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NEWS Throughout the Torah world and in chareidi areas in Eretz Yisroel and the diaspora, tefillos continue for the recuperation of Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita, who is listed in critical condition.
The Israeli capital market of the past few weeks bears almost no resemblance to last year's capital market, which ended one month ago. Stock market increases in tandem with the major capital raising drives in the mutual funds market have painted the screens green, along with markets around the world.
Despite opposition by United Torah Judaism MK Rabbi Uri Maklev, the Joint Foreign Affairs and Security and Constitutional Committee approved bringing for second and third readings an amendment that grants an IDF exemption to girls who declare themselves religious. According to a new part of the amendment, the exemption could be annulled if a girl's affirmation is proven to be false. Because of the difficulties in judgment and potential for abuse by anti-religious elements that such proof entails, the chareidi representatives have always tried to make a persona declaration by a girl unchallengeable.
IDF officials have decided to blatantly promote "military service for chareidim," and even took the unprecedented step of hiring a chareidi public relations consultant to market the idea to the chareidi public.
The Water Authority announced that last weekend the water level in the Kinneret rose from continued flow of rivers and streams, by seven centimeters (2.75 inches). This brings the water level up above the lower red line.
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