions over whether Mr Trump was right to say Britain had done ‘too little and too late’ or whether opponents of the war were correct that the UK had been sucked into an American war.

Meanwhile, vegetable prices could rise within weeks as the cost of fertiliser and energy surges, said National Farmers Union president Tom Bradshaw.

He said Britain no longer had the ability to make fertiliser domestically and was ‘absolutely at the mercy of world markets’.

The Middle East is a key supplier of ingredients used to make fertiliser. Most of these pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been blocked by Iran, causing prices to spiral as farmers scramble to buy limited supplies as spring planting season looming.

Prices of imported goods are likely to rise immediately because of higher transport costs, said Mr Bradshaw, adding that increases for other foods would begin to appear in coming weeks.

He added: ‘For vegetables grown in heated greenhouses, such as cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes, it will be over the next month to six weeks that we will see those cost increases coming through to the retailer.’

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UAE dismantles Hezbollah-Iran terror network

UAE authorities dismantle a Hezbollah-Iran backed terror network, citing money laundering and national security threats.

Israel National News / Published: 20March2026, 3:23 AM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424272

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday the dismantling of a terrorist network which they said was funded and operated by Hezbollah and Iran, Reuters reported.

The network was reportedly involved in money laundering, financing terrorism, and posing a threat to national security.

According to the UAE state news agency, the arrested members of the network were working under the guise of a commercial enterprise, aiming to infiltrate the national economy and destabilize the country’s financial stability.

There has been no immediate response from either Hezbollah or Iran regarding the claims.

The UAE has been a key target in Iran’s ongoing missile and drone attacks since the US-Israel war on Iran began in late February. Emirati officials have confirmed that hundreds of strikes have targeted the country, damaging vital infrastructure such as oil facilities, ports, and regions near major urban centers.

Thursday’s announcement comes a day after Kuwait announced the second set of arrests this week involving a group of 10 Kuwaiti nationals allegedly linked to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

According to the Ministry of Interior, the group had planned to target vital facilities in Kuwait as part of a larger plot aimed at destabilizing the Gulf state.

The suspects, who had trained in camps abroad linked to Hezbollah, are accused of coordinating with external operatives to gather coordinates of key sites in Kuwait. The ministry confirmed that the suspects provided detailed confessions following their arrests.

This announcement comes after the earlier arrests this week of 14 Kuwaiti nationals and two Lebanese citizens, who were also linked to Hezbollah. These individuals were allegedly involved in efforts to undermine the stability of the country.

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How-to achieve aerial superiority over a terrorist regime

Watch this video for a how-to achieve aerial superiority over a terrorist regime: https://t.co/KF3pkcHfjQ

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 1, 2026

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Watch this video for a how-to achieve aerial superiority over a terrorist regime:
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‼️ The video outlines the phases of the operation: targeting air defense systems and missile launchers in western Iran, then paving the way toward Tehran and establishing aerial superiority over the capital.

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DAVID’S SLING

🚨 LAST MINUTE UPGRADE:
DAVID’S SLING

Just weeks before fighting with Iran escalated, Israel completed major upgrades to the David’s Sling missile defense system.

Officials say the enhancements significantly improved its ability to intercept complex ballistic and cruise… pic.twitter.com/uBsS5dNdTv

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 2, 2026

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🚨 LAST MINUTE UPGRADE:
DAVID’S SLING

Just weeks before fighting with Iran escalated, Israel completed major upgrades to the David’s Sling missile defense system.

Officials say the enhancements significantly improved its ability to intercept complex ballistic and cruise missile threats.

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ISRAELI DEFENSE INDUSTRIES demonstration in Tehran

pic.twitter.com/RMmxLNsive

— Zack Mydik 🎗️ (@ZuckMydikAgain) March 1, 2026

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ISRAELI DEFENSE INDUSTRIES announcement:
TO ALL OUR CLIENTS WORLDWIDE
Following the decision of the French government to restrict our participaton at the paris Air Show – we have decied to transfer the demonstration to Tehran.
YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO VIEW OUR PRODUCTS.
Zack Mydik-tweet-1March2026
Anyone else who wants to fck with us please take a number and we will be with you shortly

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IDF begins ground operation in Lebanon

IDF forces take up forward positions in Lebanese territory, aiming to provide additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel.

Yoni Kempinski / 3March2026, 9:25 AM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423289

IDF forces have crossed the border into Lebanon to take “forward offensive” positions in southern Lebanese territory.

The forces are operating in southern Lebanon and took control of multiple position in order to create an additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel.

“In parallel to IDF activity as part of Operation ‘Roaring Lion’, IDF soldiers are operating in southern Lebanon and are positioned at several points near the border area as part of an enhanced forward defense posture,” the IDF announced Tuesday morning.

“The IDF is working to create an additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel. The IDF is conducting targeted strikes against Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in order to remove threats and prevent infiltration attempts into Israeli territory.

“The Hezbollah terrorist organization chose to attack Israel on behalf of the Iranian regime, and it will bear the consequences of its actions. The IDF will not allow harm to Israeli civilians, and will continue to act to defend the State of Israel and its citizens.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz commented, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorized the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to advance and take control of additional strategic positions in Lebanon in order to prevent attacks on Israeli border communities.”

“The IDF continues to operate forcefully against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The terrorist organization is paying, and will continue to pay, a heavy price for firing at Israel.

“To prevent the possibility of direct fire targeting Israeli communities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorized the IDF to advance and secure additional strategic areas in Lebanon, and from there to defend the border communities.

“We promised security for the communities of the Galilee, and that is what we will deliver,” he concluded.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Hezbollah terror group launched 15 rockets towards the Golan Heights and five to the Upper Galilee, as well as two UAVs which were intercepted over the Western Galilee.

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Lebanon government outlaws Hezbollah

Clans of Baalbek no Hezbollah

🚨 LEBANON: RAMP TO “HOSTING” HEZBOLLAH
The clans of Baalbek have issued a statement backing the Lebanese government’s position that sovereignty means no non-state weapons on Lebanese soil.

They expressed support for ending the use of Lebanon as a platform for foreign agendas.… pic.twitter.com/q2PCWw0tqi

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 2, 2026

Lebanon government outlaws Hezbollah

Lebanon’s government says the decision to outlaw Hezbollah’s military activity and to disarm the group is final, and the armed forces have been authorized to execute that decision. pic.twitter.com/IcnQrgacJt

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 3, 2026

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🚨 LEBANON: RAMP TO “HOSTING” HEZBOLLAH
The clans of Baalbek have issued a statement backing the Lebanese government’s position that sovereignty means no non-state weapons on Lebanese soil.

They expressed support for ending the use of Lebanon as a platform for foreign agendas.

For years, Hezbollah’s arms have defined Lebanon’s reality.

Now, voices inside the country are signaling there may be an offramp.

The question is whether Beirut will take it.
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Lebanon’s government says the decision to outlaw Hezbollah’s military activity and to disarm the group is final, and the armed forces have been authorized to execute that decision.

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THE LARGEST MILITARY FLYOVER IN IDF HISTORY

🛩️THE LARGEST MILITARY FLYOVER IN IDF HISTORY:

~200 IAF jets completed a broad strike against the missile array and the aerial defense systems of the IRGC in western and central Iran.

500+ targets hit, including aerial defense systems & missile launchers in several locations… pic.twitter.com/PVOuzlOekj

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 28, 2026

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🛩️THE LARGEST MILITARY FLYOVER IN IDF HISTORY:

~200 IAF jets completed a broad strike against the missile array and the aerial defense systems of the IRGC in western and central Iran.

500+ targets hit, including aerial defense systems & missile launchers in several locations throughout Iran simultaneously.

Conducted following precise planning with excellent intelligence, while synchronizing hundreds of fighter jets, the strikes allowed the expansion of the IAF’s aerial superiority over Iranian air space.

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Iranian lies

🚫The Iranian regime claims to have killed 50 U.S. service members. LIE.
✅There have been no reported U.S. casualties.

🚫The IRGC claims that a U.S. Navy ship was struck by missiles. LIE.
✅No U.S. Navy ship has been struck. The Armada is fully operational.

🚫The Iranian… pic.twitter.com/qGsZ45EmzD

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) February 28, 2026

U.S. Central Command-tweet-28February2026-Iranian lies
🚫The Iranian regime claims to have killed 50 U.S. service members. LIE.
✅There have been no reported U.S. casualties.

🚫The IRGC claims that a U.S. Navy ship was struck by missiles. LIE.
✅No U.S. Navy ship has been struck. The Armada is fully operational.

🚫The Iranian regime is claiming severe damage at multiple U.S. bases. LIE.
✅Damage to U.S. installations was minimal and has not impacted operations.

U.S. Central Command-tweet-28February2026-Iranian lies

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Iranian Neighborliness IRAN’S REGIONAL DIPLOMACY

💥 IRAN’S REGIONAL DIPLOMACY 💥

Distribution of 3,403 missiles and drones across the Middle East:

🇦🇪 UAE — 1,737 (51%)
🇰🇼 Kuwait — 332 (9.8%)
🇮🇱 Israel — 330 (9.7%)
🇴🇲 Oman — 297 (8.7%)
🇧🇭 Bahrain — 273 (8%)
🇶🇦 Qatar — 164 (4.8%)
🇯🇴 Jordan — 119 (3.5%)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 86… pic.twitter.com/aF8deNZEIL

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 13, 2026

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💥 IRAN’S REGIONAL DIPLOMACY 💥

Distribution of 3,403 missiles and drones across the Middle East:

🇦🇪 UAE — 1,737 (51%)
🇰🇼 Kuwait — 332 (9.8%)
🇮🇱 Israel — 330 (9.7%)
🇴🇲 Oman — 297 (8.7%)
🇧🇭 Bahrain — 273 (8%)
🇶🇦 Qatar — 164 (4.8%)
🇯🇴 Jordan — 119 (3.5%)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 86 (2.5%)
🇮🇶 Iraq — 60 (1.8%)

Weapons used:
🚀 1,209 ballistic missiles
🛸 2,194 drones

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Security official: Half of the Missiles from Iran had cluster warheads

A security source reveals that about half of the missiles launched from Iran since the beginning of the war had a cluster warhead.

Israel National News / Published: 10March2026, 5:01 PM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423698

remains of an Iranian missile-Spokesperson

A security official revealed that about half of the missiles launched from Iran since the beginning of the war carried a cluster-type warhead.

According to the official, these warheads are particularly dangerous. “This is a bomb that can cause extensive damage. Following the safety instructions is critical. It is not hundreds of kilograms of explosives concentrated in one place, but rather spreads across an area of roughly 10 kilometers, which requires a great deal of responsibility from civilians. It kills. Interception debris from regular missiles as well as from large missiles is lethal,” the official said.

Military sources noted that the launches from Iran in recent days have been aimed at population centers, military bases, and national infrastructure, and that the regime in Tehran seeks to harm as many civilians as possible.

According to them, at the moment, it does not appear that Hezbollah and Iran are scheduling and coordinating their attacks against Israel. They noted that the assessments are that Iran is firing small volleys – and would have been interested in coordinating larger, coordinated volleys from several locations across the country at the same time – but is not succeeding in doing so.

Iran uses Cluster Bombs to target Civilians

See, up-close, the cluster munitions used against Israel

🎥 WATCH: See, up-close, the cluster munitions used against Israel.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil. pic.twitter.com/e6B51jsu2T

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 13, 2026

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🎥 WATCH: See, up-close, the cluster munitions used against Israel.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

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Missile attack on Beit Shemesh killed 9 civilians including 4 children

The photograph you shared is of a missile attack that killed 9 civilians including 4 children in Beit Shemesh.

Your laughter is noted. pic.twitter.com/pqAuWJcxxr

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) March 10, 2026

The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-10March2026-Missile attack on Beit Shemesh killed 9
The photograph you shared is of a missile attack that killed 9 civilians including 4 children in Beit Shemesh.

Your laughter is noted.

The Mossad Satirical and Awesome-tweet-10March2026-Missile attack on Beit Shemesh killed 9

10March2026-Missile attack on Beit Shemesh killed 9

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

27/10/2025 – ה׳ במרחשוון ה׳תשפ״ו – ה׳ במרחשוון ה׳תשפ״ו – 16:46

Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English: Everyone come home. New York was a refuge for us. Now???

Time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact @NefeshBNefesh https://t.co/mKWAT0EWZo

— Yakov Butterfield (@JerusalemCats) November 6, 2025

Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English-tweet-6November2025-Everyone come home
Everyone come home. New York was a refuge for us. Now???
JerusalemCats-tweet-6November2025-Time to make Aliyah
Time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact @NefeshBNefesh https://www.nbn.org.il/

Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English-tweet-6November2025-Everyone come home

Remember what happened after Kristallnacht 1938, The Hate and Violence will only increase. Time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact X: @NefeshBNefesh https://www.nbn.org.il/

9/11 Twin tower attack

Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English: the place to be is Israel NOW
The Rebbe Fled During Danger!
Escape from New York
Some really creative ideas to deal with Zohran Mamdani
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Zohran Mamdani (D) wins New York City mayor election
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AMICHAI CHIKLI — Israel’s minister for combating antisemitism warns Mamdani win a wake-up call for Jews
20October2023. jihadist enabler, Zohran Mamdani leads an anti-Israel rally
State Department Issues Travel Advisory For New York City
New York City Antisemitism after Zohran Mamdani became New York City Mayor
New York City under Zohran Mamdani
Trump admin doesn’t trust NYC to handle Jew-hatred, Terrell says
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Starbucks abruptly closes dozens of NYC locations in ‘chaotic’ downsizing: ‘No warning, no heads up’
Bigwig on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team railed against Jews, questioned gay rights in vile unearthed posts: ‘Horror show’
New York as it has been forever: New York City Trash
The halcyon days of Jewish New York City are over
Zohran Mamdani repealed the IHRA definition of antisemitism-overturned an anti-BDS executive order
Mamdani’s ‘collectivism’ is dangerous to Jews and everyone else
28January2026-Chabad headquarters attacked-Repeated Car Ramming
Mamdani is completely unqualified
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New York City Jews Do not Repeat history!

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30 November

In November 2014 the Israeli government dedicated November 30 of every year as a day to honor and remember the Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries following 1948’s Arab-Israeli War. These are some of their stories

The Exile of Jews from Arab Lands
Fact Sheet: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
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I was in my ELEMENT on Purim
The Caribbean was the center for Jewish life in the New World for approximately 200 years

Operation Solomon – (May 24-25, 1991)

Operation Solomon: When a Boeing 747 Carried 1,088 Passengers

When do we leave?

Posted 28January2016 Lori Palatnik of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project thinks it is time for Jews to send their kids to live in Israel. She explained that after 9/11, she started reading about “the end of days,” and asked “a very great” rabbi – “when do we leave?” He said that the time to get out was when “they start killing Jews in the street.”Unfortunately, she said – this is precisely what is already happening in France and New York.

How to combat the looming perfect storm for antisemitism in America A.F.BRANCO

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Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English: the place to be is Israel NOW

I add to this even more – come now and build a life now while you can come “upright to our land”

Don’t take risks. I pray constantly that every Jew should be safe around the world, but the place to be is Israel NOW

At some point when the miracles begin – the gates to Israel… https://t.co/e5xumixSis

— Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English (@ShalomArushEN) November 25, 2025

Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English-tweet-25November2025-the place to be is Israel NOW
I add to this even more – come now and build a life now while you can come “upright to our land”

Don’t take risks. I pray constantly that every Jew should be safe around the world, but the place to be is Israel NOW

At some point when the miracles begin – the gates to Israel will close for some time. You want to be here already!

Bring your kids, prepare for them, prepare for your parents.

Come because it’s the right thing, or come because you are running away BUT COME!

Open your “Tik Aliyah” and fill it with prayers for Hashem to help you, your loved ones and all Israel, that there should be homes and jobs and schools and shuls for everyone!
Hillel Fuld-tweet-25November2025-We know the future of the Jewish people is in Israel
Someone told me something this weekend that really resonated.

An old friend, who is considering Aliyah in the near future said the following.

“We know the future of the Jewish people is not in America or Europe or Australia. It’s in Israel.

Yes, moving to Israel right now is hard. There are many obstacles and challenges. Leaving our life in Teaneck or the five towns or Melbourne or London or Paris isn’t easy. It’s downright difficult.

That being said, it’s not a question of “If” we’ll end up in Israel. It’s a question of “When”.

So now I have a choice. Either I make the move and deal with the challenges associated with moving to Israel or I leave it to my kids to go through it.

Either I make the move and build a life in Israel now, which would mean that my kids would grow up here in Israel, or I don’t, and then my kids will have to make the move with their kids and they’ll have to deal with whatever hardship arises.

I’d rather make the move and deal with those challenges now then make my kids do it later.

That’s what any good parent would do.”

This point hit home for me. I had never thought about it that way, but it’s spot on.

And if you still believe that the Jewish people have a future in the diaspora, well then, we have a whole different discussion to have.

Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English-tweet-25November2025-the place to be is Israel NOW

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Nefesh B’Nefesh-23November2025-Violent Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC-Our commitment remains unwavering

Nefesh B’Nefesh-Violent Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC-Our commitment remains unwavering

TOTAL VICTORY

A different ending… pic.twitter.com/ZtXuxeUDXu

— Yishai Fleisher يشاي ישי פליישר 🕎 (@YishaiFleisher) February 9, 2026

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A different ending…

Yishai Fleisher-tweet-9February2026-A different ending

The IDF Super Bowl commercial

The IDF posted this video with the captions:

“This is our Super Bowl commercial.”

Boss move. pic.twitter.com/qmlcB1fehG

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) February 9, 2026

Vivid.-tweet-9February2026-The IDF Super Bowl commercial
The IDF posted this video with the captions:

“This is our Super Bowl commercial.”

Boss move.

Vivid.-tweet-9February2026-The IDF Super Bowl commercial

pic.twitter.com/YJqLHBxej0

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) February 9, 2026

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The Rebbe Fled During Danger!

The Rebbe Fled During Danger!

In 1940, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, didn’t stay behind in Warsaw. He fled. He saw what was coming — Nazi tanks, burning synagogues, and roundups — and made the painful but necessary choice to leave.

Today, Jewish life… pic.twitter.com/bylFoOa0ip

— Betar Worldwide (@Betar_USA) November 6, 2025

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The Rebbe Fled During Danger!

In 1940, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, didn’t stay behind in Warsaw. He fled. He saw what was coming — Nazi tanks, burning synagogues, and roundups — and made the painful but necessary choice to leave.

Today, Jewish life in New York faces growing danger. Jewish leaders must learn from history. The Rebbe’s strength was not in standing still but in acting early — protecting life so faith could continue elsewhere.

It’s time for honest leadership. New York is no longer safe for Jewish life. Leave while you still can — and rebuild wherever you go.

Today we have a Jewish state

Betar Worldwide-tweet-6November2025-The Rebbe Fled During Danger

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Some really creative ideas to deal with Zohran Mamdani

Israel needs to have an Emergency Aliyah program that will entail both Nefesh B’Nefesh, The Jewish Agency and Israeli family contacting their friends and family members still living outside of Israel.

Have TV commercials in Hebrew telling Israelis that it is a matter of life and death to get home.
Make preparations for a Operation Solomon for New York City!

http://digital-edition.israelhayom.co.il/Olive/ODN/Israel/Default.aspx#_2017_04_24_Page_19

Holocaust IDF Sci-Fi israelhayom

2 Israeli women mugged at New York subway station

Two Israeli tourists attacked, robbed at knife-point in mugging at Brooklyn subway station.

Arutz Sheva Staff, 08December2019 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/272879

Two Israeli women in their early 20s visiting New York were assaulted and robbed during a mugging at a subway station in Brooklyn, CBS News reported Saturday.
Part of the incident was filmed by security cameras at the station, and police have opened an investigation into the robbery.
The two tourists were mugged after getting off a subway train while making their way to the station exit.
Two assailants, both of whom had their faces covered, attacked the two tourists while brandishing a knife and a taser.
The Israeli tourists returned to Israel a day after the incident.

מבט – גל פיגועים בארצות הברית והחמור שבהם הלילה בניו יורק | כאן 11 לשעבר רשות השידור

Israeli Ministry of Aliyah and Integration ad – יום הזיכרון

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הגיע הזמן לחזור לארץ – תכנית ההטבות לתושבים חוזרים. בדיקת זכאות, רישום להטבות עבור תושבים חוזרים, יצירת קשר עם המשרד לקליטת העלייה

לפני שאבא יהפוך ל”Daddy” הגיע הזמן לחזור לארץ

הם ישראלים, הילדים שלהם לא… הגיע הזמן לחזור לארץ – תכנית ההטבות לתושבים חוזרים באתר משרד הקליטה…

Have TV commercials in English reminding Jews about Kristallnacht and the riots in the streets.

Kristallnacht: Night Of Broken Glass
Have TV commercials reminding the Diaspora Jews about Israels wonderful healthcare, schools, clean air and low unemployment rate. Remind everyone that Israel is the Startup Nation for innovation. Remind everyone that Israel has one of the highest standards of living and rates of longevity.

Israeli Health Care

Watch How Israeli High School Seniors Prepare for IDF

ISRAEL START-UP NATION
Have all EL-AL members (Pilots, Stewardess) in full combat gear and armed when at US and EU airports.
Arrest all CIA, DIA, DEA, FBI, MI 5/6, etc of USA, Britain & EU countries agents in Israel (including news reporters), throw them in jail, quick harsh trials for espionage, sedition, provocation of unrest & rebellion etc, harsh sentences; THEN demand release of Pollard in exchange.

Riots in Los Angeles California; Just remember that the only country that the Jews have is Israel אין לי ארץ אחרת”
Publish “dangerous region & no protection” warnings for vacationers or businessmen visit in those countries.
Arrest, imprison, charge with espionage & sedition all missionaries.
Israel needs laws similar to:
American Service-Members’ Protection Act
ASPA authorizes the U.S. president to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court“. That includes; potential economic sanctions against member and host nations that support or aid the ICC actions and revoke visas for members and employees of the International Criminal Court.

The act prohibits federal, state and local governments and agencies (including courts and law enforcement agencies) from assisting the court. For example, it prohibits the extradition of any person from the U.S. to the Court; it prohibits the transfer of classified national security information and law enforcement information to the court.

A_F_BRANCO Mamdani for NYC Mayor Free Stuff Mousetrap

NYC-No Trucks No Goods: The Former Cuban Jews need to talk to the New York City Jews

JerusalemCats Comments: Zohran Mamdani is a Jihadist Socialist. Think Cuba under Fidel Castro

The nation’s largest trucking company says it will no longer service New York City after Mamdani takes office:

“We’ve instructed our dispatchers to reject loads to any of the Five Burroughs,” said Company Spokesman Joe Barron, “We don’t see a way to continue doing business in… pic.twitter.com/Y5DwhLKNMU

— Capt Kyle (@CaptKylePatriot) November 9, 2025

Capt Kyle-tweet-9November2025-NYC-No Trucks No Goods
The nation’s largest trucking company says it will no longer service New York City after Mamdani takes office:

“We’ve instructed our dispatchers to reject loads to any of the Five Burroughs,” said Company Spokesman Joe Barron, “We don’t see a way to continue doing business in the Big Apple..”

The news comes as Mamdani released his plan to increase revenue across the city by quadrupling the cost of tolls, licensing, permits, and inspections of all commercial vehicles.

“He’s going to put a lot of the independent truckers out of business.”

Capt Kyle-tweet-9November2025-NYC-No Trucks No Goods

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Zohran Mamdani (D) wins New York City mayor election

New York City Jews it’s time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact @NefeshBNefesh https://t.co/mKWAT0FuOW https://t.co/XPGEYywKEO

— Yakov Butterfield (@JerusalemCats) November 5, 2025

JerusalemCats-tweet-5November2025-Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor election
New York City Jews it’s time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact @NefeshBNefesh https://www.nbn.org.il/
Open Source Intel-tweet-5November2025
BREAKING: 🔴

Zohran Mamdani (D) wins New York City mayor election, according to DDHQ.

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Zohran Mamdani’s “Useful Idiots”

I was thinking this can’t possibly get worse — wait for the surprise pic.twitter.com/DmHnDqNIP3

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 27, 2025

Jon Levine-tweet-27October2025-Fake Women rabbis for Zohran
I was thinking this can’t possibly get worse — wait for the surprise
[EDD: Ad paid for by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Inc. and Zohran for NYC]

Jon Levine-tweet-27October2025-Fake Women rabbis for Zohran

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The Betrayal Within: Anti-Israel Jews and the Global Campaign Against Israel

Michel Benchimol 16March2026 https://www.israpundit.org/the-betrayal-within-anti-israel-jews-and-the-global-campaign-against-israel/

Jews Say No to Genocide-Hollywood Protest for a Ceasefire in Gaza

By Marcywinograd – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia

Israel faces a multi-front siege. Iran and its proxies glorify the murder of Jews and openly call for the eradication of the Jewish state. International bodies created to prevent genocide and uphold human rights have been turned into arenas where Israel is singled out and threatened with law-fare. On Western campuses and in NGOs, Israel is branded apartheid and genocidal while terrorist organizations are rebranded as “resistance.”

What is new today is how central some Jews have become in legitimizing and amplifying this campaign.

A growing class of highly visible Jews has made a vocation out of attacking Israel from Western universities, media, politics, and NGOs. Their presence gives cover to those who hate Israel: “It can’t be antisemitic if Jews say it.” The language of Jewish conscience is repurposed to portray Jewish self-defense as a moral offence.

Writers such as Naomi Klein urge boycotts of Israel and promote BDS, describing it as an apartheid, colonial project that must be isolated economically and culturally. Intellectuals like Noam Chomsky frame Zionism as settler-colonialism and Israel as an outpost of Western imperialism, a framing now standard in activist discourse. Norman Finkelstein’s “Holocaust industry” thesis depicts Jews as exploiting the Shoah to shield Israel and gain power, a theme quickly adopted by those who want to dismiss any appeal to antisemitism as manipulation.

Politicians like Bernie Sanders add a parliamentary megaphone. A Jewish senator declaring that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza and calling to cut or condition U.S. aid turns a blood libel into an apparently respectable verdict replayed around the world. Though he is routinely presented as a Jewish moral voice on Israel, his immediate family life is largely Christian—his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, is Catholic, and his stepchildren are not Jewish—yet media treat him as a stand-in for Jewish conscience precisely when he denounces the Jewish state. Commentators such as Peter Beinart go further, openly rejecting the idea of a Jewish state and advocating a single binational entity “from the river to the sea,” a blueprint for ending Jewish sovereignty altogether.

It would be bad enough if Israel were attacked only by the usual non-Jewish suspects on the extremes of left and right: Tucker Carlson calling Israel a strategic burden, Candace Owens raving about a “terrorist” Jewish state with “genocidal ambitions,” Megyn Kelly suddenly discovering that the core problem in U.S. foreign policy is the “Israel lobby.” What makes the current moment uniquely dangerous is that we now have Jews validating those narratives. When a Carlson calls Israel a burden and a Jewish intellectual calls it a colonial mistake, the messages reinforce each other. When Owens screams “genocide” and a Jewish senator uses the same word, the conspiracy theorist and the “conscience of the Senate” end up on the same side. When fringe pundits mutter about dark Jewish influence and Jewish writers talk about a “Holocaust industry,” old antisemitic suspicions of Jewish power suddenly sound like sophisticated critique.

South Africa’s now-concluded genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice showed how this ecosystem feeds global lawfare. Pretoria accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and tried to fold decades of history into a single charge. The court imposed provisional measures but did not order Israel to halt operations or endorse a sweeping genocide narrative; the most extreme claims failed to win the decisive legal stamp Israel’s enemies had promised. Politically, however, the damage was done: for months, “Israel on trial for genocide” dominated headlines and protests. In many minds, accusation and guilt fused into one—especially after Jewish intellectuals and politicians had already normalized that vocabulary.

If one layer of betrayal is rhetorical, the next is political. Many Jews continue to vote for and fund parties that empower anti-Israel forces. In the United States, large numbers of Jewish voters remain loyal to a Democratic Party in which calls to cut or condition aid, flirtations with BDS, and casual “genocide” language have migrated from the fringe to influential caucuses. In Britain, Labour’s antisemitism scandal exposed a deep hostility to Zionism and Jewish concerns, yet some Jews stayed, defended the leadership, or prioritized ideological comfort over communal safety. In New York, Zohran Mamdani built a career accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide, embracing BDS, and promising to honor international arrest warrants for Israeli leaders; once in office, he swiftly revoked protections against anti-Israel boycotts and scrapped definitions of antisemitism that included denial of Israel’s right to exist—changes he did not make without Jewish ballots and donors.

These are not Judenräte or Kapos acting under Nazi guns. They are free citizens in democracies, choosing to empower parties and politicians whose explicit policies—boycotts, sanctions, legal harassment, diplomatic abandonment—aim at stripping Israel of legitimacy and defenses.

Jewish history gives this pattern a darker resonance. The Torah records about 600,000 Israelite men leaving Egypt with Moses; with women and children, perhaps two to three million souls. Rabbinic tradition adds a stark gloss: only a fifth left, while four-fifths perished during the plague of darkness because they refused to go. In that reading, “chamushim” hints at one-fifth, implying a pre-Exodus population of perhaps 10–15 million Israelites, most of whom never made it out. They had become too assimilated, too comfortable, too skeptical of Moses and his mission. The Midrash calls them resha’im sheb’Yisrael—“the wicked among Israel”: Jews who, when the moment of decision came, chose Egypt over their own people, comfort over covenant, the familiar chains over the uncertainty of destiny.

Centuries later, in Germany, almost no Jews voted for the Nazis, but many believed that being German for two or three generations—their language, culture, and medals from the Kaiser’s army—would protect them. It did not. Their assimilation did not save them. The regime that rose around them did not ask how many Wagner operas they loved; to the Nazis, they were simply Jews.

Today, Jews in the West are not being asked to walk into a desert. But they are being asked, once again, whether they stand with the Jewish people and the Jewish state, or with those who seek to see that state cut down, isolated, or erased. Some are choosing, quite consciously, the comfort of Egypt: the approval of fashionable movements, the applause of elite institutions, the belonging that comes from denouncing their own. In Torah language, they are perilously close to joining the ranks of the “wicked among Israel”—Jews who, at the critical hour, turn their backs on their own people.

Criticism of any government—including Israel’s—is legitimate and necessary. Crossing the line into collaboration with those who seek the end of the Jewish state is not. When Jews declare that Israel is genocidal and colonial, endorse boycotts designed to cripple it, support legal campaigns to handcuff its self-defense, or vote for parties and politicians whose platforms aim to weaken and delegitimize it, they are not acting as prophets calling their people higher. They are enablers of a project whose logical conclusion is a world without a Jewish state.

Jewish survival has never depended on unanimity. It has always depended on clarity: clarity about where danger comes from, who seeks our safety and who seeks our downfall, and what distinguishes internal debate from external assault. Today, that clarity demands we say openly what many whisper in private: some Jews—intellectuals, politicians, activists, and voters—have chosen to stand with those who would dismantle the Jewish state and have worked to dress that project up as “human rights” and “international law.” In the language of our own tradition, they are behaving as resha’im sheb’Yisrael. That is not bravery. It is betrayal.

