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Prime Minister Ehud Barak instructed the IDF on Sunday to
prepare groundwork within the next 60 days for drafting
chareidi yeshiva students. Trying to straddle the fence and
keep all options open, at the same time he appointed Minister
Michael Melchior to head a panel that will recommend
"improvements" to the controversial Tal bill. Bank of Israel governor David Klein announced on Monday that he
will reduce the interest rate by 0.2 percent leaving the rate
for January 8.0 percent a year. In the past six months, Klein
has lowered interest rates six times, by a total 1.3 percent.
According to the central bank governor, price stability will
allow Israel to integrate into the global economy. Water Failure in Bnei Brak on Shabbos Chanukah On Shabbos Chanukah, many Bnei Brak residents found no water in
their taps due to a problem in the city's water tower and its
pumping system. With a majority of 9 to 3, the Knesset Finance Committee
prepared Rabbi Meir Porush's current bill for its second and
third readings. The law seeks to correct distortions in the
laws of hekdesh property limiting the purchasing
rights of the individual.
Head of Beitar Illit City Council Awarded Management
Prize Interior Minister Chaim Ramon awarded the Golden Prize to the
head of the Beitar Illit City council, Rabbi Yehuda Gerlitz,
last week. Ashkelon Electric Power Station Shabbos Desecration
Averted 200 employees of the Ashkelon Rottenberg electric power station
received notice to report for work on leil Shabbos parshas
Vayishlach to take care of some repairs. However, because
of the intervention of MK Rabbi Meir Porush, the Israel
Electric Company retracted the notices at the last minute and
notified the employees that the planned work had been
canceled. They're Willing to Give Up Everything
As we go to press, the diplomatic position of Israel could
hardly be more opaque. Talks were held in Washington, with no
official word as to their contents. WHAT'S COOKIN? he traditional way calls for three pots, one of them a sticky
mess to clean, especially on a busy Friday. Try this new one-
pot method. Good pot luck. HaRav Yitzchok Hutner Zt'l -- 20th Kislev 5761, His Twentieth
Yahrtzeit
The last day for Kiddush Levonoh -- Teves
One can say Kiddush Levonoh in the entire world until
Tuesday night, the eve of 13 Teves (Jan. 9), at 9:15 P.M.,
Israeli time. The final time in most of Europe is 8:15, and in
America it is impossible at all to make a berochoh this
night and the actual final time for people living there is the
previous night.
The astronomical full moon comes together with a full lunar
eclipse and is at 10:25 P.M. The beginning of the eclipse is at
9:51, its peak is at 10:22, and the astronomical full moon (if
there would not be an eclipse) is at 10:25.
It seems that bedi'eved one can make a berochoh
until 9:51 in Eretz Yisroel and in other countries until the
corresponding time so not to forfeit the berochoh
altogether.
(Birur Halocho Orach Chaim, IV, chap. 426).
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