Kayla bas
Chana is in rémission and should not have been on the
prayer list a few weeks ago and worse than that she appeared twice. Please
contact me if Esther Rachel bas Sarah still needs prayer otherwise, I will
remove her name next week.
Shmuel Carmi ben Ita needs healing for a few more weeks and then I will
remove his name.
Political Correctness is a disease. It is called
tolerance of certain others rights while one steps upon their own rights. This
is happening in Europe. There are 90 ISIS terrorist who have
infiltrated Russia, many in Turkey waiting to attack Schuls and 400 who
infiltrated Europe in recent months.
The best Ed-Op of the week is how Political Correctness
is killing us. Why David killing the poor helpless Golliard lying knocked out
would be arrested today: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/18626#.VvoHqY9OKM8
Parsha
Tzav
6:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt-offering: it is that which goes up on its firewood upon the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning thereby.
This is the time of execution of the process involved with the Korban but besides time, place and thought the next Pasuk tells us what garments are worn by the Cohain.
3 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes whereto the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
This cleaning of the ashes is required and it is called – Terumas HaDeshen. This done by the Cohain and the finishing touch of the Korban. Note the fire must continue burning and this is just cleaning up after the Korban.
4 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
The garments are changed to both honor the Korban and Cohain.
He
shall then take off his garments: This is not an obligation, but proper
practice, that, by taking out the ashes, he should not soil the garments in
which he constantly officiates. [By analogy:] The clothes worn [by a servant]
while cooking a pot [of food] for his master, he should not wear when he mixes
a glass [of wine] for his master. Hence, [the verse continues,] “and put on
other garments,” inferior to those [garments of the kehunah he had been wearing
till now]. — [Yoma 23b And he shall take out the ashes: [By contrasting verse
3, “And he shall lift out (וְהֵריִם) the ashes,” with
verse 4 here, “And he shall take out (וְהוֹצִיא)
the ashes,” we see that there were two distinct obligations with regards to
removing ashes from the altar: a) תּרוּמַת הַדֶּשֶׁן,
“lifting out” some of the innermost ashes from the altar and placing them next
to the altar, and b) הוֹצָאַת הַדֶּשֶׁן,
“taking out” the heap of ashes from atop the altar when they became
overflowing, to a place “outside the camp.” Thus, our verse here, “And he shall
take out the ashes,” refers to those ashes] which were heaped up in the
apple-shaped pile [of ashes on top of the altar]. When this pile became so
large that there was no longer any room on the wood-pile, he [the kohen] would
take it out of there. Now, this was not a daily obligation (Tamid 28b), but
lifting out [some innermost ashes] was a daily obligation. — [Tamid 20a]
5 And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby, it shall not go out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. 6 Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
A continuous fire: Heb. אֵשׁ תָּמִיד, the fire regarding which it says, “[to
kindle the lamps] continually (תָּמִיד)”
(Exod. 27:20)
this fire must also be kindled from [the fire] on the outer altar. — [Yoma 45b]
It shall not go out: [Since “it shall not go
out” is stated twice, once in verse 5 and a second time here,] anyone who
extinguishes the fire on top of the altar, transgresses two negative
commandments.
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19 The priest that offers it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. 20 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place. 21 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
From Sofia: An ''earthenware vessel'' represents the
body of man, which was formed from the earth. Just like an earthenware vessel
that absorbs a prohibited substance must be broken, so too, if a man's body
participates in a sin, it can be atoned for when his heart becomes ''broken''
through true repentance. Based on Sichas Shabbos Parsha Tzav 5736, Lubavitcher
Rebbe
22 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it is most holy. 23 And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire.
Korban Asham or guilt offering. The blood was dashed with Hyssop or Marjoram branches which grow in my garden a foot to a foot and a half high. In Israel today it goes by the Arab Name Zartar today. It is used to spice things similar to Oregano and is taller. At the length of a foot or more, the blood is held and sprinkled far enough away from the Cohain.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inwards, 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys. 5 And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a guilt-offering. 6 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
It is a holy of holies: [But
has this not already been stated in verse 1?] This is expounded on in Torath
Kohanim (7:84).
This is distinguished from a Korban Todah (thanks for … a safe journey or something similar) or other Korbanos Shlamim like the Pessach that could be eaten in all Yerushalayim.
7 As is the sin-offering, so is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that makes atonement therewith, he shall have it. 8 And the priest that offers any man's burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered. 9 And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the stewing-pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offers it. 10 And every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.
We see that all Korbanos require proper slaughter with the name of the Korban mentioned “In the name of Shlamim” with Kavannah as to the right time and place for the altar (Mizbayach) and eating when permitted. The Korban requires sprinkling of the blood, wine and a meal offering with it (not Pessachim).
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one may offer unto the LORD. 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. 13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving. 14 And of it he shall present one out of each offering for a gift unto the LORD; it shall be the priest's that dashed the blood of the peace-offerings against the altar. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offered his sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remains of it may be eaten. 17 But that which remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
This could be the Korban Chagigah for the three Regelim that was eating Chol HaMoed or in the case of Shavuous the few days after the Chag. However, the exception was the Korban Pessach which is only eaten the night of Pessach and our Rabbis put a fence that it is eaten on a full stomach and finished by Chatzos (midnight). Ritual purity was necessary.
