Nov 15, 2026
Toyota investigating misuse of its equipment
According to reports, Toyota is investigating claims that Israel used Toyota-manufactured forklifts improperly during the war in some form of military use. Middle East Eye published photos of Toyota forklifts being used in Israeli military munitions warehouses and in other logistical capacities, and they say it may violate the terms of use.
1. is the big investigation here to determine if they should cancel the warranty?
2. Did Toyota ever "investigate" how Hamas used their pickup trucks on October 7 2023? Are they investigating the fair use of those pickup trucks?
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Picture of the Day
that is MK Elisha Medan (Likud) who set up a tent outside the Knesset and said he will stay there (with his two boys) until a unity government is etsablished
Personally I think a unity government is the only viable option, beside for it being what I think the country needs in order to heel. Obviously Bibi will have to give Eisenkott real gaurantees that he wont screw him like the way he screwed all other unity partners, most recently Benny Gantz, but if that can be managed and they can sit and negotiate a realistic arrangement together, that is really the best and only viable option right now.
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Halacha Headlines: 11/14/26 – Shiur 583 – Why men and women don't understand each other – and how it affects Shalom Bayis (audio)
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Givatayim Walking Tour 🇮🇱 | A Green and Beautiful City Next to Tel Aviv 🌳 4K HDR (video)
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JUST TRUST (Official Music Video) - Simcha Jacoby
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Nov 11, 2026
Quote of the Day
Them going with the Left is causing me a crisis of faith, people are telling me they have stopped praying because of it...
-- Broadcaster Yinon Magal
People stopped davening? Crisis of faith? all because UTJ is talking to the representatives of "the Left" to potentially forma government? no deal has yet been made, no government has yet been formed, but just the idea of hearing proposals and discussing the demands causes a crisis of faith? your fath was not very strong.
To me it is sad that anyone's faith is based on political considerations and is so easily shaken. They have barely even begun speaking and it is causing people to stop praying???
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Saar Hachutzpanim
Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that he will appoint Foreign Minister Gideon Saar to the additional position of Minister of the Interior (until a new government is formed).
The position of Minister of the Interior has sat vacant for aover a year, ever since the Haredi parties "left the coalition" - I put that into square quotes because they officially left the coalition and left their appointments but they continued to mostly support the coalition (except in votes that did not threaten the coalition from collapsing) from the outside and also ensured their portfolios and positions were either to be left vacant and ready for them to return or that only "friends" would take over their portfolios.
The position of Minister of the Interior has sat vacant for aover a year, ever since the Haredi parties "left the coalition" - I put that into square quotes because they officially left the coalition and left their appointments but they continued to mostly support the coalition (except in votes that did not threaten the coalition from collapsing) from the outside and also ensured their portfolios and positions were either to be left vacant and ready for them to return or that only "friends" would take over their portfolios.
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While it is unclear why suddenly this position needed an appointment during a caretaker government after sitting vacant for so long, the benefit of doing it now is that such appointments during a caretaker government do not require Knesset approval, making it much easier to finalize than it would have at any other time.
So Gideon Saar is now both the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Internal Affairs, so essentially he is in charge of everyone and everything!
In Hebrew he will hold the titles of שר החוץ and שר הפנים (Sar Hachutz and Sar Hapnim, or I might say the Saar Hachutz and Saar Hapnim). When put together that makes him the שר החוצפנים - the Minister of Chutzpanim. or maybe even the Saar Hachutzpanim.
A divine message or just a funny coincidence?
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Nov 10, 2026
Elisha Medan sworn in to standing ovation
Elisha Medan, upon standing on his feet to swear in his allegiance to the State of Israel for serving in the Knesset despite the pain and bleeding, receives a standing ovation and cheers throughout the Knesset chamber... Medan, a hero of Israel who lost both his legs fighting in the October 7 War in Gaza, is now serving in the Knesset on behalf of the Likud party.
If the entire Knesset can rally around Medan, perhaps he should be the Prime Minister and can rally everyone around him to serve the State and its people faithfully and honorably... halevai, maybe one day in the not too distant future...
