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With 100 percent of all the ballots counted aside from those
of soldiers and diplomats, the Likud Party has won 37 (19 in
previous Knesset) seats in the 16th Knesset, while Labor has
won 19 (25). The Shinui Party got 15 (6) seats, Shas got 11
(17), the rightist National Union 7, left-wing Meretz 6 (10),
United Torah Judaism 5 (5), and the National Religious Party,
5 (5). Yisrael B'Aliya headed by Natan Sharansky won 2 (6)
seats, Am Echad 4 (2) seats and the Arab parties a combined 9
(10) seats. Just one day before the close of the secular year, a total of
38 graves in the Strand and Pineland Jewish cemeteries of
Cape Town were vandalized. The attacks received widespread
media coverage and were roundly condemned by local religious
leaders, although subsequent investigation has suggested that
the extent of the damage was exaggerated. The Torah Projects Commission of Agudath Israel of America is
sponsoring its third Yarchei Kallah Yerushalayim, to take
place Monday evening, February 17th (15 Adar) through
Thursday, February 20th (18 Adar) in Yerushalayim Ir
Hakodesh. Air and land packages are available at very special
prices.
Demonstration in Rosh HaAyin Against Shabbos
Desecration Hundreds of Rosh HaAyin residents held a demonstration on
Shabbos Parshas Beshalach to protest against a
MacDonald's restaurant open on Shabbos at a shopping mall
located in the Tal neighborhood. Separate Facilities Planned for Park Ayalon An international team of park planning experts that held a
workshop at Park Ayalon in Tel Aviv recently has been asked
by the park's founders -- Mifal HaPayis, Keren Bracha, the
Interior Ministry and 14 concession owners operating nearby --
to take into consideration the needs of potential users from
all segments of the population. London Beis Yaakov Primary School celebrates Standards
Inspection Success
Beis Yaakov Primary School in the London Borough of Barnet is
celebrating the publication of its excellent Ofsted and
Pikuach reports, following the recent successful inspections.
The school has grown to over 400 girls from the kehillos
of northwest London. Criminal Charges Expected Against Prosecutor Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein is likely to file
criminal charges against attorney Leora Glatt-Berkowitz, the
senior Tel Aviv prosecutor who leaked details of a police
investigation into a loan made to the prime minister's family
to Ha'aretz crime reporter Baruch Kra, a senior
judicial source said. A Prosecutor who Breaks the Law should be Prosecuted
How should you feel if one of those in charge of enforcing
the law of the land takes the law into her own hands? Very
worried, it would seem.
Ball of Yarn
More on `Suffering.'
Two images strike me when I think about "the hard knocks of
life," which is NOT synonymous to suffering! One of them is
the grinning comic-strip figure of "What, Me Worry?" whose
name, but not face -- or attitude, I've long forgotten. IN-DEPTH FEATURES Manning the Watchtower: HaRav Eliashiv's Battle for Torah
and Halocho The Yeshiva's Home: HaRav Aryeh Leib Malin |
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