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be at all eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offered it; it shall be an abhorred thing, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his iniquity. 19 And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean may eat thereof. 20 But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21 And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, whether it be the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean detestable thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
He gets Kares for being Tumay. The same goes for forbidden fat in the Korban and Trafe or Nevailah. We skip ahead and see blood is also in this category.
… 26 And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whosoever it be that eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. …
The
final section of Parsha Tzav deals with the anointing of Aaron and his children
as Cohanim:
8:1 And the
LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
garments, and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the
two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 3 and assemble thou all the
congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.' 4 And Moses did as the LORD
commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of
meeting. 5 And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the
LORD hath commanded to be done.' 6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and
washed them with water. 7 And he put upon him the tunic, and girded him with
the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he
girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it unto him
therewith. … 24 And Aaron's sons were brought, and Moses put of the blood upon
the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon
the great toe of their right foot; and Moses dashed the blood against the altar
round about. … 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which
was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and
upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, and
his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. … 33 And ye shall
not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of
your consecration be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you seven days. … 36 And
Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses.
We
have finished the 7 days of Milluim or training and now we are ready for the 8th
day to start with the Cohanim in the Mishkan.
Parsha
Shemini
This
is the start of the 8th day and the running of the Mishkan by the
Cohanim as Moshe withdraws from the service.
9:1 And it came
to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders
of Israel;
And
it was on the eighth day: of the investitures. It was the first of the month of
Nissan, the very day on which the Mishkan was erected. And [this day] took ten
“crowns” [of distinction], which are enumerated in Seder Olam 7. — [Torath
Kohanim 9:1] [called…] the elders of Israel: to inform them that it was by the
express command of God that Aaron was entering into the Kehunah Gedolah , so
that they should not say that he entered of his own accord.
… for to-day
the LORD appears unto you.'
For
today the Lord is appearing to you: to make His Shechinah rest in the work of
your hands [i.e., the work of the Mishkan], and for this reason, these
sacrifices are obligatory for this day.
5 And they
brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the
congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. … 23 And Moses and Aaron went
into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the glory
of the LORD appeared unto all the people. 24 And there came forth fire from
before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat;
and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Seeing
HASHEM before them, the people fell on their faces from fear, awe and perhaps a
little love.
10:1 And Nadab
and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire
therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD,
which He had not commanded them. 2 And there came forth fire from before the
LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Just
as we are having the biggest Simcha of celebrating the dedication of the
Mishkan and fire coming down from heaven to light the Mizbayach and burn the
Korbanos, tragedy strikes. The two older sons of Aaron and placed non-requested
fire in the Kodesh Kedoshim (Holy of Holies) there is also a hint that they
might have been drinking wine but the first part is the Pshat.
3 Then Moses
said unto Aaron: 'This is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are
nigh unto Me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be
glorified.' And Aaron held his peace.
Moshe
tries to calm down Aaron. Aaron was a strong believer in HASHEM and even
received prophecy but this was a heavy blow to him. He was in shock, sad and
not questioning HASHEM. He was like a man who received a slap in the face so
hard he could not recover for he had done nothing wrong but the two young men
did. Another sin they committed according to the Medrash was not getting
married.
4 And Moses
called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said
unto them: 'Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the
camp.' 5 So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp,
as Moses had said.
Moshe
called on close family from the tribe of Levi to bury the dead. The young men
died on the 8th day of the dedication which was the 8th
of Nissan. Now Pessach is on the night after the 14th or the start
of the 15th which does not allow them to purify themselves to eat
the Korban Pessach. The idea of Pessach Sheni is mentioned in Parsha Emor so I
will leave it at that.
6 And Moses
said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons: 'Let not the hair
of your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes, that ye die not, and that He
be not wroth with all the congregation; but let your brethren, the whole house
of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Cohanim
are in special service of HASHEM and therefore they must not mourn like others
and they have to have their hair cut short for the service.
7 And ye shall
not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing
oil of the LORD is upon you.' And they did according to the word of Moses.
And
for this they were blessed.
8 And the LORD
spoke unto Aaron, saying: 9 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a
statute forever throughout your generations.
This
is the hint that the two young Cohanim had some wine when they died.
10 And that ye
may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and
the clean; 11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
which the LORD has spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'
You
are special with the kahuna and set aside from the common man.
12 And Moses
spoke unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left:
'Take the meal-offering that remained of the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy. 13 And
ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire; for so I am commanded. 14 And the
breast of waving and the thigh of heaving shall ye eat in a clean place; thou,
and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for they are given as thy due, and
thy sons' due, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the children of
Israel. 15 The thigh of heaving and the breast of waving shall they bring with
the offerings of the fat made by fire, to wave it for a wave-offering before
the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, as a due for ever; as
the LORD hath commanded.' …19 And Aaron spoke unto Moses: 'Behold, this day
have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the LORD,
and there have befallen me such things as these; and if I had eaten the
sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.
As
in Mizmor Le Todah (the song for the Korban Todah) a person should serve HASHEM
with joy (working with Simcha) and eating a Korban in sadness and depressed in
crying inside is not really serving HASHEM but selfish interest. This is the
answer that pleased Moshe.