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Good luck to the new MKs of the incoming Knesset!
The new Knesset session begins today as the MKs recently voted in will be inaugurated later this afternoon. The Knesset begins its work separate from the government that takes more time as a coalition needs to be formed - until then the outgoing government continues to function as a caretaker government.
I read that of the 120 MKs being sworn in today, 46 are brand new rookie MKs. That's a nice turnover (but not as nice as 120 new MKs would have been!).
Good luck to all the MKs, both rookies and veterans, being sworn in today. Do your best work to better the lives, in every way, of the People of Israel.
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Aliyah: Keep Waiting And You Might Just Miss The Geulah! (video)
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The Noise of Music | Sruly Green | Backstage with Benny (video)
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TEL AVIV — SEE IT ONCE, LOVE IT FOREVER! (video)
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Nov 9, 2026
Tweet of the Day
Hamas found the money, manpower and engineering expertise for over 700km of terror tunnels, but drainage wasn't in the budget.
— Driftwood (@buc97552) November 9, 2026
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Trump confirms Vance's explanation
The other day, after the "Blue Wave" swept through the USA and the Democrats took over the Senate and House of Representatives from the Republicans, Vice President JD Vance explained why the Republicans lost and one of the reasons was the US relationship with Israel..
After Vance said that The Jewish community at large, especially in Israel, got upset and looked at Vance as an enemy of Israel and of the Jews, an antisemite. Vance has been suspect in many's eyes all along, ever since he became Vice President (eg he is friends with Tucker and has distanced himself from Israel in many ways), and I am not here to debunk that - maybe he is, maybe he is not. I do think that even if perhaps Vance could have worded thigns differently, essentially he said the truth. As I wrote then, the narrative in the USA was that Israel dragged the US into a war they did not want that caused inflation and especially high gas prices and they were being forced to pay for Israel's genocide. Right or wrong, that was the narrative in the USA and almost nothing was done, at least not effectively, to rewrite that. So even if that claim is not accurate or true, JD Vance was correct when he said that this was [one of] the reason[s] for the midterm results.
Now, President Trump has confirmed Vance's statement and also sayid, in his interview with 60 Minutes, that one of the reasons for the Republican midterm losses was that people in the USA really don't like Israel.
Now, President Trump has confirmed Vance's statement and also sayid, in his interview with 60 Minutes, that one of the reasons for the Republican midterm losses was that people in the USA really don't like Israel.
so now do we get upset at President Trump for blaming Israel for the Republican midterm losses? Trump is an antisemite, anti-Israel? I don't think he is, just the opposite. He has been very good to Israel (even if in other ways he allowed antisemites to flourish) overall. Maybe he just worded it slightly better, or maybe he mentioned it but focused on it less than the other reasons....calling people antisemites when they say things we don't like is the easy way out but it is not always true.
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Quote of the Day
At the end of this whole thing, those countries that we’ve protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we’ve had for the war.... We’re gonna get all that money back. Because without us, they wouldn’t exist. Without us, Israel wouldn’t exist...... I want to have it for the long term, not for the short term. We decapitated their nuclear arsenal. If I didn’t do that, there would be no Israel right now. Israel would be gone. They would use a nuclear weapon in 24 hours
-- President of the USA Donald Trump, in an interview with 60 Minutes
Are we about to owe the USA an estimated 47 billion dollars? The 4 billion in aid we are giving up next year seems like peanuts compared to this....
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Is Israel Safer Than America? Hillel Fuld | Behind the Bima (video)
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Jerusalem, November 2. The city’s atmosphere. A walk starting from Tzahal Square. (video)
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Nov 8, 2026
Get ready to pay more
The Israel Tax Authority annoucned a short while ago that it has proposed adding a new tax to the 2027 budget.
The proposed tax would seemingly, if I understand it correctly, be levied on the airlines per flight, and the exact fee would depend on the type of flight and airplane with small planes on domestic routes being taxed 1300nis and and long haul flights being taxed about 100,000nis.