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New York City Mayor election 2025 Zohran Mamdani

New York Jews it’s time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact @NefeshBNefesh https://t.co/mKWAT0EWZo

— Yakov Butterfield (@JerusalemCats) October 30, 2025

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A message from Zohran Mamdani to the Jewish community of New York City
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New York Jews it’s time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact @NefeshBNefesh https://www.nbn.org.il/

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Nefesh B’Nefesh Employee of the Month Zohran Mamdani

This made me laugh. pic.twitter.com/p8BEeP3c6E

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) November 5, 2025

Hillel Fuld-tweet-5November2025-Nefesh B’Nefesh Employee of the Month Zohran Mamdani
This made me laugh.

Hillel Fuld-tweet-5November2025-Nefesh B’Nefesh Employee of the Month Zohran Mamdani

Nefesh B’Nefesh Employee of the Month Zohran Mamdani

Women are preparing for Zohran Mamdani with Pigs

Some women in New York are already buying pet pigs to avoid being harassed by Muslim men in case Zohran Mamdani really becomes mayor. pic.twitter.com/KZDlgT9SXa

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 28, 2025

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Some women in New York are already buying pet pigs to avoid being harassed by Muslim men in case Zohran Mamdani really becomes mayor.

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AMICHAI CHIKLI — Israel’s minister for combating antisemitism warns Mamdani win a wake-up call for Jews

Mamdani’s victory raises concerns about community safety in city with world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel

By Amichai Chikli Fox News
Published November 5, 2025 10:23am EST
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/amichai-chikli-israels-minister-combating-antisemitism-warns-mamdani-win-wake-up-call-jews

On Tuesday night, New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani mayor. By doing so, the city that once stood as the world’s beacon of liberty has handed the keys of power to a Hamas sympathizer.

This marks a critical turning point for the city of New York — home to the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel. The city’s elections have determined whether New York remains a safe home for more than a million Jews or continues the dangerous slide that began two years ago, when vile pro-Hamas protests took over campuses like CUNY and NYU — and especially Columbia University, which became a symbol and stronghold of Hamas support in the United States, spilling into the streets of Manhattan.

It is almost unthinkable that New York — the proud and historic center of Jewish life — could become the American city where Jews no longer feel at home or safe.

But with the election of Mamdani as mayor, that unthinkable scenario is now a reality. New York will never be the same — particularly for its Jewish community. Mamdani, like his mentor Linda Sarsour, represents the “Red-Green Alliance” — the dangerous strategic partnership between radical Islamism and the far-left progressive movement. What unites them is a loathing for the very idea of liberty — the symbol of New York itself — and a pathological hatred of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

This alliance works to infiltrate political Islamism within the United States under the camouflage of social welfare and human rights. Their goal is to take over America’s cultural, academic, and political institutions just as they have done successfully in parts of Western Europe. They say it openly: all that’s needed is a willingness to listen. And New York is now one step closer to becoming the next London.

They work to infiltrate political Islamism within the United States under the camouflage of social welfare and human rights. Their goal is to take over America’s cultural, academic and political institutions just as they have done successfully in parts of Western Europe. They say it openly: all that’s needed is a willingness to listen. And New York is just moments away from becoming the next London.

This wasn’t an election only between Cuomo and Mamdani, but between liberty and the values of the American Republic on one side and political Islam on the other. This is, without a doubt, the biggest Muslim Brotherhood victory in the United States — and possibly the entire Western world. From the capital of the West to electing a mayor who embraces the genocidal call to “globalize the Intifada.”

This infiltration is backed by Muslim Brotherhood regimes, first and foremost by Qatar.

It must also be recognized that under the leadership of President Donald Trump and his team, this administration has tackled antisemitism like never before — unlike the previous administration, which thought it was a good idea to include CAIR in its strategic plan to combat antisemitism. With decisive action — not empty words — this current administration is making Jewish students safe again throughout America.

Yet at the same time, a toxic strain of antisemitism is rising rapidly from within the political right. Influencers, media personalities, think tanks, student organizations and even elected officials are giving platforms and legitimacy to neo-Nazi rhetoric, Holocaust deniers, and the most absurd conspiracy theories — all under the deceptive banner of “free speech.” The same foreign powers that drove the pro-Hamas demonstrations throughout America just last year are very likely driving this divide within the political right today.

Their goal is clear: to sow division between Christians and Jews and break the unbreakable alliance between the U.S. and Israel.

Three years ago, when I became Israel’s minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, I viewed right-wing antisemitism in America as marginal and fringe. Yes, we confronted neo-Nazi attacks like the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. But I believed the true ideological threat came from the woke left — and at the time, that was correct.

But today, the tide has shifted. Neo-Nazism is being normalized, amplified and excused.

And now, as Senator Ted Cruz said so powerfully, the conservative movement in America stands at a dramatic crossroads. This is a moment of moral choosing.

As Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks taught: “The hate that begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.” The same forces that hate Jews also hate Blacks, Hispanics and anyone who refuses to submit to their ideological purity.

As a conservative, I know it is easier to call out antisemitism when it comes from the left. But today, the most dangerous rising wave is coming from within the right, and we must say this clearly: this is not conservatism.

Conservatism is incompatible with fanaticism and racism. It is rooted in truth, faith, and human freedom. You cannot call yourself a conservative while admiring Hitler, Stalin, or the theocratic dictator who rules Iran.

You cannot call yourself a conservative while admiring Hitler, Stalin or the theocratic dictator who rules Iran.

The foundations of the American –Jewish and Judeo – Christian alliance remain strong, built upon a principle expressed by the Founders themselves: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God,” Benjamin Franklin’s proposed motto for the Great Seal of the United States in 1776, later adopted by Thomas Jefferson for his personal seal.

This is the cornerstone of the Judeo – Christian tradition and of the American–Israeli partnership.

And in the end — truth prevails.

Amichai Chikli has been the Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism in the Israeli government since Dec. 2022.

Sunday NY Memorial for Rav Kahane – after Mamdani victory Please forward

Yekutiel Ben Yaakov from E-Mail 6November2025

*Jews to Memorialize Kahane This Sunday in New York**

As Jihadists Celebrate Mamdani’s Victory

Mamdani’s landslide victory on the 35th anniversary of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s assassination has reminded many of Kahane’s chilling predictions.

Ironically, it was 35 years ago today that Rabbi Meir Kahane, zt”l, was assassinated in the first major jihadist attack in New York City. In his final New York speech, he called for emergency aliyah. His predictions have, sadly, become a reality. New York City has just suffered another major jihadist onslaught in the form of Mamdani’s sweeping victory in the mayoral race.

With Mamdani holding the keys to Gracie Mansion, he will have the power to appoint the New York City Police Commissioner as well as the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education—two extremely sensitive positions that will profoundly impact the lives of every New Yorker who remains in the city. What was once referred to as “Jew-York” and “Hymietown” for its large and influential Jewish community is now being referred to by some as “Mamdani’s Jihad-NY.”

This Sunday, November 9, the Jewish community will gather in Brooklyn to memorialize Rabbi Kahane, reflect on his prophetic warnings, and discuss the importance of Jewish self-defense and aliyah. Clearly, many New Yorkers do not believe that Mamdani will provide Jews with the protection they need. Many fear he will allow Jew-haters free rein to attack Jews. Some still remember the Crown Heights pogrom after the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, when then-Mayor David Dinkins did little to protect the Jewish community.

The memorial will take place at
2:00 PM on Sunday, November 9
Ocean Avenue Jewish Center
2600 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn

Organizers are urging the Jewish community to attend.

Yekutiel Guzofsky, Rabbi Kahane’s Chief of Operations, has flown in especially to address the gathering. Noted journalist Fern Sidman, former Director of the JDL, and others will also speak.

On Sunday evening another interesting and important event will be held in NYC at the Blue Moon Hotel in the Lower East Side, a fundraising donner for the IDU Israel Dog Unit, for mor e info email guzofskyyekutiel@gmail.com

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October 20, 2023.jihadist enabler, Zohran Mamdani leads an anti-Israel rally.

Zohran Mamdani is a jihadist enabler

Zohran Mamdani didn’t just lead an anti-Israel rally—he weaponized taxpayer-funded activism to prop up Hamas apologists & BDS extremism weeks after they slaughtered Jews. His bill (A6101) wasn’t “progressive”—it funneled rage into defunding Israel while Gaza’s rulers burned…

— CityDeskNYC (@CityDeskNYC) November 3, 2025

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October 20, 2023. Zohran Mamdani leads an anti-Israel rally.

Just 13 days after Gazans butchered 1,200 Israelis in a single day.

A jihadist in a suit.
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Zohran Mamdani didn’t just lead an anti-Israel rally—he weaponized taxpayer-funded activism to prop up Hamas apologists & BDS extremism weeks after they slaughtered Jews. His bill (A6101) wasn’t “progressive”—it funneled rage into defunding Israel while Gaza’s rulers burned hostages alive. Mamdani’s “solidarity” is a smokescreen for Jew-hatred, laundered through CUNY radicals & DSA talking points.

He’s not a lawmaker—he’s a jihadist enabler in a blazer, normalizing “intifada” chants as NYC’s Jewish community braces for his mayoralty. Adams fights crime. Cuomo restored order.

Mamdani? He’d turn NYPD into a DEI seminar while Columbia’s Hamas fan club drafts his policy.

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JerusalemCats Comments: The warning is real even if it is from The Babylon Bee

State Department Issues Travel Advisory For New York City

5November2025 · BabylonBee.com https://babylonbee.com/news/state-department-issues-travel-advisory-for-new-york-city

New York City Travel Advisory level 4

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the city’s election of an avowed and unrepentant socialist, the U.S. State Department issued an immediate and urgent travel advisory for New York City.

According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, New York City had become too dangerous for any casual tourists to visit.

“As of this morning, the State Department has chosen to issue a ‘Level 4: Do Not Travel’ advisory for New York,” Rubio said at a press conference. “Because of significant threats to life and limb, U.S. citizens are advised to avoid any non-essential and even most necessary travel to New York. Should such visits prove absolutely necessary, travelers should arrive prepared with combat helmets, bulletproof vests, and any necessary air support on speed dial.”

Officials within the administration confirmed that it simply wouldn’t be right to allow Americans to travel to such a dangerous place without warning them beforehand.

“It’s no Afghanistan — or worse, L.A. — but New York will get there pretty soon,” said one White House insider. “Americans should get out of there before things really start to fall apart. May God have mercy on those poor souls who are currently being trapped under the Mamdani regime.”

At publishing time, matters in New York had escalated so quickly that senior military leaders were debating whether to launch a ground offensive to liberate the city.

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New York City Antisemitism after Zohran Mamdani became New York City Mayor

Just hours after Zohran Mamdani won, Nazi swastikas were drawn on the Magen David Yeshiva on McDonald Avenue in Brooklyn.

Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/L5YCEKsIQF

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) November 5, 2025

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Just hours after Zohran Mamdani won, Nazi swastikas were drawn on the Magen David Yeshiva on McDonald Avenue in Brooklyn.

Unbelievable.

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Zohran Mamdani wants October 7

Rabbi @AmmiHirsch sat down with Zohran Mamdani.
He came with an open mind.
He left with a pit in his stomach.

Zohran made it crystal clear:
He doesn’t believe Israel has any right to exist.
Not within the ‘67 lines.
Not within the ‘48 borders.
Not at all.

That’s not “policy… pic.twitter.com/vulzUjBbLC

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) November 8, 2025

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Rabbi @AmmiHirsch sat down with Zohran Mamdani.
He came with an open mind.
He left with a pit in his stomach.

Zohran made it crystal clear:
He doesn’t believe Israel has any right to exist.
Not within the ‘67 lines.
Not within the ‘48 borders.
Not at all.

That’s not “policy disagreement.”
That’s Hamas with better PR.
That’s the ideology behind October 7th.
And now it’s running New York City.

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Israel considers CLOSING CONSULATE in NYC after MAMDANI VICTORY!

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Israel considers CLOSING CONSULATE in NYC after MAMDANI VICTORY ! pic.twitter.com/DzRnUbc1PP

— Shiri_Sabra (@sabra_the) November 5, 2025

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Israel considers CLOSING CONSULATE in NYC after MAMDANI VICTORY !

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New York City under Zohran Mamdani

Whoever made this, it’s brilliant 😆

RIP New York pic.twitter.com/T9BFKg38mN

— Chaya’s Clan (@ChayasClan) November 5, 2025

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Whoever made this, it’s brilliant 😆

RIP New York

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Trump admin doesn’t trust NYC to handle Jew-hatred, Terrell says

The head of the U.S. Justice Department antisemitism task force told JNS that the president will take “decisive action” if the city’s mayor-elect “turns his back on the Jewish American community.”

https://www.jns.org/trump-admin-doesnt-trust-nyc-to-handle-jew-hatred-terrell-says/

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(2December2025 / JNS) The Trump administration will not allow Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, to neglect Jews in the city, according to Leo Terrell, chair of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.

“If this mayor turns his back on the Jewish American community, President Trump will take decisive action and the weight of the Department of Justice will be in New York City,” Terrell told JNS. “I can guarantee you of that.”

U.S. President Trump held a civil press conference with Mamdani, who has said he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if the premier comes to the city, after the two met in the Oval Office. The president called the meeting “very productive” and joked about the mayor-elect considering him a fascist.

Terrell told JNS that there is an “ongoing investigation” about a chaotic, antisemitic protest outside a Nefesh B’Nefesh event at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan last month.

“We don’t trust the city of New York to do the right thing,” he said.

Terrell told JNS that he doesn’t think Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, will pursue charges against protesters who blocked the synagogue’s front entrance, barring congregants from safely accessing the building.

The Trump administration “will not allow Jewish Americans to be denied their right to practice their religion,” Terrell said.

The Justice Department official said that time will tell whether Mamdani, whose press secretary responded to the protest by stating that synagogues shouldn’t host events that violate international law, will change his behavior once he becomes mayor.

“I don’t think there is any prior indication that Mamdani is going to protect Jewish Americans,” he told JNS.

Terrell told JNS that Northwestern University’s $75 million settlement with the Trump administration over a probe that included alleged Jew-hatred was the result of a “full frontal attack” to eradicate antisemitism on campus.

“We’re expanding our efforts to K-12,” he said.

Some schools have been turning to courts to challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze grant money and to push punishing settlements. Terrell said Trump has a high rate of success in the U.S. Supreme Court, even as some lower-level court decisions have gone against the administration.

“I can guarantee you that President Trump is going to pursue every avenue legally, and if it takes going to the Supreme Court, he will do it,” Terrell said. “That’s why these universities, before they get to the Supreme Court, many of them will try to resolve these cases.”

If anything, the Trump administration isn’t sufficiently aggressive, according to Terrell.

“These universities have been used to indoctrinate hate, and now they’re targeting K-12, and what I feel is that if there’s going to be a settlement, let’s make sure there’s safeguards in place where kids, students, faculty members and anyone of the Jewish religion are not to be intimidated or harassed,” he said.

The Trump administration began pursuing cases against Ivy League schools and large university systems, such as the University of California, to “provide a deterrent effect,” but it is well aware of problems at smaller and lesser-known schools.

“This phone never stops ringing, because there are problems all over,” Terrell said.

He added that his task force is working on a “50-state rapid response, to make sure we go where the problem is and not ignore any state, any city,”

“I will submit to you that a lot of local mayors, prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, they don’t even know how to address antisemitic behavior,” he said. “They don’t record it properly in their criminal reports.”

The task force, which Terrell said aims to set up “policies and doctrine” for the Justice Department but isn’t involved in litigation, is trying to codify policies on Jew-hatred so they will have a longer shelf-life than the executive orders the president signs. The panel is also meeting with members of Congress to discuss its projects.

“We want to make sure legislation is in place, to make sure not just Jewish Americans, but all Americans are protected in their protected class status and religious freedom,” he said.

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Zohran Mamdani’s campaign was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood

BREAKING: Glenn Beck just completely exposed how Zohran Mamdani’s campaign was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. pic.twitter.com/4jiLqld0SW

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) November 6, 2025

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BREAKING: Glenn Beck just completely exposed how Zohran Mamdani’s campaign was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Inside the Mamdani Machine: Soros cash, socialists and radical imams engineered Zohran Mamdani’s path to power

Zohran Mamdani’s political ascent involved $2.5M in Soros funding and ties to controversial imams

By Asra Q. Nomani Fox News
Published October 27, 2025 8:09am EDT | Updated October 27, 2025 8:27am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-mamdani-machine-soros-cash-socialists-radical-imams-engineered-zohran-mamdanis-path-power

In late September 2017, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, once the darling of the Women’s March and the self-declared face of the “resistance” against Donald Trump, was facing mounting criticism for antisemitic remarks and her embrace of extremist views.

But, beaming in a photograph taken on a city sidewalk, Sarsour appeared unfazed, her iconic fist pumped in the air as she knelt shoulder-to-shoulder with campaign volunteers for City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem. The photo was posted by El-Yateem on the Facebook page he used to promote his campaign, which he lost, but among the smiling faces was a young organizer named Zohran Mamdani.

In late September 2017, Palestinian American pastor Khader El-Yateem shared a photo of his campaign team from his bid to be elected to New York’s City Council from Brooklyn’s District 43. Palestinian American political organizer Linda Sarsour (far left, front row) took a knee with Zohran Mamdani (fourth from right, white shirt). El-Yattem lost the race. (@Khader El-Yateem/Facebook) (@Khader El-Yateem/Facebook)

That photo would mark the start of a carefully constructed political project that, in less than a decade, would propel a now-34-year-old socialist newcomer to the precipice of running America’s largest city – even while campaigning with radical imams, some of whom have supported terrorists and terrorist financiers.

A Fox Digital investigation reveals that Mamdani’s rise was no accident. It was engineered.

A database of 110 groups backing Mamdani exposes a tight inner circle of organizations that identify as Muslim or socialist, working hand-in-glove with 76 Democratic Party affiliates, allied groups and unions. Particularly important in this political machine are two networks – Sarsour’s MPower organizations and another constellation of groups called Emgage, with which she works closely.

The organizations have been generously funded. In total, billionaire George Soros’s Open Society philanthropies have given MPower and Emgage nearly $2.5 million in recent years, according to tax filings.

#MyMuslimVote Organizing Summit” with Zohran Mamdani, then the Democratic nominee for the 36th District to New York’s General Assembly, Women’s March cofounder Tamika Mallory and former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed. ( MPower Change/email)

“We fund a range of civil society organizations that work to deepen civic engagement through peaceful democratic participation, counter discrimination including against Muslim Americans and advance human rights,” a spokesperson for Open Society Foundations told Fox News Digital. “The grants that you cite all occurred years before the mayoral race, and we are a nonpartisan organization that does not fund political candidates and their campaigns.”

Mamdani, Sarsour and the groups supporting Mamdani’s campaign didn’t return requests for comment.

MPower and Emgage have been part of a tight inner circle of 30 ethnic and religious groups, that also includes CAIR Action, the 501(c)(4) political wing of the 501(c)(3) Council on American-Islamic Relations nonprofit, the Islamic Circle of North America,“ “Muslim Action Coalition,” Yemeni American Merchants Associations Inc., the “Bangladeshi American Advocacy Group” and “Desis Rising Up and Moving.” They have pumped up Mamdani’s campaign with social media campaigns, canvassing, voters and buzz.

Altogether, they have annual revenues of about $24 million, and they have worked to promote Mamdani’s campaign with endorsements, fund-raising, social media campaigns and canvassing.

The result: a carefully constructed political career that mainstreams the socialist goals long embraced by Sarsour and fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America.

It’s a machine that is expressing itself in races from New York to Virginia, Minnesota, Texas and California with MPower and Emgage aligning with the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party to propel candidates who may share their views. In a campaign called “Defend and Advance,” Emgage SuperPac is pushing Mamdani and Democratic Virginia Lt. Governor candidate Ghazala Hashmi as its “star candidates.”

Emgage’s “Defend and Advance” roster of supported candidates and office holders includes Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Abdullah Hammoud.

“I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,” Hammoud recently told a Christian pastor who objected to a proposal to name a street in honor of a local man who had allegedly praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. “And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.”

Emgage’s donations include $175,000 from a group little-noticed by political observers but important in Islamist circles: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, based in Herndon, Va. It is part of a network of groups that FBI agents raided in 2002 as part of wider investigations into the funding of Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas. Federal prosecutors ultimately didn’t file criminal charges against any officials at Sterling Charitable Gift Fund.

Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros smiles after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 24, 2022. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Over almost a decade, Sarsour and her allies have orchestrated a network of well-financed and tightly connected socialist activists, radical imams, political organizers and nonprofit organizations funded with millions of dollars by major philanthropies including Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Ford Foundation, Macarthur Foundation and the Tides Foundation.

The confluence of big philanthropy, partisan operatives and clerical authority has helped drive Mamdani’s ascent. Its architecture combines nonprofit activism with faith-based politics and the precision of a professional campaign operation.

“To the casual observer, Zohran Mamdani’s rise might appear meteoric – a story of grassroots energy and demographic change in America’s largest city,” said Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American Muslim who is running against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, with Omar supported by the same kind of political machine being unleashed to propel Mamdani to office.

“The data, the money trail and the affiliations, from the Democratic Socialists of America to the Islamists, tells a different story.”

“Mamdani’s ascent is the product of deliberate design: a sophisticated collaboration between socialist activism and Islamist organizing, lubricated by millions in foundation grants and political donations and normalized through a revolving door of political operatives and nonprofits who embrace Islamists, the destruction of the state of Israel and hostilities to the police, the U.S. and the West,” Al-Aqidi said.

The timeline of Mamdani’s rise tracks precisely with the growth of this network. In 2012, as a student at Bowdoin College, in Maine, he cofounded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the campus organization known for its rabid anti-Israel activism. By 2017, he was canvassing for El-Yateem’s campaign with Sarsour’s mentorship.

Activist Linda Sarsour, shown here at a demonstration in Manhattan’s Foley Square, was an early backer of Mamdani’s political aspirations. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

In 2018, Mamdani formally entered Sarsour’s orbit through the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, an organization she co-founded in 2013 to mobilize Muslim voters and elect progressive Democrats to local office. The Muslim Democratic Club of New York served as both incubator and amplifier for Sarsour’s political brand, one that fused progressive politics with an explicitly Islamist social identity. By December 2018, Mamdani joined the board, in an announcement in which the group said, “Help build Muslim power across the city with us!”

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani supporters gather outside 30 Rock in New York City on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Deirdre Heavey)

With his new role, Mamdani gained access to an emerging infrastructure of influence: voter lists, donor networks and organizing muscle that would later power his campaign to a seat on the New York General Assembly. The Muslim Democratic Club endorsed Mamdani.

Around that time, Sarsour was building her own empire, founding MPower Change as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc. Public filings show MPower Change took in at least $2.4 million between 2017 and 2024, the latest year available, with Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society giving her organization $1.125 million and the Macarthur Foundation funneling her $450,000. It would become a flagship digital organizing hub for not just Sarsour but Mamdani.

Meanwhile, Emgage Action was expanding its footprint nationally. Also backed by the Open Society network, Emgage Action received a share of $42.5 million that Soros’ foundations pledged to Muslim, Arab and South Asian civic groups beginning in 2021. It has received $1.8 million from the Open Society Policy Center and another $1.35 million from the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Together, MPower Change and Emgage created an unprecedented financial and political ecosystem, leveraging big philanthropy’s dollars and digital strategy to elevate candidates like Mamdani under the banner of Muslim empowerment.

In 2020, Mamdani won his first election to the New York State Assembly, with Sarsour’s explicit endorsement and fundraising help.

By 2020, Mamdani was being featured in Sarsour’s #MyMuslimVote summit, promoted by MPower Change as the face of a new generation of unapologetic Muslim progressives. By this year, his campaign for mayor became the culmination of that project — backed by PAC money, boosted by clerical endorsements and legitimized by an activist ecosystem that had spent a decade grooming him for this very moment.

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, spoke to supporters at a canvass launch event in Prospect Park on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)

To push Mamdani toward the helm of the nation’s biggest city, the network extended far beyond activist circles. Central to Mamdani’s political ascent was a series of carefully cultivated relationships with clerics with some troubling views.

In January, Mamdani courted Imam Muhammad Al-Barr of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, visiting his mosque just months after Al-Barr had publicly prayed to “annihilate” Israel.

In May, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the longtime imam of Brooklyn’s Masjid Al-Taqwa, personally donated $1,000 to the Unity and Justice Fund. More recently, Mamdani met with Wahhaj and called him “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community.”

Wahhaj, who served as a character witness in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” later convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has a long history of calling for the exploitation of America’s democracy to further a conquest for Islam.

“You don’t get in politics because it’s the American thing to do,” he said in a videotaped 1991 sermon. “You get involved in politics because politics can be a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”

Wahhaj has also denounced the U.S. government as “controlled by Shaitan,” the Arabic word for the devil, urged Muslims not to befriend “non-believers,” condemned homosexuality as “a disease of this society,” and supported Islamic laws that punish sex outside of marriage with 100 lashes and stoning. In 2011, Wahhaj urged Muslims to donate to the legal defense of the since-convicted Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist dubbed “Lady Al Qaeda” for attempting to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Over the years, Wahhaj’s sermons have praised “jihad” without “a gun,” called for an Islamic America governed by sharia law and urged the creation of an “army of 10,000 men in New York City.”

Other imams now backing Mamdani’s mayoral run have also been controversial. Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, a cleric leading the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem, co-founded the Muslim Alliance in North America, alongside Wahhaj. In 2005, Abdur-Rashid publicly defended Rafiq Sabir, an American doctor who joined Al Qaeda and was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Independent candidate and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, speaks during a mayoral debate with Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, center, and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York City. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)

In 2008, Abdur-Rashid defended Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian American professor whom the U.S. later deported to Turkey for “conspiring to provide services” to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Still in the U.S., Al-Arian’s wife joined the anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University.

In September, Mamdani appeared as the special guest speaker at Abdur-Rashid’s annual gala. A month earlier, Muslim Association of North America’s social media featured Abdur-Rashid visiting Wahhaj’s mosque, underscoring the continued collaboration between the two imams.

In Manhattan, Imam Khalid Latif, the executive director of the Islamic Center at New York University, has been another prominent Mamdani backer. Latif publicly endorsed Mamdani on Facebook in June, calling him “a bearer of compassion in a time where it is far too rare.”

In 2012, Latif led a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia that included Omar Mateen, who would later murder 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest anti-LGBTQ attack in U.S. history. He has denied radicalizing Mateen and he hasn’t faced the same type of allegations that surround the other imams.

Zohran Mamdani meets Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Yusef Abdus Salaam on Oct. 17, 2025. (@ZohranKMamdani/X)

For many Muslim political organizations backing Mamdani, these clerics are not liabilities but assets, serving as trusted gatekeepers to the city’s growing community of Muslim voters.

After Mamdani visited Wahhaj’s mosque earlier this month, he tweeted out a photo of the two with the caption: “Pleasure to meet Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders.” When a firestorm ensued, several allies rose to his defense: Sarsour, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the leaders at Emgage Action.

Sarsour shared a selfie with Mamdani, beaming, like they did back in 2017, and wrote, “May Allah continue to bless and protect you.”

A defiant Wa’el Alzayat, the executive director of Emgage Action, sent out a dispatch to followers on Tuesday, amid criticism for their political work, promising, “We are in this for the long haul.”

Back in Minnesota, Al-Aqidi closely watched the defense of Mamdani.

“For over a decade, Linda Sarsour and her network of allies have built the Mamdani machine piece by piece: the institutions, the donors, the narratives and now, the candidate. There was no way they were going to throw him under the bus for one photo with one imam whom they happen to love,” said Al-Aqidi. “Mamdani is the fresh face of a radical coalition, and I hope New Yorkers will reject him. Win or lose, one fact remains undeniable. His rise was not spontaneous. It was engineered and the machinery behind it is only getting stronger.”

Al-Aqidi said; “I hope New Yorkers will shut the Mamdani machine down.”

Asra Q. Nomani is the author of “Woke Army: The Left-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom,” and the founder of the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative. She is co-founder of the Clarity Coalition and Muslim Reform Movement, opposing Islamic extremism and advocating for Muslim reform. She can be reached at asra@asranomani.com and @AsraNomani on X.

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Zohran Mamdani Economics

You guys are doing a great job! 🙄 pic.twitter.com/2xWs9z6oTz

— Al (@AlBeachGuy) November 14, 2025

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As of today, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we’re prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON’T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Starbucks abruptly closes dozens of NYC locations in ‘chaotic’ downsizing: ‘No warning, no heads up’

By Lisa Fickenscher
Published 30September2025, 5:24 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/business/starbucks-abruptly-closes-dozens-of-nyc-locations-in-chaotic-downsizing/

Starbucks’ surprise plans to close dozens of stores across New York City are claiming dozens of high-profile locations — and sparking chaos for employees, city officials and landlords alike, The Post has learned.

The Seattle-based coffee giant – which laid off 900 corporate staffers last week in a $1 billion restructuring plan — is shuttering some 400 plus stores across the country after reporting six consecutive quarters of sales declines.

Those include 54 coffee shops across the city’s five boroughs, according to the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Among them are seemingly prime locations on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich Village, according to a crowd-sourced spreadsheet being circulated to media this week.

Shops in the Upper West Side and the Financial District and Midtown Manhattan were likewise affected — with shuttered locations in the latter including 156 W. 52nd and 871 8th Ave.

Across the city, landlords were shocked by what insiders said was an unusual and chaotic approach to the closures.

“They literally put signs in windows overnight without telling landlords and building managers,” Newmark Retail vice chairman Jeffrey Roseman told The Post. “There was no warning, no heads up.”

Typically, retail tenants will reach out to their landlords to negotiate potential rent concessions, Roseman said.

“There was no outreach to landlords in this case and that’s unusual for a company that’s not in bankruptcy.”

Historically, the 18,000 store chain in the US and Canada has “prided itself on having a story on every other block,” Roseman added.

A Starbucks spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

“We identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect,” Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol — hired away from Chipotle a year ago to spearhead the company’s turnaround — said In a Sept. 25 blog post.

Starbucks is likewise shuttering coffee shops “where we don’t see a path to financial performance,” Niccol added.

Nevertheless, the company may be running afoul of local labor laws, according to a warning letter the city sent to the java giant on Tuesday. Employees at stores that are closing are entitled to be offered jobs elsewhere in the same borough under the city’s Fair Workweek Law, the letter said.

“Starbucks appears poised to violate its legal obligations to employees in New York City locations,” Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga said in the letter.

Mayuga added that by law laid-off workers get first dibs on job openings near the stores that closed. She gave Starbucks until Friday to explain how it will comply with New York City labor laws.

Starbucks is facing a perfect storm of challenges, including increased competition from newcomers and fast food chains like McDonald’s, which is testing a new beverage concept in 500 stores in Wisconsin and Colorado.

An aggressive labor campaign by Starbucks United has resulted in 650 stores with labor contracts, of which 59 stores have been targeted for closure according to the labor group.

What’s more coffee prices have skyrocketed under new tariff policies.

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Bigwig on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team railed against Jews, questioned gay rights in vile unearthed posts: ‘Horror show’

By Carl Campanile
16November2025, 5:47 p.m.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/16/us-news/bigwig-on-zohran-mamdanis-transition-team-railed-against-jews-questioned-gay-rights/

A bigwig on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team spewed hatred against Jews and Israel and questioned gay rights in a series of odious social media posts from a decade ago.

Hassaan Chaudhary, who identifies himself as newly appointed political director for Mamdani’s transition and inaugural committee on LinkedIn, used the word “Jew” as a slur, and even praised former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously said Israel is “a cancer which will be eliminated soon.”

Chaudhary, who was the director of Muslim engagement for the Mamdani campaign, also described Israel as a “bloody country” and a “barbaric nation” in the posts — some of which date back to when he was 18 years old.