11:1 And the
LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them: 2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying: These are the living things which ye may eat among all the
beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parts the hoof, and is wholly
cloven-footed, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. 4
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them
that only part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but part not the
hoof, he is unclean unto you.
So
a lot of domestic animals are kosher outside of the horse and perhaps pig and
even some wild animals like bison, deer, antelopes, moose, water-buffalo, yaks,
giraffes, etc. are kosher. But here are some exceptions:
5 And the
rock-badger, because he chews the cud but parts not the hoof, he is unclean
unto you. 6 And the hare, because she chews the cud but parts not the hoof, she
is unclean unto you. 7 And the swine, because he parts the hoof, and is
cloven-footed, but chews not the cud, he is unclean unto you.
In
short he spreads his feet out before you as if to show that he is kosher but
gulps down his food including meat like all the killer beasts.
8 Of their
flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are
unclean unto you.
They
are unclean for you. A question arose among the younger students (High School –
Yeshiva Katana) if one could play touch football on Yom Tov. The Rosh Yeshiva
pointed out that the ball was made of pig skin. The same would go for donkey or
horse skin. (Rabbi London TzZal in his answer to boys did not tell them it was
Bitul Torah (a waste of precious Torah time) but rather Tumay on Yom Tov
because realized that during the week, the boys would waste time anyway why
give them Mussar but a prohibition for a few hours and learning with them would
keep them focused a bit more on Torah.)
9 These may ye
eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the
waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them may ye eat. 10 And all that have
not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that swarm in the
waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are a
detestable thing unto you,
There
supposedly is one eel species that has fins and scales in the water but as he
leaves the water he sheds his scales. When we come to buy it from a fisherman
we see before us a creature without scales, we have to go by what we see.
11 and they
shall be a detestable thing unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and
their carcasses ye shall have in detestation. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor
scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you. 13 And these ye
shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are a
detestable thing: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey;
14 and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds; 15 every raven after its
kinds; 16 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk
after its kinds; 17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl;
18 and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture; 19 and the
stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 20 All winged
swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing unto you.
All
these are birds of prey except the mammal bat and insects. They have weaker
spiritual properties. Just like with the mammals the lions, tigers, bears, rats,
monkeys, etc. are forbidden because they hunt for food and do not graze. You
are what you eat!
21 Yet these
may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have
jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth; 22 even these
of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its
kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds. 23
But all winged swarming things, which have four feet, are a detestable thing
unto you. 24 And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever touches the
carcass of them shall be unclean until even. 25 And whosoever bears aught of
the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 26
Every beast which parts the hoof, but is not cloven footed, nor chews the cud,
is unclean unto you; every one that touches them shall be unclean.
This
includes domesticated horses, mules, donkeys or wild animals like hippos and
elephants.
27 And
whatsoever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are
unclean unto you; whoso touches their carcass shall be unclean until the even.
We
are forbidden to eat dogs, cats and monkeys which might even be domesticated
but short of run or hop on fours.
28 And he that
bears the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even; they are unclean unto you.
The
following mammals, reptiles, amphibians are considered Sheratzim and cause Tuma
to the touch.
29 And these
are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon
the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds, 30
and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and
the chameleon. 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that swarm;
whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
… 39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die, he that touches
the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.
This
is what we call Nevailah. [Animals much be checked and healthy.] They used to
serve cow brains in Israel but a number of people including a work colleague of
mine died from Kreutz-Yacov or mad cow disease that the country banned the use
of this part. Today we check the lungs of animals and there are even a few
questions that ruin the Glatt part of nails in the stomach or intestines of
cows.
40 And he that
eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even; he also that bears the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even.
There
is a big misconception among non-religious Jews that if one eats a cow or
chicken in a non-kosher restaurant that that is OK. IT IS NOT AND COULD BE
TRAFE OR NEVAILLAH FOR THE RITUAL SLAUGHTER AND CHECKING OF THE LUNGS IS REQUIRED
FOR KASHRUS.
41 And every
swarming thing that swarms upon the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not
be eaten. 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goes
upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all swarming things that
swarm upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are a detestable thing. 43 Ye shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing
that swarms, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should
be defiled thereby. 44 For I am the LORD your God; sanctify
yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy; neither shall ye defile yourselves
with any manner of swarming thing that moves upon the earth.
This
goes to Parsha Kedoshim “You should be holy for I, the L-RD your G-D, is holy.
We are a holy people and we do not eat the pig to prevent trichinosis which
does not exist so much today, but because of holiness. Yes, Pork Chops, Spare
Ribs and Bacon are tasty but a Holy Nation is based more on spirit in this
world and the next than on taste and the here and the now.
45 For I am the
LORD that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; ye shall
therefore be holy, for I am holy. 46 This is the law of the
beast, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters,
and of every creature that swarms upon the earth; 47 to make a
difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that
may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
Holy
men and women in the spiritual army of HASHEM this is an order that you have
been commanded. Your reward in the next world will be more pleasant than the
best non-kosher that you can ever imagine in this world.
The following story was sent to me by Chaim O.
The Nazi who became a
Mossad Hitman by Dan Raviv and Yosi Melman! http://forward.com/news/336943/ht/
On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home.
The only other salient detail known
to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of
dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to develop advanced
weapons for that country.
