Jul 19, 2021
Headlines Podcast: 7/17/21 – Shiur 330 – Har Habayis – Can we enter Har Habayis nowadays? If not, what should be done with it? (audio)
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A Journey Back to The Destructions of Jerusalem - Tisha B’Av Special (video)
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quietly, prayer is being allowed on Har Habayit (video)
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FM Lapid defines Antisemitism as hate against anyone who is different (video)
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Yonatan Razel - David (video)
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Jul 15, 2021
The Happy Tag
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, along with Minister of Economics and Commerce Orna Berbibai, met today with a consortium of owners of events and wedding halls. The meeting was to hash out a plan by which the halls would be able to continue functioning hosting events and weddings while keeping people as safe as possible, even amidst the spreading of CoronaVirus with possible social limitations and restrictions coming.
The meeting concluded with the creation of the "Tav Sameach". The Happy Tag. Like the Purple Tag businesses were allowed to operate under during previous lockdowns, the Happy Tag will set guidelines for the continued operation of these wedding and event halls.
The main points of the Happy Tag is that an event with fewer than 100 people can function as normal with no restrictions (though masks must be worn indoors, as per the current rules), but any event with more than 100 people will require guests and participants who have not been vaccinated or recovered to present proof of being tested for Corona (with negative results) within 72 hours of the event.
There are a few more minor rules, such as how dinner and dancing should be organized, indoor and outdoor preferences, etc. but the main issue is the participants.
The goal, Bennett says, is to find a way to let them continue functioning and keep everyone safe - if we shut them down, should it become necessary, then people will go back to pirate weddings and events that will keep nobody safe.
So, that seems to mean the "green passport" is back. To get in to a wedding you were invited to, or a bar mitzva or concert, you are going to be required to show proof of vaccination or recovery, or of a negative PCR test.
For those of us vaccinated or recovered that is not such a big deal. Will unvaccinated/unrecovered guests, outside of immediate or close family, really go take Corona tests, and pay for them privately, every time a friend or neighbor or cousin invites them to a bar mitzva or wedding? I am not sure how realistic this plan is, and it will depend on the enforcement - if there is not going to be serious enforcement of any new rules it is back to the illogical rules of the last year and a half of closures and lockdowns and restriction rules that often made no sense.
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Feisty Opposition
While it seems the current government is no less dysfunctional than any of the transition governments, and the last government that collapsed, of the past two, plus, years, the Opposition is actually impressive.
We in Israel have not had an Opposition like this in a long time - an Opposition that is loud, that is determined, that fights and that works hard to oppose the government and to take it down. We'll see if they succeed or not in bringing the government down, if the government doesn't bring itself down first with its own craziness, but in the meantime they are truly a fighting Opposition and we have not seen that in a long time.
I don't know how long the government will last, and who will take over and run the government next, but whatever happens I hope the Opposition of the future is feisty like the current one. Besides for keeping it chaotic and interesting, the Opposition is meant to challenge the government and fight it. the quiet sleepy Oppositions of the past decade should really be a thing of the past.
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fighting the Light Rail in Jerusalem (video)
this is interesting - to hear their perspective rather than just see them fighting it...
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UAE Opens Embassy in Tel Aviv (video)
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Jul 14, 2021
Politics has gotten too polarized
Over the past couple of years politics has gotten too polarized, similar to what has happened in the USA - society has as well, but not nearly as badly as politics. But now, since the government was recently formed, it has gone way overboard. There is no longer anything subjectively good or bad, issues are no longer independent of who promotes them.
If the Coalition wants a law passed, the Opposition will oppose it even if it is something they want and have always wanted, and even if it is bad for them in the future to have voted against, they still will.
And if the Opposition wants a law passed, the Coalition parties will vote against it, even if it is something they want and would normally support.
Just today the Coalition wanted to pass a law to decriminalize marijuana. This was a process started by the Likud, but they refused to back it now because it was being pushed by Yamina and the government. The Opposition wanted to pass a law providing funding for the families of the Meron victims who need mental health care for the trauma they suffered, but the Coalition parties refused to support it.