More recently, Chaudhary reshared a post on X in December 2024 aimed at pro-Israel Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who is Jewish.

“If Luigi [Mangione] had shot a Gazan toddler instead, Josh Shapiro would have given him a medal,” the original post said.

Responding to Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi on February 9, 2012, Chaudhary said, “Hitler..why dont you face our Pakistani people? Your daughter works at WSJ [the Wall Street Journal].”

He then invokes an Urdu phrase, saying, “oh forgot that Jew hoga tera baap” — which loosely means “Jew will be your father.”

In another post, a thrilled Chaudhury also lauded Ahmadinejad and called him “fearless.”

Chaudhary shared a post on X taking aim at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Hassaan Chaudhary/X

“This banda [person] is fearless RT ‘@murtazasolangi President Ahmedinejad has declared Israel as cancer which will be eliminated very soon,’” Chaudhury wrote in an X post to Pakistani official Murtaza Solangi.

He spewed venom toward Israel in other posts.

“There is a barbaric nation who’s killing indigents and innocent Palestinians called ISRAEL. TALK about it. #stupid media,” Chaudhury said in a November 2012 post to a Pakistani journalist.

In another post, he called Israel a “bloody country” for claiming a pro-Palestian resolution was undermining peace instead of promoting it.

In one November 2012 tweet, he questioned gay rights.

“@SaifsDen I too read a piece on Gay rights. To be honest, it is purely claptrap. Doesn’t make sense. Boundary line should be drawn somewhere,” said Chaudhury, now 31.

Chaudhary apologized for the comments in a statement to The Post on Sunday.

“I apologize for my tweets, as they do not reflect my current views, or represent who I am today,” he said. “Those comments from over a decade ago are not in line with how I see the world, and I look back at that rhetoric and mindset with deep regret.”

Jewish activists said Chaudhary’s statements reek of antisemitism and that he doesn’t belong in a Mamdani administration.

“This is Adolf Hitler language. It’s antisemitic. It’s a horror show,” said Dov Hikind, a former Brooklyn assemblyman and founder of Americans Against Antisemitism.

He blamed Mamdani — who supports the controversial boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel — for setting the example.

“The fish stinks from the head. Mamdani sets the tone. It’s a hate-filled administration,” Hikind said.

Veteran political consultant Hank Sheinkopf railed that “words matter.”

“This advisor to the mayor is clearly by his own words a Jew hater,” said Sheinkopf, who is Jewish and a rabbi. “The only issue: it always begins with the Jews but never ends with the Jews. Who’s next on the list?”

A representative for Mamdani’s transition team condemned Chaudhary’s remarks, and said he is a Muslim outreach director for the mayor-elect, not the political director for the transition team.

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New York as it has been forever

It’s not just the garbage, it is the total decadence and destruction of what once was a vibrant and prosperous country , socialism works until it extinguishes the wealth created by capitalism, just wait and see what will happen to NY city!

— Jau (@jeadma) November 11, 2025

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Litterally new york as it has been for forever. (And this is 100% cleaner than it was in the 70s)
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It’s not just the garbage, it is the total decadence and destruction of what once was a vibrant and prosperous country , socialism works until it extinguishes the wealth created by capitalism, just wait and see what will happen to NY city!

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The halcyon days of Jewish New York City are over

The city’s newly elected Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, supports the BDS movement and is likely to push an anti-Israel agenda.

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks on Election Night during a campaign rally in Brooklyn, N.Y., after winning the race, Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Liri Agami/Flash90.

Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a think tank that specializes in the Middle East. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Terrorist Network (2011).

https://www.jns.org/the-halcyon-days-of-jewish-new-york-city-are-over/

(14November2025 / JNS) The post-World War II halcyon days for the American Jewish community in the United States have ended. New York City, which has more Jews within its population than any place on earth outside of Israel, elected its first jihadist mayor.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim. It has everything to do with the very words that have come out of his mouth. Two years ago, Mamdani said, “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it has been laced by the IDF,” a reference to the Israel Defense Forces. He has also passionately stated (that is, until he camouflaged his ideas while running for mayor), “to globalize the intifada.”

Now, as the polished, pre-eminent politician that he is, when asked about these statements, he conveniently smiles and adroitly changes the subject to rent control, free childcare and free buses. Mamdani supports the BDS movement and has gone so far as to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.”

On Oct. 8, 2023, the day after the barbaric Hamas genocide of 1,200 innocent people in southern Israel, Mamdani stated: “A just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.”

The sadistic atrocities committed by Hamas were not once mentioned

And Israeli apartheid? Walk into any hospital, and you will see Israeli-Arab doctors, patients, nurses and orderlies. According to a 2023 survey, at least 25% of all doctors in Israel are Israeli Arabs, along with 49% of all pharmacists. Khaled Kabub is the first Arab Muslim member of the Israeli Supreme Court; as such, he holds the power to indict any member of the Israeli Knesset, including the prime minister of Israel.

Yet Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America friends conveniently ignore these facts and push an anti-Israel agenda that, according to leaked documents, includes:

Divesting city pensions from Israeli bonds and securities;
Banning Israeli products from the city-run grocery stores that Mamdani wants to open;
Investigating real estate agents allegedly “hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank”;
Stripping tax-exempt nonprofit status from entities that raise funds for the Israel Defense Forces;
Ending the New York City Police Department’s training with the “Israeli Occupation Forces”;
Arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for “war crimes” if they enter New York City;
Dismantle the NYC-Israel Economic Council formed by outgoing Mayor Eric Adams.

Given his history, Mamdani will likely push some, if not all, of these items once he’s sworn in as mayor of New York City. Consider that Mamdani founded the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College in Maine, where he unsuccessfully lobbied for BDS. Immediately after its failure, he severed all ties with the J Street colleague who assisted him.

In 2014, he wrote in The Bowdoin Orient, “Israeli universities are both actively and passively complicit in the crimes of both the Israeli military and the Israeli government in all its settler-colonial forms.”

On his podcast, “Talking Palestine,” in 2020, Mamdani said: “If you were to look at the lens of BDS and how it applies here in New York City, you would say that Cornell-Technion is something you would be talking about.”

He is now talking about shutting down Cornell Tech’s joint research educational program between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, housed on the city’s Roosevelt Island.

Mamdani’s cultivated “coolness” and chic affectations have gotten him to where he is today. There is a pretension calibrated to cultivate the image of the most liberal, open-minded, “woke” politicians who deal in empty aphorisms and vacuous phrases. It is all calculated to appeal to the millennial liberal and the identity of Muslims, who feel “under-represented.”

Should American Jews who care passionately about the survival of Israel—the sole Jewish nation in the world, out of 195—be worried?

The answer is, unfortunately, a resounding yes.

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Zohran Mamdani repealed the IHRA definition of antisemitism-overturned an anti-BDS executive order

On his first day as Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani repealed the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

He also overturned an anti-BDS executive order, making it legal to boycott Israeli businesses and organizations.

NYC is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. pic.twitter.com/zJov7H8WpS

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 2, 2026

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On his first day as Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani repealed the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

He also overturned an anti-BDS executive order, making it legal to boycott Israeli businesses and organizations.

NYC is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

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Mamdani’s ‘collectivism’ is dangerous to Jews and everyone else

Among the first acts of New York’s new mayor was a signal that, notwithstanding his disingenuous promises, antisemitism will be defended by his administration.

https://www.jns.org/mamdanis-collectivism-is-dangerous-to-jews-and-everyone-else/

Jonathan S. Tobin

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.

(2January2026 / JNS) Inaugurations are generally hopeful days for democracies. Even the most bitter of electoral battles can—with sufficient goodwill and patriotism—transition to the normal business of political give-and-take. But when a democratic election gives power to a person and a faction determined to overthrow the basic foundations of a free society, platitudes about new beginnings and wishing the winners all the best are not a sufficient response to the situation.

That is the dilemma presented by the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City.

The 34-year-old, who was sworn in as the 112th person to hold that office on New Year’s Day, may have presented his new administration as one that will protect all the people of the largest city in America. Yet he wasted no time in making clear that he was discarding protections against one of the significant demographic groups that make up Gotham’s “mosaic”: the Jews.

Undermining Jewish rights

In one of his first acts as mayor, Mamdani rescinded executive orders issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams, designed to protect Jews from the surge of hatred that has been raging across the globe, as well as in New York in the two years since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

That is hardly a surprise, since for all of his claims to oppose hatred of Jews, Mamdani has been actively cheering on the mobs chanting “From the river to the sea” and “Globalize the intifada” on college campuses and in city streets that targeted Jews for intimidation and violence.

Among them were orders that adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of antisemitism. That definition cites the very same demonizing of Jews and Israel that Mamdani and his anti-Zionist allies engage in by seeking the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet, and thereby stripping Jews of rights denied to no other people. The orders also prohibited city entities and personnel from engaging in BDS—boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel—which, far from being merely political speech, are themselves acts of illegal discrimination. Another sought to prevent houses of worship from being besieged by demonstrators—something that already happened at the end of November at Park East Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, when an anti-Zionist mob sought to make Jews afraid to attend pro-Israel events.

It is these actions—and not the flowery populist language of hope and solidarity with working people that Mamdani employed in his inaugural speech—that set the tone for the new administration. His mayoralty is much like the entire “progressive” project, which has made itself felt throughout American society in recent years via the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), or the toxic teachings of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism that have distorted the education system. In this way, Mamdani’s ideas—and the possibility that they will be implemented—threaten more than just the Jews. It lends power to the woke progressives who belong to the bizarre red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists that he embodies.

They threaten all Americans, both in New York and elsewhere. It reflects the ideologies of fellow socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who are spearheading the effort to spread the same twisted ideas on the national stage and who were on hand to celebrate Mamdani’s swearing-in

No one should be under any illusions about what Mamdani’s pledge to replace “rugged individualism” with “the warmth of collectivism” will mean.

Individualism v. collectivism

His proud avowal of socialism—albeit with the word prefix “democratic” in front of it, which renders it an oxymoron—is a potent threat not to entrenched interests and villainous billionaires, as he claims. That swipe at individualism seeks to undermine the essence of Western ideas about political and economic rights, as well as justice itself. Mamdani seeks to use the power of City Hall to chip away at those rights in the name of the collective good. But America is a nation that was founded on the notion that those rights rest in the individual citizen as their inherent right and not as a gift from a government.

It is a testimony to the lack of historical knowledge, even the history of just the last 50 years, among younger Americans that socialism is coming back into fashion. As with their predecessors a century ago, many New Yorkers voted for a socialist in the belief that what he stands for is an idealistic faith that will uplift the downtrodden and prevent the rich from exploiting them. His plans for free bus fares, lower rent and cheaper groceries sound good to them, as such promises always do.

The sense that New York is no longer affordable for anyone but the very rich is rooted in reality. Many in the governing class, who belong to both political parties, discarded the interests of working people in favor of globalist economics. That resulted in the offshoring of manufacturing jobs and flooded the country with illegal immigrants, which raised the price of housing and lessened wages for blue-collar Americans while also overwhelming the social-service capabilities of communities, including in New York.

At the same time, some members of educated classes—many of whom went into debt getting worthless college degrees, including those in gender and racial studies, and other non-traditional fields—have been indoctrinated in leftist ideologies and are also frustrated that they are not as well off as those engaged in more productive activities.

A system that doesn’t work

But their woes, as well as those of the working class, are not the result of too little government intervention in the economy, let alone socialism. It reflects too much of it, as every study of state-mandated price controls in housing, food distribution and other sectors always shows. Contrary to the advocacy of slick demagogues like Mamdani and AOC, the creation of wealth and its distribution among a broad swath of citizens is the product of that same individualism that Marxists seek to tear down.

Socialism may sound like a good idea to those who are unaware of the unspeakable suffering it has visited upon every country that fully tried it. Rather than increasing freedom, it always reduces it, since the system is based on the idea that intellectuals and activists know best, and are entitled to direct the way everyone lives and works—and to use the power of government to enforce their misguided plans.

It’s true that many Jews have been seduced by socialism in the last century. Some in Eastern Europe believed that it was the solution to antisemitism. But the Bundists who thought socialism would protect an autonomous Jewish community were deluded, as the Holocaust and 70 years of Soviet tyranny proved. The Jewish experiments in socialism during the process of building the State of Israel should not lead anyone to think of that as an idea that can work. The Labor Zionists who built collective farms and created industries where none existed before were essential to the creation of the Jewish state. But those ideas were checks on its development as a democracy, and many of the institutions they created had eventually had to be discarded or bypassed to facilitate the establishment of Israel’s current prosperous economy.

In practice, socialism is more akin to a religious faith than a set of public-policy proposals. In this way, the facts about its bankruptcy as economic theory and how it leads to tyranny in one form or another allow its adherents to distort, dismiss or simply ignore the examples of how it always fails.

As is usually the case, attacks on the rights of many usually begin with those that impact the few. That is why Mamdani’s obsessive support of the war on Israel and the Jews—a belief that has been the driving force of his entire career—isn’t merely one small facet of his agenda, but rests at its core.

He is defended by a minority of Jews. Still, even in deep-blue New York, where many people, Jews and non-Jews alike, will vote for anyone with the label of Democrat, the overwhelming majority of the Jewish population didn’t support him and are appalled by his embrace of the cause of Israel’s destruction.

From ideas to violence

The new mayor’s orders won’t transform New York City in 2025 into Berlin in 1933 or 1938. Yet we needn’t catastrophize the situation with inappropriate analogies or hyperbole to understand that when you say that it’s OK to discriminate against Jews via BDS or threaten them with genocide and terrorism, pledges to defend the Jewish community remain meaningless. As we’ve seen in the last year—in Boulder, Colo.; Washington, D.C.; Manchester, England; and last month on Bondi Beach in Australia—such advocacy and the indifference of governments to those who engage in, let alone those, like Mamdani, who endorse it, leads to bloodshed and death.

New York would not be the first great city of the world to be destroyed by ideology. Its residents should recognize what the welfare state, hostility to capitalism and a blind faith in government did to their city in the mid-20th century, only to see it revive when centrists like Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg chose different and more rational paths. And they witnessed how those achievements could be undermined by incompetent leftist governance and the willingness to confuse sensible police policy with racism during the eight years of Bill de Blasio’s tenure. They can also look abroad to places like London, where leftist toleration and encouragement of Islamist antisemitism have harmed Jewish civilian life and society in general.

That is also why the proper response to the Mamdani mayoralty can’t be to treat it like any ordinary transfer of power in an elective office. The new mayor is a skillful politician and an even better talker, and his youth and eloquence give him clear advantages as he sets forth to remake the city and use it to further his long war on Israel and the Jews. Those who seek compromise and think they can prevent him from doing harm by being co-opted into his administration are deceiving themselves.

Mamdani’s socialism should be resisted by other levels of government, whether in Albany or Washington. So, too, should his efforts to defend antisemitism.

As he staffs his administration with people who share his comfort with bigotry or promote forms of discrimination against Jews, those who claim to represent the Jewish community, as well as all other people of good faith, mustn’t be deterred by his popularity or press support. His administration must be resisted with every legal and political tactic that can be employed. Anything less won’t just be a moral failure. It will be an invitation for both the mayor and his followers to proceed with their project of dismantling Jewish rights, along with those of everyone else.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.

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IDENTIFIED: Dan Sohail of Carteret, NJ was arrested last night after allegedly ramming a vehicle into Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights. pic.twitter.com/Rkp8ONogHu

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) January 29, 2026

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IDENTIFIED: Dan Sohail of Carteret, NJ was arrested last night after allegedly ramming a vehicle into Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights.

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It’s almost like Mamdani is completely unqualified to run a major American city.

It’s almost like Mamdani is completely unqualified to run a major American city. pic.twitter.com/pXYIWYYO08

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 8, 2026

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It’s almost like Mamdani is completely unqualified to run a major American city.

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What New Yorkers look forward to when Zohran Mamdani is Mayor

Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)

Type: Information – Topic: Terrorism – Secondary topic: Palestinian Terror and Incitement – Publish Date: 06April1994 – https://www.gov.il/en/pages/suicide-and-other-bombing-attacks-since-the-declaration-of-principles

Suicide-bombings

Suicide terror attacks 2000-2007

Apr 6, 1994 – Eight people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 13, 1994 – Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 1994 – In a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed.

Nov 11, 1994 – Three soldiers were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.

Jan 22, 1995 – Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 20 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 9, 1995 – Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 24, 1995 – Six civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.

Aug 21, 1995 – Three Israelis and one American were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.

Feb 25, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 1996 – One Israeli was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post oustide Ashkelon. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 3, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).

Mar 4, 1996 – Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and one soldier).

Mar 21, 1997 – Three people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.

Jul 30, 1997 – 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.

Sep 4, 1997 – Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.

Oct 29, 1998 – One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.

Nov 2, 2000 – Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 20, 2000 – A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously.

Nov 22, 2000 – Shoshanna Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work.

Dec 22, 2000 – Three soldiers were injured in a suicide bomb attack at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley. The terrorist, who detonated a belt of explosives strapped to him, was killed in the blast.

Jan 1, 2001 – A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 8, 2001 – A powerful car bomb exploded at 4:40 PM in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in Jerusalem, causing mild injuries to four people.

Feb 14, 2001 – Eight people were killed and 25 injured when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv.

Mar 1, 2001 – One person was killed and 9 injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.

Mar 4, 2001 – Three people were killed and at least 60 injured in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya.

Mar 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at 7:40 in the morning in the Talpiot industrial/commercial zone in Jerusalem. Seven people were injured, one moderately. The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 27, 2001 – 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a suicide bombing directed against a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 28, 2001 – Two teenagers were killed and four injured, one critically, in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (“peace stop”) gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 22, 2001 – A terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets in Kfar Sava. One person was killed and about 60 injured in the blast, two severely. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.

Apr 23, 2001 – Eight people were lightly hurt in a car bombing in Or Yehuda, a few kilometers north of Ben-Gurion Airport, which senior police officers said could only be described as a “miracle” in an area packed with pre-Independence Day shoppers.

Apr 29, 2001 – A car bomb blew up close to a school bus travelling near the West Bank city of Nablus. There were no injuries in the attack. The body of the suicide bomber was found in the car. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 18, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself outside the Hasharon Shopping Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. Five civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 25, 2001 – 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central bus station. The two terrorists were apparently killed in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

May 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded in the center of Jerusalem shortly after midnight. There were no injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
A bomb exploded at 9:00 in the morning near the intersection of the capital’s main Jaffa Road and Heshin Street. The bomb included several mortar shells, some of which were propelled hundreds of meters from the site of the explosion. 30 people were injured, most suffering from shock. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

May 30, 2001 – A car bomb exploded shortly before 16:00 outside a school in Netanya while a number of students were still in the building studying for matriculation exams. Eight people were injured, suffering from shock and hearing impairment. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

June 1, 2001 – 21 people were killed and 120 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday, June 1, while standing in a large group of teenagers waiting to enter the disco.

June 22, 2001 – Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 2, 2001 – Two separate bombs exploded at about 8:20 Monday morning in cars in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Yehud. Six pedestrians were lightly injured. Police sources say the bombs were probably set by terrorists. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, claimed responsibility.

July 9, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber was killed in a car-bombing attack near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. Disaster was averted as the bomb exploded without hitting any other vehicles. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 16, 2001 – Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded – 3 seriously – when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 8, 2001 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated his car bomb, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B’kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00. One soldier was lightly wounded.

Aug 9, 2001 – 16 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 12, 2001 – 21 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin at 17:30. The terrorist was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 21, 2001 – A bomb placed under a car exploded at 14:15 near the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem; one woman was treated for shock. A second, very large unexploded bomb was discovered inside the car and dismantled.

Sept 4, 2001 – 20 people were injured when a suicide terrorist exploded a powerful charge on Hanevi’im Street near Bikur Holim hospital in central Jerusalem shortly before 8:00 AM. The terrorist, disguised as a Jew in ultra-orthodox clothing, aroused the suspicion of passersby due to the large backpack he was wearing. As two Border Police officers approached the man, he detonated his shrapnel-packed bomb. Both officers were wounded – one critically. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.

Sept 9, 2001 – Three people were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. The terrorist, killed in the blast, waited nearby until the train arrived from Tel-Aviv and people were exiting the station, and then exploded the bomb he was carrying. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 9, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17 people. One person killed in the explosion is believed to be the terrorist bomber.

Oct 1, 2001 – A large car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Several people were lightly injured.

Oct 7, 2001 – Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley.

Nov 26, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip. The bomber joined workers waiting to be cleared for entry into Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 29, 2001 – Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 1, 2001 – 11 people were killed and about 180 injured when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 2, 2001 – 15 people were killed and 40 injured, several critically, in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 5, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb shortly after 7:30 AM on King David Street in Jerusalem. A number of people waiting at a nearby bus stop were lightly injured. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Police are investigating whether the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, went off prematurely. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

Dec 9, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed.

Dec 12, 2001 – Four people traveling in two cars were lightly wounded in an attack at 18:00 PM by two suicide bombers near the Gaza Strip community of Neve Dekalim.

Jan 25, 2002 – 25 people were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a cafe on a pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station at 11:15 AM on Friday.

Jan 27, 2002 – Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.

Feb 16, 2002 – Two teenagers were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. A third person subsequently died of his injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 – Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma’ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2002 – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at the Maccabim roadblock on the Jerusalem-Modi’in highway Wednesday night, injuring three policemen.

Mar 2, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

Mar 5, 2002 – Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 7, 2002 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in the commericial center on the outskirts of Ariel in Samaria. 15 people were injured, one seriously. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 9, 2002 – 11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in the crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 17, 2002 – A suicide bomber exploded himself near an Egged bus no. 22 at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 25 people were lightly injured.

Mar 20, 2002 – Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30 wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 21, 2002 – Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 27, 2002 – 30 people were killed and 140 injured – 20 seriously – in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was a member of Hamas from Tulkarem, on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested.

Mar 29, 2002 – Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2002 – One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 31, 2002 – 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 31, 2002 – An MDA paramedic was very seriously injured along with three other people at 17:00 Sunday afternoon in a suicide bombing at the emergency medical center in Efrat, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.

Apr 1, 2002 – A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian suicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 10, 2002 – Eight people were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 12, 2002 – Six people were killed and 104 wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 7, 2002 – 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2002 – Three people were killed and 59 injured – 10 seriously – when a suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.

May 20, 2002 – A suicide bomber, apparently bound for Afula, killed himself after Border Policemen approached him for questioning at a bus stop. There were no other injuries.

May 22, 2002 – Two people were killed and about 40 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.

May 23, 2002 – A bomb planted by terrorists exploded underneath a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv. The truck burst into flames, but the blaze was quickly contained.

May 24, 2002 – A security guard opened fire on a terrorist attempting to ram a car bomb into the Studio 49 Disco in Tel Aviv. The terrorist was killed and five Israelis slightly injured when the bomb exploded prematurely.

May 27, 2002 – A grandmother and her infant granddaughter were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 5, 2002 – 17 people were killed and 38 injured when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 11, 2002 – A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.

June 18, 2002 – 19 people were killed and 74 injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 19, 2002 – Seven people were killed and 50 injured – three of them in critical condition – when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 16, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001.

July 17, 2002 – Five people were killed – two Israeli and three foreign workers – and about 40 were injured, four seriously, in a double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 30, 2002 – Five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a suicide bombing at a felafel stand on Hanevi’im Street in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber, who was killed, apparently exploded prematurely.

July 31, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 85 wounded, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 4, 2002 – Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 5, 2002 – A bomb exploded in a car at the Umm al-Fahm junction in northern Israel, killing the terrorist and wounding the driver, an Arab Israeli resident of Nazareth.

Sept 18, 2002 – Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 19, 2002 – Six people were killed and about 70 wounded when a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility for the attack.

Oct 10, 2002 – Sa’ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 21, 2002 – 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 27, 2002 – Two IDF officers and a non-commissioned officer were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The victims were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.

Nov 4, 2002 – Two people – a security guard and a teenage boy, both recent immigrants from Argentina – were killed and about 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 21, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 5, 2003 – Twenty-two people were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.

Mar 5, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2003 – Over 40 people were wounded in a suicide bombing on the pedestrian mall at the entrance to the London Cafe in the center of Netanya. The bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 24, 2003 – Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 30, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 60 peoople were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub “Mike’s Place” in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the suicide bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.

May 17, 2003 – Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 18, 2003 – Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Steve Averbach died on June 3, 2010, succumbing to wounds suffered in the suicide bombing, bringing the death toll to eight.
A second suicide bomber detonated his bomb when intercepted by police in northern Jerusalem. The terrorist was killed; no one else was injured.

May 19, 2003 – Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured when a Palestinian on a bicycle detonated explosives next to a military jeep near Kfar Darom in the southern Gaza Strip. The bomber was killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 22, 2003 – Nine Israelis were injured when a roadside bomb was detonated next to a bus near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.

June 11, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Clal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 19, 2003 – Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 7, 2003 – Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 12, 2003 – Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was killed and three people wounded when a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28.

Aug 19, 2003 – Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 9, 2003 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post for soldier outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 9, 2003 – Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 4, 2003 – Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 9, 2003 – A Palestinian suicide bomber exploded himself at the DCO located at the entrance to Tulkarm. The bomber approached the reception window and exploded himself, injuring two IDF soldiers and a Palestinian.

Oct 15, 2003 – Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.

Nov 3, 2003 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the West Bank village of Azun, near Kafr Qasem, when he saw Israeli security officials searching for him. One IDF soldier was lightly wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade claimed responsibility for the failed attack.

Dec 25, 2003 – Four Israelis were killed and over 20 wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2004 – Four Israelis – three soldiers and one civilian – were killed and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2004 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem.

Feb 22, 2004 – Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za’ul, from the Bethlehem area.

Mar 6, 2004 – Two Palestinian policemen were killed in a terror attack on the Erez crossing in northern Gaza involving rifle fire and suicide car bombs, including jeeps camouflaged as IDF vehicles. Two of the vehicles exploded on the Palestinian side of the crossing, and four terrorists were killed. There were no IDF casualties. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the military wing of Fatah all claimed responsibility.

Mar 14, 2004 – Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 17, 2004 – Border Policeman Sgt. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

May 22, 2004 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated an explosive device at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley. The commander of the IDF checkpoint was lightly injured, as well as several Palestinians. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 11, 2004 – Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33 wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt.

Aug 11, 2004 – Two Palestinian bystanders were killed and 18 people were wounded, including six Border Policemen, when a bomb was detonated south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem.

Aug 31, 2004 – Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba’s main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 8, 2004 – A booby-trapped car exploded next to Israeli security personnel at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint, near the Green Line border with the West Bank. The Palestinian driver of the car was killed in the blast. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 14, 2004 – A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up near an armored IDF jeep at an agricultural gate, south of Qalqilyah, injuring two IDF soldiers.

Sept 22, 2004 – Two Border Policemen were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 7, 2004 – A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded.

Nov 1, 2004 – Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.

Dec 7, 2004 – St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinsky, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 5, 2005 – A terrorist infiltrated the Erez crossing terminal in the Gaza Strip, activated an explosive device, hurled grenades and opened fire. An IDF force shot and killed the terrorist. The Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 12, 2005 – One Israeli civilian was killed and three IDF soldiers wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2005 – On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side of the crossing, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and during exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.

Jan 18, 2005 – An ISA officer was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and 4 IDF soldiers and 3 members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being carried out, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2005 – Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 12, 2005 – Five people were killed and about 90 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 28, 2005 – A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the Beersheba Central Bus Station. Two security guards who stopped the bomber were severely wounded and about 50 people were lightly wounded or treated for shock. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 26, 2005 – Seven people were killed and 54 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 5, 2005 – Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 29, 2005 – Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. A second intended suicide terrorist was also killed in the blast as well as the taxi driver and a third passenger. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

Jan 19, 2006 – Thirty-one people were wounded in a suicide bombing in a shawarma restaurant near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Jerusalem Battalions of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2006 – Four people were killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.

Apr 17, 2006 – Eleven people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, at the Rosh Ha’ir shawarma restaurant, site of the Jan 19 bombing. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2007 – Three employees of a bakery in the southern city of Eilat were killed in a suicide bombing. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 4, 2008 – Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, of Dimona was killed and 38 wounded – Razdolskaya’s husband critically – in a terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping center in Dimona. A police officer shot and killed a second terrorist before he detonated his explosive belt. A Hamas statement from Gaza praised the attack, calling it an “heroic act”.

Mar 6, 2008 – Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer.

May 14, 2008 – At about 6 pm an Iranian-made Grad rocket launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip hit a busy shopping mall in central Ashkelon. 90 people were wounded, four of them seriously, among them a 24-year-old mother and her infant daughter.

July 2, 2008 – Three people were killed and over 50 wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the terrorist.

Mar 23, 2011 – One woman, a 59-year-old British national, was killed and about 50 wounded when a bomb exploded across from the Jerusalem Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station. The bomb had been placed near a telephone booth at a crowded bus stop next to Egged city bus #74.

Aug 18, 2011 – In a series of terrorist attacks was perpetrated against civilians and IDF soldiers in Israel’s southern region, six civilians were killed as well as one soldier and a police officer, and at least 31 were wounded. The terrorists responsible for the attacks originated in the Gaza Strip and crossed into Israel via Egypt. IDF forces pursued and killed a number of the terrorists responsible for the attacks.

July 18, 2012 – Six people, five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver, were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on a bus carrying Israelis at Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria. The seventh body was identified as the suicide bomber.

Nov 21, 2012 – Shortly before noon a bomb exploded in a Dan city bus no. 142 on Shaul Hamelech Street in the center of Tel Aviv. 21 people were wounded, three in moderate to serious condition. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing.

Oct 11, 2015 – A female terrorist detonated an explosive device, lightly wounding a police officer near the checkpoint on the road between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. A traffic police officer stopped the driver, who was in the lane reserved for public transportation, and approached the car. The driver exited the vehicle, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and detonated an explosive device. The terrorist was seriously injured in the attack and was evacuated to hospital in Jerusalem with burns to her entire body.

April 19, 2016 – Jerusalem: In the early evening, an explosion on a bus and a subsequent fire led to the injury of 21 people, including passengers on a passing bus and in a nearby car. Two of the injured are in serious condition, 7 were moderately injured and 12 were lightly injured.

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Israel prepares for Jewish Mass Exodus

BARRY’s Newsletter

Israel readies for a mass exodus from failing Western countries of Jews living in increasing fear.

BARRY SHAW
29November2025
https://barryshaw.substack.com/p/israel-readies-for-a-mass-exodus

Israel is preparing for the increasing wave of antisemitism. accompanied by rising violence that could trigger large-scale Jewish immigration to the Jewish State.

The Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, together with the National Emergency Authority (RAHEL), conducted on Thursday a strategic exercise simulating a national emergency scenario for absorbing a significant influx of Jewish immigrants from around the world.

The exercise, held at the National College for Israeli Resilience attended by representatives from government ministries, NGOs, and essential partner organizations, rehearsed a scenario in which tens of thousands of new immigrants arrive in Israel all at once.

Increasingly, Jews in failing Western countries, with governments and mayors that cater to anti-Semitic migrants that import their hate culture into the host countries as they threaten and attack Jews as they curse Israel, are looking, with increasing seriousness, at making Aliyah to the Jewish State of Israel in which minorities are treated far better than minority Jews in an increasingly intolerant West.

Paris, anyone? Malmo, anyone? Sydney or Melbourne, anyone? Amsterdam, anyone? Milan, anyone? New York, anyone? London, Birmingham and Manchester, anyone?

