"Yeshiva students protect the entire generation," said President Milei on his historic visit to Chevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem on 4 Iyar. He was accompanied by senior members of his government, as well as the Argentinean ambassador to Israel Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish.

A formal ceremony was held in the main study hall. Rabbi Yosef Chevroni, head of the Hebron Yeshiva, addressed the President in English, saying, "Honorable President, you have undoubtedly received certificates and titles from important countries, institutions, and magnificent organizations. But I do not think, and I do not know, if until today you have received a title from an institution that is a link in a chain of generations, from a yeshiva that has existed in the people of Israel for 3,786 years."

Also greeting the President were the Roshei Yeshiva HaRav Dovid Cohen shlita and HaRav Moshe Mordechai Farbstein shlita. Also present were the Mashgiach HaRav Chaim Tzvi Kaplan shlita. The Rosh Yeshiva of Maor HaTorah, HaRav Avraham Salim shlita was also there.

President Milei was very moved by the visit and he declared...

Thousands of yeshiva students who toiled in Torah during the Bein Hazmanim intersession in the dozens of branches of Yeshivas Chedvoso deKalla throughout the country, founded and headed by Rabbenu Dov Lando, filled to overflowing the halls of Armonot Chen this past Thursday to celebrate "The Conference of Kinyan HaTorah" designed to recharge them for the coming summer study session.

HaRav Moshe Mordechai Englard, the MC, called upon HaRav Shmuel Falk from "Ohz Nidberu" to give the opening address on the theme of the World of the Torah Student. He delved into the inner workings of the mind and conscience of a ben Torah.

In his talk, he expanded on the advice of each student pursuing the particular study within Torah of what especially appeals to him. Just as in the regular world, there are things appeal to a person, so too, in the sea of study, a student is drawn to special topics.

In the center of the event, the atmosphere became charged with the burning fervor of the Torah — Ritcha DeOraisa....

The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics released its annual report on the population of Israel at the beginning of Iyar, before Israel Independence Day on 5 Iyar.

Accordint to the CBS, the population of Israel was 10.244 million, including 7.790 million Jews and Others (76%), 2.157 million Arabs (21.1%) and 296,000 Foreigners (2.9%).

In the past year, Israel's population has grown by 146,000 (an increase of 1.4%). Of this, the number of Israelis grew by 110,000 (an increase of 1.1%) and the number of foreigners grew by about 36,000. About 177,000 infants were born, about 21,000 immigrants arrived, about 48,000 persons died.

In 1948, at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel, the population was 806,000. Today, the population is more than 12.5 times the amount at that time.

Over 3.5 million immigrants have arrived in Israel.

The head of the preparatory army school Bnei David in the settlement of Eli, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, has come out acerbically against the High Court directive obligating the army to include women in the armored forces.

He tells that the army has already made many attempts to introduce women into its ranks but these failed after it became apparent that women are incapable of standing up to the standard regimen required of the men. Simply stated, women are not physically fit serve in such positions.

But this does not interest the High Court in the least. If the army requirement is too high for women, that level should simply be lowered, and if this means that the army will become less professional, less qualified, it makes no difference to the High Court vis-a-vis its goal of destroying every Jewish value and ethic under the dictum of equality.

The administrator of the prep school says that graduates of the National Religious institutions were excluded from serving in the artillery corps because of the court's orders and were also removed from serving in field intelligence. Now, too, they are on the way of being removed from the ranks of the armored forces as well.

The army heads simply do not dare to tell the High Court the simple truth....

This was originally published in 1995.

Part 2

In the first part we saw how he plan was conceived by Rav Weissmandl and the correspondence with Jewish leaders to try to secure financial resources to save Jews, with no success.

Rav Weissmandl's and Mrs. Fleischmann's letters reached Eretz Yisroel. "Part of Schwalb's letters, together with Weissmandl's letters which are addressed to Moshe Sharett and the leaders of the yishuv, are preserved in the Zionist Archive (File S261444.) Today it is clear that the letters arrived at their destination." (Tamar Meroz and Reuven Pedatzur, The Deal That Never Was, Ha'aretz, April 29, 1984)

Professor Dinah Porat writes, "Letters from Slovakia (about The Europe Plan) reached Geneva and Constantinople at the end of 1942. The leadership in Eretz Yisroel was aware of their contents by mid-Januray 1943, and also of a detailed report from Schwalb, which was accompanied by his view that the proposal should be taken up." (D. Porat, Leadership Ensnared)