The airlines would then pass the cost on to the passengers by dividing that tax charge among the passengers booked on the flight. Passengers on dmoestic flights would pay an additional 12nis (estimated) per flight, international short to medium haul passengers (such as on flights to Europe or other nearby locations) would pay about 58nis, and [assengers on long haul flights would pay an additional 274nis.
Get ready to pay more. All these long wars and defense spending cost money, the 4 billion in military aid from the US is going away, and they have to find more things to tax to raise the money.
This is just a proposal for now, and has not yet been accepted or rejected. They are looking at other tax alternatives as well. And they will probably choose all the options!
source: Ynet
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Halacha Headlines: 11/7/26 – Shiur 582 – SELF DRIVING CARS ON SHABBOS?! (audio)
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The Midterm Disaster: What It Means for American Jews (video)
I am not so apocalyptic.. but it is an interesting debate I am hearing all over now...what do you think?
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Nahariya, Israel 🇮🇱 | History, Beautiful Beaches & Mediterranean Life | 4K HDR (video)
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Jala: Shir Chadash (video)
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Nov 6, 2026
Shuli Rand and Shrek: Oneg Shabbos (video)
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Nov 4, 2026
Vance blames Israel
VP Vance said a short while ago that the Rpeublicans lost the elections yesterday because of the Iran war and because of the relationship with Israel. One of President Trump's sons retweeted the annoucnement, ostensibly agreeing with the announcement.
I am hearing some criticism of Vance and even of Trump that they are blaming it on Israel, he's no friend of ours, etc.
One does not need to be a big talmid chochom or world renown political analyst to know that what he said is true, even if it is superficial (not of Vance but of the voters).
Ever since October 7 2023, and especially since the Iran wars/operations, the American people have increasingly been blaming their problems (gas prices, inflation, etc) on the Iran War (probably fairly) and on Trump/USA being beholden to Israel (more complicated and nuanced than the claim that America is fighting Israel's war for Israel and paying them too much money, but that's the way it has been). Whether it is fair or not, Israel and the war has increasingly been the friction point in the USA, and around much of the world. There has been basically no other talking point or agenda, and everything gets turned back o the war and Israel.
Ever since October 7 2023, and especially since the Iran wars/operations, the American people have increasingly been blaming their problems (gas prices, inflation, etc) on the Iran War (probably fairly) and on Trump/USA being beholden to Israel (more complicated and nuanced than the claim that America is fighting Israel's war for Israel and paying them too much money, but that's the way it has been). Whether it is fair or not, Israel and the war has increasingly been the friction point in the USA, and around much of the world. There has been basically no other talking point or agenda, and everything gets turned back o the war and Israel.
I know Trump said every now and then that he is not fighting for Israel, that it is Iran's fault, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, that gas prices are not so bad, but he did not really do anything significant to change the messaging. And Netanyahu also did not do anything to change the messaging from Israel's side.
And announcing on election day that the military aid for Israel will soon stop was a nice attempt to get some voters back but it was way too little way too late.
While Vance might or might not be anti-Israel, this statement is 100% true and is not specifically anti-Israel sentiment, just a breakdown of what happened. I would not say it is Israel's fault, and I dont think Vance said that either, but it is because of how Trump and the USA handled Iran and Israel.
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Nov 3, 2026
Quote of the Day
I'm at 99% approval in Israel. If people ever got tired of me in the US, I'll move to Israel and become Prime Minister.
-- President of the USA Donald J Trump
he is popular here but not quite as popular as he used to be.... definitely not 99%
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Har Habayit B'Yadeinu
while I used to go to Har Habayit regularly (I have posted about it many times in the past), it has now been a few years since I went up - for a variety of reasons. Today I finally got myself going and went back to the Har.
So this extreme leftist, Kaplanist even according to some, is also an extreme messianic (though without the qualifying long unkempt peyos) rightist, maybe even a Bengvirist. I will note, one of the reaosns I went today is because my daughter who serves in Mishmar Hagvul (which is why I said maybe even a Bengvirist), aka Magav, is stationed this week on Har Habayit.