Add your example here…

Barry Shaw, The View from Israel.

Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Israel prepares for Jewish Mass Exodus

❗️ISRAEL PREPARES FOR JEWISH MASS EXODUS

Emergency drill simulates massive intake of tens of thousands of Jews fleeing their countries due to severe antisemitic or security incidents (via Walla News)

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— Israel Radar (@IsraelRadar_com) November 27, 2025

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❗️ISRAEL PREPARES FOR JEWISH MASS EXODUS

Emergency drill simulates massive intake of tens of thousands of Jews fleeing their countries due to severe antisemitic or security incidents (via Walla News)

Is the great escape coming?

Here’s the full article: https://news.walla.co.il/item/3797473

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Today in Israel, the National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) and the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration carried out a major national drill preparing for a mass wave of global Jewish immigration — a scenario that is no longer theoretical.

Since…

— Betar Worldwide (@Betar_USA) November 27, 2025

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‼️‼️Emergency NY Planning Evacuation

Today in Israel, the National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) and the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration carried out a major national drill preparing for a mass wave of global Jewish immigration — a scenario that is no longer theoretical.

Since October 7th, we have seen historic levels of antisemitism, institutional hostility in major Western cities, and political changes that directly endanger Jewish communities.
Senior officials now openly say that within two months, a major Jewish community somewhere in the world may collapse under antisemitism, economic chaos, or political upheaval — and will need immediate rescue to Israel.

As part of this drill, tens of thousands of Jews arriving at once were simulated, alongside assessments of government coordination, emergency housing, data systems, and security protocols.
The Ministry’s Director-General noted that even Western countries — including the United States — are now at risk. He specifically referenced the Jewish community in New York, where Mayor-elect Mamdani represents a radical ideological shift that deeply concerns many Jewish leaders. After October 7th, British Jewish leaders admitted the shift clearly:
“We used to think we were British Jews. After October 7th — we are Jews first.”

This is the reality for Jews across the world today.

Betar Worldwide participated in this national preparedness effort.
As Jabotinsky taught us, the Jewish nation must always be ready, always strong, and always willing to take responsibility for every Jew, everywhere.

We will continue to:
•Encourage Aliyah as the greatest act of Jewish strength
•Support Jews worldwide facing rising antisemitism
•Work closely with Israeli institutions to ensure Israel is prepared to receive, protect, and embrace every Jew who needs a home
•Stand firm as proud Jabotinsky Zionists — the movement that refuses to abandon a single Jew in danger

Our message is simple:
Israel is the home of every Jew.
Betar will always do its part to bring our brothers and sisters home — with pride, with strength, and with unwavering Zionist conviction.

Am Yisrael Chai.

היום בישראל ערכו רח״ל (רשות החירום הלאומית) ומשרד העלייה והקליטה תרגיל לאומי רחב-היקף לקראת גל עלייה מסיבי של יהודים מכל העולם — תרחיש שכבר איננו תיאורטי כלל.

מאז 7 באוקטובר אנו רואים רמת אנטישמיות שלא נראתה מזה דורות, עוינות מוסדית בערים מערביות גדולות, ושינויים פוליטיים שמסכנים ישירות קהילות יהודיות. בכירי המשרד אומרים בפירוש: ייתכן שבתוך חודשיים תקרוס קהילה יהודית גדולה בעקבות אנטישמיות, כאוס כלכלי או מהפכה פוליטית — ותזדקק להצלה מיידית לישראל.

במסגרת התרגיל דימו קליטה של עשרות אלפי עולים בבת אחת, כולל תיאום בין משרדי הממשלה, לוגיסטיקה, שיכון חירום, מאגרי מידע וביטחון. מנכ״ל המשרד הדגיש שגם מדינות מערביות — כולל ארה״ב — עלולות להיקלע לאירוע פתאומי. הוא ציין במיוחד את מצב הקהילה היהודית בניו יורק, לאור כניסתו של ראש העיר הנבחר ממדאני, שמייצג שינוי אידיאולוגי קיצוני ומדאיג. מנהיג יהודי בכיר באנגליה אמר לאחרונה: ״עד השבעה באוקטובר חשבנו שאנחנו בריטים יהודים. אחרי השבעה באוקטובר — אנחנו קודם כל יהודים.״

זה המצב היום ליהודים בעולם.

בית״ר העולמית לקחה חלק במאמץ ההיערכות הלאומי. כדברי ז׳בוטינסקי — העם היהודי חייב להיות מוכן, חזק, ואחראי לכל יהודי בכל מקום.

אנו נמשיך: •לעודד עלייה כמעשה של עוצמה יהודית •לתמוך בקהילות יהודיות בעולם מול האנטישמיות הגוברת •לפעול יחד עם מוסדות המדינה כדי להבטיח שישראל מוכנה לקלוט ולהגן על כל יהודי הזקוק לבית •לעמוד כבית״רים גאים — התנועה שאינה מפקירה אף יהודי בסכנה

המסר שלנו ברור: ישראל היא הבית של כל יהודי. ובית״ר תמשיך לעשות הכול כדי להביא את אחינו ואחיותינו הביתה — בגאווה, בעוצמה ובאמונה ציונית מלאה.

עם ישראל חי.

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BARRY’s Newsletter

The Great Aliyah to Israel has Begun.

Unprotected Jews are leaving a West that has lost its moral compass.

The View from Israel.
15March 2026 https://substack.com/home/post/p-190996582

An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city’s mayor described as “a deliberate attack against the Jewish community.”
Tight security at Jewish schools and institutions has been strengthened even more following attacks in recent days on synagogues in Rotterdam and in Liege, Belgium.

The explosion at the school, located in an upscale residential neighborhood on the south side of Amsterdam, caused only limited damage, Mayor Femke Halsema said in a press release, as police and firefighters arrived quickly at the scene.

This quickly followed attacks against Jews and synagogues by a man called Mohamad in Michigan, and in Virginia by another Mohamad.
These followed the massacre of Jews celebrating a Jewish festival in Bondi Beach in Australia which itself followed the Yom Kippur killing of Jews at Manchester’s Heaton Park Synagogue by a man called Jihad.

The symbolism of the identity of the attackers and their targets scream a warning cry to Jews everywere, especially as the local and national authorities are unable or unwilling to protect them.

Jewish people must begin preparing to move to Israel.
Europe, the UK, America, Australia, and South Africa are increasingly dangerous places for Jews and the great Aliyah has begun as Jews feel increasingly alienated and targeted in Western countries of their birth controlled by governments that protect their illegal immigrants for votes that far outnumber those of indigenous Jews who are feeling increasingly unprotected.

Barry Shaw, The View from Israel.
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies,

theviewfromisrael@gmail.com
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Jews Across the World Are Repeating the Mistakes of the 1930s

by Ronn Torossian

17November2025 1:18 pm https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/11/17/jews-across-world-repeating-mistakes-1930s/

A shop damaged in Magdeburg, Germany, during Kristallnacht. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

In August 1933, only months after Hitler rose to power, a chilling article appeared in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Dr. Max Naumann, a proud German patriot and the founder of the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden — the Association of National German Jews — declared his unwavering loyalty to the Nazi government. Even as Jewish livelihoods were being dismantled and the beginnings of the Holocaust were in place, this group of proper, fancy German Jews insisted that Jews had nothing to fear if they behaved correctly, shed their national identity, rejected Zionism, and embedded themselves wholly within German society.

But history was about to deliver its verdict.

This is the story of a worldview that has reappeared across Jewish history again and again: the belief that if Jews abandon their nationalism, and appease their oppressors, they will be spared. They condemned the very concept of Jewish self-defense.

The existence in Germany of Betar, a Zionist movement founded in 1923, presented an ideological threat to this worldview.

Betar youths sang Hebrew songs, carried themselves with discipline, and insisted the Jewish people were a nation with a destiny. In the eyes of people like Naumann, Betar represented a dangerous idea: that Jews could survive only by standing as a proud, independent people — not by pleading for acceptance. History proved Betar right.

At first glance, one could treat Naumann as a figure locked in the past, but his story remains painfully relevant today. Across the Diaspora, Jewish communities are living through a renewed wave of open antisemitism not seen in generations. And how does a certain segment of world Jewry respond?

With fear. With appeasement. With approximately 33 percent of New York City’s Jews voting for Zohran Mamdani. They repeat the same delusions Naumann preached: that appeasement will earn respect, that silence will earn safety, that bowing one’s head will spare us.

We know where that path leads.

One of the most important lessons of the Holocaust — and indeed of all Jewish history — is that Jews need to fight back. This truth remains unchanged today. And just like in 1933, the Jews most desperate to blend in, the ones who insist “We’re not like those other Jews,” will end up being persecuted and targeted by those they try to appease.

This is the moment when we must remember the Zionist leader who founded Betar, Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky believed that every Jewish person must stand tall, walk with pride, and never bow their head. Jabotinsky taught that Jewish dignity must never be surrendered, and that Jewish self-defense and a Jewish state is the only real guarantee of Jewish safety.

In the 1930s, Jabotinsky warned that Europe was becoming unsafe for Jews. Most of world Jewry dismissed his most dire warnings of death as hysteria.

Today, not a single one of the mainstream Jewish leaders of the Diaspora is talking about aliyah, the process of Jews immigrating to Israel.

Across the Diaspora, Jewish communities cling to institutions that no longer protect them, governments that no longer defend them, and illusions that no longer serve them. They dedicate themselves to endless dialogues with activists who openly seek their destruction. They send letters, petitions, pleas, and polite condemnations, all while their enemies march in the streets and terrorize their children on campus.

This is a Naumann mindset reborn. And just like in 1933, it is a deadly delusion.

World Jewry has failed to learn the most basic lessons of Jewish history. The lesson that no society, not even the most enlightened, guarantees Jewish safety. The lesson that Jewish security cannot depend on the goodwill of others.

And the only difference between then and now is the Jewish State.

At a time when New York, London, Toronto, Paris, Melbourne, and Johannesburg are becoming unsafe for Jews, Israel is thriving. Our cities — Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Herzliya, Haifa — are full of innovation, culture, Jewish life, and Jewish safety. Hebrew is spoken without fear. Soldiers protect us. Our national institutions — flawed as they may be — defend us. The Diaspora is in deep trouble, in part because many Jewish leaders abroad, like Naumann in his time, are enemies of the Jewish people.

Ronn Torossian is an Israeli-American Jewish communal leader and entrepreneur who lives in Israel.

The opinions presented by Algemeiner bloggers are solely theirs and do not represent those of The Algemeiner, its publishers or editors. If you would like to share your views with a blog post on The Algemeiner, please be in touch through our Contact page.

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Israel Derangement Syndrome

This post is so well made I had to repost it.
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— TheJewishAlly (@TheJewishAlly) March 14, 2026

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Zohran Mamdani and the great American Jewish reckoning

The community is fracturing along three intertwined axes—support for Israel, level of religious observance and political orientation.

Rachel Suggs

Rachel Suggs is a researcher on the Jewish Diaspora at MIND Israel.

https://www.jns.org/zohran-mamdani-and-the-great-american-jewish-reckoning/

(18November2025 / JNS) New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s ascent to political prominence as the mayor-elect of New York City has illuminated the fault lines long running beneath the surface of American Jewry. To even refer to it as a single “community” is, by now, an anachronism.

What was once a network of shared fate and memory has splintered into ideological camps, each convinced the other has betrayed the essence of Jewish life in America. American Jewry’s vulnerability now exists on two levels: internal and external.

Internally, the community is fracturing along three intertwined axes—support for Israel, level of religious observance and political orientation.

Once a bastion of liberal values and progressive ideals, Jewish progressives now find themselves unwelcome in spaces increasingly hostile to Jewish identity, especially when expressed through support for Israel and Jewish self-determination. Meanwhile, conservative Jews find little refuge on the right, where extremist antisemitic currents, once confined to the margins, have been inching into the mainstream.

The ordinary rhythms of Jewish communal life now unfold with a kind of surreal dissonance. Spreadsheets circulate tallying which rabbis signed which open letters about Mamdani’s candidacy—and yes, there is both a liberal and a conservative version—with congregants refusing to attend the services of a rabbi who signed the “wrong” one. Synagogue listservs and WhatsApp groups have become political battlegrounds. The question of whom to invite to the Shabbat table now hinges on one’s opinion of Mamdani. The very spaces meant to foster belonging are now defined by estrangement.

Yet these internal fractures are magnified by a more alarming external shift: the crystallization of a bipartisan front increasingly hostile to Israel.

Events of the past few weeks alone suggest that positions once relegated to the political fringe—anti-Israel, and at times, openly antisemitic—are moving closer to the center in both major parties.

On the Democratic side, Mamdani’s victory as the party’s nominee for mayor of New York City marks a turning point. Despite credible reports from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy linking select campaign donors to the Muslim Brotherhood, posing for selfies with an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and proclaiming admiration for the “Holy Land Five”— individuals convicted of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas—Mamdani nonetheless enjoys the backing of prominent mainstream figures such as presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

His rise signals that anti-Israel positions no longer incur political cost within progressive circles; they may, in fact, confer political capital.

On the Republican side, a parallel shift is unfolding. At a recent Turning Point USA conference, Vice President JD Vance entertained questions about America’s relationship with Israel that dripped with antisemitic undertones—asking why the United States “owed Israel anything,” given that “their religion does not agree with ours.” His response emphasized “national interest” over shared democratic values or historic alliances.

Soon after, former Fox News host and current conservative media figure Tucker Carlson, who termed Christian Zionism a “brain virus,” hosted on his program far-right activist Nick Fuentes—a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier. When Carlson was criticized, Kevin Roberts, head of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, rushed to his defense. The Heritage Foundation is particularly known for publishing “Project Esther,” a national strategy to combat antisemitism.

Taken together, these episodes mark a bipartisan normalization of antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment that once lingered at the edges of public discourse. On both the left and the right, antipathy toward Israel is being reframed—on one side as moral virtue, on the other as nationalist authenticity.

The first casualties of this realignment are American Jews themselves.

Those on the left feel exiled from movements they helped build. Those on the right feel unsafe among allies who trivialize or excuse antisemitism. The result is a community adrift—politically, spiritually and morally—at the very moment when solidarity is most needed.

For Israel, the implications are profound. Jerusalem must resist the temptation to align itself exclusively with one American party or ideological camp. Instead, it should nurture channels of dialogue with American Jews across the spectrum—both institutional and grassroots. Such engagement serves a dual purpose: to fortify Jewish identity and resilience amid rising hostility, and to foster within Israel a deeper understanding of how it might support the continued vitality of American Jewry.

The survival and flourishing of Jewish life in America cannot depend on the favor of transient political winds, nor can it retreat into sectarianism. The task now is to recover a sense of shared destiny—rooted not in unanimity of opinion, but in the recognition that Jewish life, wherever it unfolds, remains bound by a moral covenant older and deeper than any party line.

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‘Destroy Israel’: Rabbi of NYC shul recounts targeting by mob

Rabbi Arthur Schneier, 95, who leads the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, is a Holocaust survivor who saw his synagogue burn on Kristallnacht.

JNS Staff

https://www.jns.org/activists-chant-destroy-israel-and-we-need-to-make-them-scared-outside-ny-shul/

Rabbi Arthur Schneier (center), the senior rabbi of Park East Synagogue, and Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, alongside N.Y. and Israeli officials at a ceremony inaugurating Yad Vashem Way on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Jan. 30, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig.

(23November2025 / JNS) The 95-year-old senior rabbi of Manhattan’s historic Park East Synagogue, which was targeted by an anti-Israel mob earlier in the week, recounted the unsettling experience in an interview on Friday with the New York Post.

“I’m a Holocaust survivor. I saw my synagogue [in Vienna] burn on Kristallnacht with the police standing by and not intervening,” Rabbi Arthur Schneier was quoted as saying.

“Thank God in the United States, the police are protecting us against the hate-mongers,” Schneier said.

Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, was an event orchestrated by the Nazis on Nov. 9-10, 1938, in which more than 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms, and Jewish businesses, homes, hospitals and schools were burned, damaged and ransacked in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.

Although the anti-Israel activists who gathered outside the synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Wednesday did not employ physical violence, they used incendiary language such as “Destroy Israel” and “We need to make them scared,” calling on the “resistance” to “take another settler out,” the Post reported.

Schneier said the disturbing event should serve as a “warning not to be silent. No house of worship should be subjected to this type of demonstration.”

Schneier has led the congregation for five decades. The synagogue was established in New York in 1890. On Wednesday night, it hosted an event by Nefesh B’Nefesh, an Israel-based organization encouraging North American Jews to relocate to Israel.

Mayor Eric Adams condemned the protesters, saying “Houses of worship are where people go to heal, reflect and respect one another. Church, mosque, synagogue, it makes no difference. Screaming vile language outside any of them isn’t ‘protest’ it’s desecration. It shows how sick and warped these agitators have become.”

He added that he will pay a visit to the synagogue when he returns from his trip abroad.

Houses of worship are where people go to heal, reflect, and respect one another. Church, mosque, synagogue, it makes no difference. Screaming vile language outside any of them isn’t “protest” it’s desecration. It shows how sick and warped these agitators have become.

When I’m… https://t.co/yESds6rNoS

— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) November 20, 2025

Eric Adams-tweet-20November2025-it’s desecration
Houses of worship are where people go to heal, reflect, and respect one another. Church, mosque, synagogue, it makes no difference. Screaming vile language outside any of them isn’t “protest” it’s desecration. It shows how sick and warped these agitators have become.

When I’m back in New York, I’ll be stopping at Park East to show my support. Pray for our city.

Today it’s a synagogue. Tomorrow it’s a church or a mosque. They come for me today and you tomorrow.

We cannot hand this city over to radicals.
Moshe Schwartz-tweet-20November2025-intifada revolution
Hamas protesters heckle Jews and chant for an intifada outside Park East Synagogue in Manhattan to protest an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, an organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel.

The protesters chant, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” “No peace on stolen land,” and , “We don’t want no two states, we want ‘48.”

Eric Adams-tweet-20November2025-it’s desecration

The anti-Israel Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani issued a statement saying that he “discouraged” the language used at the protest, but coupled it with a criticism of the event, saying that “these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law,” the Post reported.

“Pal-Awda NY/NJ,” the anti-Israel group behind the protest, doubled down on its behavior, tweeting on Friday that it “showed up to declare ‘Death to the IDF’” in response to the effort to “recruit American settlers to illegally occupy stolen Palestinian land.”

According to the Post, the group moreover legitimized the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, against Israel during the second anniversary of the massacre this year.

“Two years ago today, the Palestinian Resistance broke the gates of the world’s largest open-air prison, disrupting the norm of decades of dispossession and apartheid imposed by ‘Israel,’” the report cited the group as tweeting.

Meanwhile, Schneier told the Post he was “very, very touched” by the show of support for the Jewish community from prominent officials such as N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

“I’m touched by the solidarity of good people outraged by what has taken place. And also, by the way, I’ve received calls from clergy from many denominations,” the Holocaust survivor said.

Violent Antisemitic mob Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC

Jessie Fairbanks was filmed screaming at a Jewish man to k*ll himself outside Park East Synagogue during recent protests in Manhattan:

“Do the world a favor, k*ll yourself, sl*t your throat!”

A few months earlier, she was also filmed tearing down posters of Israeli hostages.… pic.twitter.com/lI6EGw2KYJ

— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) November 27, 2025

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Jessie Fairbanks was filmed screaming at a Jewish man to k*ll himself outside Park East Synagogue during recent protests in Manhattan:

“Do the world a favor, k*ll yourself, sl*t your throat!”

A few months earlier, she was also filmed tearing down posters of Israeli hostages.

This is sick.

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Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-22November2025-this cannot be tolerated

THANK YOU!
because this cannot be tolerated!
Not in NYC and not anywhere in America or the world
Protests MUST be illegal within at least a square block of a synagogue and Jews must be free to come and go without fear, blockades or running through the back door!

— Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English (@ShalomArushEN) November 22, 2025

Leo Terrell-tweet-22November2025-I am doing something
I am doing something! Trust me! @realDonaldTrump @AGPamBondi
Rabbi Poupko-tweet-21November2025-anti-semitic protest outside Park East Synagogue
The more I speak to people about the anti-semitic protest outside Park East Synagogue, the more questions I have for the NYPD.

The NYPD must explain why it allowed Hamas of New York to come so close to the door of a New York City sending out, why it kept so many Jews away, and why it allowed the anti-semitic goons to stand right outside a synagogue.
Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-22November2025-because this cannot be tolerated
THANK YOU!
because this cannot be tolerated!
Not in NYC and not anywhere in America or the world
Protests MUST be illegal within at least a square block of a synagogue and Jews must be free to come and go without fear, blockades or running through the back door!

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Nefesh B’Nefesh-23November2025-Our commitment remains unwavering

In Response to the Recent Violent Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC:

For more than two decades, Nefesh B’Nefesh has been dedicated to supporting, educating, and advising individuals and families throughout their Aliyah (immigration to Israel) journey.

We are deeply… pic.twitter.com/22IE6ccKNI

— Nefesh B’Nefesh (@NefeshBNefesh) November 23, 2025

Nefesh B’Nefesh-tweet-23November2025-Our commitment remains unwavering
In Response to the Recent Violent Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC:

For more than two decades, Nefesh B’Nefesh has been dedicated to supporting, educating, and advising individuals and families throughout their Aliyah (immigration to Israel) journey.

We are deeply concerned by, and firmly condemn, the violent rhetoric and aggressive behavior that took place outside of the Park East Synagogue.

Our commitment remains unwavering. We will continue to serve Olim (immigrants to Israel) with professionalism, compassion, and the highest level of care, ensuring that every individual and family feels supported.

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OPEN LETTER TO PROTESTER

To the person who showed up outside Park East Synagogue last night chanting to “globalize the intifada” , and saying “de@th to the IDF”.

I will not appeal to your moral sensibilities.

I will not tell you this is a synagogue that was home to the most… pic.twitter.com/pKedmzT87H

— Rabbi Poupko (@RabbiPoupko) November 20, 2025

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OPEN LETTER TO PROTESTER

To the person who showed up outside Park East Synagogue last night chanting to “globalize the intifada” , and saying “de@th to the IDF”.

I will not appeal to your moral sensibilities.

I will not tell you this is a synagogue that was home to the most Holocaust survivors in New York, about the children who go through the synagogue door, about the people who find meaning and community within its sacred walls.

You probably knew all that before you showed up, and you still showed up.

It probably felt good and empowering for you to stand there and shout at us.

Here is what I will bring to your attention.

To the Brownshirts who went from being bitterly unemployed to standing with a uniform and a group outside of Jewish stores in Berlin in the 1930s, it probably also felt very good. They went from being lonely economically and socially broken individuals, to a place of belonging and power.

Here’s what those Brownshirts enjoyed less.

Just 10 years after they stood outside of those Jewish stores in Berlin, they were freezing and starving for months outside the gates of Stalingrad. Most of them did not make it out alive. They froze or starved to death.

Just 10 years after those rallies in Munich and Nuremberg, they were laying at the feet of British soldiers in the deserts of North Africa.

Antisemitism is a sweet poison pill; it feels good at the moment and the price comes only later.

This kind of chaos, hate, and incility will affect us first, but the consequences for a society that allows such hate, are disintegration the kind of which we have seen in World War II.

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The siege of Park East Synagogue and cooperating with Mamdani

Some leaders think they must make nice with the mayor-elect. But how can you work with a hostile mayor who openly sympathizes with those attacking Jewish houses of worship?

https://www.jns.org/the-siege-of-park-east-synagogue-and-cooperating-with-mamdani/

Jonathan S. Tobin

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.

(21November2025 / JNS) In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the New York City mayoral election, most Jewish leaders believed that they had no choice but to do their best to cooperate with him. Doing so was in keeping with the traditions of American democracy.

But how do you work with someone who is sending mixed messages to antisemitic mobs about whether it is OK to besiege synagogues and threaten Jews with violence?

That’s the dilemma facing New York Jewry in the wake of Mamdani’s equivocal comments about the siege of Park East Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on the evening of Nov. 19 by an anti-Zionist mob who harassed those entering the building and chanted slogans like “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada” and “Resistance you make us proud, take another settler out.”

Lying about aliyah and international law

Speaking through a spokesman, the mayor-elect issued an anodyne statement about “discouraging” the use of such slogans threatening Jews with violence. It said, “He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation.”

Had it stopped right there, it would have been appropriate and engendered no criticism. But Mamdani couldn’t leave it at that. In the same sentence, the statement went on to qualify his condemnation of the incident by declaring that “these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”

Let’s be clear: What happened in the synagogue that night was no violation of international law. It was a gathering organized by a group that promotes Jewish immigration to Israel. Far from illegal, that’s a right that is secured by international law dating back to the aftermath of the First World War. It was established in the 1920 San Remo Agreement that guaranteed the right of Jews to settle in their ancient homeland, and then the 1922 League of Nations creation of the British Mandate for Palestine in order to implement this principle.

The founding of the modern-day State of Israel as a result of the U.N. 1947 Partition Resolution (or Resolution 181) further clarified the principle.

But to Mamdani, a man who has been obsessed with opposition to the existence of a Jewish state his entire adult life, merely thinking about moving there is wrong and in violation of some entirely fictional “law” in which Jews—unique among all the peoples in the world—are to be forbidden from living in the place where they are indigenous.

The message he was sending to both the antisemitic mob and to the Jews was clear. The 34-year-old may not yet feel comfortable openly supporting incidents in which Jews are threatened with violence and harassed while entering a synagogue. But not even a desire to ensure that he has a honeymoon period with New Yorkers after his election is enough to prevent him from stating unambiguously that he is definitely on the side of those making such threats.

If nothing else, that should give pause to the city’s Jewish establishment, which has spent the weeks since Mamdani’s election signaling to him that they want to make nice with him and have no intention of actively working against a man who has no scruples about siding with antisemites.

An abnormal situation

If this had been a normal mayoral election, that’s exactly what they should be doing.

Many, especially in deep-blue New York, have treated President Donald Trump’s two election victories as an exception to that basic premise of democracy. That notwithstanding, it is necessary for those who back the losing candidates in elections to act as a loyal opposition to the winners, as opposed to a “resistance,” as Trump’s adversaries have done. Whatever one thinks about the outcome, those who care about democracy are obligated to treat the results of the ballot box as legitimate and to work with the victors for the betterment of all citizens.

And that is exactly how Jewish leaders were treating Mamdani. His record of support for antisemitic BDS campaigns and opposition to the existence of the one Jewish state on the planet—not to mention his radical socialist ideas about governing the city—had frightened many Jewish New Yorkers, the overwhelming majority of whom voted against him. But the organized Jewish world made no secret about its readiness to cooperate with the new administration in City Hall.

They cheered the news that Mamdani was prepared to allow Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to stay in her crucial role, thus sending a message that Jews would not be abandoned. And Mamdani also sent representatives to meet with leaders of the city’s Jewish Federation and Community Relations Council.

Skepticism was warranted. Still, they were prepared to give the mayor the benefit of the doubt. They accepted the premise that his ideological obsession with opposing Israel and opposition to essential elements of Jewish identity related to the Jewish homeland and peoplehood would not impact his duties as mayor or endanger the Jewish community.

But the Nov. 19 incident gave Jewish New Yorkers an unwelcome reminder of what it means to have someone so closely associated with Jew-hatred in a position of power. More than that, they were put on notice about what they are likely to be in for during the next four years.

Making the Jews scared

When Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation whose building is a historic landmark, hosted an event for the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization that promotes aliyah, it was besieged by a mob of more than 200 demonstrators shouting antisemitic slogans and harassing those entering the venue. As the New York Post reported, the swarm of angry Jew-haters chanted the usual litany of slogans that have become familiar since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Their purpose was not merely to state their hostility to Israel or Jews. As one of their leaders told the mob, “It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events.” As the Post reported, the agitator “repeated emphatically” that “we need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared.”

And by stating that he agreed with the basic premise of their cause, the mayor-elect was telling Jews throughout the city that they had every reason to be afraid for their safety in a New York governed by the incoming mayor. And so, Mamdani needs to be sent an unequivocal message by decent New Yorkers, whether or not they are Jewish, that this kind of messaging is both unacceptable and dangerous.

It’s not just that he was lying about aliyah being a violation of international law rather than a basic right of the Jewish people. He also has no business spouting opinions about what sort of events should be held in synagogues. That’s especially true when those houses of worship are liable to be besieged by bloody-minded protesters who seek to intimidate Jews into silence, when the mayor is making no secret that he is in agreement with the thugs screaming at the Jews.

Despite the pious language about ensuring the safety of those entering synagogues, his talk about Jews holding illegal events is a bright green light to antisemites to repeat this outrage. Under the circumstances, Jews have every right to wonder what’s in store for them in Mamdani’s New York, regardless of Tisch’s continued tenure at the New York City Police Department. Indeed, it may well be a foreshadowing of even worse to come.

That’s why the “business as usual” talk from Jewish leaders has to cease.

It’s true that Jewish organizations need to ensure that there is some cooperation with the city administration when necessary. But they can’t ignore the fact that Mamdani isn’t being shy about telling Jews that they can only consider themselves safe if they disavow an essential element of their identity and faith. Support for Israel and Zionism is integral to being Jewish, and that is something that the overwhelming majority of Jews believe, whether or not they are observant or where their sympathies lie in terms of Israel or American politics.

In essence, Mamdani isn’t hesitating to send a message that he is at war not just with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he continues to threaten with arrest if the Israeli leader visits the city on his watch. Notwithstanding his pledges to be a mayor for all New Yorkers, he’s also at war with Jewish peoplehood. And that is something that no Jewish leader or entity should tolerate or let pass without vigorous protest.

Jewish leaders must act

At this point, responsible Jewish leaders, especially those specifically tasked with monitoring antisemitism and the defense of the Jews, like the Anti-Defamation League, need to stop talking about cooperation and start planning for a campaign of active resistance to Mamdani’s prejudicial attitudes towards Jewish life.

That means not only organizing the kind of demonstrations that make it clear that New Yorkers won’t accept his taking the side of violent thugs advocating for Jewish genocide.

It also should mean a policy of legal action designed to thwart those instances when the mayor and his staff of left-wing agitators and Marxist ideologues start trying to put their ideological obsession with destroying the Jewish state into action with BDS-style discriminatory policies. In addition, they must begin—to the extent that it is possible in a city and state where gun rights are not respected by local authorities—to prepare members of the Jewish community to defend themselves against what is likely to follow.

And they should also declare their willingness to support any actions by the president of the United States, who, though opposed by the liberal Jewish majority in New York, has a demonstrated record of support and friendship for Jews and Israel, intended to hamstring Mamdani’s ability to injure the Jewish community.

The coming months will be a test not only of how far Mamdani will go to antagonize and threaten the Jewish community, but also of the mettle of a generation of Jewish leaders who have heretofore shown little sign of being ready to lead their community in an unprecedented battle for their rights and safety. If they aren’t equal to this challenge, and instead prefer to seek to ingratiate themselves with an antisemitic mayor, then it will be time to replace them with others who are made of sterner stuff.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.

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Bagels, Smattering Of Yiddish Oddly Inadequate To Ensure US Jewish Continuity

“I can’t figure out what else we have to offer the world.”

https://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/bagels-smattering-of-yiddish-oddly-inadequate-to-ensure-us-jewish-continuity/

lox and bagels

New York, November 12 [2025] – Heirs to an ancient tradition that has stood at the vanguard of human development for thousands of years and continues to foster achievement far in excess of what the numbers of its population might suggest, continued to discover this week that a connection with anything but the most superficial remnants of that tradition will, for mysterious reasons, not guarantee that they can carry the tradition forward.

