the TOTD is for both the tweet (by Isaac) and the parent tweet (by Avital) combined

But still can’t get a Mishpacha cover with her picture 😌

— Isaac Safier (@IsaacSafier) March 6, 2018

A group called "The Secular Forum" along with a group called "The Secular Lobby" led by MKs Tamar Zandberg, Ksenia Svetlova, Mossi Raz and Michal Rozin, all MKs from Meretz except for Zandberg who is from the Zionist Union (Labor), have petitioned the Supreme Court against the rule prohibiting anyone from bringing chametz onto the grounds of hospitals during Pesach.

The court has given the government until March 25th, 2018 to respond to the petition and to explain why such a law is necessary or justified. The court gave this date, a week before pesach, so that a decision can be arrived at before pesach of this year.

The claim is that the security guards of hospitals are meant to be checking for issues of security, such as weapons and dangerous people, and their jobs are not to go through people's belongings and look for chametz, and it makes it seem as if Israel is a halachic state, which it is not. And, this is taking advantage of sick people who do not really choose to be there but go to the hospital because they have to, not because they want to.
source: Haredim10

In the past I seem to recall the complaint about chametz not being allowed in coming mostly from the Arab sector. Arab doctors and nurses, Arab patients and Arab visitors, who are not connected to the mitzva and obligation of avoiding chametz, still are forced to. Clearly some secular Jews are upset about this as well.

Personally the issue does not bother me - and not because I dont bring in chametz anyway during Pesach. I mean, it does not bother me if someone brings chametz into the hospital. As long as they do not bring their private food into the hospital kosher for pesach cafeteria, why should I care if someone, or a visitor, eats chametz in his or her own hospital room? The chametz wont get into my food and I don't own it, so I dont see the problem. It is more troubling when it is a Jew who is violating the rules of Pesach, but it is a free world and I cannot control them and stop them from eating chametz. And them bringing chametz into the hospital does not contaminate my food or affect my observance, so I really don't see the problem.

That being said, the State's response should be relatively simple. We live in a Jewish state and avoiding chametz on Pesach is a major issue and a symbol of Jewish life. After spending much effort and money to clean the hospital and kasher it for Pesach, along with the symbolism of removing chametz for Pesach, it makes sense to ban chametz, even at the expense of some people being made uncomfortable about it, in State institutions.

This seems to me to be similar to the argument about public transportation on Shabbos, and the allowance of stores to operate on Shabbos. The next step would be to fight against the law banning the sale of chametz during Pesach. If any of these laws fall, the rest might follow quickly, as they all seem to me to be similar, and one can be used as a precedent for the others.

I would agree to the complaint that it is not the job of security guards at the entrance to hospitals to check people's pockets and bags for chametz. The security guards should be dealing with security issues and only security issues. The hospitals or State should find other ways to enforce this law, if it will be left in place.

Campus Strauss, a Haredi college campus in Jerusalem working with Hadassah Academic College, celebrated its first male graduating class, with 45 Haredi men achieving college degrees in the fields of biotechnology, politics, communications, and management.

Campus Strauss has been around for a while and already has many graduating classes of frum women in various fields of study, but in the men's program this is the first.

The graduation ceremony was met with a group of protesters. The Haredi extremist protesters were screaming epithets such as "Nazi", "Sheigetz" and "Maskil", among other things, at the graduates and their families.
source: Kikar

Considering that they were not protesting any possible bittul torah involved, as perhaps they feel the graduates should be learning Torah instead, which would be ironic on its own that they stop learning in order to protest other people not learning, it makes me wonder what is going on. They were screaming "maskil" and things like that. They are upset about the academic education entering the Haredi community.

That being the case, why do they not protest the women graduating from Campus Strauss?

Anyways, the extremists will continue doing their thing, as they've done for a long time. To their misfortune, the train has left the station. The horses have left the barn. They are a day late and a dollar short.

The people have spoken. More and more want to be able to support their families respectably and not just live off welfare and sit in yeshivas they are not fit for (not including people who do have the ability and desire to sit and learn all day). These people can protest all they want, but it is too late.

We created Abutbol ten years ago and we supported him. UTJ has 7 representatives [in city council] and Shas has 2. I am not saying we will not support him, but it is not rude or vulgar to say that we are allowed to consider what we want to do

  -- Deputy Minister Meir Porush, at a conference in Bet Shemesh of his faction's local community representatives, in the leadup to municipal elections

lol.. this makes it even weirder..

a Quinceañera is a 15th birthday party

a tallis is a portable house?

hmm

Guatemala has announced that it too will move its embassy to Jerusalem and is looking into the details.

The second best thing about this s possibly for the cult members of Lev Tahor. While they hide out in Guatemala, they an now do so in the embassy and still be in the Holy Land, should they want to.

באסה:
עם פטירתה קאיה לא תוכל לשמש עד מדינה

— yehudah glick (@YehudahGlick) March 5, 2018

And you know what, if you are already quoting on this podium, "keep the Shabbos day holy", I will remind you that the beginning of the passuk says "six days you shall work"

  -- MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) from Knesset podium in response to MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ)

Lapid invoked the old joke, but still funny seeing it brought up in the Knesset

In a dramatic turn of events in one of the investigatiosn into Netanyahu, the police have prohibited PM Benjamin Netanyahu from talking with his wife, Sara, about Case 4000.
source: Mako News

Yeah, that sounds useful

photo courtesy of Yehoshua Hershberg

No, this young man is not a talmid in the Zilberman yeshivas in the Old City of Jerusalem. He is a student in Hertzliya who decided to start davening while on the way to school..