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NEWS
What and Where is the Burden? Isolated Settlements and Other Expenses
The chareidi community has been beaten for more than a year with the slogan "Sharing the Burden." HaBayit HaYehudi, the heir and successor of the Israeli Mizrachi party has supported the effort led by Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party to force the chareidi community to share the "burden" of life in Israel. Their declared aims are to force lifestyle choices on the chareidi community to serve in the army and to join the work force in a larger proportion than they do today. They have also slashed government support for the chareidi community, even for such basic services as education.
The Chareidim are Right: There was no Reason to Disqualify the First Elections in Beit Shemesh
This Tuesday, the second round of elections were held in Beit Shemesh after the court accepted the request of the losers in a petition presented on the basis of so-called irregularities in the voting procedure. The court's decision was accompanied by a blasting media attack against the chareidi public in Beit Shemesh. Now, however, other tunes are being sung.
Rabbi Moshe Abutbul Won Again in Beit Shemesh
In a virtual repeat of the previous voting, with numbers that were a little bigger, Rabbi Moshe Abutbul, the chareidi candidate, again won election in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday in repeat elections held after the court invalidate the previous elections held when municipal elections were held all over the country. Abutbul received 19,401 votes to his opponent's 18,643. His margin of victory this time was 758 votes. The previous time it was 956 votes. About 77% of the eligible voters went to the polls this time, some 10 percent more than in the first election.
Rain and Kinneret Watch
Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret.
Yeshivas Mordechai Hatzaddik - The Biggest Yeshiva in the World
To go or not to go? The nerve-racking question bothered me incessantly. My son had invited me to come to Yerushalayim and experience the taste of Purim in Yerushalayim for real but, his enthusiasm aside, I was skeptical. What with the security situation as it is, my doubts were rising. In the end, it was the pleading of the children that persuaded me. "Zeidy, it's really not scary here at all! The only Arabs you'll see in our neighborhood are our friends in their Purim costumes."
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