Assimilated American Jews again faced the ongoing realization, some acknowledged today, that bagels, a few Yiddish words, Holocaust commemoration, and vague notions of “Tikkun Olam,” which they construe only as the application of contemporary left-wing values, constitute everything important about Judaism, and will secure the continuity of the ethnoreligion.

“I’m wracking my brains, though,” admitted Rabbi Timothy Lieberman of Temple Azaju in Tenafly, New Jersey. “For the life of me, I can’t figure out what else we have to offer the world. Gefilte fish? No thank you – neither savory nor sweet. Hava Nagila? Faaaar too explicit in its Zionism, and Zionism smacks of Jewish particularism, which goes against everything progressive, so it can’t be truly Jewish, can it? That leaves dill pickles, I guess.”

“Oh, and a Hanukkah bush.” He noted that until recently, Zionism also played a role, but progressive Jews have distanced themselves from Jewish sovereignty, both because it proved to be a bar to participation in coveted progressive spaces, and because it implies a level of commitment to Jewish history and peoplehood that grew inconvenient for those uncomfortable with religion-adjacent obligations.

Lieberman’s dwindling congregation once numbered more than a hundred families. His predecessors in the position welcomed intermarried couples and even performed weddings of Jews to non-Jews, despite statistical evidence that such unions seldom, if ever, raise offspring committed to Jewish heritage, let alone educated in it. Now, membership at Azaju has declined to a mere two dozen households, all but one of them older members whose children and grandchildren seldom attend services or community functions.

“We don’t understand what’s unattractive about bagels and lox,” lamented Selma Jacobs, whose father marched with Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr. “That should be all we need – sprinkle our conversation with ‘putz,’ ‘schmutz,’ and ‘bubbe-mayseh,’ lament the Holocaust, and place other minorities’ causes before our own. It worked for me, and don’t talk to me about not having any Jewish grandchildren. My children married non-Jews and none of them have any non-Jewish children because they decided not to have any children at all.”

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30 November

In November 2014 the Israeli government dedicated November 30 of every year as a day to honor and remember the Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries following 1948’s Arab-Israeli War. These are some of their stories

“We disappeared.” The story of Jewish refugees from Arab lands
The stories of the people who witnessed the end of Jewish life in their countries of origin, from Iraq to Libya, and were forced to start from scratch: the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Jewish presence in Arab countries long predates Islam and the Arab conquest of the Middle East and goes back to Biblical times. According to official statistics, over 850,000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in Arab countries between 1948 and the early 1970s. Today, there are fewer than 7,000 Jews left.

The Exile of Jews from Arab Lands – Noemi Lieberman

On December 1, 1947, two days after the U.N. General Assembly approved the Partition Plan, pogroms erupted in most Arab states. These pogroms were a result of the incitement in the state-run media in those countries, and was supposed serve as retribution for U.N. plan. The Arabs considered the partition to be a betrayal by the international community, and many in Arab world still hold that view today and refuse to accept the notion that the Jews should have a state.

They had to sneak out like a criminal in the night. They had to leave everything. They could not take any luggage. They had to dress in layers to take whatever cloths they wanted.

“We were just going out for the evening”,

They did not know the route. They had to use Code Words.
Jews could not have Passports.
They could not return.

“We really lived in denial…”

When they start killing Jews in the street, it is time to leave.

Bernard-Henri Lévy — French philosopher, filmmaker, and activist warns American Jews; Bernard-Henri Lévy Says Election of Donald Trump a ‘Major Event for Jews’; Warns of Rise of ‘American Antisemitism’

From Jewish Virtual Library

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Fact Sheet: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries

(Updated December 2015) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/jew_refugees.html
Although much is heard about the plight of the Palestinian refugees from the aftermath of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence and the 1967 Six Day War, little is said about the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced to flee from Arab states before and after the creation of Israel. In fact, these refugees were largely forgotten because they were assimilated into their new homes, most in Israel, and neither the United Nations nor any other international agency took up their cause or demanded restitution for the property and money taken from them. Legislation passed in the Knesset during 2015 designated November 30 as a day of recognition for Jewish refugees from Arab countries. To read a PDF file about Jewish refugees from Arab countries put together by Ashley Perry, the Director General of the Knesset Caucus for the Reconnection with the Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Communities, please click here.

Yemenite Jews flee during Operation Magic Carpet

In 1945, roughly 1 million Jews lived peacefully in the various Arab states of the Middle East, many of them in communities that had existed for thousands of years. After the Arabs rejected the United Nations decision to partition Palestine and create a Jewish state, however, the Jews of the Arab lands became targets of their own governments’ anti-Zionist fervor. As Egypt’s delegate to the UN in 1947 chillingly told the General Assembly: “The lives of one million Jews in Muslim countries will be jeopardized by partition.” The dire warning quickly became the brutal reality.

Throughout 1947 and 1948, Jews in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Yemen (Aden) were persecuted, their property and belongings were confiscated, and they were subjected to severe anti-Jewish riots instigated by the governments. In Iraq, Zionism was made a capital crime. In Syria, anti-Jewish pogroms erupted in Aleppo and the government froze all Jewish bank accounts. In Egypt, bombs were detonated in the Jewish quarter, killing dozens. In Algeria, anti-Jewish decrees were swiftly instituted and in Yemen, bloody pogroms led to the death of nearly 100 Jews.

In January 1948, the president of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Stephen Wise, appealed to U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall: “Between 800,000 and a million Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, exclusive of Palestine, are in ‘the greatest danger of destruction’ at the hands of Moslems being incited to holy war over the Partition of Palestine … Acts of violence already perpetrated, together with those contemplated, being clearly aimed at the total destruction of the Jews, constitute genocide, which under the resolutions of the General Assembly is a crime against humanity.” In May 1948, the New York Times echoed Wise’s appeal, and ran an article headlined, “Jews in Grave Danger in all Muslim Lands: Nine Hundred Thousand in Africa and Asia face wrath of their foes.”

With their lives in danger and the situation growing ever more perilous, the Jews of the Arab World fled their homes as refugees.

Of the 820,000 Jewish refugees between 1948 and 1972, more than 200,000 found refuge in Europe and North America while 586,000 were resettled in Israel – at great expense to the Israeli government, and without any compensation from the Arab governments who had confiscated their possessions. The majority of the Jewish refugees left their homes penniless and destitute and with nothing more than the shirts on their backs. These Jews, however, had no desire to be repatriated in the Arab World and little is heard about them because they did not remain refugees for long.

In Israel, a newly independent country that was still facing existential threats to its survival, the influx of immigrants nearly doubled the population and a put a great strain on an economy struggling to just meet the needs of its existing population. The Jewish State, however, never considered turning away the refugees and, over the years, worked to absorb them into society.

Iraqi Jews flee as refugees to Israel

Overall, the number of Jews fleeing Arab countries for Israel in the years following Israel’s independence was nearly double the number of Arabs leaving Palestine. The contrast between the Jewish refugees and the Palestinian refugees grows even starker considering the difference in cultural and geographic dislocation – most of the Jewish refugees traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to a tiny country whose inhabitants spoke a different language and lived with a vastly different culture. Most Palestinian refugees traveled but a few miles to the other side of the 1949 armistice lines while remaining inside a linguistically, culturally and ethnically similar society.

Moreover, the value of Jewish property left behind and confiscated by the Arab governments is estimated to be at least 50 percent higher than the total value of assets lost by the Palestinian refugees. In the 1950’s, John Measham Berncastle, under the aegis of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, estimated that total assets lost by Palestinian refugees from 1948 – including land, buildings, movable property, and frozen bank accounts – amounted to roughly $350 million ($650 per refugee). Adding in an additional $100 million for assets lost by Palestinian refugees as a result of the Six Day War, an approximate total is $450 million – $4.4 billion in 2012 prices. By contrast, the value of assets lost by the Jewish refugees – compiled by a similar methodology – is estimated at $700 million – roughly $6.7 billion today. …

Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians: The Derailed Debate on 1948

Why was there no UNRWA for our grandparents?

Why was there no #UNRWA for our grandparents?

In the 1950’s, there were nearly 1 million #Jewish refugees from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, and Egypt

We, also, still have the keys 🗝 pic.twitter.com/tA38d6DRa3

— Zechariah Shar’abi | זכריה | زكريا (@ZechariahSharab) February 15, 2024

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Why was there no #UNRWA for our grandparents?

In the 1950’s, there were nearly 1 million #Jewish refugees from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, and Egypt

We, also, still have the keys 🗝

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One year later — the answer to “Where Are Your Jews?”

Real ethnic cleansing vs. lies.

Watch—pic.twitter.com/oMNDhxncAu

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 8, 2024

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Real ethnic cleansing vs. lies.

Watch—

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Displacement of Jewish communities and when they were founded

This is Ethnic Cleansing

One year later — the answer to “Where Are Your Jews?”

“Mr. President, one year ago in this chamber I asked the Arab states a simple question: ‘Where are your Jews?’

My question was met with dead silence.

Millions of people worldwide watched the video, witnessing for… pic.twitter.com/nJKAkph6dJ

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) November 30, 2023

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One year later — the answer to “Where Are Your Jews?”

“Mr. President, one year ago in this chamber I asked the Arab states a simple question: ‘Where are your Jews?’

My question was met with dead silence.

Millions of people worldwide watched the video, witnessing for themselves the hypocrisy and double standards that characterizes much of what is said and done here.

Today I have come to provide the answer to my question.

Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya—your Jews fled as refugees after suffering persecution and deadly pogroms like the Farhud of Baghdad in 1941.

Fortunately, countries like Israel, the U.S., Canada, France and others opened their doors, offering citizenship and equal rights.

These Jewish refugees from Arab lands—whose suffering and losses the UN has never addressed—put their hardship behind them and built great lives for their families.

Now let us contrast this with the situation of those descended from Arab refugees who fled the area of British Mandatory Palestine during the invasion of nascent Israel by Arab armies.

What is holding them back? The answer is simple.

Palestinians are the only population in the world not eligible for services by the UN refugee agency (@Refugees).

Instead these descendants are governed by @UNRWA, which holds generation after generation trapped in refugee camps, denied integration in the Arab countries they were born in and denied resettlement elsewhere.

Some of UNRWA’s donors are waking up to the problem.

As Swiss Foreign Minister @ignaziocassis recently has put it: ‘By supporting UNRWA, we are only keeping the conflict alive.’

I thank you, Mr. President.”

– @HillelNeuer

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The hidden Jews in Mashad, Iran

For 100 years, my best friend’s family lived a double life as “hidden Jews” in Mashad, #Iran.

In 1839, thousands of Muslims viciously attacked the #Jewish ghetto of Mashad in a bloody pogrom known as the “Allahdad” (Gd’s Justice).

36 Jews were slaughtered. Many women were…

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) February 11, 2024

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For 100 years, my best friend’s family lived a double life as “hidden Jews” in Mashad, #Iran.

In 1839, thousands of Muslims viciously attacked the #Jewish ghetto of Mashad in a bloody pogrom known as the “Allahdad” (Gd’s Justice).

36 Jews were slaughtered. Many women were raped. 7 Jewish girls were kidnapped and forced to become child-brides.

The remaining 300 Jewish families were given an impossible choice: convert to Islam, or die immediately.

Like the Marrano Jews of Spain who pretended to convert to Catholicism while hiding their true Jewish identity, the 300 Jewish families in Mashad – including my best friend’s family – pretended to convert.

Outside their homes, by all appearances, Mashadi Jews truly converted. They adopted Muslim
names, They regularly attended services at the mosque. They bought halal meat and Muslim-made bread. They even appeared to fast during Ramadan.

But at home, in their basements and behind shuttered windows, they secretly continued to devoutly observe Judaism.

Shabbat candles – which were made secretly in their basements – were lit under a cover, so they couldn’t be seen through windows.

Women would wear traditional Muslim clothes – called chador – but would clandestinely use those cloaks to smuggle Torahs, prayer shawls and other ceremonial objects throughout the community.

Families kept dogs and cats, so they could feed them the Muslim meat they bought while they themselves ate kosher meat, ritually slaughtered in secret and smuggled home under the women’s chadors.

During Passover, women would bake Matzah in basements after the children were sleeping, so if the children were ever questioned by Shia fanatics (which was common) they wouldn’t have any information to divulge.

And to keep their children from intermarrying, children were betrothed at a young age, so if Muslims came asking for their hand, they would be told the girls were already engaged.

For 120 years Mashadi Jews prayed that the day would come when they would be able to live freely as Jews.

They suffered a secret double life, filled with fear, because they had no way to escape the radical Muslims who wanted to oppress, persecute and erase Jews from existence.

But today’s Jews are finally free.

Today’s Jews have our ancestral indigenous homeland #Israel.

Today’s Jews know that the #October7Massacre is just another rinse and repeat of bloody pogroms like the “Allahdad” where Jews are slaughtered, raped and looted to satisfy antisemitic blood lust.

This war isn’t about land. It was NEVER about land. It’s about a genocidal desire to destroy Jews from existence.

🔥AND WE ARE GOING NOWHERE🔥

#AmYisraelChai
#NeverAgainIsNow
#IStandWithIsrael
#HamasISIS #HamasRapists
#BelieveIsraeliWomen
#BringThemHomeNow
#DefundUNRWA

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I am a Mashadi Jew.

My ancestors had to hide their Judaism in Mashad, Iran. They survived by practicing Islam and would even make the Hajj, pilgrimage, to Mecca (which is where the “Haj” comes from in my family name).

Despite that, my family stayed true to our roots and kept… https://t.co/kdt0qOl6rQ

— Keren Hajioff (@kerenhajioff) February 11, 2024

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I am a Mashadi Jew.

My ancestors had to hide their Judaism in Mashad, Iran. They survived by practicing Islam and would even make the Hajj, pilgrimage, to Mecca (which is where the “Haj” comes from in my family name).

Despite that, my family stayed true to our roots and kept our Judaism alive.

I am proud to belong to an ancestry who fought to stay Jewish. I am proud to be Mashadi and belong to a sisterhood of Iranian women who are fighting for their freedom. And I am proud to call Israel my home.
Indeed, we are going nowhere 🔥

Thank you @persianjewess for sharing our story

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Many of my aunts and uncles didn’t flee Iran quickly. What happened to them

Many of my aunts and uncles didn’t
flee #Iran as quickly as my parents did.

They were older. They had multiple children. And they had established lives with businesses and homes.

In many ways, they were also hopeful. “Maybe it won’t be so bad,” they thought.

They were wrong.…

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) February 21, 2024

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Many of my aunts and uncles didn’t
flee #Iran as quickly as my parents did.

They were older. They had multiple children. And they had established lives with businesses and homes.

In many ways, they were also hopeful. “Maybe it won’t be so bad,” they thought.

They were wrong.

Seemingly overnight, the #Jewish schools my cousins attended fell under a new administration. Jewish teachers were fired and replaced with radicals loyal to the Islamic Regime.

Each day in class, my cousins – some as young as 5 – and all their Jewish classmates had to stand up and recite “Death to America!” “Death to Israel!” as part of their morning ritual.

If a child didn’t scream these phrases loud enough to the satisfaction of their sadistic teachers, they were punished. Parents were interrogated. If their answers weren’t satisfactory, they were imprisoned as “Zionist spies.”

So the Jewish children made sure to scream these calls for death as loud as they could, to save their parents the wrath of the goons of the IRGC.

And then, right on the heels of the Islamic Revolution, came the Iran-Iraq War and with it, the indoctrination of child soldiers into martyrdom.

The IRGC drafted young boys, some as young as 9 years old, for mine-sweeping and other suicide missions.

The children were given plastic ‘keys to paradise’ and promised that they would go directly to heaven if they died as martyrs against the Iraqi enemy.

9 out of 10 Iranian child soldiers died. An estimated 95,000 child soldiers were sacrificed by the Iranian Regime.

My oldest cousin was 14. My aunt and uncle, desperate to save their son, scraped together what money they had to hire smugglers to sneak him out of Iran.

The journey would take 2 weeks, with zero communication, and fraught with danger.

Thousands who sought to escape via the smugglers never made it to their destination: killed or captured along the way. Their bodies lost to the desert.

But staying was certain death.

And so they sent off my 14 year old cousin by himself, praying they would be one of the lucky ones who would receive a phone call from their son in two weeks time once he reached Pakistan.

It would be years before my aunt and uncle would be reunited with my cousin again.

Today, we see the same sickening disregard for human life being carried out by the Islamic Regime’s proxy: Hamas.

Islam is distorted and perverted to indoctrinate children into martyrdom and terrorism.

Islamic Jihad and murder for the sake of “Allah” is glorified.

Democratic countries like the #USA and #Israel are vilified.

Because Hamas doesn’t care for Palestinians. Hamas is no more than Iran’s puppet.

And Iran’s end goal is not Palestinian statehood, but the spread of radical Islam via the destruction of democracy.

Israel, the only bastion of democracy in the Middle East, is just the Islamic Regime’s first target.

This was NEVER about land. This was ALWAYS about the destruction of western values.

And the war is already on our shores, in our schools, and in every violent Pro-Hamas protest we see in the streets.

So 🔥WAKE UP AMERICA🔥 It’s time to smell the Jihad. Before it’s too late.

#StandWithIsrael
#TheWestIsNext #WakeUpAmerica
#HamasISIS #HamasRapists
#BelieveIsraeliWomen
#BringThemHomeNow
#IraniansStandWithIsrael

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I have yet to see a Middle Eastern ‘AsAJew’

I have yet to see a Middle Eastern #AsAJew. That’s not a coincidence.

Many “western” Jews have spent generations living in the comfort of tolerant democratic societies.

Their experience of persecution no more than an anecdotal story told about their Bubbe.

Their connection…

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 19, 2024

The Persian Jewess-tweet-19March2024-I have yet to see a Middle Eastern AsAJew
I have yet to see a Middle Eastern #AsAJew. That’s not a coincidence.

Many “western” Jews have spent generations living in the comfort of tolerant democratic societies.

Their experience of persecution no more than an anecdotal story told about their Bubbe.

Their connection with their Jewish identity no more than the act of eating a bagel with lox and shmear.

What do the Chuck Schumers and the Jonathan Glazers of the world really know about living in continuous fear because they are #Jewish?

Nothing.

Because a fear so suffocating that it imbeds every moment of your existence cannot be described in mere words. Our minds, quite literally, are incapable of comprehending such a trauma.

All my relatives have Arab/Farsi names, and secret Jewish names. Are those words sufficient to help you taste the bitter helplessness of my relatives who had to hide their Jewish identity?

My friend’s great-aunts, from Kermanshah, were kidnapped from their homes and forced into marriages with mullahs, never to be seen again. Does that sentence make you feel the same shaking rage that her grandmother experiences to this day?

My parents were forced to abandon their lives, their homes, their belongings, pack a few precious possessions into a suitcase, and flee Iran after the Islamic Revolution.

Is that enough for you to experience my parent’s heartbreak as they left everything and everyone they loved behind because of radical jihadist terrorists?

The answer is No.

But the 1.2 Million Jews who were ethnically cleansed from the Middle East since the 1940’s don’t need to rely on inadequate anecdotal tales.

We know, FIRST HAND, what it means to be persecuted for being Jewish.

We know, what it means to have to flee your country, with nowhere to go except Israel.

And most important of all, we know that it was solely because of the existence of #Israel that we were finally able to flee the persecution of MENA countries and seek better lives.

We don’t need to “hijack the Holocaust” to justify the existence of Israel. Our own lived experiences are MORE THAN SUFFICIENT to justify the existence of Israel.

And we know, without question, that the Jewish State is all that stands between a life as persecuted Dhimmis and a life as Free Jews.

So go ahead and tokenize the Jonathan Glazers of the world who pretend that Jewish persecution began and ended with the Holocaust.

Go ahead and pretend that Mizrahi Jews and the centuries of discrimination, forced conversions, rape, murder and ethnic cleansing don’t exist.

Keep acting like this is about land and not about the rampant Jew-Hate that has existed in MENA countries since the dawn of Islam.

This #ZionistJew will scream loud enough for the WHOLE WORLD to hear me.

🔥I STAND WITH ISRAEL🔥

Now and forever. 💙🇮🇱💙

#AmYisraelChai
#StandWithIsrael
#AntizionismIsAntisemitism
#BringThemHomeNow

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I was in my ELEMENT on Purim

You can bet your Hamentaschen that I dressed up as Queen Esther on Purim as a kid.

I was an olive-skinned, dark-haired girl living in a world where Disney princesses had blonde hair and blue eyes and NOTHING around me reflected the reality of my personal life.

As the only… pic.twitter.com/qFQeJVznvC

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 23, 2024

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You can bet your Hamentaschen that I dressed up as Queen Esther on Purim as a kid.

I was an olive-skinned, dark-haired girl living in a world where Disney princesses had blonde hair and blue eyes and NOTHING around me reflected the reality of my personal life.

As the only Persian kid at school, my teachers didn’t know where “I-ran” was on a map, let alone how to help an immigrant kid who was constantly bullied for being different.

And even Hebrew school, which focused on Ashkenazi traditions, was always slightly off from my Jewish life at home.

We would learn about the Holocaust and “Never Again,” and while my American classmates would go home with the confidence that their existential place in the world was assured…I’d be left even more confused.

How is it Never Again if my family had to flee Iran for being #Jewish just a few short years ago?

Their “Never Again” didn’t match with my “Never Again”. Was this another one of those things that was different between Ashkenazis and Mizrahis, like eating rice on Passover?

The teachers never really had an answer. No one wanted to be the adult who told a class full of kids that yes, people on the world still want you dead because you are Jewish.

But on Purim.

I was in my ELEMENT on Purim.

Fuck Cinderella. And Fuck Sleeping Beauty.

They were nothing more than weak damsels waiting for a prince to save them.

Queen Esther, with her bravery, beauty, and sharp wit not only saved herself, she saved her ENTIRE people.

I’d put on my prettiest dress, let down my brown hair, plop a plastic crown on my head and OWN my role as one of the greatest female icons in history.

“My family is from Persia, like Queen Esther,” I’d tell my Hebrew school class with pride.

And for once, I wasn’t on the outside looking in.

With my belly full of Hamantaschen and my ears ringing with the sound of groggers, I’d feel seen.

But today, it’s not enough. I can’t put on a Queen Esther costume and overlook the fact that for Persian and MENA Jews, and many Jews from the post WW2 Soviet Block, the promise of “Never Again” never applied.

Jewish persecution DIDN’T end in 1948.

I hear so many Jewish voices say they were “blindsided” by antisemitism.

The only reason they were “blindsided” was because post-WW2 Jewish persecution outside of #Israel, especially in MENA countries, has been overlooked and outright ignored.

The Nazism that resulted in the Holocaust wasn’t destroyed, it was REBRANDED into Radical Islamic Jihadism.

And the same Radical Islamic Jihadist ideology that forced 1.2 MILLION MENA Jews out of their homes is the one embraced by HMS and its many supporters now.

This is why Pro-HMS groups have erased the existence of MENA Jews from their narrative altogether. After all, it’s impossible to continue the LIE of “colonial oppressor vs Arab oppressed” when faced with the complete ETHNIC CLEANSING of Jews from Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Morocco, Iraq, and all the other MENA countries.

So this Purim, as you celebrate Queen Esther, don’t forget…

MENA Jewish history is more than a story in the Megillah.

And we need ALL our collective voices and experiences to defeat the hateful Nazi/Jihadists once and for all.

💙🇮🇱💙

#AmYisraelChai

#StandWithIsrael
#BringThemHomeNow
#AntizionismIsAntisemitism
#Purim #ChagSameach

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The Caribbean was the center for Jewish life in the New World for approximately 200 years

Rivka is a Jamaican Jew who can trace her ancestry to Sephardic Jews who escaped the Spanish Inquisition.

“One thing about the Caribbean is that for approximately 200 years it was the center for Jewish life in the New World.”#AmYisraelChai #JewishHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/J5CGmboNWH

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 12, 2024

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Rivka is a Jamaican Jew who can trace her ancestry to Sephardic Jews who escaped the Spanish Inquisition.

“One thing about the Caribbean is that for approximately 200 years it was the center for Jewish life in the New World.”

#AmYisraelChai
#JewishHistoryMonth

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[Operation Solomon]

When a Boeing 747 Carried 1,088 Passengers

September 20, 2024 Mond Ortiz
https://mondortiz.com/when-a-boeing-747-carried-1088-passengers/

The Boeing 747 is truly an awesome plane, and I’m sure most of us can agree. Not only is it visually stunning, but it’s also highly versatile. Aside from carrying passengers and cargo, it has transported Space Shuttles, been used as a Doomsday plane, and even set a record by carrying 1,088 passengers. Yes, 1,088 passengers on a Boeing 747! This is a record that not even the larger Airbus A380 has surpassed. So, here’s the story behind it.

In 1991, an El Al 747 made history during Operation Solomon when it carried 1,088 people in a single flight. This is a record breaking feat that it even made it to the Guinness World Records as the most number of passengers carried on a plane, that still stands today. The story behind this record involves a daring airlift mission that rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews in a time of crisis.

It was the year when Ethiopia was on the brink of political collapse, the year 1991. The government led by Mengistu Haile Mariam was close to being overthrown by Eritrean and Tigrean rebels. This instability posed a grave threat to the country’s Jewish population. World Jewish organizations, including the American Association for Ethiopian Jews and the state of Israel, were deeply concerned about their safety. The existing regime had previously made mass emigration difficult, but the imminent change in power presented a crucial opportunity for those wanting to move to Israel.

This is a real photo of 1,088 passengers all inside an El Al Boeing 747. This holds the most number of passengers carried in an aircraft.

What followed was a covert operation known as Operation Solomon. Between May 24 and May 25, 1991, over a period of 36 hours, 14,325 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel. The operation involved non-stop flights of 35 Israeli aircraft between Addis Ababa and Tel Aviv. These included Israeli Air Force C-130s and notably, El Al 747s. Seats were removed from the jets to maximize capacity, transforming the Boeing 747 into a vessel of hope for thousands.

The Record-Breaking Flight of the El Al Boeing 747

Among the 40 flights conducted during Operation Solomon, one El Al 747 set a world record by carrying 1,088 people in a single trip. This number is often cited and includes two babies born during the flight. Various reports mention slightly different totals, ranging from 1,078 to 1,122 passengers, but any figure within this range surpasses previous records. The Boeing 747, typically configured to carry between 350 and 400 passengers, was pushed to its limits. The successful transport of such a large number of people showcased the Boeing 747’s capabilities and how highly adaptable the aircraft is.

I mean, if it can carry one whole Space Shuttle in its back, what more 1,088 people. Amazing aircraft, ain’t t?

Mond Ortiz

First love never dies. I fell in love with airplanes and aviation when I was a kid. My dream was to become a pilot, but destiny led me to another path: to be an aviation digital media content creator and a small business owner. My passion for aviation inspires me to bring you quality content through my website and social accounts. Aviation is indeed in my blood and blog!

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Hoshana Rabbah 5786 13October2025 – 20 Hostages freed

13/10/2025 – כ״א בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ו – כ״א בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ו – 08:26

Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah – Now We Dance!

To get 20 Hostages back Israel surrenders

The Sovereignty Movement responds to the signing of the agreement
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Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah – Now We Dance!
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7 Hostages Released

After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/gklAwKhG1u

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 13, 2025

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After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱

Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13October2025-7 Hostages Released

13 Hostages Released

It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity. pic.twitter.com/qa1Lh4vhhv

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 13, 2025

Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13October2025-13 Hostages Released
It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity.

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28October2025-Lift the IDF restrictions in the Israeli communities near Gaza

Following a situational assessment and the approval of the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, it was decided to lift the IDF restrictions in the Israeli communities near Gaza as of today.

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 28, 2025

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Following a situational assessment and the approval of the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, it was decided to lift the IDF restrictions in the Israeli communities near Gaza as of today.

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To get 20 Hostages back Israel surrenders

The Sovereignty Movement responds to the signing of the agreement

https://www.israpundit.org/the-sovereignty-movement-responds-to-the-signing-of-the-agreement/

Peloni: I simply could not agree more.

By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar

The Sovereignty Movement responds to the signing of the agreement Alongside the joy — together with all the P????? of Israel — at the return of all the hostages, we must clarify that although the full details of the agreement are not yet known, if the agreement indeed includes those same 21 points that were published previously, then this is a defeat and a humiliation for the honor of Israel. The only response that would have been appropriate toward Gaza after the October 7 massacre was its erasure from the face of the earth, just as the Almighty taught us by overturning Sodom and Gomorrah. That is true justice; that is the necessary rectification.

if the agreement indeed includes those same 21 points that were published previously, then this is a defeat and a humiliation for the honor of Israel. The only response that would have been appropriate toward Gaza after the October 7 massacre was its erasure from the face of the earth, just as the Almighty taught us by overturning Sodom and Gomorrah. That is true justice; that is the necessary rectification.

If the agreement is indeed subject to those 21 points and limitations, then its implementation will increase and strengthen the evil in the world and the confusion between good and evil.

Gaza is an inseparable part of the Land of Israel, and by our withdrawing from it again, for the second time, we inflict a blow to our national honor, and conversely we return to the Arab enemy the hope — G-d forbid — of taking the whole Land of Israel into his hands.

In order to restore our national honor, to cut off the enemy’s hopes, to deliver a decisive crushing blow to our enemies and to return to true justice and morality, we must choose the path of sovereignty and apply it over all of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.

Here we must add and emphasize that there is no difference between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. The same ideology, vision and hopes drive both groups, and now they are receiving validation for the success of their way and encouragement to continue that cruel and murderous path in the future in order to reach the goal they declare again and again: the destruction of the State of Israel.

The people of Israel were given a role and a destiny that fill it with meaning — to distinguish between light and darkness, between life and death, between meaning and morality and distortion and trampling of justice — yet we repeatedly betray our mission and adopt distorted, illogical moral rules.

In two years of war the people of Israel have taken significant steps toward clarifying their identity and their connection to it, but the completion of the task remains.

We are confident that the destiny of the people of Israel will be fulfilled in the future, for that is why we were created as a people.

Our hope is that the next opportunity to return to our selfhood and our identity will not include much more painful and heavy prices.

Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar

The Sovereignty Movement

https://linktr.ee/sovereignty.il

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Hoshana Rabbah – The captives return

Absolutely pic.twitter.com/a26Yr05v3t

— Lyon Of Judah 💙 🎗️ אריה יהודה (@LyonofJudah48) October 13, 2025

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Absolutely

Lyon Of Judah-tweet-13October2025-Hoshana Rabbah-the captives return

Hoshana Rabbah-the captives return

7 Hostages Released

After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/gklAwKhG1u

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 13, 2025

Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13October2025-7 Hostages Released
After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱

Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13October2025-7 Hostages Released

13 Hostages Released

It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity. pic.twitter.com/qa1Lh4vhhv

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 13, 2025

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It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity.

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Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah – Now We Dance!

Simchat Torah at the Nova Festival venue

Simchat Torah at the Nova Festival venue.🇮🇱
We’re dancing again.💛 pic.twitter.com/iEAAkD4qxz

— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱🎗 (@EliAfriatISR) October 14, 2025

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Simchat Torah at the Nova Festival venue.🇮🇱
We’re dancing again.💛

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Simchat Torah Tel Aviv

It’s hard to capture the pure joy and jubilation on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight.

We were having a late al fresco dinner when throngs of people would come by at regular intervals, singing and chanting merrily.

