we have gone from Trump being possibly mashiach and davening for Donald ben Fred to Trump being a fehrd (a horse, colloquially in Yiddish, a fool)....

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this morning's anti-haredi-draft protests got very violent very quickly with police having no patience for it and using stun grenades and their heavy batons to beat protestors bloody...

as I have said before, the Israel Police have always been too violent... if anyone deserves to be at the other end of that violent baton it is people, any people, who shut down the country by blocking roads (the blocking of roads is violence against innocent bystanders), especially during rush hour traffic but any other time as well, but I am not sure anyone really deserves to be at the end of that violent baton... (note: I am using "violent baton" as a noun - the baton is not violent, but the policeman wielding it is)

Some people from the more extreme (regarding the draft) Haredi groups (eg Peleg) hung the above sign at the entrance to Modiin Ilit. The sign bars entry to police and military police... 

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This photo of Captain (Reserves) Yehuda Weitzman heading out to return back to his military base in Lebanon bearing a sefer torah (written in memory of two brothers, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, two brothers who were killed in a terrorist attack in Hawara) alongside his military gear, captured the hearts of the masses online...

As a follow up to this picture, Goldberg captured another brilliant shot at the Central Bus Station...

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Noam Betan, Israel's representative to Eurovision 2026, celebrates, including recitnig Shema Yisrael, upon acheiving 2nd place at the contest last night

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That is Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, one of the Haredi gedolim today and Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Braq, autographing a baseball in a donor's home (parlor meeting I guess) in Chicago... shortly after this he flew back to Israel... 

Being that he was born in the USA (NY) and lived there for almost 30 years before moving to Israel, I wonder if he has fond memories of baseball (as Rav Scheinberg famously did) and if he was a fan of any team when he was younger....

Taba border crossing as Israelis try to exit through Egypt to travel for the Pesach holiday to their planned destinations as Israeli travel is still basically shut down because of the war

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the remains of Ran Gvilli, the last hostage remaining in Gaza, have been discovered (in a mass grave of Palestinians/terrorists), identified positively, and brought back to Israel just now for burial.

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heavy rains overnights and in the early morning hours caused flooding and power outages around the country. Bet Shemesh was hit hard too with flooding in different parts of the city, with some roads becoming inpassable.. in this instance a transport van driving kids to school got stuck in a flood.. some guy pulled his trusty kayak out of his closed and went out to rescue the kids...

I am not quite sure what he did to rescue the kids, or what his plan was.. maybe he just reassured them.. I dont see how he could have fit 10 or 15 kids in the kayak to row them to safety... maybe he made a bunch of trips back and forth... either way, A for effort and ingenuity

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Soldiers head back to the bases from Jerusalem via the train station while Haredim from around the country head into Jerusalem via the same train station for today's rally/protest

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Israel had bombed and destroyed this "countdown clock" during the recent "12 Day War". It looks like it was important enough to Iran to rebuild it pretty quickly but now it malfunctioned after a power outage... hmmm... I would suggest maybe it shorted out on a rainy day but we Zionists have already stolen all their rain clouds... The Countdown clock to Israel's destruction seems to be predicting Israel won't be destroyed. 

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I am not so sure what Greta Thunberg is smiling so widely about after her flotilla was taken over by the IDF. Maybe it exists but I dont remember ever seeing a picture of her smiling - she always looks so angry - let alone smiling so broadly. Maybe it is the "pastrami" (turkey pastrama) sandwich being handed to her by a soldier (she's a vegan), maybe it is the plastic the sandwich is wrapped in, maybe it is the thinking that they outsmarted the Israelis by throwing the electronics into the sea before being captured by the IDF (which the IDF supposedly recovered immediately), or maybe it is something else, but I am happy she is happy and I am happy this did not become a disaster but was handled quietly and well and is hopefully will remain a non-story 

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I know neither who gets credit for this picture nor why the subject is wearing jeans rather than an army uniform but it is a great picture...

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חג ירושלים שמח!

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rabbi talking Torah to a group of ascendants on Har Habayit, protected by a visibly religious Jewish Israeli policeman

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this picture showing Secretary of State Pete Hegseth arriving at the Pentagon with a Special Agent providing security while wearing a kipa has gone viral.

I am actually surprised that I have yet to see the security agent being identified online. The Jewish community is small, and the Jewish frum community is even smaller. Someone always knows someone. If we are all separated by six degrees, in the Jewish community it is even closer than that.

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right-wing activist Yair Ansbacher went up on Har Habayit today and form that side unfurled a couple of signs to hang form the top of the Kotel. They are hard to make out form the picture but one is a sign with the names of the 12 tribes of Israel and the other is a sign that says מי לה' אלי - who is for Hashem, join with me! Ansbacher was detained.

We all knew that one day the Kotel would be littered with plaques of who sponsored which rock.. these signs are the first step towards that...

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this billboard went up today in Tel Aviv... nice. Where it should really go up is all over Gaza so the Hamasniks and Gazans (if there's a difference) see it

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