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They go shopping for Shabbat food in a Kosher supermarket.

Everything is fine until...they encounter gefilte fish, in a jar! 🙈

Ahem @ManischewitzCo! 😂 pic.twitter.com/Vocx6TV6r4

— Frum TikTok (@FrumTikTok) June 5, 2023

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MK Amit Halevi (Likud) is putting together a plan to divide Har Habayit up between the Jews and the Arabs. I think of it as being somewhat similar to the arrangements in the Mearat Hamachpela in Hebron with Jews getting Ulam Avraham and Yaakov, and Arabs getting the [much larger] Ulam Yitzchak, and for 10 specific days each year Jews get the entire complex and another 10 specific days Arabs get the entire complex. The arrangement there seems to work. I said somewhat similar but more deficient and unlikely.

Halevi has come up with a plan to divide up Har Habayit giving the Jews full access to the central area of Har Habayit (including Dome of the Rock), where the Beit Hamikdash stood, along with the northern side. The Arabs would be given full access to the southern area where Al Aksa mosque is located and the areas surrounding it.

Part of Halevi's plan includes kicking the Jordanians off the Mount and taking away their special status they have obtained somehow via agreements with Israel over the years.

Halevi says the entire Har Habayit is 144 dunam, with just a very small portion on the southern side being Al Aksa. The Arabs have expanded their space adjacent to Al Aksa digging and adding and building. The majority of the Mount though is the central area where the Mikdash stood. The fact that the Muslims consider the entire Har Habayit as Al Aksa is a fiction with no precedent or basis, which has caused us to be unable to go naturally to the sections that are associated with us.

As much as it makes sense, to me, as a Jew, as someone who supports Jewish rights on Har Habayit, I don't see how this can happen without likely starting a major war. As I said above, it is somewhat similar to the arrangement in Hebron but more deficient and unlikely. Why? Because the Arabs, who have a stronger hand there right now, don't agree with Halevi's analysis. They consider the entire Mount to be part of Al Aksa, whether they made that up or not. Jordan is not just going to walk away from their control of the area just because Israel says get lost. Unless Israel is willing to create a lot of conflict over this it just isnt going to happen. Plus the northern side is where a lot of Arab activity happens as well as there are Arab houses abutting the northern side and there is a school there and people cross through to get to school or do go on their way. It might make sense and be more palatable to others if the division was more like Hebron where each side had access to part the entire year and then for x number of days each of the other would get full access.... I wonder how quickly PM Netanyahu will shoot this down considering the flare up it has the potential of causing...

And one can point to the story of King Solomon and the babies and say if Amit Halevi is willing to divide Har Habayit he must not really have a connection to it, while the Arabs who are not willing to divide it must have a stronger connection to it...

This is Ahron Cohen, a driving instructor who decided that he would teach lone soldiers to drive for free. He explained, they do not have a father or mother in Israel and I am proud of what they are doing. Today a Cheyelet Bodedet passed her driving test through me and there is nothing happier than that!

There are plenty of upsetting things in Israel but there is also a lot of good. With undemanded love we will win!

We are all aware of the brouhaha over Angels Bakery goods in Israel. The Director of the board, Omer Bar Lev, participated in a protest, deemed as disrespectful to one of the gedolei yisrael Rav Gershon Edelstein and a grassroots movement started calling for a Haredi boycott of Angels. This caught on and spread quickly (anyone who thinks Haredim are not on the Internet have been proven wrong - no boycott could possibly spread this quickly and efficiently offline) and there was an unofficial boycott (unofficial because Rav Gershon Edelstein himself never called for it or expressed support for it)..

Since then Rav Edelstein has passed on, and Yaron Angel and Omer Bar Lev together went to pay a condolence call to the Edelstein family and apologized and presented letters of apology (as coordinated and concocted by President Yitzchak Herzog). The unofficial boycott was called off by the same people who initially called for it. Since then, possibly less known, Omer Bar Lev has given an interview in which he walked back his apology saying it was a clarification and not an apology - to which some people have responded saying to renew the boycott, though I havent seen any movement since one way or the other, so some are probably still boycotting and some are done with the boycott.

Some people turned to Rav Yitzchak Zilbershtein for guidance after the apology asking if that was adequate and can/should they go back to buying products from Angels.

Rav Zilbershtein responded paskening that in his opinion the apology was not adequate and they must do an equitable level of tshuva. To make up for the shame brought upon the Torah community they have bring about more respect and honor for Torah. Rav Zilbershtein said Angels should open a kollel using its name and it should support those who learn Torah. This would be a kiddush hashem and would be forgiveness for what they did. (this psak was issued before Bar Lev denied his apology)

To make a long story short , I bet they don’t know what א.י. stands for https://t.co/wrUCxlU3Ai

— Eli Neuberger (@thevoos) June 9, 2023

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Minister of Transportation Miri Regev is working on a proposal that would allow registered car garages to provide testing services for the annual registration of the car. Decades ago car garages were allowed to do this but back in the 1980s that was discontinued due to what was thought to be a conflict of interests.

Funnily enough the conflict of interest was dual sided. It was a concern the testing centers would fail cars in order to get more business to "fix" those problems and to then re-test. The other concern was that garages would be lenient on their customers and pass cars that should not necessarily be passed. 

Regardless of the conflict of interests, Minister Regev is pushing to go back to the system of having registered garages deal with the testing as well. Regev said this will be a tool in the fight to bring down prices. Instead of about 70 testing centers around the country, there would be much more competition with about an expected 1500 garages that can also do testing. Increased competition usually means better pricing. Additionally with so many testing options available, getting the test will be much more convenient - shorter lines, garages that might be closer to home or office and more convenient..

Being that this used to be the system in place and was shut down by the courts due to the conflict of interests, I wonder if this will be allowed to pass now. It sounds good for the customer in several ways, but if it brings back that conflict of interests that could be a problem.

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