They carried Torah scrolls like they were Stanley Cup trophies,… pic.twitter.com/DWg5IekbKd

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) October 13, 2025

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It’s hard to capture the pure joy and jubilation on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight.

We were having a late al fresco dinner when throngs of people would come by at regular intervals, singing and chanting merrily.

They carried Torah scrolls like they were Stanley Cup trophies, hoisting them into the air and dancing around it. They have many reasons to celebrate today.

The hostages are home, war is over, and it’s Simchat Torah – the happiest day of the Jewish holiday season where they celebrate and honor God’s Word.

Melissa Chen-tweet-13October2025-Simchat Torah Tel Aviv

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Survey: War spurs religious, political shift among young Israelis

New data reveals Israeli youth are adopting more religious practices, increasing prayer and belief in God, as right-wing political identification also rises.

JNS Staff

https://www.jns.org/survey-war-spurs-religious-political-shift-among-young-israelis/

(19November2025 / JNS) Israel’s war has significantly strengthened religious observance and conservative political views among young Israelis, according to a new survey by the Jewish People Policy Institute.

The study found 33% of Jewish Israelis ages 25 and under report observing more religious traditions since the war began, compared to 27% of the general Jewish population. Among young Jews who identify as “traditional, somewhat religious,” 51% said they’ve increased religious practices.

Prayer has risen most notably, with 38% of Jewish youth reporting they pray more frequently. Other increases include Bible reading (26%), synagogue attendance (14%) and Shabbat candle lighting (14%).

Jewish men gather at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 10, 2021, as Israel marks “Jerusalem Day.” Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images.

Faith has also strengthened, with 35% of young Jews saying they believe in God more than before the war, compared to 28% of Jewish adults overall.

Politically, the war has pushed Israelis rightward. The share of Jews identifying as “hard right” jumped from 11% to 19%, while those identifying as “right” increased from 24% to 28%. The shift spans the political spectrum, with even half of self-identified leftists reporting a rightward move.

The JPPI survey found an opposite pattern among secular Jews compared to the general trend in Jewish Israeli society. While many young and traditional Jews reported increased religious observance and belief since the war, secular Jews actually showed a decline in both religious practices and faith.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish soldiers from the Hasmonean Brigade take part in a beret march after completing seven months of basic and advanced training, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old city on Aug. 6, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

The survey also included Israel’s Arab population and found notable, though somewhat less pronounced, increases in religious practice since the outbreak of the war. About 23% of Arab respondents reported strengthenings in their observance of traditional customs during the conflict. Specific increases were recorded in prayer (32%), more modest dress (12%) and participation in religious services at churches or mosques (10%), while 37% of Arabs reported a strengthened faith in God—higher than the increase seen among Jewish respondents.

JPPI CEO Shuki Friedman noted it remains unclear whether these changes represent a temporary wartime phenomenon or a lasting transformation.

“The data reflects what we sensed on the ground: many in Israel — especially among the young — feel that the war has connected them more deeply to tradition and to Jewish identity. Not necessarily in a halachic way, but in ways that are more salient in their lives and across the public sphere,” said Friedman.

“Israel after the war is more traditional and more right-leaning. At this stage, it is impossible to know whether this is a passing trend, or a deeper and longer-term change,” he added.

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JEWISH ACCESS TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT EXPANDS DURING RAMADAN

For context: Even though Israel controls the Temple Mount, administrative authority was left with the Jordanian Waqf after 1967. If it were up to them, Jews would not be allowed there at all. For decades, Jewish access to Judaism’s holiest site has been restricted to limited…

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) February 18, 2026

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JEWISH ACCESS TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT EXPANDS DURING RAMADAN
For the first time, visiting hours for Jews ascending the Temple Mount will be extended throughout the month of Ramadan.
Under the new arrangement, Jewish visitors will be allowed on the Mount from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., expanding the morning window while maintaining the afternoon closure.
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For context: Even though Israel controls the Temple Mount, administrative authority was left with the Jordanian Waqf after 1967. If it were up to them, Jews would not be allowed there at all. For decades, Jewish access to Judaism’s holiest site has been restricted to limited “visiting hours.”

During Ramadan in particular, Jewish visiting hours were often reduced to avoid violence and riots, which historically increase during the month.

This year is different. Instead of shrinking Jewish access, Israel expanded it. A clear signal of sovereignty and of the Jewish people’s unbreakable connection to the Temple Mount.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil
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Trump’s Gaza Deal: A Win for Islamic Jihad

Posted 10October2025 Avi Abelow:
Trump’s Gaza Deal may look like a diplomatic victory on paper for Israel with the hopeful return of all the remaining hostages, but in reality, it hands the Sunni and Shia jihadis exactly what they want – legitimacy, survival, and time. Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt agreed to sacrifice Hamas to regroup and attack Israel in the future in some other constellation.

Instead of a deal that deals a crushing blow to the Qatari-led jihad that financed the Oct. 7th massacre, it rewards it, signaling to every Islamist movement that terror and kidnapping Israelis pays.

It is about time that the Western world understands the Islamic jihad enemy we are up against and what motivates them, not their lives or their homes or cities.

With it all, this is the best agreement Netanyahu was able to achieve under the circumstances.

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SOVEREIGNTY-logo https://www.ribonut.co.il/

Jerusalem Humiliated

The Sovereignty Movement to the Prime Minister: Your role is to protect the dignity of the people of Israel, even when facing a friendly American president. There is no place for threats, condescension, or disrespect between allies. Sovereignty is a necessity.

Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
23October2025 https://ribonut.co.il/BlogPostID.aspx?BlogPostId=993&lang=2

J.D. Vance feels “offended” and it’s really not clear about what or why. The ones who are truly offended are actually us, in light of the blunt and threatening tone of the American president toward the government of Israel, toward the Israeli parliament, toward the people of Israel, toward the Jewish people as a whole, when he tells us that if Israel applies sovereignty to the heart of our land it will lose all American support.

The ear hears his words and the heart contracts. Is this the friendly, sympathetic and supportive president? He is the one who speaks about us with such contempt?

With all due respect to the President of the United States, and with all gratitude for his contribution and assistance, we cannot accept such a tone and remain silent. American aid in wartime is not meant to be m golden handcuffs on Israel’s hands. Israel is not a star on the American flag. The assistance we received from the Trump administration helped the U.S. in its efforts to show it stands on the moral, good and just side of history. Israel granted the United States the privilege to take part in the defeat of evil. Israel and the U.S. are partners and as such they assist one another in different ways. There is no place for a condescending discourse full of arrogance and lordliness between partners.

We did not hear President Trump or any of his people speak in such a way toward the Arabs, despite violations of agreements.

A purely democratic process took place in the Knesset of Israel. The prime minister was supposed to defend the Knesset. As the leader of the greatest democratic power in the world, the American president ought to understand the meaning of democratic discourse, understand the right to express a position — even one he does not agree with — and act in a parliamentary democratic manner to promote a principled, ideological worldview. In a democracy there is no place for threats and intimidation.

The one who should and is obliged to respond to this blunt style is the prime minister of Israel as the representative of the Jewish people, yet to our regret and shame he apologizes and chooses to reprimand the coalitionembers who acted according to the dictates of their conscience and values.

Mr. Prime Minister, by your response you weaken us in the eyes of the nations. They detect weakness and smell slackness. The October massacre was such a moment when weakness and slackness were detected in Israel. The results were disastrous.

The issue of sovereignty is an existential necessity for Israel. Regional normalization can and should occur, but not at the price of harming the sovereignty, security and future of the State of Israel. Stability will come to Israel only when Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Bashan are officially defined as an integral part of the State of Israel. Only then will these areas not become nests of terror.

Mr. Prime Minister, we recall the rabbinic ruling: a king who relinquishes his honor has no honor. His honor is the honor of the people.

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“Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud” is the first verse of an antisemitic chant used to massacre the Jewish population in the Khaybar Oasis of modern-day Saudi Arabia in 628 CE.

Muslims Murdering Jews since 628 CE

Muslims are right. It didn’t start October 7 2023.

It started in 628 CE .

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Muslims are right. It didn’t start October 7 2023.

It started in 628 CE.

What do you think they mean when they chant “Khaybar Khaybar Ya Yahud?”

“Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud” is the first verse of an antisemitic chant used to massacre the Jewish population in the Khaybar Oasis of modern-day Saudi Arabia in 628 CE. The full verse is: “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, jaish Muhammad soufa ya’oud.” It translates to “Khaybar Khaybar oh…

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“Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud” is the first verse of an antisemitic chant used to massacre the Jewish population in the Khaybar Oasis of modern-day Saudi Arabia in 628 CE. The full verse is: “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, jaish Muhammad soufa ya’oud.” It translates to “Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”

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“Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud” is the first verse of an antisemitic chant used to massacre the Jewish population in the Khaybar Oasis of modern-day Saudi Arabia in 628 CE. The full verse is: “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, jaish Muhammad soufa ya’oud.” It translates to “Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”

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The Bomber was a Muslim

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— Alexander Duncan (@AlexDuncanTX) September 1, 2025

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Truth is not subject to opinion polls.

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9/11 Twin tower attack

7 July 2005, four British Islamist men detonated four bombs—three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, the United Kingdom’s worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as well as the country’s first ever suicide attack.

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You’re average Palestinian family

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— Ncole ✡︎ (@ncole_r) October 23, 2025

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October 7, Only full sovereignty will prevent the next massacre

“The Next October 7 — Even More Horrific — Is Closer Than We Think”

Kobi Gideon, GPO

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of Israel Once someone who believed that if only Arabs had a better future and economy they wouldn’t want to kill us, Aviyad Bachar, a resident of Be’eri, has become convinced that only full sovereignty over the entire Land, cleansed of the enemy, will prevent the next massacre — which, he warns, could be far worse.

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The interview first appeared in Issue 19 of Ribonut (Sovereignty).

The name Aviyad Bachar, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri who lost his wife Dana and son Carmel in the October 7th massacre, has become a symbol of the painful and rapid awakening that many in Israel have experienced. Since witnessing the murder of his wife and son before his and his daughter’s eyes, he has taken it upon himself to share his story and the insights it burned into him — insights that, in truth, have been seared into the heart of an entire nation.

On a visit to Samaria hosted by Yossi Dagan, head of the regional council, Bechar declared: “There must be full sovereignty here. If that doesn’t happen, another October 7 is just a matter of time. Sovereignty is what will give us maximum security.”

In an interview with Sovereignty, he expands on his message, sharpens it — and makes it even more severe.

“I Don’t Believe Anyone — Another October 7 Is Coming”

Bachar flatly rejects the common reassurances that a massacre like October 7 won’t happen again, because the security establishment is now better prepared and experienced: “I don’t believe anyone. There’s no such thing as ‘it won’t happen again.’ The next October 7 is coming, and we don’t know how soon — but it’s coming, and it’ll be much worse. It will come simultaneously from Metula, from Jenin toward Afula, and toward Kfar Saba. There will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead.”

This apocalyptic scenario comes not from fearmongering, but from a cold, rational analysis based on what he and his family experienced.

“I realize we were actually lucky on October 7… If they had been a bit more coordinated, and attacked from four or five fronts at once, we wouldn’t have had 1,200 dead — we’d have had 200,000, and we wouldn’t have regained control in 36 hours — it would’ve taken two weeks. I understand that the day will come again when we’re not prepared. I don’t know exactly when it will happen, but I do know it will happen. That’s why, if we want to prevent it, the enemy in Judea and Samaria and Gaza must disappear. As long as they’re there, they’re motivated to kill me.”

“I No Longer Believe They’ll Protect Me”

To those who try to reassure the public by claiming that Hamas has “learned a lesson” after the IDF’s blow to Gaza, Bechar reminds them that even the so-called experts — military, political, and civilian — admit that it could happen again. “They say, ‘we’ll do everything to make sure it doesn’t,’ but I no longer believe they’ll protect me.”

“What’s holding them back is a mindset — they tell themselves, ‘we can’t act.’ They understand the solution and agree with me, but then they add three words: ‘I can’t do it.’ And that paralyzes them. I, on the other hand, say I can do anything. Whatever we choose, we can carry out. The choice won’t always be easy — but I can do it. So removing them is an option I can implement — and it’s necessary if we want a future for the Jewish people for generations to come.”

“The Only Border Is the Jordan River”

“When natural disasters kill people, we bow to nature and say it’s stronger than us — a decree of fate. But when people destroy you, that’s not fate — it’s a choice. You’re choosing to let them slaughter you,” says Bachar, who believes fears of global reactions are exaggerated and baseless. “We give too much importance to other nations. They don’t care what happens in Israel. They won’t care if the enemy kills 10 million Israelis. So if we do what needs to be done, no one will really care.”

“Our only option for survival in Israel — for generations — is if they’re no longer here. What should we do with them? I would send them to sovereign states like Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. And when we present the world with the other option — that they die — we’ll see how quickly the world prepares to receive them.”

He adds: “When I used to tell Carmel, my son, not to play on his phone, he could tell by my tone whether I was serious or not. We need to speak with the world firmly and seriously. Tell them: ‘If by tomorrow the hostages aren’t in Israel, we’re annexing the territory and destroying everything there.’ And then we’ll see that the hostages come back faster than we think. But instead, we keep saying, ‘We can’t do that. Who knows what the world will do to us?’These are fictional stories we invent in our own heads — and we believe them.”

“Take Down the Fence — This Is the Whole Land of Israel”

As for the future of Judea and Samaria, Bechar’s stance is firm and clear: “Tear down the fence. The fence is the Jordan River. There are no more fences. This is the whole Land of Israel, and there are no longer any non-citizens here.”

When asked to reflect on his views from two and a half years ago, before the personal and national tragedy, he replies: “Back then, I thought that if I just loved and embraced the Palestinians, if I gave them money and a future — they wouldn’t want to kill me. But I’ve come to understand that they want to kill me because I’m sitting on land they think is theirs. That’s what the war is about — and once we take the land, it will be resolved.”

“This Realization Came Later — Through Rational Thought”

Bachar explains that this transformation of consciousness didn’t happen in the bomb shelter surrounded by dozens of terrorists trying to kill him and his family — it happened later, when he rationally processed the events and data. “Some people go through trauma and crash. Others rise. Those who can take their feelings and translate them into simple words — to make sense of what happened — can move forward in life. But those who remain stuck in emotion will collapse.”

“So I began analyzing everything: What is bereavement? Suddenly you’re a widower. Your son is listed as ‘of blessed memory’ in your ID card. You begin to understand why you were killed, what the solution is, and what love means after losing your wife.” “I also ask: What is victory? And what is total victory?” “To e, total victory is when Israel is a sovereign state, bordered by four other sovereign countries who are responsible for their own citizens. Any entity that is not sovereign — has no responsibilities. It’s a terror organization with only one goal: to kill you because of the land. That’s my understanding.”

“There’s No Such Thing as ‘I Can’t’”

Bechar says that this shift — both ideological and political — has been shared by many of his acquaintances. “But they say, ‘I can’t.’ Everyone’s stuck on those words. They tell me: ‘Aviyad, if there were a button to press to implement your solution, we’d do it — but we can’t.’That’s the problem. They give too much weight to the world, to liberalism, to human rights.” “My true life mission is to say: There’s no such thing as ‘I can’t.’
Anything we choose — we can do. And ultimately, I understand that if I want to survive, I have no choice. With any other option, I’m not sure Israel will even reach 100 years old — and I want to talk about generations upon generations of a future for the Jewish people.”

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Hamas Attacks Israeli Positions Amid Ceasefire Announcement, IDF Concerned About Kidnapping Attempts

9October2025 https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/10/09/hamas-attacks-israeli-positions-amid-ceasefire-announcement-idf-concerned-about-kidnapping-attempts/

Latest Developments

Attempted Kidnapping in Gaza: Three Hamas terrorists attempted to raid an IDF outpost in southern Gaza on October 9, hours after a ceasefire agreement was announced between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist organization. IDF troops initially fired warning shots at the gunmen as they approached an army encampment in the Khan Younis area before killing the attackers. No IDF troops were injured during the incident.
Attempt on Previous Day: One day earlier, another terrorist cell attempted to raid an IDF post on the outskirts of Gaza City. Five Hamas gunmen targeted a position held by the Sayeret Golani reconnaissance unit near the Netzarim Corridor. The troops called in airstrikes against the cell, killing three of the terrorists, but two managed to flee. Similar to the later incident, no IDF soldiers were injured during the unsuccessful attack.
IDF Raises Alert Levels as Ceasefire Implementation Grows Imminent: As the agreed-upon ceasefire grows closer to taking effect, the IDF stated that troops stationed in Gaza are on high alert for possible Hamas attacks and abductions. The military ordered a reduction in “non-essential” activity, aiming to mitigate the risk of Hamas targeting soldiers during the transitional period into the ceasefire’s implementation. Separately, the IDF carried out several precision strikes on high-value targets throughout Gaza in the past few days, attempting to close “intelligence loops” ahead of the IDF’s withdrawal to the first redeployment line for the release of hostages.

FDD Expert Response

“It should surprise no one that Hamas may be attempting a last-ditch effort to earn a battlefield victory by either exacting additional IDF casualties or abducting a soldier. Israel learned a valuable lesson following Hamas’s abduction of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin during a ceasefire period in the 2014 war. Furthermore, renewed rocket fire toward Israeli communities remains a distinct possibility, as Hamas and its allies might seek to prove that — despite the damage inflicted by the IDF — they continue to have operational capacity to strike the Jewish state.” — Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst and Editor at FDD’s Long War Journal

“This is not the first time Hamas has tried to abduct Israeli soldiers during ceasefire negotiations. They attempted the same tactic in July to shape the narrative in their favor and have the last word. This serves as a testament that, despite the positive news that the hostages will return home, allowing Hamas to operate as it did before October 7, 2023, would mean that it will remain a threat to Israel in the future. That is why Hamas must be disarmed and prevented from ruling the Gaza Strip.” — Ahmad Sharawi, Research Analyst

FDD Background and Analysis

“Israel and Hamas Agree to First Phase of Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza,” FDD Flash Brief

“Hamasniks in fox holes,” by Clifford D. May

“How Israel Can Defend Itself in the Future,” by Jonathan Schanzer

“Releasing All Hostages at Once Essential to Success of U.S. Peace Plan,” by Aaron Goren

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To Preserve the Gaza Deal, Keep Qatar at Arm’s Length

Natalie Ecanow

Senior Research Analyst

22October2025 https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/10/22/to-preserve-the-gaza-deal-keep-qatar-at-arms-length/

Qatar is already backsliding just days after pressuring Hamas to clinch a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel. During his annual address to Qatar’s legislative body on October 21, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani accused Israel of “continued breaches of the ceasefire in Gaza” without blaming Hamas for provoking Israeli action. At no point did Al-Thani mention Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 people, which dragged Israel into war two years ago. Rather than working with the United States to facilitate Hamas’s disarmament, Doha appears to be signaling a return to obstruction, with the apparent goal of securing Hamas’s position in Gaza.

Qatar’s Ongoing Relationship With Hamas

Qatar’s relationship with Hamas predates the current war and even Hamas’s reign over Gaza. Qatar offered sanctuary to Hamas leaders in 1999, when Jordan expelled the group from its soil. At that point, Hamas chose to relocate to Syria, but the relationship between Hamas and Doha continued and intensified after the terrorist group seized control of Gaza in 2007. In 2012, former Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was the first world leader to visit Gaza under Hamas rule. He pledged $400 million in assistance to the enclave. The same year, Hamas opened a political office in Doha.

Qatar has since pumped approximately $1.8 billion into Gaza as Hamas leaders amassed personal fortunes in Doha. Additionally, Israeli troops have uncovered documents in Gaza indicating that a “discreet” funding channel existed between Qatar and Hamas. One of them, a 2021 communique between Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, suggests that Qatar’s emir had “agreed in principle” to fund Hamas’s military operations and that $11 million had already “been raised from the emir.”

A Deal Gets Done

In the lead-up to the October 10 ceasefire deal, there were indications that Qatar was prepared to take a step back from Hamas, its longtime client. In July, Qatar did an about-face and signed a declaration condemning Hamas’s October 7 massacre and calling for Hamas to disarm and “end its rule in Gaza.” Previously, Qatar’s prime minister told Israeli media in January 2025 that Doha would support Hamas returning to power in Gaza so long as that was the “decision” of the Palestinian people. After Israel’s September 9 strike on Hamas operatives in Doha, Qatar appeared to pick up the pace, turning the screws on Hamas, and ultimately helping push a deal across the finish line.

Moving forward, Qatar is expected to play a role in ensuring that Donald Trump’s 20-point plan is implemented, beginning with the release of the remaining hostages’ bodies, the disarmament of Hamas, and the end of the group’s Gaza reign.

Beware of Qatar’s Role in Postwar Gaza

Qatar may have compelled Hamas to accept Trump’s plan, but, if Al-Thani’s October 21 speech is any indication, the emirate is slumping back into its old, unproductive ways. Israeli and Arab officials are now warning against a serious Qatari role in postwar Gaza, and Washington should take heed. On October 20, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for involving “Qatar and Turkey, who now influence Gaza.” Earlier, a Saudi diplomat told Israel Hayom that, “Excessive Qatari involvement in the next stages of the plan and Gaza’s reconstruction will cause Trump’s plan to collapse” because Qatar “will undermine deradicalization efforts and try to ensure that Hamas remains in the picture and returns to power in the not-so-distant future.”

Trump said on October 21 that, “There is still hope that Hamas will do what is right,” but, “If they do not, an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL.” Allowing Qatar into Gaza is more likely to lead to Hamas’s survival than its destruction. To see his Gaza peace plan through, Trump should keep Qatar at arm’s length from the enclave.

Natalie Ecanow is a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). For more analysis from Natalie and FDD, please subscribe HERE. Follow Natalie on X @NatalieEcanow. Follow FDD on X @FDD. FDD is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on foreign policy and national security.

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The New Trump-Blair Gaza is Frightening.

Read this, and then the GITA Summary.

BARRY SHAW
11October2025 https://barryshaw.substack.com/p/the-new-trump-blair-gaza-is-frightening

I have read the Confidential Summary of the proposed Gaza Transitional Authority (GITA) Institutional Structure.
This is the body to be led by Tony Blair and is a gift to a Palestinian leadership that has proven its Ramallah-based authoritarian corrupt violent anti-Israel record since 2007, unless, of coure, Hamas does a Hezbollah by gradually exerting its administrative power in Gaza.

Nowhere in this report does it ban Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad from participating in this new Trump-Blair Gaza.

To say the 21 page summary is an eye opener to the dangerous shallowness of the intent of this future governance of Gaza is to put it mildly.

It designates that “all mayors and senior municipal administrators are nominated by the Palestinian Executive Authority.” What could possibly go wrong with that? Well, which unelected people will sit on this nominating PEA?
Obviously, there is no democratic elections by the people to decide who rules over them.

Then we come to a strange section on Page 14 that talks about “gender inclusion” in its public health promotion, but a serious and dangerous omission in that there is zero mention of the necessity to cancel indoctrination in the GITA’s educational system. In other words, unless this section is amended, the new Palestinian flagship of a future Gaza can continue to indoctrinate its children and its youth in its education system to a world without Israel and the holy order to kill all Jews where ever you find them.

This then is the proposed Palestinian Gaza entity that Tony Blair will govern with his central Middle East partners – Qatar and Turkey.
What possibly could go wrong?

For Israel, an awful lot.

Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

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New York, New Jersey Declare State of Emergency as Region Braces for Nor’easter

High winds and flooding are expected for the region.

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Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent & Joseph Lord
12October2025 | Updated: 12October2025

New York and New Jersey have both declared a state of emergency as the region braces for a nor’easter bringing high winds and heavy flooding.

Earlier, New Jersey declared a state of emergency to be in effect until Oct. 13.

After initially urging residents to “stay alert,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul followed suit on Oct. 12.

The declaration, which affects Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties in New York, includes a coastal flooding advisory until 8 p.m. on Monday, and a high wind warning lasting until 6 p.m. on Monday.

Wind gusts exceeded 30 mph on Oct. 12 and were expected to pick up further as the storm hits the East Coast. The National Weather Service (NWS) has also issued a coastal flood warning and wind advisory, with winds potentially reaching 50 mph. Water is projected to reach two to three feet of inundation above ground level in areas near shorelines and waterways.

“At this level, flooding may become severe enough to cause structural damage along with widespread roadway flooding in coastal and bayside communities, and near inland tidal waterways,” the NWS stated in an Oct. 12 advisory.

“At this level, widespread roadway flooding occurs in coastal and bayside communities and along inland tidal waterways. Many roads become impassable.”

In a statement, Hochul’s office said it expected between 1 1/2 inches and three inches of rainfall downstate, with beach erosion likely.

New York City Emergency Management stated in an X post that New York City was under a flood warning and wind advisory through the afternoon of Oct. 13.

“Stay safe: secure outdoor items, avoid flooded areas, and check on neighbors,” it posted on Oct. 12.

In a statement, the New Jersey governor’s office said the state could face sustained winds of up to 60 mph and localized precipitation of up to five inches.

“In preparation for this storm, I am issuing a State of Emergency for all 21 counties out of an abundance of caution, authorizing our state’s emergency services personnel to activate as necessary,” said New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, serving in the capacity of acting governor in Gov. Phil Murphy’s absence.

“I urge all New Jerseyans to exercise caution, monitor local weather forecasts and warnings, stay informed on evacuation protocols, and remain off the roads unless absolutely necessary.”

In her executive order, Way said that “serious weather conditions could make it difficult or impossible for residents to obtain the necessities of life, as well as essential services such as police, fire, and first aid.”

The order authorizes multiple offices within the state government to respond to the storm. It also permits the state director of emergency management to use facilities as shelter for residents.

The storm is working its way up the coast after hitting the mid-Atlantic region with flooding. NWS meteorologist Bob Oravec said, “The greatest effects are going to be the coastal flooding potential, especially for areas from northeastern North Carolina northward to much of the New Jersey coast.”

Flight delays have been issued in airports from Washington to Boston. High winds have prompted New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to prohibit empty tractor-trailers and tandem trucks from using certain bridges on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13.

The Associated Press and T.J. Muscaro contributed to this report.

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Hamas won’t give up arms or Gaza control — despite agreeing to Trump deal, spokesman says

By Ronny Reyes
Published 14October2025 Updated 14October2025, 12:18 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/world-news/hamas-wont-give-up-arms-gaza-control-despite-agreeing-to-trump-deal-spokesman-says/

Hamas appeared to renege on key demands of President Trump’s cease-fire deal just hours after the world celebrated the end of the Gaza war — with a top official saying the terror group will not give up its arms or control over the Gaza Strip.

Spokesman Hazem Qassem claimed Monday that Hamas has no need to abide by every word of Trump’s 20-point peace plan, including calls for the terror group to lay down its arms.

“We do not need to limit ourselves to the Israeli terms and definitions related to weapons,” Qassem told the Al-Arabiya news channel.

“We will not be captives to Israeli terms or demands,” he added. “This is one of the focal points of the struggle in the next stage, after the cessation of aggression in the Gaza Strip.”

Qassem echoed Hamas’ long-standing position that it will neither give up its weapons nor cede governance over the Gaza Strip until a path is laid out for Palestinian statehood.

Trump’s plan, which saw all 20 living hostages freed on Monday, provides for how Gaza should be governed after Hamas cedes control.

However, the details of how and when that will happen have not yet been agreed upon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected any and all deals that would see a Palestinian state form.

Netanyahu’s administration has also made it clear that Hamas must disarm for the cease-fire to go through, warning that the military will not allow the terror group to continue posing a threat to the Jewish state.

One of the stated aims of Hamas is the destruction of Israel.

Qassem also appeared to suggest that Hamas would not completely abandon its role as the de facto governors of the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas spokesman claimed Hamas should remain as part of the “administrative arrangements” in the Strip, but he did not specify to what extent.

Qassem claimed that Hamas was open to allowing Palestinian technocrats to lead the management of the enclave, as laid out in Trump’s cease-fire deal.

Hamas was also open to allowing the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank to play an active role in governance despite accusing the group of standing by and doing nothing during the two years of war.

“Despite all our criticism, we do believe that it (the PA) is one of the national addresses, and we are ready to open a new page with it or for it to open a new page with the residents of Gaza and with the political forces and to be truly sincere in its intention to reach shared political understandings,” Qassem said.

Along with laying out his stance, Qassem also accused Israel of violating the cease-fire on Tuesday after five Palestinians were shot and killed in Gaza City.

The IDF claimed the suspects were the ones violating the deal after they allegedly crossed a “yellow line” and approached IDF troops operating in the Strip.

“After multiple attempts to distance them, the suspects refused to comply, prompting troops to open fire to remove the threat,” the Israeli military said in a statement.

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Hamas executes Gazans amid fierce clashes with local clans

The terrorist group reportedly killed 32 “gang” members in Gaza City.

JNS Staff

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( 15October2025 / JNS) Hamas terrorists have executed 32 Palestinians amid fierce clashes in recent days with militia groups opposed to the Islamist group, Reuters reported on Monday.

The news agency cited a “Palestinian security source” as saying that they belonged to a Gaza City “gang.” The official also said that six Hamas terrorists were killed in the violence, claiming it was a targeted operation against members of a “dangerous gang affiliated with a family in Gaza City.” Twenty-four people were arrested and 30 others were wounded, the official said.

Video circulating on social media Tuesday appeared to show masked Hamas gunmen publicly executing men in what CNN reported was the Sabra neighborhood in western Gaza City, in an incident that likely took place after the ceasefire with Israel entered into force last Friday.

Radaa, a Hamas-affiliated security force, said in a statement that it carried out a “precise operation” in central Gaza City that killed several wanted men and suspected criminals.

Palestinian NGO the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights termed it the “extrajudicial execution of citizens,” CNN reported, calling for an investigation into the incident and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

The office of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killings as “heinous crimes” and “a blatant violation of human rights,” according to the official P.A. news agency Wafa.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry tweeted the execution video Tuesday, writing: “The ceasefire isn’t 100 hours old yet. Hamas is killing Palestinians. The terror group rules through fear—executing civilians, torturing dissenters, shooting those who dare protest. Palestinians seeking food or freedom are met with bullets, not compassion. It’s not resistance—It’s tyranny. Hamas must go.”

Asked about his message for Hamas after the reports that the terrorist group is rearming and reinstituting itself as a police force and shooting rival clans, Trump said Monday on Air Force One that “they do want to stop the problems and they’ve been open about it. We gave them approval for a period of time. You have to understand. They’ve lost probably 60,000 people. That’s a lot of retribution …, and the ones that are living right now were in many cases very young when this all started, and we are having them watch that there’s not going to be big crime, some of the problems that you have.

“When you have areas like this that have been literally demolished. You have two million people, probably it will be less than that, but you have two million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. We want it to be safe. I think it’s going to be fine. Who knows for sure, Katie [the reporter who asked the question], but I think it’s going to be fine.”

Trump later said he will hold Hamas to its pledge to disarm and accused the terrorist group of misrepresenting the number of dead hostages it holds.

Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, the president said his “people” were told by Hamas that it would disarm, as is called for in the Israel-Hamas peace plan that Trump put together with mediation from key Arab leaders.

Israel and Hamas both agreed to the plan, setting into motion the ceasefire and the subsequent exchange of hostages and Palestinian security prisoners.

“I spoke to Hamas, and I said, ‘You’re going to disarm, right?’ ‘Yes, sir. We’re going to disarm.’ That’s what they told me,” Trump told reporters, initially describing it as a direct conversation.