Obviously I have heard of the changes on Har Habayit over the past few years. I still have sort of kept up and stayed in My Har Habayit whatsapp groups and I always follow Har Habayit in the news, so none of it was a surprise to me, but seeing the changes with my own eyes, and all at once after a period of time rather than seeing it incrementally as it happens, was significant.
Going in had a minimal security check, just the metal detector - no iterrogation and body search for a siddur or other religious materials.
Being that I did not go up with a group, the police gathered the several individuals going at that time together on the Mugrabim Bridge and turned us into a group. On the bridge was a box with a sheaf of laminated papers of prayers. During the police instructions he told us that we cannot use our own siddurim or anything else other than the sheet of tefillot prepared and available. He also said we can daven openly on the eastern side and only on the eastern side. While I am not sure what the difference is, if they are letting people pray publicly there and even with a source sheet, why nto also allow siddurim? but ok, they used to arrest people for moving their lips silently on Har Habayit, so offering a limited prayer sheet that you can hold and walk around with is a massive change.
Also, some people were wearing colorful shawls turned into a tallis, and one person from Yeshivat Har Habayit and had turned his jacked into a begged of tztzis. There are some black shawl tallitot that have become popular recently by Yeshivat Har Habayit people that I have seen pictures of but nobody in my group today was wearing them.
Once we went up it was pretty basic for the first section, but what was noticeably different was no Waqf guards following us around - just the police and Magav.
Once we hit the eastern side, pretty much everyone did hishtachavaya, full prostration. Right there, out in the open, not hiding behind other people or trying to catch the moment the plice office is looking in the other direction...Continuing on we went to the center of the eastern side where the path directly to the mikdash area is and everyone did prostration again, and people settled in and davened, each doing their own thing. The police did not rush anyone or try to move us along. Interestingly enough, a few people sat down theer at one point and started learning somethign (I think hilchot har habayit but not sure). At some point the police asked who wants to continue on and who wants to stay with the kollel.
Just then another group approached us, which also would have never happened before - it used to be only one group at a time, and if you took too long you were holding up other people waiting to go up. Also, it turned out one of the kids there (ascending with his father) was just turning bar miztva, so at that point many joined in to sing and dance with the bar mitzva boy. Also somethign that would never have been allowed before.
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The rest of the way around was uneventful. Near the end I saw my daughter as she came over for a moment from where she was stationed, we exited the Har, and I walked over to Shaar Kutna where she was stationed to see her for a few minutes (Jewish exit off Har Habayit is Shaar Hashalshelet) and then headed out for my car.
Crossing the Kotel plaza I thought for a moment to go down and pray but then caught myself and thought that this would be sacreligious after praying on Har Habayit on the other side of the wall. What do you think - is it appropriate to pray at the Kotel after praying on Har Habayit or is it sacrilegious and maybe a bizayon to Har Habayit?
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historic times once again
The price of gasoline in Israel is adjusted once a month and changes accordingly at the pumps the 1st of every month at midnight. It is extremely rare for the price to change mid-month - it has only happened a few times in the history of Israel, from what I could find. And in that regard we are about to experience gasoline history once again!
Due to the recent [global] sharp increases in the price of gasoline, along with it coinciding with Smotritch's electoral campaign, the Finance Minister cut the "blu tax" on gasoline by 1nis per liter. Smotritch did this in October after the month had already begun (which was one of the other few times in history the price changed mid-month).
On the night of November 5, as it turns to November 6 at midnight, that tax discount will expire so the price will automatically adjust upward. The FInance Ministry announced though that the discount will be lessened to 50ag per liter and extended until the end of November. Meaning, the tax discount partially expires on november 6 so will go up at the pump by 50ag per liter, and the balance will expire at the end of the month when it will go up by another 50ag per liter (along with whatever else happens to the price at the end of the month, up or down).
Living in historic times is getting both expensive and tiring...