HaBoker, a now defunct Israeli
newspaper, surprisingly claimed to have the explanation: The Egyptians
kidnapped Krug to prevent him from doing business with Israel.But that somewhat clumsy leak was an attempt by Israel to divert investigators from digging too deeply into the case — not that they ever would have found the 49-year-old scientist.
We can now report — based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad’s archived secrets from half a century ago — that Krug was murdered as part of an Israeli espionage plot to intimidate the German scientists working for Egypt.
Moreover, the most astounding
revelation is the Mossad agent who fired the fatal gunshots: Otto Skorzeny, one
of the Israeli spy agency’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant
colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s personal
favorites among the party’s commando leaders. The Führer, in fact, awarded
Skorzeny the army’s most prestigious medal, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron
Cross, for leading the rescue operation that plucked his friend Benito
Mussolini out from the hands of his captors.
But that was then. By 1962,
according to our sources — who spoke only on the promise that they not be
identified — Skorzeny had a different employer. The story of how that came to
be is one of the most important untold tales in the archives of the Mossad, the
agency whose full name, translated from Hebrew, is “The Institute for
Intelligence and Special Missions.”
Key to understanding the story is
that the Mossad had made stopping German scientists then working on Egypt’s
rocket program one of its top priorities. For several months before his death,
in fact, Krug, along with other Germans who were working in Egypt’s
rocket-building industry, had received threatening messages. When in Germany,
they got phone calls in the middle of the night, telling them to quit the
Egyptian program. When in Egypt, some were sent letter bombs — and several
people were injured by the explosions.
Krug, as it happens, was near the
top of the Mossad’s target list.During the war that ended 17 years earlier, Krug was part of a team of superstars at Peenemünde, the military test range on the coast of the Baltic Sea, where top German scientists toiled in the service of Hitler and the Third Reich. The team, led by Wernher von Braun, was proud to have engineered the rockets for the Blitz that nearly defeated England. Its wider ambitions included missiles that could fly a lot farther, with greater accuracy and more destructive power.
According to Mossad research, a decade after the war ended, von Braun invited Krug and other former colleagues to join him in America. Von Braun, his war record practically expunged, was leading a missile development program for the United States. He even became one of the fathers of the NASA space exploration program. Krug opted for another, seemingly more lucrative option: joining other scientists from the Peenemünde group — led by the German professor Wolfgang Pilz, whom he greatly admired — in Egypt. They would set up a secret strategic missile program for that Arab country.
In the Israelis’ view, Krug had to
know that Israel, the country where so many Holocaust survivors had found
refuge, was the intended target of his new masters’ military capabilities. A
committed Nazi would see this as an opportunity to continue the ghastly mission
of exterminating the Jewish people.
The threatening notes and phone
calls, however, were driving Krug crazy. He and his colleagues knew that the
threats were from Israelis. It was obvious. In 1960, Israeli agents had
kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief administrators of the Holocaust, in
far-off Argentina. The Israelis astonishingly smuggled the Nazi to Jerusalem,
where he was put on trial. Eichmann was hanged on May 31, 1962.
It was reasonable for Krug to feel
that a Mossad noose might be tightening around his neck, too. That was why he
summoned help: a Nazi hero who was considered the best of the best in Hitler’s
heyday.
One of the Mossad’s
top priorities was stopping German scientists from working on Egypt’s rocket
program.
On the day he vanished, according to
our new information from reliable sources, Krug left his office to meet
Skorzeny, the man he felt would be his savior.
Skorzeny, then 54 years old, was
quite simply a legend. A dashing, innovative military man who grew up in
Austria — famous for a long scar on the left side of his face, the result of
his overly exuberant swordplay while fencing as a youth— he rose to the rank of
lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS. Thanks to Skorzeny’s exploits
as a guerrilla commander, Hitler recognized that he had a man who would go
above and beyond, and stop at nothing, to complete a mission.
The colonel’s feats during the war
inspired Germans and the grudging respect of Germany’s enemies. American and
British military intelligence labeled Skorzeny “the most dangerous man in
Europe.”Krug contacted Skorzeny in the hope that the great hero — then living in Spain — could create a strategy to keep the scientists safe.
The two men were in Krug’s white
Mercedes, driving north out of Munich, and Skorzeny said that as a first step
he had arranged for three bodyguards. He said they were in a car directly
behind and would accompany them to a safe place in a forest for a chat. Krug
was murdered, then and there, without so much as a formal indictment or death
sentence. The man who pulled the trigger was none other than the famous Nazi
war hero. Israel’s espionage agency had managed to turn Otto Skorzeny into a
secret agent for the Jewish state.
After Krug was shot, the three
Israelis poured acid on his body, waited awhile and then buried what was left
in a hole they had dug beforehand. They covered the makeshift grave with lime,
so that search dogs — and wild animals — would never pick up the scent of human
remains.
The troika that coordinated this
extrajudicial execution was led by a future prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak
Shamir, who was then head of the Mossad’s special operations unit. One of the
others was Zvi “Peter” Malkin, who had tackled Eichmann in Argentina and in
later life would enter the art world as a New York-based painter. Supervising
from a distance was Yosef “Joe” Raanan, who was the secret agency’s senior officer
in Germany. All three had lost large numbers of family members among the 6
million Jews murdered by the cruel, continent-wide genocide that Eichmann had
managed.
