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  -- MK Mansour Abbas (Raam)

so will Netanyahu bring him on board? Will Ministers Smotritch and Ben Gvir (or their party members) allow it?

מהיום מבחינתנו אפשר לקרוא לנו אוניברסיטת בן/בת גוריון בנגב

— אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב (@BenGurionUni) July 18, 2023

From today, as far as we are concerned, you can call us Ben/Bat Gurion University in the Negev

Just to remind you, the use of the word "ben in the name of the university is not a gender statement but part of the name of David Ben Gurion whom the university is named after...

as of now Dr Bloch is the only candidate (truth is Malachi Ki Tov has announced his candidacy again but that's not significant) but that is expected to change at some point...

and to add, Orna Banivai made a comment at a conference that they should not allow Tel Aviv to become another Bet Shemesh, and Aliza Bloch sitting right next to her on the panel did not like that statement...

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מי שרוצה את ישראל ידידה קרובה זה רק עם נתניהו! אין ישראל בלי נתניהו!

— ניסים ואטוריNissim Vaturi🇮🇱 (@nissimv) July 17, 2023

what a nut. There was an Israel before Netanyahu and unless he completely destroys it and tears it apart (as is currently happening) there will be an Israel after Netanyahu. I believe there is nobody that is irreplaceable.

Israeli officials admit that they have filled all obligations but recently the USA has added more details and has been making it more difficult and it might not happen. The final decision is supposed to come sometime in August, and if qualified it will go into effect in October.

I must say, Netanyahu deserves it. While I feel bad for the Israelis who were looking forward to it (and it still might happen!), Netanyahu deserves it. Back when the Lapid-Bennett government was in power and they were close to finishing the deal with the USA, Netanyahu had the Likud vote against the program because he wanted to prevent them from such a major accomplishment and he wanted to keep it for himself. When Netanyahu thwarted the vote then he said that when he returns to power he will get it passed. 

Sorry, but he deserves it.

UTJ in Bet Shemesh has yet to announce who will be their mayoral candidate, or who they will support if they decide not to run their own candidate. This fellow, Yisrael Silverstein, is one of the leading possibilities for being the candidate. he has headed the local UTJ for the past several years and has been involved in local politics for the past 20 or so years. He is supported by one of the main Degel rabbonim in town, though not by another. He is not their definite candidate yet, but he very well could be soon. Here is talking about the upcoming elections in Bet Shemesh and why he is deserving.. Silverstein is originally Canadian and speaks English...

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cool field to go into!

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And if they do threaten this anyway, and actually protest by train lines and block trains, how will anyone know if the trains are not running because of the protests or if they are not running because of the trains?

  -- Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

what a shmuck, pardon my French

The USA doesnt need help or advice from Olmert. There are enough anti-Israel democrats in government to encourage that without the help of Israelis

While we have lots of protests nowadays, some of them blocking roads in various places around the country, this one is different. 

An Egged bus driving its route through Bnei Braq was stopped when it pulled up to a stop and the waiting passengers refused to get on the bus because the driver was female. Instead of getting on the bus they saw the driver and decided to protest, standing in front of the bus in the middle of the street to protest the indecency of being sent a bus with a female driver.

This is weird. They could have just waited for the next bus. What did they expect to happen by protesting and blocking traffic? Was an alternate driver going to appear out of thin air?