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A Biblical Road Trip Through The Promised Land (video)
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'The old boy George no longer exists': Singer opens up in Israel (video)
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Jerusalem. This is what the city’s streets look like in the evening—unvarnished and unembellished. (video)
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Ari Hill & Neshama Choir- Me'id Ani (video)
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Nov 2, 2026
‘The Messiah Will Have to DRAG Them to Israel’ – Ex-New Yorkers Expose the Exile Illusion (video)
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🔴 Dead Sea, Israel. Nature's Greatest Wonder (video)
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Mazel Tov on your Bar Mitzvah | TYH Boys (video)
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Nov 1, 2026
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We tried to bring something different to the table, but we made a mistake. We are people of the Right so naturally we said we would recommend Netanyahu [for PM], but by doing that we played the old game. We should have simply not spoken about it at all. People would have understood on their own which camp we are part of.
-- Lali Deri, former candidate for Knesset on the Amcha Yisrael slate
A moment after they annoucned their plan to recommend Netanyahu for PM after the elections I said exactly the above and called it a fatal mistake that would lose them support. They copuld not withstand the pressure coming from Netanyahu to drop out and they thought publicly saying they support him would get him off their backs...
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So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right? 1
— Ernest Bledsoe (@PincheOgro1) October 30, 2026
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where we stand and changes that wont work
PM Netanyahu's bloc, aka the Right Wing Bloc, dropped from 68 mandates to 53 (and that is including the Haredi parties who have said they are no longer part of the bloc). That's a massive drop. Netanyahu has no clear path to forming a government. Can he find 7 defectors from parties in the Change Bloc? Hard to imagine he can find 8, but maybe. He also might be able to convince a party (eg BYachad or Yisrael Beyteynu) to flip and switch sides to support him. Also unlikely but possible.
MK Eisenkot's bloc, aka the Change Bloc, has 67 mandates but no clear path to a government. Of the 67 seats, 19 are held by Arab parties that will be difficult to form a government with. Netanyahu is working hard to delegitimize forming a government with the Arab parties, even though it looks like the big scandal of voter fraud will come to almost nothing (actual results still pending but it looks like this was just a planned Netanyahu head fake). There are a couple other options for Eisenkot such as bringing in the Haredim who have expressed conditional interest. One little part of me wants to see this happen just so we can see people on the Right (eg Yinon Magal, among plenty of others) go ballistic about the Haredim and call them traitors to the Right and all sorts of other things.
Another option being floated is a unity government of sorts. I have supported this option for a long time and wanted to support a party running on this platform in the elections but other than Hendel they all dropped out. That being said, a unity government will not be easy to put together either. Netanyahu's people are saying they want a unity government but only Netanyahu will be Prime Minister with no rotation, and Eisenkot's people are saying he won't sit under Netanyahu. If this is going to work and avoid new elections (election fraud will probably not bring us to new elections right now), it is going to take a lot of work and compromise.
Until any of that happens, The Change Bloc has the numbers and are sayibng that in the meantime until the government stuation can be figured out, they will start by working on using their majority in Knesset. To start, if they can work it out among the various parties, they will put up their own candidate as Speaker of Knesset and remove outgoing Speaker MK Amir Ohanyon of the Likud. The Haredim say they will likely support this move as well, considering they regret, in hindsight, supporting his candidacy (because he is a homosexual and suddenly it is a chilul hashem that he was appointed to this position).
After that move, they say they will try to pass some basic legislation they campaigned on. Again, in Knesset they have the straightforward numbers for this right now. There are various ideas for legislation and decisions they are floating to pass quickly, such as appointing a State Commission of Inquiry, among others. One I already discussed, being a law to disqualify anyone indicted from running for Prime Minister.
I saw a new idea floated last night in the Change Bloc. That is, they would pass a law that would change the method of our elections. Theyw ould set it to be two separate ballots, one voting directly for Prime Minister and the second being a vote for Parliamentary representation. There is reasonable logic to this, considering the Executive and Legislative branches are meant to be two separate branches of government. This was tried before and abandoned after one election (when it did not help Netanyahu the way he thought it would when he passed the law). That would mean whichever candidate for PM wins the most votes would become Prime Minister and would not need a Knesset majority for forming a government but could form it with however few or many MKs he wants. Netanyahu himself has spoken about this idea in recent years as well, but there is no way he would agree to it right now.