Israel’s motivation in working with
a man such as Skorzeny was clear: to get as close as possible to Nazis who were
helping Egypt plot a new Holocaust.The Mossad’s playbook for protecting Israel and the Jewish people has no preordained rules or limits. The agency’s spies have evaded the legal systems in a host of countries for the purpose of liquidating Israel’s enemies: Palestinian terrorists, Iranian scientists, and even a Canadian arms inventor named Gerald Bull, who worked for Saddam Hussein until bullets ended his career in Brussels in 1990. Mossad agents in Lillehammer, Norway, even killed a Moroccan waiter in the mistaken belief that he was the mastermind behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by the terrorist group known as Black September. Ahmed Bouchikhi was shot down in 1973 as he left a movie theatre with his pregnant wife. The Israeli government later paid compensation to her without officially admitting wrongdoing. The botched mission delayed further Mossad assassinations, but it did not end them.
To get to unexpected places on these improbable missions, the Mossad has sometimes found itself working with unsavory partners. When short-term alliances could help, the Israelis were willing to dance with the proverbial devil, if that is what seemed necessary.
But why did Skorzeny work with the Mossad?
He was born in Vienna in June 1908, to a middle-class family proud of its military service for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From an early age he seemed fearless, bold and talented at weaving false, complex tales that deceived people in myriad ways. These were essential requirements for a commando officer at war, and certainly valuable qualities for the Mossad.
He joined Austria’s branch of the
Nazi Party in 1931, when he was 23, served in its armed militia, the SA, and
enthusiastically worshipped Hitler. The führer was elected chancellor of
Germany in 1933 and then seized Austria in 1938. When Hitler invaded Poland in
1939 and World War II broke out, Skorzeny left his construction firm and
volunteered — not for the regular army, the Wehrmacht, but for the Leibstandarte
SS Panzer division that served as Hitler’s personal bodyguard force.
Skorzeny, in a memoir written after
the war was over, told of his years of SS service as though they were almost
bloodless travels in occupied Poland, Holland and France. His activities could
not have been as innocuous as his book made them seem. He took part in battles
in Russia and Poland, and certainly the Israelis believed it was very likely
that he was involved in exterminating Jews. The Waffen-SS, after all, was not
the regular army; it was the military arm of the Nazi Party and its genocidal
plan.
His most famous and daring mission was in September 1943: leading
commandos who flew engineless gliders to reach an Italian mountaintop resort to
rescue Hitler’s friend and ally, the recently ousted Fascist dictator Benito
Mussolini and spirit him away under harrowing conditions.This was the escapade that earned Skorzeny his promotion to lieutenant colonel — and operational control of Hitler’s SS Special Forces. Hitler also rewarded him with several hours of face-to-face conversation, along with the coveted Knight’s Cross. But it was far from his only coup.
In September 1944, when Hungary’s dictator, Admiral Miklos Horthy, a Nazi ally, was on the verge of suing for peace with Russia as Axis fortunes plunged, Skorzeny led a contingent of Special Forces into Budapest to kidnap Horthy and replace his government with the more hard-line Fascist Arrow Cross regime. That regime, in turn, went on to kill or to deport to concentration camps tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews who had managed to survive the war up to that point.
Also in 1944, Skorzeny handpicked 150 soldiers, including some who spoke fair to excellent English in a bold plan to fend off the Allies after they landed in Normandy on D-Day in June. With the Allies advancing through France, Skorzeny dressed his men in captured U.S. uniforms, and procured captured American tanks for them to use in attacking and confusing Allied troops from behind their own lines.
The bold deception — including the
act of stealing U.S. soldiers’ property — plunged Skorzeny into two years of
interrogation, imprisonment and trial after the war ended. Eventually, Allied
military judges acquitted him in 1947. Once again, the world’s newspapers
headlined him as Europe’s most dangerous man. He enjoyed the fame, and
published his memoirs in various editions and many languages, including the
1957 book “Skorzeny’s Special Missions: The Autobiography of Hitler’s Commando
Ace,” published by Greenhill Books. He spun some tall-tale hyperbole in the
books, and definitely downplayed his contacts with the most bloodthirsty Nazi
leaders. When telling of his many conversations with Hitler, he described the
dictator as a caring and attentive military strategist.
There was much that Skorzeny did not
reveal, including how he escaped from the American military authorities who
held him for a third year after his acquittal. Prosecutors were considering
more charges against him in the Nuremberg tribunals, but during one transfer he
was able to escape — reputedly with the help of former SS soldiers wearing
American military police uniforms.
Skorzeny’s escape was also rumored
to have been assisted by the CIA’s predecessor agency, the Office of Special
Services, for which he did some work after the war. It is certainly notable
that he was allowed to settle in Spain — a paradise for Nazi
The recruitment of
Skorzeny came with personal pain for his handlers. war veterans, with
protection from the pro-Western Fascist, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. In the
years that followed he did some advisory work for President Juan Peron in
Argentina and for Egypt’s government. It was during this period that Skorzeny
became friendly with the Egyptian officers who were running the missile program
and employing German experts.