“We have told them we want them to disarm, and they will disarm. And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them, and it’ll happen quickly and perhaps violently, but they will disarm,” Trump said.

He later explained that Hamas’s affirmed pledge to disarm was delivered to him not by the terrorist group directly, but by “people,” likely referring to U.S. peace deal negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

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Terrified Gazans fear Hamas won’t disarm as terrorists massacre Palestinians: ‘Punishing families’

By Caitlin Doornbos
Published 14october2025 Updated 14october2025, 6:40 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/world-news/terrified-gazans-fear-hamas-wont-disarm-as-terrorists-massacre-palestinians/

The war in Gaza has stopped — but the killing hasn’t.

Palestinians are scared for their lives as many fear Hamas has no plans to saddle up for “phase two” of President Trump’s peace deal and will continue to slaughter civilians who stand up against the terror group.

“From the first moment the Israeli planes disappeared from the sky, Hamas began punishing the families,” one Gazan activist in the war-torn land told The Post.

“They accused people of collaborating with Israel — but that’s not true. They just opposed Hamas during the war.”

The resident described grisly scenes of men dragged from homes and shot in the street without trials.

“Hamas executed civilians in front of people’s eyes,” said the activist, who asked not to be named for security reasons. “No names, no confessions — nothing. Just death.”

Activist Amin Abed — who fled Gaza after Hamas tortured and nearly beat him to death over his opposition to the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel — said the terror group was using the executions as a show of force and has no intentions of relinquishing power or giving up its weapons.

“Hamas is much stronger than any family or civilian group,” Abed said. “They can crush anyone who stands against them. What we’re seeing now is Hamas waging a war against its own people.

He added that most Gazans oppose Hamas and long for peace — but feel powerless.

“We couldn’t stop Oct. 7, and we can’t stop Hamas now,” he said. “The world needs to understand that Gazans are not Hamas. We want peace, not war. But every time we speak out, Hamas kills us first.

“We see Hamas restoring its full strength. They’re everywhere again — as police, as militia, as security,” he said. “We are deeply concerned about the return of Hamas to power and the continuation of the violence under Hamas in Gaza and exposing us again to the same injustice that we experienced for the last 17 years.”

If Hamas remains in power, Abed warned that the “cycle of violence between Israel and Hamas will emerge again sometime soon.”

“We are afraid that the bloody war would be back and Hamas will wage another Oct. 7 attack,” he said. “We believe the world will forget about us, and Hamas will rule us with an iron fist for many more years.”

The source in Gaza predicted Hamas would next try to convince Trump and his allies that only the group can maintain “security and stability” in Gaza as a strategy to stay in power.

“Trump and Netanyahu must pressure Hamas and its backers — Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey — to truly implement the terms of the peace deal,” the activist said. “If Hamas keeps even some weapons, it means they keep everything. They’ll never leave Gaza.”

While some analysts have speculated that a civil war could break out among the factions in Gaza, the activist in Gaza said it would not be possible — because Hamas is simply too powerful.

Risking his life by speaking to The Post from Gaza, his over-arching message to the world was simple — and desperate.

“Don’t leave us to Hamas again.”

The domestic bloodshed comes as Trump on Tuesday said phase two of the peace agreement — which calls for the disarmament of Hamas and establishment of a new governing body — had begun.

“… A big burden has been lifted, but the job IS NOT DONE,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Tuesday, referencing the return of the living Israelis Hamas took hostage on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Hamas is secretly working to circumvent Trump’s peace plan

‼️BREAKING: Hamas is secretly working to circumvent @POTUS Trump’s peace plan by embedding loyalists in Gaza’s future technocratic government, @eliorlevy reports.

🚨KEY DETAILS:

1. Despite U.S. conditions requiring Hamas have no role—“directly, indirectly, or in any form”—in… pic.twitter.com/cciZx2jbXP

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 21, 2025

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‼️BREAKING: Hamas is secretly working to circumvent @POTUS
Trump’s peace plan by embedding loyalists in Gaza’s future technocratic government, @eliorlevy
reports.

🚨KEY DETAILS:

1. Despite U.S. conditions requiring Hamas have no role—“directly, indirectly, or in any form”—in Gaza’s governance, the terror group is participating in secret in forming the next governing body, with full knowledge of Arab mediators.

2. Hamas reportedly selected half of the proposed technocratic cabinet—individuals who back Hamas’s ideology, even if not openly affiliated.

3. Egyptian mediators presented the full list to Hamas for approval, to “reassure” the group.

4. The other half of the cabinet was chosen by the Palestinian Authority, which is reportedly turning a blind eye to Hamas’s involvement.

5. This maneuver effectively grants Hamas continued control over Gaza through the back door—a direct violation of the peace framework.

Hamas is once again trying to preserve power and influence in Gaza—despite the bloodshed it caused—by manipulating postwar arrangements in violation of international understandings.

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HAMAS DOUBLES DOWN, GIVE TRUMP THE FINGER

🚨 HAMAS DOUBLES DOWN, GIVE TRUMP THE FINGER 🚨
In an interview tonight, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said:

“Hamas’ weapons are legitimate weapons for the defense of the Palestinian people… The main problem is the weapons in the hands of the occupation (Israel)… Raising… pic.twitter.com/ENpxvFC1xx

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) October 23, 2025

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🚨 HAMAS DOUBLES DOWN, GIVE TRUMP THE FINGER 🚨
In an interview tonight, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said:

“Hamas’ weapons are legitimate weapons for the defense of the Palestinian people… The main problem is the weapons in the hands of the occupation (Israel)… Raising the issue of Hamas’ weapons is intended to cover up the crimes of the Israeli enemy, supported by the USA.”

Let that sink in.
While Western diplomats talk about “reconstruction,” “technocratic governments,” and “postwar governance,” Hamas is openly declaring, again, that it will never disarm.

• Trump reminds everyone daily that disarmament was supposed to be the first step.
• Hamas reminds everyone daily that it never will be.

Hamas seeks to HUMILIATE the Trump administration.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

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Hamas gunmen took over the headquarters of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme

Source https://t.co/TWX8QB2dP5

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 22, 2025

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Last week Hamas gunmen took over the headquarters of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme — a Palestinian NGO partnered with the UN’s WHO and UNICEF — and evicted its staff. Hamas operatives and their families have been living there ever since.

It took them a week just to find the courage to make this announcement.
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Source
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1238984114925925&id=100064430452060&rdid=lEmnN6acxq9BGaYT

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Hamas terrorists barricaded inside Rafah’s tunnel network are defying the ceasefire

🚨BREAKING: Hamas terrorists barricaded inside Rafah’s tunnel network are defying the ceasefire and refusing to surrender, a Palestinian source tells @kann_news — even though the agreement requires every tunnel destroyed and Hamas disarmed.

Hamas’s defiance lays bare yet another… pic.twitter.com/WeysZm8khy

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 17, 2025

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🚨BREAKING: Hamas terrorists barricaded inside Rafah’s tunnel network are defying the ceasefire and refusing to surrender, a Palestinian source tells @kann_news — even though the agreement requires every tunnel destroyed and Hamas disarmed.

Hamas’s defiance lays bare yet another calculated violation of the @POTUS
peace plan: a genocidal terror army clinging to its weapons, determined to survive underground so it can repeat the October 7 massacre.

The source says around 100 Hamas terrorists are holed up in the tunnel system, a mix of veteran fighters and new recruits. Their commander — a Hamas battalion or deputy-battalion officer — has ordered them to reject any plan that forces them out unless it lets them “leave with honor.”

Israel cannot allow Hamas to rebuild or rearm under the guise of a ceasefire. A return to a pre–Oct. 7 reality is impossible — and leaving Hamas armed guarantees another massacre.

Every tunnel must be eliminated. Every terrorist unit must be dismantled.

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Israel left Gaza on Tisha B’Av 5765! What did the Jews of Israel get with the “Disengagement”? Gush Katif and Hurricane Katrina

Hamas Rise to Power: Short History of Hamas in Gaza

25January2018
IDF Editorial Team https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/hamas-rise-to-power-short-history-of-hamas-in-gaza/

In 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza, uprooting all communities and military installations within Gaza. This allowed the PA (Palestinian Authority) full control of the area and the Rafah land crossing to Egypt.

In January 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian Parliamentary election (although it did not win the presidential election in 2005).

Following the election, the International Quartet (United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union) declared that in order for the then Hamas-run Palestinian government to continue to receive foreign aid, it must recognize the State of Israel, end terrorist activities, and adhere to all previous agreements. Hamas rejected these terms, and international aid was halted.

Over the years, Hamas has challenged the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, causing conflicts between the sides, culminating in June 2007 with Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and the suppression of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority members. Ever since, the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority has grown.

The Hamas terrorist organization and their leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007. It has both a political and a military organization. Hamas refuses to recognize the State of Israel and vows to fight until Israel is destroyed. The Hamas charter calls for the death of all Jews. The US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Israel all recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization.

In June 2007, Hamas violently took power over the Gaza Strip. Within a few days, Hamas executed dozens of its opponents and went as far as pushing them out of building windows.

Hamas’s fight against its enemy, Fatah, has cost the lives of 600 Palestinians, killed 188 people in one week in June 2007. Numerous Palestinians threatened with death, took refuge in Israel.

Hamas puts its political interests above those of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, of which they are responsible. Hamas’ actions deprive Gazans of their rights and basic needs.

Since then, the Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and imposes its totalitarian ideology. Hamas controls what Gazan civilians say, what their children learn, and spreads propaganda and hatred through TV, especially on children’s programs.

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Diaspora Affairs Minister draws a direct line from 2005 Gaza pullout to Oct. 7

“We betrayed the land of Israel when we withdrew from Gaza, and the land of Israel did not forget,” Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, said at a conference on Judea and Samaria.

Etgar Lefkovits

https://www.jns.org/diaspora-affairs-minister-draws-a-direct-line-from-2005-gaza-pullout-to-oct-7/

(29October2025 / JNS) The Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, can be traced back to Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, stated on Wednesday evening.

“There is a direct line between the withdrawal from Gaza to the disaster of Oct. 7,” Chikli said in remarks at “The Future of Judea and Samaria” conference at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, sponsored by the American Friends of Judea & Samaria and the Jewish News Syndicate.

He noted that because of the dismantling of Israeli communities within the Palestinian enclave as part of the Gaza disengagement plan under Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a buffer zone was lost. The southern Israeli border communities that were overrun two years ago were practically a sitting duck for terror.

“We betrayed the land of Israel when we withdrew from Gaza, and the land of Israel did not forget,” he said.

The hawkish minister stated that the international “demonization” of Israeli residents of the biblical heartland, spearheaded by “so-called” Israeli entities such as B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence—primarily foreign-funded, he noted—is part of an attempt to replicate an “irrational and delusional” withdrawal, this time from Judea and Samaria.

Still, Chikli said he is optimistic that in the aftermath of Oct. 7, more people now understand that Judaism and Zionism are synonymous.

“Being a proud Jew is being a proud Zionist,” he said. “The greatest threat is when Jews walk away from their identity.”

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The EXTREME DANGER of social media

This post is a perfect example of the EXTREME DANGER of social media
The Evil Inclination often tries to dress up a sin as a “mitzvah” a good thing
Rabbi Natan of Breslev said – “I don’t want any of these “mitzvot”
SIMPLE RULE:
I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW, HEAR OR SPEAK ABOUT ANY JEW!… https://t.co/arphsYC0rU

— Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English (@ShalomArushEN) October 20, 2025

Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-20October2025-the-extreme-danger-of-social-media
This post is a perfect example of the EXTREME DANGER of social media
The Evil Inclination often tries to dress up a sin as a “mitzvah” a good thing
Rabbi Natan of Breslev said – “I don’t want any of these “mitzvot”
SIMPLE RULE:
I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW, HEAR OR SPEAK ABOUT ANY JEW!

Social media creates terrible opportunities to spread lashon hara – evil speech which is true – against Jews. If there is no specific “toelet” purpose, which has a number of requirements, even spreading true bad speech about Jews is FORBIDDEN

But even worse is OUTRIGHT SLANDER. So much of what is said – and spread – is lies. If even a small detail is added or embellished, the entire story is now labeled SLANDER – LIES AGAINST JEWS.

The Gemara says the punishment for lashon hara is WORSE than the punishment for murder, sexual immorality and idol worship – COMBINED!!!
https://x.com/i/grok/share/AvmTIGaIHCs6TkQCrvdRLwRqk

This is a very big conflagration – one no one wants to get anywhere close to. And this is true if it is said about ONE SINGLE JEW

Now, spread a lie about a group of Jews? Oy oy oy. A separate sin against each and every one. That’s more than 500,000 sins in this post
https://x.com/i/grok/share/TBEmNJQeChb5uvuBRl8DD5TWU

NOW add on spreading Chillul Hashem – desecrating God’s Name – which is called on the Jewish people. Saying His people are doing terrible things also desecrates God’s name. This also has a terrible punishment.

AND you are helping our enemies by saying that this is real – while they scream that they need a “State” in order to “protect themselves from the Jews”!!!

DELETE THE POST NOW!

And everyone be warned – think twice and three times before posting or commenting on social media!!!
Hen Mazzig-tweet-19October2025
There’s no excuse for this sort of violence. It doesn’t matter who the perpetrators are.

I have zero tolerance to any kind of extremism and it must be condemned because it’s not who we are.

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In the Gym-May Their Village Burn

Israeli TikToker Hen Ben Moha (189k followers) posted a workout video set to the song “May Their Village Burn.”

They are using it for workout motivation. Their society isn't just sick—it's genocidal who celebrating mass murder as a lifestyle. pic.twitter.com/2cXTWLjlPe

— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) December 18, 2025

Ounka-tweet-18December2025-In the Gym-May Their Village Burn
Israeli TikToker Hen Ben Moha (189k followers) posted a workout video set to the song “May Their Village Burn.”

They are using it for workout motivation. Their society isn’t just sick—it’s genocidal who celebrating mass murder as a lifestyle.

Ounka-tweet-18December2025-In the Gym-May Their Village Burn

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The 24th of Tishrei will be observed in Israel as the national remembrance day for the events of the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War.

the Jewish Virtual Library. logo https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

Remembrance Day for the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War

Or Shaked, May 9, 2024

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/remembrance-day-for-the-october-7-disaster-and-the-swords-of-iron-war

Establishment of the Holiday

The Remembrance Day for the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War (Heb. יום זיכרון לאומי במדינת ישראל לאירועי ה-7 באוקטובר 2023 ומלחמת חרבות ברזל) is the day Israel commemorates the tragic events and the victims of October 7th, 2023, and its aftermath, including those who fell in the war and civilians who were murdered in acts of terrorism.

The Knesset adopted a resolution on March 17, 2024, to remember the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. Although such a tragic event would normally be commemorated on the day it occurred on the Gregorian calendar (even the name of the memorial day refers to October 7, 2023), the Knesset decided the Remembrance Day should be observed on the 24th of Tishrei (כ”ד בתשרי), consistent with Israel’s usual practice of marking holidays on Hebrew dates. In this case, because the attacks occurred during the holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, which fall on the 22nd and 23rd (abroad) of Tishrei, the next day on the calendar was chosen for the memorial day.

The decision was controversial because October 7 is the date most people remember and therefore was considered more appropriate.

In addition to the annual national remembrance day marked on the Hebrew date, a state ceremony will also be held, but only on the first anniversary, on October 7, 2024. In subsequent years, the 24th of Tishrei will be observed in Israel as the national remembrance day for the events of the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War.

Sources: “Government Unanimously Approves National Remembrance Day for October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War,“ Israel Prime Minister’s Office, (March 17, 2024).
“Establishing the annual national memorial events to commemorate the Swords of Iron War (provisional name) and amending a government decision,“ Israel Prime Minister’s Office, (March 17, 2024) [Hebrew].
Ben Sales, “Israel establishes an annual commemoration of the Oct. 7 attack — but not on Oct. 7,“ The Jerusalem Post, (March 18, 2024).

16October2025-Today marks the National Remembrance Day for the October 7 massacre

Today marks the National Remembrance Day for the October 7 massacre.
We remember and honor the fallen.
We continue to wait for the hostages whose bodies remain in captivity — to be brought home and laid to rest with dignity. 🇮🇱🕯️ pic.twitter.com/MDL30WkLMH

— Israel ישראל (@Israel) October 16, 2025

Israel-tweet-16October2025-Today marks the National Remembrance Day for the October 7 massacre
Today marks the National Remembrance Day for the October 7 massacre.
We remember and honor the fallen.
We continue to wait for the hostages whose bodies remain in captivity — to be brought home and laid to rest with dignity. 🇮🇱🕯️

Israel-tweet-16October2025-Today marks the National Remembrance Day for the October 7 massacre

Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War

Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War:
Knesset Speaker MK Ohana lights memorial candle and lays wreath, flags in Knesset Plaza lowered to half-mast pic.twitter.com/OlolFCJIw1

— The Knesset (@KnessetENG) October 16, 2025

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Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War:
Knesset Speaker MK Ohana lights memorial candle and lays wreath, flags in Knesset Plaza lowered to half-mast

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October 7, 2023 – a day that changed us forever.

October 7, 2023 – a day that changed us forever.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,200 people and took 251 hostages into Gaza.
We remember how it began – and we will never stop bearing witness.

But Israel stands tall – for life, for freedom, against terror.… pic.twitter.com/7ftYogGCxN

— Israel ישראל (@Israel) October 7, 2025

Israel-tweet-7October2025-7October2023-a day that changed us forever
October 7, 2023 – a day that changed us forever.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,200 people and took 251 hostages into Gaza.
We remember how it began – and we will never stop bearing witness.

But Israel stands tall – for life, for freedom, against terror.

#RememberOctober7 🕯️🎗️

Israel-tweet-7October2025-7October2023-a day that changed us forever

Israel faced the darkest day in its history

🕯️ At this very moment, two years ago, Israel faced the darkest day in its history.
On October 7th, Palestinian Hamas jihadists invaded our land — murdering, burning, and kidnapping innocent men, women, and children.

Two years later, we remember October 7th — we remember the… pic.twitter.com/51tC3HpV5e

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 7, 2025

Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-7October2025-Israel faced the darkest day in its history
🕯️ At this very moment, two years ago, Israel faced the darkest day in its history.
On October 7th, Palestinian Hamas jihadists invaded our land — murdering, burning, and kidnapping innocent men, women, and children.

Two years later, we remember October 7th — we remember the victims, we pray for the return of the hostages still held in Gaza, and we stand united against terror. Hamas must be dismantled to end this war.

We remain committed to our values, now more than ever.
Light will rise over darkness.

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US Treasury sanctions entities for supporting Hamas

By Joe Truzman | 22January2026 | @JoeTruzman

US Treasury sanctions entities for supporting Hamas

The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on January 21 that it sanctioned a network of organizations it says are covertly controlled by Hamas. The move aims to limit the Islamist group’s ability to raise funds while improving international mechanisms for supporting legitimate Palestinian civil and humanitarian needs.

OFAC said the sanctions targeted entities that raised funds for Hamas, which is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and other countries, through sham charities and organizations that claimed to have supported Palestinian causes.

Among the entities designated were the Gaza-based Waed Society, the Al Nur Society, the Qawafil Society, the Al Falah Society, Merciful Hands, and the Al Salameh Society.

According to OFAC, members of Hamas’s internal security forces were formally assigned to work inside several of the organizations, including the Waed Society and Al Salameh Society. Treasury said documentary evidence seized from Hamas after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel showed the group provided fighters with detailed instructions on how to navigate Hamas’s internal bureaucracy to request projects and services from affiliated charities.

OFAC said that the Waed Society received direct funding from Hamas to carry out projects in Gaza and was tasked by the terrorist group with advocating on behalf of Hamas fighters captured while fighting Israeli forces. The department said that the Al Nur Society and the Al Falah Society were “similarly funded” and had transferred funds to Hamas’s military apparatus.

Funds from Al Nur were used to pay Hamas members and provide services to fighters, OFAC said. Al Falah, it added, transferred more than $2.5 million to Hamas over a recent three-year period. Merciful Hands was also controlled by Hamas’s so-called military wing, OFAC detailed, with some of its funding and operational instructions coming directly from the terrorist group.

The Al Salameh Society and the Qawafil Society were likewise tasked and financed by Hamas to support the organization and execute projects intended to benefit its operations.

OFAC said that the Waed Society, the Al Nur Society, the Qawafil Society, and the Al Falah Society were designated under Executive Order 13224 “for materially assisting, sponsoring or providing financial, material or technological support to Hamas.” OFAC designated Merciful Hands and the Al Salameh Society under Executive Order 13224 “for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Hamas.”

OFAC also sanctioned the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), which it said serves as a political front for Hamas. OFAC designated the PCPA under the same provisions as Merciful Hands and the Al Salameh Society. PCPA’s founder, Zaher Birawi, was also listed among OFAC’s designations under Executive Order 13324 for “having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, the PCPA.”

Hamas issued a statement on January 22 condemning the designations, saying that it considered the decisions to be “unjust and oppressive, built upon incitement by the criminal Zionist entity.”

Joe Truzman is an editor and senior research analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal focused primarily on Palestinian armed groups and non-state actors in the Middle East.

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Terror tunnel found just a few hundred meters from Israel

IDF forces from the Kfir Brigade and Yahalom unit dismantled a one-kilometer Hamas tunnel east of the Yellow Line in Gaza, containing weapons and hideouts just hundreds of meters from Israel.

Israel National News / Published: 22January2026, 6:18 PM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421321

Troops from the Kfir Brigade, under the command of the Gaza Division, have been operating east of the Yellow Line in order to dismantle terrorist infrastructure.

During their activity, the troops, together with the Yahalom Unit, located and dismantled an underground tunnel route.

The route, which was approximately one kilometer long, was located in the area of the central camps, only a few hundreds of meters from the Israeli border.

The tunnel route contained weapons and three hideouts used by terrorists from the Hamas terrorist organization.

The operation was carried out by the Kfir Brigade combat team in cooperation with fighters from the Yahalom unit, under the command of the Gaza Division (143). The forces operated in the area for several weeks in order to clear the sector of threats.

This is one route among many. In recent weeks, additional tunnels have been exposed in the field along the “yellow line,” which is under IDF control.

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IDF completes year-long effort to destroy southern Gaza terror tunnel route

The tunnel was located in territory where the IDF remains deployed under the U.S.-brokered truce.

JNS Staff

https://www.jns.org/idf-completes-year-long-effort-to-destroy-southern-gaza-terror-tunnel-route/

(25January2026 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces has completed a year-long operation to demolish a 2.5-mile long tunnel east of the Yellow Line in southern Gaza, where the IDF remains deployed under the U.S.-brokered truce deal, the military said on Sunday.

The 7th Brigade’s combat team, operating under the command of the Gaza Division, worked together with the IDF’s elite Yahalom combat engineering unit to destroy the tunnel, which contained sleeping quarters and arms depots, according to the statement.

The Yellow Line is a demarcation established by the IDF as part of the U.S.-brokered truce deal with Hamas that went into effect in October.

Concrete barriers topped with a yellow-painted post mark the area to which the IDF has withdrawn. The Yellow Line leaves Jerusalem in control of approximately half of the Palestinian coastal enclave.

The IDF remains “deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire outline and continues to act to remove any immediate threat,” it stated.

Last week, following an exchange of fire in which six terrorists were killed, troops found combat equipment and weapons, including explosives, ammunition and instructions for preparing bombs.

During additional raids, the soldiers located five “inactive” rocket launchers and several weapons, according to Sunday’s statement.

Washington’s ceasefire proposal stipulated that its second phase, which includes the demilitarization of Gaza along with reconstruction, would commence only after all hostages, living and dead, return to Israel.

The truce went into effect on Oct. 10, after which over the course of several weeks all the remaining abductees returned home, except for the remains of Israel Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, who was killed and whose body was taken hostage by terrorists during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.

Gvili’s family raised concerns over the weekend amid reports that U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Board of Peace member Jared Kushner were pressuring Jerusalem into opening the Rafah Crossing with Egypt.

“Pressure should not be on the Israeli government to continue fulfilling its part of the deal while Hamas deceives the entire world and refuses to return the last hostage in accordance with the agreement it signed,” according to a statement put out by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

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Israel is arming at least 4 anti Hamas militias in Gaza

Israel is arming at least 4 anti Hamas militias in Gaza.

They are all protected behind the Israel held yellow line in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/vVKA93Mw4T

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 19, 2025

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Israel is arming at least 4 anti Hamas militias in Gaza.

They are all protected behind the Israel held yellow line in Gaza.

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19October2025-Hamas fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire at IDF

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— Matthew Bell (@matthew_a_bell) October 19, 2025

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⭕️ Earlier today, terrorists fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire toward IDF troops operating to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in the Rafah area, in southern Gaza, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.

In response, the IDF has begun striking in the area to eliminate the threat and dismantle tunnel shafts and military structures used for terrorist activity.

These terrorist actions constitute a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, and the IDF will respond firmly.
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19October2025-Hamas violates ceasefire

⭕️In response to Hamas’ blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement this morning, the IDF struck dozens of Hamas terror targets across Gaza.

The strikes targeted weapons storage facilities, firing posts, terrorist cells and additional Hamas terror infrastructure.

In addition,…

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 19, 2025

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⭕️In response to Hamas’ blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement this morning, the IDF struck dozens of Hamas terror targets across Gaza.

The strikes targeted weapons storage facilities, firing posts, terrorist cells and additional Hamas terror infrastructure.

In addition, the IDF struck and dismantled ~6 km of underground terrorist infrastructure, used to advance attacks against Israel, using over 120 munitions.

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Hamas approaching IDF forces

🎥WATCH: Several armed terrorists identified approaching IDF forces operating in the Beit Lahia area behind the yellow line, posing an immediate threat to the troops.

In accordance with the ceasefire agreement, the terrorists were struck after crossing the yellow line. pic.twitter.com/sl7mS98Lmi

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 19, 2025

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🎥WATCH: Several armed terrorists identified approaching IDF forces operating in the Beit Lahia area behind the yellow line, posing an immediate threat to the troops.

In accordance with the ceasefire agreement, the terrorists were struck after crossing the yellow line.

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28October2025-Hamas are lying about our hostages

Hamas are lying about our hostages and here’s the proof:

Yesterday, Hamas terrorists were filmed removing body remains from a prepared structure and re-burying them nearby, before summoning Red Cross representatives to stage a false “discovery” for photographers.

Despite… pic.twitter.com/c9CkJo3msW

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 28, 2025

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Hamas are lying about our hostages and here’s the proof:

Yesterday, Hamas terrorists were filmed removing body remains from a prepared structure and re-burying them nearby, before summoning Red Cross representatives to stage a false “discovery” for photographers.

Despite claiming difficulty locating the bodies of deceased hostages, Hamas continues to hold and manipulate the remains it refuses to release under the agreement.

Hamas’ claims of lacking engineering equipment are baseless, such tools are unnecessary for the transfer of remains and do not prevent the return of the deceased hostages.

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What do you call 200 Hamas terrorists trapped in a tunnel?

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— NP (@NPhil1) November 10, 2025

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What do you call 200 Hamas terrorists trapped in a tunnel?
NP-tweet-10November2025-And Now-We Wait
And Now. We Wait…..

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The IDF’s K-9 Unit-Oketz Unit

The moment a trained Israeli dog finds Hamas terrorists in an underground tunnel, Hamas terrorists are like rats pic.twitter.com/kDbrdSNvlz

— Robin 🇮🇱 (@Robiiin_Hoodx) June 20, 2024

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The moment a trained Israeli dog finds Hamas terrorists in an underground tunnel, Hamas terrorists are like rats

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The IDF Oketz Unit

Oketz Unit
These beautiful animals are wonderful
COMRADES in the IDF pic.twitter.com/DJMHDcJ3TQ

— Finn McCool (@FinnMcC82660606) June 21, 2024

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Oketz Unit
These beautiful animals are wonderful
COMRADES in the IDF

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‘Fake News’: US Confirms Aid Is Flowing Into Gaza, Contradicting Hamas Propaganda

US officials told the Free Beacon that Hamas’s claims of Israel blocking food and medical supplies are an attempt to distract from the terror group looting aid trucks

A truck loaded with humanitarian aid moves into the Gaza Strip (Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Adam Kredo
9November2025

‘Fake News’: US Confirms Aid Is Flowing Into Gaza, Contradicting Hamas Propaganda

The United States and Israel are moving an average of 674 humanitarian aid trucks through Gaza each day, delivering more than 15,000 loads of commercial goods and medicine since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, according to figures compiled by the U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center, the multinational body running the operations, and shared with the Washington Free Beacon. They contradict Hamas claims that Israel has hampered aid distribution in Gaza—and reports from anti-Israel media outlets relying on the terror outfit to make the same argument.

According to U.S. officials on the ground in Gaza, more than one million Gazans have received food parcels since Oct. 10, while meal production in the strip has increased by 82 percent since late September. Access to clean drinking water and medical services has also increased since the ceasefire. Gazans received 143,000 medical consultations, 900 emergency surgeries, and more than 45 trauma referrals between the date of the ceasefire and Oct. 31. Aid workers are delivering approximately 17,000 cubic meters of drinking water per day, increasing the supply of potable water in Gaza by 130 percent in October alone.

Specific products that had been absent from Gaza for months are now available in the territory, as well. Eggs arrived on Gazan shelves last week for the first time since February, according to U.S. government information on aid efforts reviewed by the Free Beacon. More than 840 pallets of medical supplies—which include maternal and neonatal health equipment—have entered Gaza in recent weeks.

The figures paint a different picture than those alleged by Hamas. The terror group said this week that “only 4,453 trucks have entered Gaza out of 15,600 that should have entered since the start of the ceasefire,” which comes out to 171 trucks per day. The terror group’s media office said on Thursday that Israel has “continue[d] to pursue a policy of suffocation, starvation, and political blackmail against more than 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza,” stating that Israel has kept products like eggs—which are available in Gaza—out of Palestinians’ hands.

The discrepancy between U.S. statistics and those Hamas has produced suggests the terror group is attempting to undermine the ceasefire and distract from its rampant looting of humanitarian aid convoys. The U.S. numbers also contradict claims from anti-Israel outlets like Drop Site News that the Jewish state has not held up its end of the aid bargain.

“The reality is that Hamas leadership has no control over its followers, and looting of humanitarian aid trucks continues to be a problem,” said one senior administration official, who described the Gazan media office’s figures as “fake news.”

Federal investigators are looking into evidence that Hamas systematically steals U.N. aid in Gaza, including instances in which the terror group “commandeered U.N. aid trucks” and ensured humanitarian goods were “directly delivered to Hamas officials.”

U.S. Central Command lent credence to these reports in late October when it announced that one of its drones had captured Hamas members looting an aid convoy on camera.

Another administration official, White House spokesman Dylan Johnson, told the Free Beacon that the U.S.-compiled numbers show the aid effort is working.

“These figures show that the Trump administration is serious about treating the people of Gaza with dignity and respect,” Johnson said. “The United States is leading a historic effort to address the critical needs of Gazans right now.”

Hamas has employed a similar playbook since igniting its war with Israel two years ago with its Oct. 7 terror spree. Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health authorities have routinely published exaggerated claims about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, prompting both the United Nations and Biden administration to accuse Israel of stirring a famine that never materialized. It has also inflated the number of women and children killed during the war to create the appearance of Israel targeting civilians.

“Hamas continues to spread lies through false stats to paint a false picture of starvation to undermine the ceasefire and peace efforts,” a U.S. official who works on Middle Eastern issues told the Free Beacon. “Sadly, many in the media remain useful idiots by publishing these Hamas talking points.”

