A Norwegian politician has nominated UNRWA for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Yes, you read that correctly. UNRWA has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

UNRWA, the organization whose members participated in the October 7 massacre, members who took and held hostages, members who supported Hamas, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I wonder why they settled for UNRWA and didn't just nominate Hamas itself for the Nobel Peace Prize! or maybe even Iran!

The world is a strange place.

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This Hamas terrorist was captured in Gaza, reminding us UNRWA=Hamas, Hamas=UNRWA

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One of the solutions is to draft a bunch of people waiting in the ranks earlier than planned. Defense Minister Yoav Galant came up with a plan to draft 1300 young men earlier than originally scheduled. That includes drafting hesder boys earlier than planned, mechina students earlier than planned, yeshiva boys from the Dati Leumi yeshivas (separate from hesder), Service Year volunteers, and others cutting their programs short and bringing them earlier than scheduled to the IDF.

I am not going to argue with that solution or support it. I wont even comment on it. It does not affect me and I do not have an opinion on the matter - I do not know the positive or negative effects doing this might have on the draftees and how that weighs against the needs of the army. They are doing it, or working towards doing it. Ok. 

Interestingly, this needed to be discussed in the Knesset. Galant himself was, understandably unavailable to appear in the Knesset to discuss the plan and to defend it. What commonly happens in such situations is that the government appoints another minister to present and defend the plan to the Knesset in place of the absent party.

In the case of this law the minister selected to present the plan was Minister Meir Porush.

Regardless of anything anyone might like or dislike about Meir Porush, he is a representative form the Haredi parties who do not generally send their electorate to the army - they work on behalf of getting their electorate exempted from army service.

So, Minister Meir Porush stands up there at the Knesset podium telling everyone how important it is to fill the shortage of soldiers in the IDF by taking DL yeshiva students out of yeshiva early into the army, but God forbid his own young men should be taken out of yeshiva to help fill a shortage of soldiers.

Was nobody there smart enough to say maybe he isn't the right person to represent this issue? I don't know his position on the matter but maybe Smotritch (I havent heard him oppose it, but maybe he does) should have been the person to present it, considering it is somewhat (largely?) his electorate, or maybe a minister from the Likud...

This government has been dysfunctional from day 1 and is pretty much nothing but a major troll on everyone else.

One sign I saw looks fine, mentioning Achdut in Bet Shemesh under Abutbol (because he signed support with Agudat Israel and expects to sign with other parties, so he is calling that Achdut). The other sign being plastered around is less understandable, at least to me.

The slogan on these signs say "Aryeh needs a strong Moshe, Moshe Abutbol for Mayor of Bet Shemesh".

Why? Why does Aryeh need a strong Moshe? How does a strong Moshe as Mayor of Bet Shemesh help Aryeh Deri doing anything specific in the government? Feel free to enlighten me.

I do get that it is a play on words using a similar campaign theme to the last Shas campaign in the national elections, saying Bibi Needs a strong Aryeh", but at least that made sense - Bibi needed a strong turnout of support for Shas to form a stable coalition. That makes sense. I guess they are banking on that theme in people's minds, but I dont get a strong Moshe helps Deri or how a weak Moshe hurts Deri. Of course Deri wants him to win, but how does this hurt or help Deri?

  -- Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf

1. maybe the agreement was from previous years, when Litzman headed Agudat Israel, or when Gafni was chairman of UTJ...

2. Agudat Israel breaking the agreement with Degel, if there was an agreement, is actually funny and ironic. When Degel broke their agreement with Shas (in Elad) and supported Porush for re-election, their gadol Rav Landau justified it saying agreements do not need to be kept. Now Degel is upset that Aguda isnt keeping an agreement (if there was one) by supporting Abutbol for mayor instead of Degel's candidate Greenberg.

3. Notice that they dont care about what anyone feels is good for Bet Shemesh or any other city, what policies might be relevant, or who an appropriate candidate might be. They just want an equal share of power, divide up the land, each one getting a turn to put their people in place. This is why many dont like these deals.

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