Neither of these should be coalition/opposition issues. These should be just decisions made based on what you think is good for the country. If the Likud thought marijuana should be decriminalized, they should have supported it. Votes like this will come back to bite them later. Providing assistance and funding to the families of the Meron victims should not be political - they do support it and supported it int he past, but voted against it because the Opposition proposed it (though surely they will say they are going to pass their own version of it that is better)...
And there are plenty of other votes that already happened and that will happen that are going to be political fights when there is no need to be. There are enough issues for them to fight about in which there are actual significant differences between them, but on the issues that are more or less consensus it is painful to see the polarization deepening.
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defacing the Meron victims memorial
this is insane.. extremists vandalized the memorial wall in Meron, tearing down and defacing the posters of the images of the 45 victims of the Leg B'Omer tragedy.
זה שהם עטופים בטליתות לא הופך אותם לצדיקים, הגיע הזמן להעיף את הקיצוניים שמטילים אימה בשכונות החרדיות מחיינו, חלאות ונבלות שמבזים ורומסים את הדת פעם אחר פעם, הבוקר זה קרה במירון, תיעוד קשה לצפייה של קיצוניים קורעים את קיר ההנצחה לזכר הקדושים שנהרגו, דרך ארץ קדמה לתורה, בושה. pic.twitter.com/CZhrggjdjl
— אריאל אלחרר (@ariel_elharar_) July 14, 2021
I am not quite sure what they are being extremists about and what they don't like about this. There are not even any pictures of women included (because there were no female victims)!
I am not sure what their problem is and what this is all about, but I hope the authorities figure out who they are and put an end to this type of behavior
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fighting over Ezrat Yisrael renewed
Interestingly, Kipa is reporting on an initiative by an organization called "The Joint headquarters for Guarding the Holiness of the Kotel".
The initiative is for people, during the Nine Days, to daven and learn in the area near the Kotel called Ezrat Yisrael - the area that was designated for egalitarian prayer with no mechitza.
Yeshivat Hakotel supports them or is involved with them, I guess, as they put out a flyer for this saying they will be having shiurim and davening there during the Nine Days, in an attempt to strengthen the hold on the Kotel when the deceptive government is selling out to the Reform movement.
The purpose of this is to prevent the Reform and others from using it for mixed gender services.
The Women of the Wall, WoW, have called this a provocation, blah blah blah.
1. In general it is always nice to have additional fighting during the Nine Days. This was so unnecessary to start with as Ezrat Yisrael is hardly even used anyway, so this was done just to pick a fight.
2. I don't know why WoW cares. They don't even want to use Ezrat Yisrael and continue to try to hold their services at the regular women's section of the Kotel. Because they were not given the administrative authority they were promised over the Ezrat Yisrael area, they have refused to use it. it does not sit empty but it supposedly is not all that busy, and especially with tourism down it has not been all that busy. So I don't know why this upsets that.
3. The common refrain when the WoW women show up for Rosh Chodesh services at the Kotel that they have their own area over there, so they are continuing just to use the Kotel to be provocative, etc. That argument goes away when the Orthodox groups then take over, control, and push out others from WoW.
4. WoW should be using this as an excuse, or justification, to use the Kotel, not as something to get upset over, as, like I mentioned above, they dont use it anyway..
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2nd Orthodox Jew drafted to MLB in 2 days!
Just when orthodox Jews set an historic record the other day with one of its own being drafted to the MLB, a day later sees a second Orthodox Jew being drafted to the MLB!
Congratulations to Eli Kligman from Los Vegas, Nevada on being drafted by the Washington Nationals. Kligman also says he plans to be true to his faith and remain observant even when making it to the majors. We will surely be following his career and cheering him on! .
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MKs Moshe Abutbol and Orit Struk on panel about government (video)
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Interview with Director of Netzach Yehuda (video)
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IDF Entebbe Rescue Mission (video)
45 years ago, terrorists hijacked a civilian plane with 248 passengers, forced the pilot to land the plane in Entebbe, Uganda, and took 102 Jewish and Israeli passengers captive. This led to one of the IDF's most daring rescue missions: Operation Entebbe.
Watch the story of Operation Entebbe as told by the former Director of the Mossad, Tamir Pardo. Tamir drafted to the IDF in 1971 and served as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, a special forces unit.
During operation Entebbe, he served as the officer of the operation’s commander, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu z”l. Pardo completed his service in 1978 with the rank of captain, and joined the Mossad one year later.
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