In Israel,
a Mossad planning team started to work on where it could be best to find and
kill Skorzeny. But the head of the agency, Isser Harel, had a bolder plan:
Instead of killing him, snare him. Mossad officials had known for some time
that to target the German scientists, they needed an inside man in the target
group. In effect, the Mossad needed a Nazi.
The
Israelis would never find a Nazi they could trust, but they saw a Nazi they
could count on: someone thorough and determined, with a record of success in
executing innovative plans, and skilled at keeping secrets. The seemingly
bizarre decision to recruit Skorzeny came with some personal pain, because the
task was entrusted to Raanan, who was also born in Vienna and had barely
escaped the Holocaust. As an Austrian Jew, his name was originally Kurt
Weisman. After the Nazis took over in 1938, he was sent — at age 16 — to
British-ruled Palestine. His mother and younger brother stayed in Europe and perished.
Like many
Jews in Palestine, Kurt Weisman joined the British military looking for a
chance to strike back at Germany. He served in the Royal Air Force. After the creation
of Israel in 1948, he followed the trend of taking on a Hebrew name, and as Joe
Raanan he was among the first pilots in the new nation’s tiny air force. The
young man rapidly became an airbase commander and later the air force’s
intelligence chief.
Raanan’s
unique résumé, including some work he did for the RAF in psychological warfare,
attracted the attention of Harel, who signed him up for the Mossad in 1957. A
few years later, Raanan was sent to Germany to direct the secret agency’s
operations there — with a special focus on the German scientists in Egypt. Thus
it was Raanan who had to devise and command an operation to establish contact
with Skorzeny, the famous Nazi commando.
The Israeli spy found
it difficult to get over his reluctance, but when ordered, he assembled a team
that traveled to Spain for “pre-action intelligence.” Its members observed
Skorzeny, his home, his workplace and his daily routines. The team included a
German woman in her late 20s who was not a trained, full-time Mossad agent but
a “helper.” Known by the Hebrew label “saayanit” (or “saayan” if a male), this team member was like an extra
in a grandly theatrical movie, playing whatever role might be required. A saayanit would
often pose as the girlfriend of an undercover Mossad combatant. Internal Mossad
reports later gave her name as Anke and described her as pretty, vivacious and
truly flirtatious. That would be perfect for the job at hand — a couples game.
One evening
in the early months of 1962, the affluent and ruggedly handsome — though
scarred — Skorzeny was in a luxurious bar in Madrid with his significantly
younger wife, Ilse von Finckenstein. Her own Nazi credentials were impeccable;
she was the niece of Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s talented finance minister.+
They had a
few cocktails and were relaxing, when the bartender introduced them to a
German-speaking couple he had been serving. The woman was pretty and in her
late 20s, and her escort was a well-dressed man of around 40. They were German
tourists, they said, but they also told a distressing story: that they had just
survived a harrowing street robbery.
They spoke
perfect German, of course, the man with a bit of an Austrian accent, like
Skorzeny’s. They gave their false names, but in reality they were,
respectively, a Mossad agent whose name must still be kept secret and his
“helper,” Anke.
There were more
drinks, then somewhat flamboyant flirting, and soon Skorzeny’s wife invited the
young couple, who had lost everything — money, passports and luggage — to stay
the night at their sumptuous villa. There was just something irresistible about
the newcomers. A sense of sexual intimacy between the two couples was in the
air. After the four entered the house, however, at a crucial moment when the
playful flirting reached the point where it seemed time to pair off, Skorzeny —
the charming host — pulled a gun on the young couple and declared: “I know who
you are, and I know why you’re here. You are Mossad, and you’ve come to kill
me.”+
The young
couple did not even flinch. The man said: “You are half-right. We are from
Mossad, but if we had come to kill you, you would have been dead weeks ago.” “Or
maybe,” Skorzeny said, “I would rather just kill you.” Anke spoke up. “If you
kill us, the ones who come next won’t bother to have a drink with you, You
won’t even see their faces before they blow out your brains. Our offer to you
is just for you to help us.”
After a
long minute that felt like an hour, Skorzeny did not lower his gun, but he
asked: “What kind of help? You need something done?” The Mossad officer — who
even now is not being named by colleagues — told Skorzeny that Israel needed
information and would pay him handsomely. Hitler’s favorite commando paused for
a few moments to think, and then surprised the Israeli by saying: “Money
doesn’t interest me. I have enough.” The Mossad man was further surprised to
hear Skorzeny name something that he did want: “I need for Wiesenthal to remove
my name from his list.” Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Vienna-based Nazi-hunter,
had Skorzeny listed as a war criminal, but now the accused was insisting he had
not committed any crimes.
The Israeli
did not believe any senior Nazi officer’s claim of innocence, but recruiting an
agent for an espionage mission calls for well-timed lies and deception. “Okay,”
he said, “that will be done. We’ll take care of that.”
Skorzeny
finally lowered his weapon, and the two men shook hands. The Mossad man
concealed his disgust. “I knew that the
whole story about you being robbed was bogus,” Skorzeny said, with the boastful
smile of a fellow intelligence professional. “Just a cover story.”
The next
step to draw him in was to bring him to Israel. His Mossad handler, Raanan, secretly
arranged a flight to Tel Aviv, where Skorzeny was introduced to Harel. The Nazi
was questioned and also received more specific instructions and guidelines.
