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Since Shin Bet security service head Avi Dichter spoke at
Sunday's cabinet meeting, everyone else has not stopped
talking about what he said. The most talked-about statement
he made then concerned the possibility of violence from the
extreme right in reaction to the implementation of the prime
minister's disengagement plan.
While Jerusalem, the largest city in Israel, grew 1.9 percent
(an increase of 12,800 people), chareidi towns and cities all
over Israel continued to grow at a much higher rate than the
rest of the country, with the exception of Bnei Brak, which
grew just 0.5 percent, according to data published by the
Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on Monday.
Following five consecutive attacks on Jews in Antwerp within
one week, the Belgian government acknowledged that Arabs have
been carrying out antisemitic attacks but couched its
denunciation in highly diplomatic terms.
To the Editor:
At the first yahrtzeit of the beloved Gateshead Rov
zt"l (20 Tammuz), one feels more intensely the great
loss we have all suffered. Over the past year, a number of
collective mitzvos including siyumim were dedicated
le'iluy nishmoso, and perhaps now is an appropriate
time to mention another opportunity for each individual to
join forces in an additional dvar mitzvah.
For Yitzchok Yosef ben Leah Gittel
Herzliyah's segregated beach, jointly operated by the cities
of Herzliyah and Bnei Brak, reopened to the public last
week. Petition to Open Cultural Center in Netanya on Shabbos
Rejected Exerted efforts by Netanya's Degel HaTorah chairman, Rabbi
Moshe Lachover, and Deputy Mayor Atty. Mendy Weiss helped
block an attempt by Shinui to open Netanya's municipal
Heichal HaTarbut (cultural center) on Shabbos. Supersol Decides Not to Operate on Shabbos or Sell Non-
Kosher Food Supersol Chairman Nochi Dankner reached a decision recently
not to open the chain of stores on Shabbos and not to bring
non-kosher food products into the stores. City of Beit Shemesh to Dismiss 3 of Its 4 Chareidi
Employees
The City of Beit Shemesh began to send letters to about 90
municipality workers early this week, summoning them to
appear before a hearing committee before being dismissed from
their jobs. Three of the city's four chareidi workers are
among those facing dismissal. Chareidi Politics is Just Politics by Chareidim
Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres said in a recent speech
that he is against religious parties. Since religion is
absolute and uncompromising and politics is anything but,
religious parties do not fit in, he says.
The Wisdom of Women...
Hashya stood by the window, looking at the darkening sky. In
the semidarkness, she lowered her gaze to the beautiful
garden and as she looked at the lengthening shadows of the
trees, she felt foreboding and fear. Sadness enveloped her as
she recalled the hasty departure of her dear husband who had
left Rome on a business trip. Repairing a Broken Heart On the Guarding of the Jewish Bodies in Hamburg
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