Personally, I am in favor of electoral reform, but it has to come as part of a comprehensive set of reforms designed to improve our electoral system, not just to help this or that candidate at a specific time and place.. I am not a fan of gerrymandering, and this is just a form of that. I am in favor of term limits as well, but we need mroe electoral reform than just term limits and it should come as part of a bigger package of reforms, not on its own as a way to exclude a specific candidate.
Also, Eisenkot might support making such a change for direct election of Prime Minister but I can totally see it coming back to bite him. Just like polls were wrong regarding the results of the elections, perhaps polls were wrong showing him as the favored candidate for PM.
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Halacha Headlines: 10/31/26 – Shiur 581 – Drunk in Yerushalayim: Who’s Responsible for the Yeshiva Drinking Crisis? (audio)
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2,000-year-old aqueduct that supplied water to Temple Mount uncovered in Jerusalem (video)
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JERUSALEM AT NIGHT! 😮 What’s Going On? (video)
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Bar Tzabari: Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov (video)
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Oct 29, 2026
Quote of the Day
It's the public's fault for not voting for us
-- Chairman of Shas MK Aryeh Deri, lamenting the results of the elections that sees Shas dropping to 7 seats, and possibly to 6
well, yes, that is how elections work. The people choose which party to vote for and it is their fault they did not vote Shas. They question is why Shas potential voters chose not to vote Shas, and that is not the fault of the public (though it was their decision)
Some people think they own their public's decisions, and the public does not have a right to choose otherwise...
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Qatar again
whoa... I have been mostly offline the past two days so I am not caught up on the details but it looks like Qatar is meddling again in Israel, this type with possible election fraud, this time allegedly via funneling money through [some of?] the Arab parties, whatever that consists of. Not sure what this could lead to, but in the most extreme case of significant fraud it could even lead to a repeat election.
I hope this Qatari influence gets uprooted and banished from Israel and whomever they find to be connected to the fraud, if true, gets his due punishment
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Oct 28, 2026
Halacha Headlines: 10/24/26 – Shiur 580 – Drunk in Yerushalayim: What went wrong at the lavish Simchas Beis Hashoeva celebrations? What’s to be done with the Yeshiva drinking culture? (audio)
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The Songs Along the Way | Hershy Weinberger | Backstage with Benny (video)
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SHLEZKEY - AMAZING (Official music video)
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Oct 26, 2026
Quote of the Day
right now, less than a day to elections, lots of people are saying lots of crazy things, so it cant be hard to choose, but I think this one takes the cake
-- Rav Sariel Rosenberg, Av Beis Din of Bnei Braq, at the Degel Hatorah election rally last night
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“It’s national suicide!”: Former PM Naftali Bennett on the “last chance” to fix Israel (video)
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Preparations for the Beit HaMikdash as the Final Redemption Unfolds (video)
I think this kind of stuff is so cool where people have talents and figure out how to use it for preparing for the mikdash.
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Hakomas HaMedinah was the furthest thing from their minds - Rav Hershel Schachter (video)
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Spicy! (Torah Tavlin) | Mendy Worch (video)
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Oct 25, 2026
Netanyahu on US pressure: 'You bow your head, you're dead' | Exclusive (video)
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Oct 22, 2026
Quote of the Day
Any attack on Israel and any future terror attacks there may be, God forbid, will be registered to the names of Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan and their friends in the Opposition - who do not stop attacking the Prime Minister and myself and casting aspersions in our judgement and warnings based on information we have about our enemies intentions to attack us and carry out terror attacks during the elections in order to influence the election results...
-- Defense Minister Yisrael Katz
this government does not take responsibility for any attacks after they happen, and now they are preempting and absolving themselves and passing around responsibility in advance too for future attacks (god forbid)
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State Sponsored Tefillin
In what might be the most interesting campaign promise, and perhaps the most absurd, of this election cycle, MK Aryeh Deri might take the cake.