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Regev: Transportation Ministry implementing ‘de facto sovereignty’ in Judea and Samaria

“If you walk around there, you’ll see the number of roads, bypass roads and lighting that we are installing and constructing,” said Transportation Minister Miri Regev.

JNS Staff

https://www.jns.org/regev-transportation-ministry-implementing-de-facto-sovereignty-in-judea-and-samaria/

(9November2025 / JNS) Israel’s Ministry of Transport and Road Safety is implementing a plan for “de facto sovereignty” in Judea and Samaria, Transportation Minister Miri Regev revealed in an interview with Channel 12 News on Friday.

“If you walk around there, you’ll see the number of roads, bypass roads and lighting that we are installing and constructing,” she said.

However, Regev stressed, Jerusalem should formally declare full legal sovereignty over the territories captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.

“I believe that in the end, there will be [sovereignty],” the senior minister told Channel 12. Even the U.S. administration understands that there is no other way,” she added. “Unfortunately, it’s not time yet, but there will be sovereignty.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led an unprecedented drive to expand control of Judea and Samaria, approving some 50,00 housing units and over 50 new Jewish communities since late 2022.

However, last month, the premier blasted opposition parties, as well as a fellow member of his ruling Likud faction, after the Knesset voted to advance two bills to apply formal sovereignty to Judea and Samaria.

The Oct. 22 Knesset votes were “a deliberate political provocation by the opposition to sow discord” during U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s three-day visit to the Jewish state, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

The votes, which came on the second day of Vance’s visit to Israel, were condemned by the vice president and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“That’s not something we can be supportive of right now,” Rubio told reporters before leaving for Israel as part of Washington’s efforts to promote the ceasefire with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Vance told reporters as he concluded his visit, “If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt and I personally take some insult.”

“The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel. The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel,” he declared at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Previously, in an Oct. 15 interview with Time magazine, President Donald Trump also expressed his opposition to Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, saying “I gave my word to the Arab countries. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”

On Feb. 21, 2024, the Knesset voted 99-11 to reject unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria. All coalition lawmakers and most Knesset members from Zionist opposition parties voted against “international diktats regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians.”

Nearly 70% of Israelis want Jerusalem to extend full legal sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, according to a poll conducted on Jan. 29.

Meanwhile, 58% of Israeli Jews believe that the civilian communities in Judea and Samaria contribute to national security, according to a poll the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) published on March 11.

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0% TAX FOR NEW IMMIGRANTS

That’s it. Game over. You’re coming home!

BREAKING NEWS!!

0% TAX FOR NEW IMMIGRANTS 🇮🇱

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Aliyah Minister Ofir Sofer just unveiled a revolutionary plan:

New olim and returning residents will pay 0% income tax through 2027.

Gradual rise:… pic.twitter.com/k1LYUDFKQT

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) November 6, 2025

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That’s it. Game over. You’re coming home!

BREAKING NEWS!!

0% TAX FOR NEW IMMIGRANTS 🇮🇱

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Aliyah Minister Ofir Sofer just unveiled a revolutionary plan:

New olim and returning residents will pay 0% income tax through 2027.

Gradual rise: 10% in 2028, 20% in 2029, 30% in 2030.
Applies to income up to ₪1 million per year, plus the existing 10-year exemption on foreign income.

It’s the biggest incentive for Aliyah in decades, signaling a national push to bring Jews home.

“This is a data-based process that aims to ensure optimal integration for new immigrants, create a real opportunity for them to integrate into Israeli society, and at the same time contribute to the growth of the Israeli economy,” Immigration and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer said.

I could not possibly love this more.

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The Yevsektsiya, the “Jewish Section” of the Soviet Communist Party

At least the Odessa Council of Rabbis in 1918 excommunicated Leon Trotsky, Gregory Zinoviev and other Jewish Bolsheviks.

— Gary Goldstein (@GaryGol88424403) October 20, 2025

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Few people today know the story of the Yevsektsiya, the “Jewish Section” of the Soviet Communist Party.
Formed in 1918, it was made up almost entirely of Jews whose mission was to eradicate Judaism, Zionism, and Jewish identity from within.

The Yevsektsiya saw Jewish religion and nationhood as “bourgeois relics.”
They shut down synagogues, banned Hebrew, outlawed Zionist groups, and persecuted rabbis.
They infiltrated Jewish communities, dismantled Jewish schools, and replaced them with Soviet Yiddish institutions stripped of any connection to Jewish faith or Israel.

These weren’t outsiders attacking us. They were Jews who believed loyalty to ideology came before loyalty to their people.
They thought they were modernizing Judaism, making it fit into a new political order.
In truth, they were dismantling 3,000 years of Jewish continuity to please a regime that despised them.

By the 1930s, Stalin had no more use for them.
The Yevsektsiya was disbanded, its members imprisoned or executed.
They helped destroy their own heritage and were destroyed by the very system they served.

History has a way of repeating itself in different costumes.
Today, there are Jews who distance themselves from Israel, believing that rejecting Zionism aligns them with justice or progress.

But like the Yevsektsiya, they risk confusing moral virtue with self-erasure.

When Jews deny the right of our own people to self-determination, they aren’t breaking new ground. They are walking an old and tragic path.

The lesson of the Yevsektsiya is not about blame, but about memory.
Every time Jews try to cut themselves off from their people to gain acceptance from powerful movements, it ends the same way.
The movements move on. The Jewish people endure.

Am Yisrael lives. Ideologies fade.
We survive because we remember who we are, and we refuse to let others define us.
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At least the Odessa Council of Rabbis in 1918 excommunicated Leon Trotsky, Gregory Zinoviev and other Jewish Bolsheviks.

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Katz nixes reserve duty of protest leader who urged refusal to serve over judicial overhaul

Defense minister says Eyal Naveh, a leader of Brothers in Arms and reservist commander in elite unit, is not fit to train soldiers; opposition MKs pan move as politicization of IDF

By Stuart Winer
2December2024, 10:04 am https://www.timesofisrael.com/katz-nixes-reserve-duty-of-protest-leader-who-urged-refusal-to-serve-over-judicial-overhaul/

Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that he was suspending the army reserve service of a leader of a prominent protest group who had called for reservists not to show up for their military duty in 2023 as the government advanced its controversial judicial overhaul.

Eyal Naveh, a former member of the Sayeret Matkal commando unit, is a leader of the Brothers in Arms movement, which arose to protest the government’s plans for far-reaching changes to the judiciary that critics said would erode the democratic nature of the country.

Brothers in Arms called on army reservists to refuse to volunteer for service if the required legislation was advanced, with Naveh saying in July 2023 that “we’ve tried everything, This is where we draw the line. We pledged to serve the kingdom and not the king. We are determined, we are fighters, we love this country and we will not give up on it.”

At one point the group claimed that 10,000 reservists had committed to not showing up, among them pilots and others in key military roles.

In a statement Katz said: “Anyone who calls for mass absences and refusal to serve is not suitable to train the next generation of IDF fighters.”

“The same law must be applied to all,” he added in an apparent reference to the pausing of reserve duty last month of another Brother in Arms leader, Ron Sharaf, who also served in Sayeret Matkal.

Sharaf was serving in the reserves as commander of the selection test to join elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal and after his suspension, Naveh was installed as his replacement, Channel 12 reported.

Sources told Haaretz that Naveh does not currently have an active call-up for reserve duty, and that the selection tests for the unit were held last week.

Naveh responded in a statement that Katz is a “malleable and cowardly defense minister” and urged that the minister issue call-up orders to tens of thousands of members of the ultra-Orthodox community who do not serve in the army, calling them “the real service refusers.”

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi of the Likud party congratulated Katz on “stopping the impertinence, the audaciousness, and the contempt of a group that tried to destroy the army and nearly managed to.”

MK Almog Cohen of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party claimed that Naveh “traded in the safety of our children” and that his views “seriously harmed the cohesion and security of the country, and were a catalyst for the events of October 7,” when the Palestinian terror group Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Head of the opposition Democrats political party Yair Golan slammed Katz’s move, also referring to legislation in the works to preserve the exemptions Haredi men receive from military service.

“Anyone who was appointed to be defense minister to pass the ‘evasion law’ should not preach to those who really serve, and to those who saved the country when the failed government wasn’t functioning,” he said, referring to the action taken by Brothers in Arms on October 7 to save people in the south, and the massive civil society operation it built in the following months.

MK Gilad Kariv, also of the Democrats party, accused Katz of “grossly interfering” in military matters that are not his responsibility.

“This is a dangerous campaign to cleanse and politicize the army,” he said.

The judicial overhaul plan provoked mass demonstrations for months in 2023. It was eventually put on hold, and then dropped from the agenda after the Hamas attack, though coalition members have recently talked of restarting the process.

Katz was recently appointed defense minister after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his predecessor Yoav Gallant amid differences over handling the war and the ultra-Orthodox draft bill. Netanyahu had previously fired Gallant in 2023 when the latter called to freeze the judicial overhaul but was forced to reinstate him amid public outcry.

In the wake of the Hamas attack, Brothers in Arms diverted its resources to become a civilian relief and support organization, though its leaders have also participated in protests calling on the government to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that would secure the release of hostages who were abducted during the October 7 assault.

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Katz signed order banning Red Cross visits to terrorists

BREAKING 🔴

Israeli Defense Minister Katz signed an order banning visits by Red Cross to terrorists imprisoned in Israel

“Based on the information presented to me, it is clear without a doubt that Red Cross visits to terrorists will seriously harm national security.” pic.twitter.com/MF3sTfeTDE

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 29, 2025

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BREAKING 🔴

Israeli Defense Minister Katz signed an order banning visits by Red Cross to terrorists imprisoned in Israel

“Based on the information presented to me, it is clear without a doubt that Red Cross visits to terrorists will seriously harm national security.”

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Terrorists who murder Jews get lethal injection. Executions within 90 days

A guillotine is even faster. Just in case lethal injection does not work just have next to the lethal injection bed, or have it as Step 2 just to be sure. pic.twitter.com/Bfco5K6e4q

— Yakov Butterfield (@JerusalemCats) November 19, 2025

Death by Pepsi. Better then Lethal Injection. Who needs Live Embalming with Formaldehyde when you have Pepsi. Same results.

— Yakov Butterfield (@JerusalemCats) December 8, 2025

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🚨 JUST IN — NEW PRINCIPLES OF ISRAEL’S TERRORIST DEATH PENALTY LAW 🚨

According to the published framework, the law will apply exclusively to terrorists who murder Jews — and the sentence will be non-appealable.

Executions would be carried out within 90 days, by lethal injection.

A major shift in Israel’s counter-terror policy and one that will disrupt future plans for hostage exchanges.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

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JerusalemCats Comments: A guillotine is even faster, easier and very permanent.

A guillotine is even faster. Just in case lethal injection does not work just have next to the lethal injection bed, or have it as Step 2 just to be sure.

Why does the US government need 30,000 Guillotines and over 600 Million rounds of hollow point bullets?

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“Can you boycott this from now on?”
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Death by Pepsi. Better then Lethal Injection. Who needs Live Embalming with Formaldehyde when you have Pepsi. Same results.

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From clinics to command centers: When doctors and professors lead terror

They heal patients and teach students to gain legitimacy – then send other people’s children to die. They are the ultimate professional hypocrites. They do not need welfare, they need defeat. Like the Nazi doctors. Opinion.

Stephen M. Flatow / Published: 24November2025, 3:07 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418275

Nazi Doctors From Hell

Stephen M. Flatow is President of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA) He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995 and the author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror. Note: The RZA is not affiliated with any American or Israeli political party.

Israelis have long noticed something disturbing about the men who mastermind jihad against us: many are not the poor and uneducated villagers that Western analysts love to imagine. Some of the most violent figures in Palestinian Arab terrorism – and beyond – are not only highly educated, but they are also doctors, professors, and university scientists. They were trained to save lives and educate in their fields. Instead, they devoted themselves to ending lives.

Take Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Look beyond the masks and rifles, and you find a surprising concentration of white-collar professionals.

Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, a pediatric specialist and university lecturer, served as Hamas’s de facto leader in Gaza. He could diagnose childhood diseases – and then calmly justify the murder of Israeli children.

Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar, another Gaza physician and surgeon, co-founded Hamas. He performed surgery in the morning and helped direct suicide bombings at night.

Dr. Fathi Shaqaqi, founder of PIJ, was also an MD. A man who treated infants created an organization dedicated to blowing up buses in Israel including the one in which my daughter Alisa was riding.

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, a Cairo-educated surgeon, became the successor to Osama bin Laden, treating global jihad like a clinical procedure.

And the movement has its American academic wing:

Professor Sami Al-Arian, a PhD in computer engineering, tenured at the University of South Florida, founded the think-tank WISE, and later pled guilty to conspiring to provide services to PIJ. Today he is still quoted as a respected “speaker on Palestinian rights” in anti-Israel media – a case study in how academia launders extremist legitimacy.

Nor was Al-Arian just a fringe academic.

His think-tank recruited Ramadan Shallah, a PhD in economics from the University of Durham in the U.K. Shallah taught economics in Florida – and then took over PIJ after Shaqaqi’s assassination, directing suicide bombings and thousands of rocket attacks while claiming to be a “scholar of resistance.” From the faculty lounge to terror leadership, his transition stunned Americans – but not Israelis.

These men were not driven by desperation or lack of opportunity. They were educated enough to earn degrees, practice professions, gain status, and live comfortable lives. Instead, they chose to weaponize their intellect and prestige to lead others to kill.

The idea that terrorism grows out of poverty has always been a comforting Western fiction. It absolves ideology and implies that “more aid” is the solution. Yet Hamas and PIJ leadership show the opposite reality: terrorism thrives in universities, not refugee camps.

Hamas’s founders did not radicalize in Gaza’s alleyways. They graduated from medical schools in Cairo, Alexandria, and Beirut. They collected credentials, not bread rations. Universities confer leadership, networks, confidence, and technical skills. They train organizers, not merely fighters. That is why Hamas builds tunnels with engineering precision and designs rockets in underground labs. Terror needs brains before it needs fists.

Why do doctors and professors appear so often among terror leaders?

Because their calling gives them credibility. In much of the Arab world, doctors and academics carry social authority, a presumption of moral seriousness. When a respected professor or physician preaches jihad, his title becomes a weapon. People assume that someone trained to heal and someone trained to teach must “know what they’re talking about.”

They weaponize trust. They heal patients and teach students to gain legitimacy – then send other people’s children to die. They are the ultimate professional hypocrites.

This profile matters today more than ever, especially in universities and medical associations abroad where polite professors and activists quietly excuse terrorist ideology and call it “resistance.”

The soft-spoken academic who justifies violence is far more dangerous than the masked rioter. One recruits; the other merely riots.

Israel has warned the world for decades: this is not a struggle of poverty. It is not a misunderstanding. It is not a cry of the oppressed. It is an ideological movement led by educated elites who could have cured disease, educated children, or built economies – but chose to spread death.

The world keeps treating terrorism like a social illness. Israel and every world leader not wearing blinders knows better. It is a moral illness – one deliberately cultivated by brilliant men who chose darkness. Until the world recognizes that terrorists do not need jobs or houses, but defeat, it will keep being fooled by men in white coats with blood on their hands.

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Lawfare: The Benjamin Netanyahu trial

פוסט חשוב שכתב אלי ציפורי. תקראו:

הדרמה היום במשפט נתניהו:
🔴 החוקר דובי שרצר חשף את שם החוקר שפנה למח”ש בזמן אמת כדי להתלונן על מעשים פסולים בחקירות תיקי נתניהו – מדובר בסגן ניצב בדימוס צחי חבקין שהיה מעורב בתיק 1000, 2000 ו-4000. תלונתו של חבקין מעולם לא נבדקה כיוון שקרן בר… pic.twitter.com/fxPdA3aW4c

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 22, 2025

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פוסט חשוב שכתב אלי ציפורי. תקראו:

הדרמה היום במשפט נתניהו:

🔴החוקר דובי שרצר חשף את שם החוקר שפנה למח”ש בזמן אמת כדי להתלונן על מעשים פסולים בחקירות תיקי נתניהו – מדובר בסגן ניצב בדימוס צחי חבקין שהיה מעורב בתיק 1000, 2000 ו-4000. תלונתו של חבקין מעולם לא נבדקה כיוון שקרן בר מנחם, ראשת מח”ש, דרשה שיכתוב את שמו ואת דרגתו ואילו חבקין רצה לשמור על אנונימיות. חבקין החל להעיד היום, למרות שהפרקליטות ניסתה לדחות את עדותו, ומנה שורה ארוכה של אירועים שמצביעים לשיטתו על התנהלות “לא תקינה” או “חריגה” בתיקי נתניהו.

🔴החוקרים חרגו מאישור מנדלבליט בתחילת החקירה בתיק 1000: חבקין הודה שמנדלבליט תחם את האישור רק לשימוש בדירת ג’יימס פאקר במלון רויאל ביץ’ אך צוות החקירה התעלם מכך, חרג מהאישור ושאל על מתנות לבני הזוג נתניהו – “אמרתי רגע, זה משהו שחרגנו. שאלנו שאלות רחבות בשלבים מוקדמים”.

🔴מנדלבליט לא איפשר לחקור את יוסי כהן, לשעבר ראש מוסד, על שימוש בדירת פאקר במלון רויאל ביץ’, אבל אישר לחקור את יאיר נתניהו למרות שאינו עובד ציבור: חבקין הודה שראה בשימוש של יוסי כהן בדירה כעבירה – “חשבתי שנכון וצריך לפתוח בחקירה, או לכל הפחות בבדיקה. מנדלבליט הנחה שנעשה הפרדה מלאה של החומרים והאירוע של יוסי כהן ייחקר בהמשך בנפרד. עד שאני עזבתי הוא לא נחקר”.

🔴 החוקרים ידעו בזמן אמת שגרסת פילבר על פגישת ההנחייה, עליה התבסס כתב האישום בתיק 4000, אינה מתיישבת עם הראיות: חבקין הודה שכבר בזמן אמת ידע צוות החקירה שמועד תאריך פגישת ההנחייה על פי עדות פילבר אינו תואם את האיכונים ושאר הראיות – “זה נושא שדובר ביחידה”.

🔴 אילן ישועה לא נחקר באזהרה למרות שהיה שותף לשיטתו לעבירות: חבקין הודה שלא הבין למה אילן ישועה אינו נחקר באזהרה למרות שסיפר בעדותו שהוא בפועל שותף לעבירות כביכול – “ישועה סיפר מרצונו שהוא חלק מהעבירה. שאלתי למה לא נחקר באזהרה, אמרו זה מה שהיועץ מנדלבליט הנחה וזה מה שעשו”.

🔴 מוטיבציית שיא בחקירות תיקי נתניהו: חבקין הודה שהייתה מוטיבציית שיא אצל היחידות החוקרות בתיקי נתניהו – “עשינו מאמצי על, יחידות החקירה יעשו הכל כדי להצליח”.

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An important post written by Eli Tzipori. Read it:

The drama today in the Netanyahu trial:
🔴 Investigator Dubi Shertzer revealed the name of the investigator who approached the Department of Investigation of Police Officers (Machash) in real time to complain about improper conduct in the investigations of the Netanyahu cases – it is retired Deputy Superintendent Tsahi Havkin, who was involved in Cases 1000, 2000, and 4000. Havkin’s complaint was never investigated because Karen Bar Menachem, head of Machash, demanded that he provide his name and rank, while Havkin wanted to remain anonymous.
Havkin began testifying today, despite the prosecution’s attempts to delay his testimony, and listed a long series of events that, in his view, indicate “improper” or “irregular” conduct in the Netanyahu cases.

🔴 The investigators exceeded Mandelblit’s authorization at the start of the Case 1000 investigation: Havkin admitted that Mandelblit had limited the authorization to only the use of James Packer’s apartment at the Royal Beach Hotel, but the investigation team ignored this, exceeded the authorization, and asked about gifts to the Netanyahu couple – “I said, wait a minute, this is something we went beyond. We asked broad questions in the early stages.”

🔴 Mandelblit did not allow the investigation of Yossi Cohen, former Mossad chief, regarding the use of Packer’s apartment at the Royal Beach Hotel, but permitted the investigation of Yair Netanyahu despite him not being a public official: Havkin admitted that he viewed Yossi Cohen’s use of the apartment as an offense – “I thought it was right and necessary to open an investigation, or at the very least a review. Mandelblit instructed that the materials be completely separated, and the Yossi Cohen incident would be investigated separately later. Until I left, it was not investigated.”

🔴 The investigators knew in real time that Filber’s version of the guidance meeting, on which the indictment in Case 4000 was based, did not align with the evidence: Havkin admitted that the investigation team already knew in real time that the date of the guidance meeting according to Filber’s testimony did not match the location data and other evidence – “This was a matter discussed in the unit.”

🔴 Ilan Yeshua was not investigated under caution despite being a partner, according to him, in the offenses: Havkin admitted that he did not understand why Ilan Yeshua was not investigated under caution despite testifying that he was actually a partner in the alleged offenses – “Yeshua voluntarily said he was part of the offense. I asked why he wasn’t investigated under caution, and they said that’s what the Attorney General Mandelblit instructed, and that’s what was done.”

🔴 Peak motivation in the investigations of the Netanyahu cases: Havkin admitted that there was peak motivation among the investigating units in the Netanyahu cases – “We made extraordinary efforts, the investigation units would do everything to succeed.”

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Netanyahu on trial: Case 4000 unravels as witness exposes alleged suppression of exculpatory evidence

This is no longer merely a trial of a prime minister. It has become a trial of the system that brought him to the dock.

https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-on-trial-case-4000-unravels-as-witness-exposes-alleged-suppression-of-exculpatory-evidence/

Alex Traiman

Alex Traiman is the CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief of the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) and host of “Jerusalem Minute.” A seasoned Israeli journalist, documentary filmmaker and startup consultant, he is an expert on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. He has interviewed top political figures, including Israeli leaders, U.S. senators and national security officials with insights featured on major networks like BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, Fox and Newsmax. A former NCAA champion fencer and Yeshiva University Sports Hall of Fame member, he made aliyah in 2004, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children.

(25December2025 / JNS) Case 4000—the most serious and consequential of the criminal cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—has long been portrayed by prosecutors as the centerpiece of their corruption allegations. Yet testimony heard this week in the Jerusalem District Court has intensified claims by Netanyahu’s allies that the case is not merely weak, but compromised by investigative misconduct.

According to Likud spokesman Guy Levy, testimony delivered on Tuesday by Ron Solomon, a serving senior investigator in the Israel Police’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) unit, revealed evidence of intentional suppression of exculpatory material, alteration of professional findings and continued investigative activity even after indictments were filed—all in service of sustaining a narrative that was unraveling under its own weight.

The flagship case—and why it mattered most

Among the three cases against Netanyahu—Cases 1000, 2000 and 4000—Case 4000 has always been regarded by prosecutors as the most severe. Unlike the others, it alleged a direct quid pro quo: that Netanyahu, while serving as communications minister, advanced regulatory decisions favorable to Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecom company, owned by Shaul Elovitch, in exchange for favorable coverage on the Walla news site.

Central to that theory is an alleged meeting between Netanyahu and Filber during the latter’s first week in office. The prime minister has consistently denied that such a conversation ever took place.

On the witness stand, Solomon testified that cell phone location data never placed Filber together with Netanyahu at the time of the alleged meeting. According to his testimony, the police had assembled a detailed chronology early in the investigation demonstrating that the meeting did not occur.

That data, Solomon said, was transferred to the prosecution.

According to Levy, the significance is unmistakable: The prosecution allegedly knew that the foundational claim of the meeting was false, yet indicted Netanyahu anyway—while withholding the contradictory location evidence from the defense and the court.

If correct, this would amount to concealment of exculpatory material, misrepresentation to the court and the filing of indictments based on claims known to be untrue.

From “favorable coverage” to “exceptional responsiveness”

Solomon’s testimony also addressed the prosecution’s shifting theory regarding media coverage.

Initially, prosecutors alleged that Netanyahu received positive coverage from Walla. During pre-indictment hearings before then–Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, the defense demonstrated that the coverage was frequently hostile, inconsistent and often negative.

Faced with that reality, the prosecution rebranded the allegation as “exceptional responsiveness” or unusually preferential treatment.

Solomon testified that he was tasked with reviewing Walla’s coverage of Netanyahu’s controversial Election Day 2015 statement warning that Arab voters were turning out “in droves.”

His findings contradicted the prosecution’s narrative. Walla was the third outlet to report the statement, later published a follow-up article debunking Netanyahu’s claim, and framed its coverage in a sharply hostile tone, including accusations of racism from opposition leaders.

Solomon testified that he had submitted these findings to the commander of the police’s financial crimes unit—only to be instructed to delete the information supporting Netanyahu’s position.

According to Solomon, the directive came from above, under guidance from the prosecution.

The big picture

The developments in Case 4000 come against the backdrop of the other cases against Netanyahu, each of which the defense and Likud officials describe as increasingly tenuous.

In Case 1000, prosecutors allege that Netanyahu and his family received gifts—including cigars, champagne and even a Bugs Bunny doll—valued at approximately $230,000 over many years from wealthy acquaintances. The prosecution concedes there was no specific quid pro quo, arguing instead that accepting gifts constituted a breach of trust because it might have compromised Netanyahu at some undefined future point.

In Case 2000, Netanyahu is accused of discussing a possible quid pro quo with Arnon “Noni” Mozes, publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth, under which Netanyahu would advance legislation restricting the free distribution of the pro-Netanyahu daily Israel Hayom in exchange for more favorable coverage. The prosecution openly acknowledges that the quid pro quo never occurred, yet argues that the mere conversation constitutes a criminal breach of trust.

A broader pattern alleged misconduct
Likud spokesman Levy argues that when viewed together, the cases reflect an unprecedented legal theory: criminal liability without demonstrated corruption, benefit or outcome. The picture that emerges is not of an investigation following evidence, but of evidence being reshaped to fit a predetermined conclusion.

Likud officials further allege that evidence in the cases was illegally collected and then selectively leaked to the media during consecutive election cycles, shaping public opinion and influencing electoral outcomes. They also point to the use of state witnesses who, they claim, were subjected to intense pressure and threatened with severe consequences unless they provided testimony aligning with the prosecution’s theory.

These claims remain contested, but Solomon’s testimony, Levy argues, lends new credibility to longstanding allegations of investigative overreach.

The pardon question

Against this backdrop, Netanyahu recently requested a presidential pardon from Isaac Herzog, who possesses the constitutional authority to bring the proceedings to an end.

Supporters of the move argue that after years of political paralysis, repeated elections and deep social division, a pardon would serve the national interest regardless of one’s view of Netanyahu himself.

The issue gained international attention after President Donald Trump sent a letter to Herzog urging him to grant a pardon, describing the case as politically driven and destabilizing.

Whether Herzog will act remains unclear. But after Solomon’s testimony, pressure on the prosecution—and on Israel’s political leadership—to address the legitimacy of the proceedings is likely to intensify.

A case on trial

Ultimately, the court will determine the weight of Solomon’s testimony and the credibility of the allegations surrounding it. Yet one conclusion is already evident: the case once billed as the prosecution’s strongest is now the one most visibly unraveling.

As Levy put it, Case 4000 is no longer merely a trial of a prime minister. It has become a trial of the system that brought him to the dock.

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The Western Wall: Defending Jewish identity against Reformism

Heritage Minister Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu issues strong critique of the Reform movement’s stance on Israel and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, highlighting the ongoing battle to protect Jewish identity and the sanctity of the Western Wall. Op-ed.

Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu / Published: 20February2026, 1:04 PM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422725

The riots at the Western Wall
Western Wall Heritage Foundation

While our sons are risking their lives on the frontlines, jumping on grenades, shielding civilians in bomb shelters with their own bodies, and paying the ultimate price so this country can continue to exist, there are those sitting in air-conditioned rooms in the United States, sipping lattes, and spitting in their faces. And then they demand a prize for it at the Western Wall.

What hides beneath the whitewashed words of “pluralism” and “inclusion”?

In May 2021, when Israel was burning during Operation Guardian of the Walls, when millions of Israelis, children and the elderly, sat day and night in shelters under barrages of Hamas rockets – over 90 rabbinical students of the Reform movement published a public letter. The future generation of their leadership. What did they write there? Did they condemn the terror? Did they send strength to their brethren under attack? Absolutely not. They accused the State of Israel of “apartheid,” called to halt military aid to the IDF, and cried crocodile tears over the suffering in Gaza.

This is not a one-time slip. This is a movement from which vast sections are today providing a tailwind, funding, and legitimacy to radical left-wing organizations on US campuses. Organizations that promote BDS, that call for boycotting Israeli products, and that persecute Jewish students who dare to support Zionism. As far as they are concerned, Judaism is universal, global, one that embraces everyone – except for the Israeli Jew fighting for his life.

This disdain for everything related to our nationalism comes from the highest levels. Listen to what happens at their “rabbinical” ordination ceremony (Hebrew Union College). The keynote speaker who takes the stage, to the sound of applause, doesn’t speak about the eternity of Israel. On the contrary. He stands there and trashes the IDF. He describes our presence here as “walls made from the bodies of teenage soldiers.” Do you understand? Those 19-year-old heroes standing on the firing line to prevent the next massacre are to him just pawns of an occupation protecting a “ghetto of zealots.”

And more than that – he explains to their prospective clergy that there is no problem whatsoever, and it is even desirable, for the Jewish people to disappear and assimilate. He calls on them to tear down the “walls” of Judaism, preaches that intermarriage is the right path, and declares that if Judaism disappears from the world in favor of some enlightened “global tribe” – that is completely fine. For two thousand years, Jews sacrificed their lives so as not to assimilate, to preserve our heritage and our unique identity, and today, on their main stage, they celebrate the erasure of the Jewish people.

And here is the numerical absurdity that simply cries out to high heaven:

Out of about 12,000 synagogues in Israel, the Reform movement holds barely 50 congregations. That is less than half a percent. A marginal group that barely exists on the ground in Israel. It is exactly like one person, within a congregation of 300 worshippers, standing up in his audacity and demanding to expropriate a quarter of the synagogue for himself and his friends from abroad. Not just expropriate – but to bring loudspeakers there, change the prayer arrangements, and conduct ceremonies that trample on the tradition of the 299 other worshippers. In any normal place in the world, they would show him the door.

But then comes the Supreme Court.

Last night, in a decision that proves once again how disconnected the Supreme Court justices are from Jewish identity – excuse me, they are not disconnected. They are actively working against it.

Against tradition, against Judaism, and against the majority of the Israeli public, they decided to hand this movement a victory. In the name of those empty words of “equality,” the Supreme Court is forcing the State of Israel to grant an official allocation and space at the Western Wall – the beating heart of the Jewish people – to those same people who despise us from afar.

They don’t come to the Kotel (Western Wall) to pray. The Kotel doesn’t really interest someone who dreams of becoming a citizen of the world and views our nationalism as a crime. They come to the Kotel as a battering ram. They want a foothold in our holiest place in order to gain political recognition, to poke a finger in the eye of traditional Judaism, and to undermine the Jewish identity of the state from within.

It is time that we, the sane majority in Israel, stop apologizing and stop bowing our heads to these manipulators.

The Western Wall is not real estate to be divided, nor is it playdough that can be molded according to the political whims of the Supreme Court. It belongs to a nation that is proud of its Judaism, that preserves its heritage, and that loves its soldiers. Whoever dreams of a world without a Jewish people – should not look for an estate at our Kotel.

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