Life in Israel

Oct 14, 2026

Quote of the Day

Our enemies want to attack us in these days, the proxies of Iran want to shoot rockets at us, to attack us.... we did 90% of the work [on the various fronts] - but there is still work to complete. In the coming two years we will finish off Hamas completely, we will eliminate Hezbollah, and we will bring down iran.

-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

when he says things like this (he made similar style predictions regarding the draft of Haredim before he decided to not pass the law they were working on) I sometimes feel like I want him to win just so we can see how his words play out, or not, in reality

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Oct 13, 2026

Tweet of the Day

יש עסקה. את הכסף שלך אשמח שתתרום לאברכים הממיתים עצמם באוהלה של תורה, וחיים בעוני מחפיר יותר מאי פעם.
— מוטי לייטנר Moti Leitner (@MotiLeitner) October 12, 2026

Translation:

first, background of what this is in response to:

Haredi journalist Yaakov Rivlin tweeted to Moti Leitner, head of the Hatzibbur Hacharedi political party running in the elections for Knesset offering a deal. Rivlin says Leitner and his team claim they are very close to the minimum threshold for getting into Knesset. Rivlin says he thinks they are not even close and will not get in. Rivlin is offering a deal in which if Hatzibbur Hacharedi achieves even just half the votes necessary to get in to the Knesset he will donate 10000nis to the charity of Leitner's choice.And if they do not get at minimum half the votes necessary, Leitner will make the donation to a charity of Rivlin's choice. I am not sure why but Rivlin at the end adds in, just answer yes or no without turning it into a discussion and offering explanations and conditions...

In response to that, Leitner tweeted (above) saying "You have a deal. You can send your donation to the avreichim killing themselves in the tent of Torah and living in the worst level of destitution ever

impressive that he did not just ignore the whole thing... Rivlin is clearly trying to protect the old guard from losing votes (whether Leitner actually gets in taking away many votes from the original Haredi parties or whether he does not get in and "burns" those votes...) and one classic approach would be to ignore. Leitner went out on a limb here...

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Oct 12, 2026

Quote of the Day

I think the Haredim are ungrateful to God and we have a piercing disagreement with them on our relations to the State and the process of geula. I don't understand how anyone can be Haredi today. The Zionist enterprise is successful - is there any greater proof to the geula than that?... I won't comment on a gadol hador but I will daven that Rav Landau should do tshuva... I would suggest that Rav Landau and Lieberman should have a competition - He wants the Jordanians and the other wants the British, they can do a rotation...

-- Minister of Finance Betzalel Smotritch, speaking at the Arutz7 conference

harsh words there...

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Oct 11, 2026

Quote of the Day

When I met with my parents after I was released they said we hope you are not angry with us. I said I was not angry but was proud of them....my parents fought for me like crazy, and while they were fighting for me they were fighting for other things as well, and one does not cancel out the other. This was an issue of dinei nefashot, matters of life and death. Do you want to save a life now or save lives even later? To me it was ovious that if we make a deal now I would get out of there but in abother2 days, 3 days, a month, two months, a year, 2 years, 10 years, someone else will end up sitting here in my place.....

I looked at my captor and said to him I will not leave this land... He asked why not? I said look at the Gaza Strip - it is completely destroyed, everything here is death, when the war ends and the crossings will be opened will you leave to Egypt? He said no. Why not? Because this is my house. Exactly, this is my house as well.... In 100 years there will be Jews here. In 100 years there will be Arabs here. What should we do during these 100 years. Do you want my children to kill your children, and your grandchildren to kill my grandchildren? Or maybe we should be smart enough to find a solution so we can all live here. Because we will live here, one way or another we will be living here together...

-- excerpts from former hostage Avinatan Ohr's interview with Ilana Dayan

different news sources quoted different parts of the interview, each depending on the position they wanted to stress and promote. The first in which he is ok and understanding of his parents choosing to be in the Tikvah Forum and fight for advancing the war while not demanding immediate release of their children vs the second in which he talks about finding a way to allow Jews and Palestinians to live peacefully side by side. People are complex and situations are complex. People can hold different positions on issues that dont always jibe with each other so cleanly

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