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Show Trial for Jews Charged with Laundering Money by
Shuttling Checks between France and Israel
A special courtroom was set up to hold all of the defendants
in the largest trial ever held in France. The case involves a
money-laundering network for French checks that were paid in
Israel and ultimately cashed in France. It took three full
hours to read the names of the 142 defendants on Monday,
including Daniel Bouton, CEO of Societe Generale bank, who
has constantly been in the headlines after losing 4.5 billion
euros ($6.6 billion) through rogue trading by one of his
traders.
The first Arab book about the Holocaust, which relates the
story of a Nazi who served in the Algerian underground during
the war against France and was later made mayor of an
Algerian city, was immediately taken off the shelves and
denounced by Algerian authorities. Author Boualem Sansal
wrote Le village de l'Allemand, published by leading
French publisher Gallimard, about a town far from his
hometown in Algeria.
The State notified the Jerusalem District Court that it would
not approve at present continued construction on the Agan
Ayalot Basin neighborhood, a project to build 600 apartment
units in Givat Ze'ev, which lies just north of Jerusalem. It
cited a directive by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense
Minister Ehud Barak to freeze settlement construction, though
the State has already invested NIS 100 million ($27 million)
in the project.
The snowfall that blanketed Jerusalem and other locations in
Eretz Yisroel last week provided an opportunity for rescue
and chessed organizations to show their true colors,
dispatching hundreds of volunteers to offer assistance and
save lives.
Following calls issued by gedolei Yisroel shlita
— members of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah
and Agudas Yisroel as well as Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of
America, including Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita —
to unite in tefilloh and tachnunim in light of
the difficult state of affairs in Eretz Hakodesh,
kehillos around the world held special
tefillos, including the prayers of Yom Kippur Koton,
on Tuesday, Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar Rishon, laying forth
supplications and asking Borei Olom to take pity on
His people and to deliver them. Aron HaEidus — The Receptacle for Torah by HaRav Emanuel Ralbag
When Moshe erected the Mishkan the Torah writes that
"he took and put the eidus [i.e., the Luchos]
into the Aron and set the poles on the Aron,
and put the Poroches above on the Aron, and he
brought the Aron into the Mishkan . . .."
(Shemos, parshas Pekudei, 40:20-21). The Torah tells
us that first the eidus was put into the Aron
and later the poles were set on to the Aron.
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