PM Netanyahu Receives Zeev Jabotinsky's Sword from Israel Police Commissioner Danino
Israel Police Commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino, during the course of a study day for the senior Israeli Police command at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in#Jerusalem to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, gave the sword of Zeev Jabotinsky to Prime Minister Benjamin#Netanyahu.
The Israel Police Education Officer said that in 1920 Zeev #Jabotinsky had been arrested by British police officers in the wake of his involvement in a Jewish defense organization in Jerusalem following the riots which occurred that year. His sword was taken from him during his arrest. The sword eventually passed to a British police officer. Several years later, the officer's daughter gave the sword to British historian Martin Higgins, who specialized in the mandatory police and whose father had been a police officer himself. Higgins gave the sword to the Israel Police. The sword had previously belonged to a senior Ottoman officer and apparently came into Jabotinsky's possession during his service as an officer in the framework of the 38th Royal Fusiliers during World War I.
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Rabbi Avigdor Miller (a popular Chareidi Rabbi, born 1908 CE,
ReplyDeletedied 2001 CE) delivered a free public lecture in the last year of his life,
in which he taught that Jews should pray for the Israeli Army.
I personally witnessed this; I was there.
When a Jew recites Tefilat Shemoneh Esrei, he is permitted to add his own
personal prayer requests in the middle of the final paragraph, which begins with
Elokai Netzor Leshoni MeiRa.
I recently began adding the prayer for the Israeli Army in that part.
I know this is not the way it is normally recited, but it is permitted,
and I can say it that way in any synagogue.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck
told me that I can recite it even on Shabbat and Yom Tov,
because it is a communal tefillah, not a private bakashah.
SOURCE:
http://rabbipruzansky.com/2014/03/24/the-exchange-part-2/
They presented it to Netanyahu to keep?
ReplyDeleteyes, though I assume it isnt his personally but goes into some state archive associated with the PMO
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