During this visit, Skorzeny was taken to Yad Vashem, the museum in Jerusalem
dedicated to the memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The
Nazi was silent and seemed respectful. There was a strange moment there when a
war survivor pointed to Skorzeny and singled him out by name as “a war
criminal.” Raanan, as skilled an actor as any spy must be, smiled at the Jewish
man and softly said: “No, you’re mistaken. He’s a relative of mine and himself
is a Holocaust survivor.”
Naturally,
many in Israeli intelligence wondered if the famous soldier for Germany had
genuinely — and so easily — been recruited. Did he really care so much about
his image that he demanded to be removed from a list of war criminals? Skorzeny
indicated that being on the list meant he was a target for assassination. By
cooperating with the Mossad, he was buying life insurance. The new agent seemed
to prove his full reliability. As requested by the Israelis, he flew to Egypt
and compiled a detailed list of German scientists and their addresses. Skorzeny also provided the names of many front
companies in Europe that were procuring and shipping components for Egypt’s
military projects. These included Heinz Krug’s company, Intra, in Munich.
Raanan
continued to be the project manager of the whole operation aimed against the
German scientists. But he assigned the task of staying in contact with Skorzeny
to two of his most effective operatives: Rafi Eitan and Avraham Ahituv.
Eitan was
one of the most amazing characters in Israeli intelligence. He earned the
nickname “Mr. Kidnap” for his role in abducting Eichmann and other men wanted
by Israeli security agencies. Eitan also helped Israel acquire materials for
its secret nuclear program. He would go on to earn infamy in the 1980s by
running Jonathan Pollard as an American Jewish spy in the United States
government.
Surprisingly
flamboyant after a life in the shadows, in 2006, at age 79, Eitan became a
Member of Parliament as head of a political party representing senior citizens.
“Yes, I met and ran
Skorzeny,” Eitan confirmed to us recently. Like other Mossad veterans, he
refused to go on the record with more details. Ahituv, who was born in Germany in
1930, was similarly involved in a wide array of Israeli clandestine operations
all around the globe. From 1974 to 1980 he was head of the domestic security
service, Shin Bet, which also guarded many secrets and often conducted joint
projects with the Mossad.
The Mossad agents did try to
persuade Wiesenthal to remove Skorzeny from his list of war criminals, but the
Nazi hunter refused. The Mossad, with typical chutzpah, instead forged a letter
— supposedly to Skorzeny from Wiesenthal— declaring that his name had been
cleared.
Skorzeny continued to surprise the
Israelis with his level of cooperation. During a trip to Egypt, he even mailed
exploding packages; one Israeli-made bomb killed five Egyptians in the military
rocket site Factory 333, where German scientists worked.
The campaign of intimidation was
largely successful, with most of the Germans leaving Egypt. Israel stopped the
violence and threats, however, when one team was arrested in Switzerland while
putting verbal pressure on a scientist’s family. A Mossad man and an Austrian
scientist who was working for Israel were put on trial. Luckily, the Swiss
judge sympathized with Israel’s fear of Egypt’s rocket program. The two men
were convicted of making threats, but they were immediately set free.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
however, concluded that all of this being out in public was disastrous to
Israel’s image — and specifically could upset a deal he had arranged with West
Germany to sell weapons to Israel.
Harel submitted a letter of
resignation, and to his shock, Ben-Gurion accepted it. The new Mossad director,
commander of military intelligence Gen. Meir Amit, moved the agency away from
chasing or intimidating Nazis.Amit did activate Skorzeny at least once more, however. The spymaster wanted to explore the possibility of secret peace negotiations, so he asked Israel’s on-the-payroll Nazi to arrange a meeting with a senior Egyptian official. Nothing ever came of it.
Skorzeny never explained his precise reasons for helping Israel. His autobiography does not contain the word “Israel,” or even “Jew.” It is true that he sought and got the life insurance. The Mossad did not assassinate him.
He also had a very strong streak of adventurism, and the notion of doing secret work with fascinating spies — even if they were Jewish — must have been a magnet for the man whose innovative escapades had earned him the Iron Cross medal from Hitler. Skorzeny was the kind of man who would feel most youthful and alive through killing and fear.
It is possible that regret and atonement also played a role. The Mossad’s psychological analysts doubted it, but Skorzeny may have genuinely felt sorry for his actions during World War II.
He may have been motivated by a combination of all these factors, and perhaps even others. But Otto Skorzeny took this secret to his grave. He died of cancer, at age 67, in Madrid in July 1975.
He had two funerals, one in a chapel in Spain’s capital and the other to bury his cremated remains in the Skorzeny family plot in Vienna. Both services were attended by dozens of German military veterans and wives, who did not hesitate to give the one-armed Nazi salute and sing some of Hitler’s favorite songs. Fourteen of Skorzeny’s medals, many featuring a boldly black swastika, were prominently paraded in the funeral processions.
There was one man at the service in Madrid who was known to no one in the crowd, but out of habit he still made sure to hide his face as much as he could. That was Joe Raanan, who by then had become a successful businessman in Israel.
The Mossad did not send Raanan to Skorzeny’s funeral; he decided to attend on his own, and at his own expense. This was a personal tribute from one Austrian-born warrior to another, and from an old spy handler to the best, but most loathsome, agent he ever ran.