This morning Deri made a campaign promise that would have the State giving every young man turning 13 years of age, ie turning bar mitzva, a set of tallis and tefillin. As well, he will force the Ministry of Education to allot an area in every school where any students who want to will be able to pray.
Deri says this is in response to harsh promises made by some (ie Yair Golan and others with similar ideas) that would be a threat to the Jewishness of the State of Israel - he says they want to turn Israel into a State of all its citizens [rather than a Jewish State]. Promises such as to remove religion from the public sphere or acting to remove Messianism from the schools...
Deri's promise is to pass this program he is calling "Tefillin for every child" - seemingly a spin on the old "a computer for every child" promise for imporving the educational system and giving children from lower socioeconomic families/communities a hand up to help them be less disadvantaged in relation to wealthier students. Deri says tefillin has been a symbol of the Jewish nation throughout the generations and this program will deepen our connection to Judaism and Jewish tradition, and will stregthen the security of Israel. The Torah says "the nations will see Gods name on you and will be afraid of you, and Chazal say that refers to them seeing the head tefillin. Tefillin is the spiritual power giving us the ability to defeat our enemies. The choice is clear, Deri says; either we strengthen the Jewish state ([in its Jewishness] and we deteriorate to a state of all its citizens, God forbid.
Journalist Yoeli Brim has made a quick calculation of Deri's promise. According to Brim, if the current coalition parties win the upcoming election and will be able to form a coalition, and if this law or directive gets passed and goes into effect in 2027, the boys in 2027 who will be bar mitzva and get these sets were born in 2014. In 2014 there were 130,000 Jewish children born. Assuming statistically approximately 51% of them are boys that would be about 67000 Jewish boys who will get these tefillin sets. Assuming approximately 2000nis per set, that will require a budget of at least 135,000,000 per year. In five years that becomes more than half a billion shekels - pocket change.
State sponsored kiruv/religion always irks me the wrong way. We can leave that aside.
I assume Der won't give tefillin sets to girls, but why should only the boys get stuff for fre from the State? Why can't the girls get anything too? If he only gives boys, and only Jewish boys, I see a discrimination suit potentially on the way. What would the girls get for their bat mitzva? A set of Halichot Bat Yisrael and/or Tzeea Ureena seems too small when compared to tefillin. Maybe girls get a free wedding dress when they get married? Maybe a free set of candlesticks to light for Shabbos?
And let's say we put aside a potential appeal to the courts for discrimination or whatever.
Why does the State need to buy tefillin for kids - why can't parents continue buying their kids tefillin as we have all done for thousands of years? Should the State also be paying for our Shabbos groceries? for our tzitzis? Holiday paraphanelia (e.g. lulav and esrog, sukka, seder plate, afikomen present, chanukah menora, etc)?
Tradition is meant to be passed down from father to son, not from legislator/politician to citizen. We should not be transferring our parental duties to the State, and we should not be passing our responsiblity for bearing the torch of tradition to the State. Some are trying to turn the State into one big kibbutz.
Truth is, I am just upset as I have no more boys coming up for bar mitzva... but on the bright side maybe my grandkids will benefit from this...
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'There's no negotiation with terrorists': Likud's Yoav Kisch (video)
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You Won't Believe What People Asked This Rabbi in Lakewood (video)
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Oct 21, 2026
Quote of the Day
I went along with netanyahu throughout all the years, in exchange for which I did not receive any friendship I can be proud of...I am disappointed, and he knows what the ramifications are of everything that happened today..
-- MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) in his final session in the Knesset Finance Committee, after the Coalition parties voted to approve the list of charitable organizations to receive Chapter 46 status, despite the Haredi organizations being left out
We often only learn our lessons after it is too late
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Settlements, Sanctions, and Smotrich: Religious Zionism's Simcha Rothman joins Israel Electioncast (video)
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I'm A Palestinian And I'm A Jew. Ask Us Anything (video)
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The Voice Allstars Israel: Mendy Twerski: Migdalim (video)
the full clip[ of his performance with the intro and the judging is pretty cool but they only put this part on Youtube...
