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Egypt Refuses to Supply Lulavim for Succos to Israel, US and
Europe Egypt has halted the export of
lulavim from the Sinai peninsula to Israel, the United States and
Europe. The Sinai peninsula was the main source of lulavim for Israel
in past years, supplying 500,000 out of a total demand for about
700,000 lulavim.
In response to passengers'
complaints to the Rabbinical Committee for Transportation Matters
regarding unseemly movies on international flights to and from Eretz
Yisroel, the committee said that flights to many destinations around
the world are available on airlines that offer excellent service and
show consideration for their passengers. Some of these flights have
stopovers in Europe.
At a ceremony held at the
Jerusalem International Convention Center, the Interior Ministry gave
out awards and certificates of recognition to 92 of Israel's 255
cities and local councils for proper administration.
During a meeting earlier this week
with heads of the OECD, which Israel joined four months ago, Knesset
Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni and Deputy Knesset
Speaker MK Rabbi Uri Maklev presented chareidi Jewry's stance and told
the representatives from the organization who wrote the report on
Israel's economy about the way of life in the chareidi community,
rejecting recent comparisons drawn in the media.
"The accelerated development taking
place in Beit Shemesh is a challenge for the world's developing
cities," said Paul Hunt, Canada's ambassador to Israel, during a visit
to the city hosted by Mayor Rabbi Moshe Abutbol.
Hundreds of millions of shekels
will be invested in the City of Bnei Brak during the coming years in a
massive municipality-sponsored project called Mitchadshim Letish'im as
the city prepares to mark its 90th anniversary and 50 years since the
passing of its founder, Rabbi Yitzchok Gerstenkorn.
In the midst of the summer recess,
the French Education Ministry and textbook publishers decided to
delete the word "Holocaust" from schoolbooks and replace it with the
terms "World War II" and the "war of destruction".
The mayor of Lvov, Ukraine has
denied reports that the preserved remnants of the Golden Rose
Synagogue, once headed by the Taz, are slated for demolition to make
way for a controversial hotel on the site.
History in Romania: After over 60
years without a rov to oversee and strengthen religious affairs in the
city of Iasi, one of the country's largest, a rov was appointed to the
city and the entire province by HaRav Yoel Tobias, the rov of Shikun
Vov in Bnei Brak and chairman of the Union of Former Romanian Rabbis
in Eretz Yisroel.
The Gaon R' Yonoson was born
around the year 5454 (1694) in the city of Pintchov. His father was
Reb Nosson Nota who later became rov of Eibeshitz, and his mother was
the Rabbonis Sheindel, daughter of HaRav Yehudah Leib Tzintz,
zt"l, rov of Pintshov.
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