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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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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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. 

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.

  -- 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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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.

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?

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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