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Oct 19, 2026
Interesting Psak: voting for a Har Habayit supporter
Rav Yitzchak Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas political party and member of its Council of Torah Sages, has issued a psak by which it would be prohibited to vote for Itamar Ben Gvir's party Otzma Yehudit in the coming elections, and possibly for others as well such as Betzalel Smotritch's Hatzionut Hadatit party (because of Moshe Feiglin, not because of Smotritch).
According to Rav Yosef, who signed a letter stating his psak, anyone encouraging others to ascend Har Habayit or who goes up is causing the public to sin and it is prohibited to vote for such a person. There are people, he says, who call themselves nationalist, from a variety of parties, who raise their hand up against God and His Torah and cause people to sin with the punishment of kareit, under the banner of nationalism.
Besides for the halachic problem itself of ascending Har Habayit, doing so also causes problems for us with other countries. Rav Yosef rejects the claim that it is needed for strengthening Israeli sovereignty and that, even if true that it strengthens sovereignty, is not any reason to permit an issur kareit..
Rav Yosef then says explicitly that it is prohibited to give such political parties any strength in the elections and to assist them or vote for them. ANyone who does will bear the sin of kareit and carry the collar of kareit around his neck.
source: Arutz7
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Yishai Fleisher: Ben Gvir, the Temple Mount, King David & Terrorism (video)
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Eretz Nehederet’s “Fauda in the Skies” 😂 The Plumber Who Saves the Plane | FLYDUBAI (video)
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The Niggun Within | Eitan Katz | Backstage with Benny (video)
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Kobi Mirsky - Horeni Hashem (video)
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Oct 18, 2026
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| no longer just for women... |
Minister Itamar Ben Gvir did a hafrashat challa event for the success of the right wing bloc and for Tali Gotliv to be appointed Minister of Justice...
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The Law of the Indicted
Currently according to the law in Israel, as I understand it, anyone under criminal indictment is allowed to run for Knesset but cannot be appointed to a ministerial position. Even though Prime Minister is somewhat a ministerial position, the ultimate ministerial position, it is not specifically denied in law to someone under indictment, which is why the Supreme Court allowed Netanyahu to continue running for Prime Minister, when his candidacy was challenged a few years ago.
Back in 2021 Gideon Saar proposed an amendment to the current law that would also prevent anyone under indictment from being Prime Minister. Saar's proposal became known as Chok HaNeesham - the Law of the Indicted. I am not sure what happened to Saar's proposal - it seems to have just never been dealt with due to the multiple elections and chaos happening in those years.
MK Avigdor Lieberman has spoken out today (and maybe others have as well, not sure) that after the elections, assuming he and his potential coalition partners obtain some sort of victory in the elections, will immediately move to replace Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana with their own representative (nothing wrong with this move, it has been done before), and then immediately pass Law of the Indicted, Chok HaNeesham, which would then prevent Netanyahu from running again for Prime Minister (at least until his court cases are finished in his favor with an exoneration of all the main charges) in future elections.
Whether it is a good law or not I don't know, though I think it is. Just like someone indicted should not be any other type of minister, he or she should also not be Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister's attention should be focused on running the country, not on defending himself in court. Even being a good law, it should not be used to ban Netanyahu from running, at least one election forward. Passing this would be a law targeted at someone specifically which should always be out of bounds. If they do pass it, I would expect and hope that Netanyahu would be allowed to run in at least the elections after that (and I am saying this as someone who no longer supports Netanyahu for Prime Minister), though maybe not in elections after the next one. We cannot pass laws targeting specific people and we cannot change the rules in the middle of the game. If after the coming elections this law gets passed, it should only go into effect after the next elections after these.
It would though be fun to see Gideon Saar's law passed to hurt Netanyahu after seeing how Saar has changed his poisitions the past 2 years....
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Halacha Headlines: 10/17/26 – Shiur 579 – What’s the right age to date and get married? (audio)
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First haredi women on a haredi Knesset slate speak out (video)
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