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The Shin Bet security service has detained a Jewish, 25-year- old resident of Ramat Gan, on suspicion that he helped Palestinian terrorists carry out a suicide bombing that killed five Israelis last month in Netanya, by driving the bomber and his handler past a checkpoint into Israel.
Following attempts by the local authority to prevent the
setup of a Torah-based school, Betzedek, a legal advocacy
organization, recently warned the City of Modi'in that the
local authority does not have the power to enforce the
closure of "recognized but unofficial" schools while
prioritizing official schools. Modi'in is the largest urban
unit in the area of Modi'in Illit, but it is politically
separate.
The Prisons Service is prepared to accommodate the arrests of
900 people during the Disengagement process, 500 at
Maassiyahu Jail and 400 at Dekel, according to a report by
Prisons Service Commissioner Commander Yaakov Ganot.
Degel HaTorah MKs Deputy Welfare Minister Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz and Party Chairman Rabbi Moshe Gafni met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday for an extended working meeting during which Sharon instructed his staff to immediately tend to a long series of issues raised by the two Degel HaTorah representatives.
As part of its recovery program signed with the workers'
organization and the Histadrut, the City of Jerusalem has
decided to continue deducting the "growth encouragement" from
municipal workers' salaries until the end of 2005.
Betzedek has demanded that the City of Kiryat Gat enforce the
closure of leisure facilities and businesses operating on
Shabbos within its jurisdiction, particularly businesses in
the city's new shopping mall.
Gedolei Yisroel are calling on Jews everywhere to bolster their studies of hilchos shemiras haloshon, particularly during the Bein Hametzorim period, as a tikkun to the sins of loshon hora and rechilus, which led to the destruction of Beis Hamikdosh.
Summer is Snake Season Summer is snake season in Israel and around the world. While snakes are not common in built-up areas, they are sometimes found. Also many people spend time in less settled areas in the summer, especially during bein hazmanim.
When writing about worldwide terror, the media struggle to be politically correct (PC) and journalistically neutral. To most of them, this means that if there is a conflict, they should strive to report the perspectives of both sides to the conflict without favoring either side; to produce what they call "balanced" reports. Grandfather From Bluzhov I was then a young married man. My chin was just beginning to sprout a beard. The happiness of the first year of my marriage and the increasing responsibility of my task seemed to have drawn a rosy curtain over my life. Few can have been granted that absolute feeling of serenity that I then enjoyed. At least, that is how I see it today from the distance of many years.
More Observations . . .
Babe Among the Ruins Part I Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, lies at the heart of a savanna at a height of 480 meters. Two and a half million people live there, among them a few Jews and Russians. In April 1966, while Uzbekistan was still under Soviet rule, a terrible earthquake devastated the city. More Home & Family . . .
Untouched By Human Hand —The Discovery of the
Resting Places of Rashi and the Baalei Hatosafos Comments about the Living and the Buried in Frankfurt
The Message of an Earthquake A Mission to Spread Daas Torah Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
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