An incident was reported on that happened on a train in which a group of Haredim started screaming at soldiers, especially female soldiers, for being in the army and for being dressed inappropriately.

I was not going to comment on the video. We have seen these things a million times, and I have nothing new to say about it. And nowadays it is somewhat par for the course considering all the other clips we have seen in recent months of everyone screaming at everyone else for being dressed this way or that way with assumptions being made about the position on the judicial reform - Haredim being screamed at on public transportation and at left wing protests, secular people being screamed at by the Kotel, etc - at this time Haredim screaming at secular women for their dress doesnt seem to be out of the ordinary.

But I decided to give Benny Rabinovitz the Tweet of the Day for his comment (which was sort of similar to Merav Michaeli's comment on the incident)...

Translation of Tweet:

In case you are not familiar with Benny Rabinovitz, he has been a journalist and sometimes editor for the Yated Neeman since its founding in 1985, and also hosts radio programs on the Haredi stations.

considering that Twitter changed its name to X I should call these X of the Day. Have to get used to that. And I guess they are simply posts and no longer tweets....

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It seems the Haredim have [unofficially] joined in. All over the place I see calls form Haredi leaders and activists to boycott Strauss over their boycott of Channel 14. According to Haredi news sites, now Haredi camps are boycotting Strauss products in addition to previous calls to join the boycott..

So what is so interesting and fascinating about this?

Well, I still remember the good old days when the Haredi community believed that television is prohibited. It eventually became so prohibited that it became a condition for acceptance to many yeshivas - that the family of the applicant not have a television in the home. 

And now? Now the Haredi community is supporting a television station and boycotting companies that do not advertise with a specific station. I guess they now believe television is ok.  I have thought for a while that the ban on television should be stopped. Since the Internet is so popular, and it can potentially be so much worse than television (it can also be so much better), what is the point of continuing the ban on tv? They mostly succeeded with the ban on tv but mostly failed with the ban on Internet, so the ban on tv seems pointless at this point in history. And now they are supporting television stations anyway.

As a matter of fact, now that I think of it, the Haredim boycott Channel 14, and the other stations, so maybe they should be boycotted, just like Strauss is being boycotted by some. Haredim who do not watch Channel 14 are upset that Strauss does not advertise on Channel 14 and are therefore boycotting Strauss. As I am writing this I am scratching my head.

from about the 22 min mark..

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A large snake was found dead today near Shoham with a porcupine in its gullet... it seems they killed each other while the snake was ingesting the porcupine...

Some online are taking this as a sign of some sort of what is happening in Israel right now, but on its own, even without the doomsday message, it is pretty cool....

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Bnei Braq has not had real elections, at least not in a long time. the Degel and Aguda parties had an arrangement, officially agreed upon, by which they would divvy up the municipal offices, with a rotation arrangement, including the mayor's office. No need for elections as only one candidate would run for mayor each time.

Because of all sorts of broken deals around the country, mostly starting with Elad, Shas is upset at Degel and has decided they want a piece of the pie in Bnei Braq as well. They supposedly offered to join the rotation agreement and making it a 3 way rotation, but has so far been refused. So, Shas decided to run its own candidate, Uriel Buso, currently a Shas MK and formerly a deputy mayor in Petach Tikva.

Supposedly the numbers indicate that Shas could take up to about a third of the votes in Bnei Braq, though I am not sure there is any accurate count, considering no municipal elections have been held there in ages.

If Degel and Aguda continue their arrangement, a third of the votes (and that is if they maximize their vote) is not going to get Buso the victory.

However, as Kikar reports, Buso is actually polling much higher and seems to have a good chance of winning the race, if the polls are to be believed. That makes this an interesting and watchable race. If Buso wins that means Bnei Braq, the stronghold of the Haredi community, the stronghold of UTJ, not just is no longer, but it would also mean that the public is no longer listening to the gedolim. For Buso to win it means [some of] the Ashkenazi residents, a fairly significant amount, will have to ignore the instructions of the rabbonim and vote for the Shas candidate instead of the Degel-Aguda candidate. That makes this super interesting. I do wonder if we are seeing a major drift in the culture of the Haredi community where people start to vote for what they think is best rather than for whom they are told to vote...

  -- IDF Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, head of the IDF's Spokesperson unit

maybe. and maybe the opposite is true. Maybe increased Palestinian terror causes Jews to get involved in such incidents when they previously were not...

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