Dan Raviv, a CBS News correspondent
based in Washington, and Israeli journalist Yossi Melman are co-authors of five
books about Israel’s espionage and security agencies, including “Spies Against
Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars” (Levant Books, 2014). Contact them at feedback@forward.com
My
stories of Ivan and Aryeh will continue next week.
Milestones: 80
years to Radio in Hebrew. On Mar. 30, 1936 opened up Kol Yerushalayim which
became Kol Yisrael from Yerushalayim. During the Six Day War there was a
broadcast from Tel Aviv but the announcer said “From Yerushalayim” and his wife
panicked as there was shelling in Yerushalayim from the Yarden Legion. It was a
short bit later that he told her that he had put on the program from Tel Aviv.
Israeli medical
miracles those who boycott us please avoid recommending or using: http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/israeli-surgeons-perform-miraculous-lung-surgery-on-fetus-in-the-mothers-womb/
For warning of
Moshiach. I got the msg. from Dr. Harry with the article from Stan. http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/april-2016-the-temple-of-baal-will-be-erected-in-times-square-in-new-york-city
One thing our
Sages say is that when one of the members of your group dies take heed. Well
this person was not exactly in my group. She had been a girl in my class in the
second grade. In fact it was only half of the second grade as she moved out to
go to Hollywood. I don’t know if I knew her as Ann or Patty. She was half a year older than I. So I had no
contact with her but sort of followed her career since she had lived in the
same building with my late friend Jimmy. After not hearing her name for years,
I saw her in an advertisement for Social Security and then I realized that I
was not a youngster. The Mussar learned from this
is that we are all mortal and we should live our life to the fullest both in
Torah and Mitzvos. Do Teshuva, Tephilla and Tzeduka and as much Chessed as we
can bring into the world. That is the mark we leave and not the brief light of
fame which is stamped out when our soul departs for the next world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Duke
Missionary
alert: I received a friend request from this
fellow https://www.facebook.com/jacob.israeli.3?fref=jewel
who has a happy Easter and Bible on his page forewarned is forearmed. This
“rabbi” is no more a Rabbi than I am a Bishop.
Inyanay
Diyoma
Arrest made in
France to prevent more Franco-Belgium terror. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209881#.VvSBIY9OKM8
High ranking
Druze Officer dies in plane crash. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209910#.VvVTEY9OKM8
ISIS second in
command killed in Syria: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209909#.VvVUsY9OKM8
Syria if Assad
takes Palmyra he stays in power if not bye-bye: http://debka.com/article/25328/Assad%E2%80%99s-fate-hangs-on-the-Palmyra-battle-%E2%80%93-and-on-Russian-air-support
Syrian Success:
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/Syrian-army-recaptures-ancient-city-of-Palmyra-from-ISIS-state-media-says-449286
UK Muslim who
liked Christians murdered by fellow Muslim “religion of peace”: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209922#.Vvbpyfl96M8
Soldier who
killed the terrorist in the jacket during a heat spell is the scapegoat of the
PC police and the left. He did not sleep all night and was told to put bandages
on him while he moved and people shouted that he might have an explosive vest.
I heard the Hebrew tape. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209923
New
Chuck-Wagons for the IDF for all tanks: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-logistics-trailers-set-to-enhance-IDF-ground-offensives-449157
Turks warn the
Jews of Turkey to be on the alert: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4783318,00.html
Syrian Success:
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/Syrian-army-recaptures-ancient-city-of-Palmyra-from-ISIS-state-media-says-449286
Critically
wounded soldier can walk and talk but one eye he does not open still a miracle:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209934#.Vvfr7o9OKM-
No PC here he
used to carpet bombing and it worked: http://debka.com/article/25328/Assad%E2%80%99s-troops-enter-Palmyra-after-massive-Russian-air-blitz-to-smash-ISIS
Israelis urged
to leave Turkey many chance flight plans to Cyprus and Greece: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-advises-its-citizens-to-leave-Turkey-immediately-due-to-terror-threats-449405
Threat rises to
specific about attack on School-Synagogue Complex.
I-phone
encoding cracked by Israelis now the FBI will not need Apple and neither will
the CIA, NSA, Shin Bet. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210026#.Vvnsf49OKM9
Magen David
Adom refused to deal with the terrorist in the jacket in 88 F = 31 C heat until
the IDF cleared him of bombs. Blame the poor soldier first, jail him and
enquire afterwards seems to be the standard for the Defense Minister who in Tunisia
emptied 30 bullets into a terrorist. Do as I say not as I do: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/vilified-executioner-idf-soldier-appears-vindicated-by-evidence/2016/03/25/
ISIS
inspiration attracts two east-Yerushalayim Israeli Citizens: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4784226,00.html
It was reported
that Israeli troops hit ISIS in Sinai with permission from Egypt: http://debka.com/article/25331/Sisi-asks-Obama-for-military-intervention-to-save-Egypt-from-ISIS
Egyptian Air
hijacking leaves the questions how did he get through security and did he have
an explosive belt? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4784548,00.html
Police
investigating pertaining to Deri this time on new suspicions: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210074#.VvtA049OKM8
Also Yitzchak
Herzog.
Charges lowered
to manslaughter and perhaps release of soldier: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210153#.Vv1bjaR96M8
3 km or 2 mile
tunnel discovered by Egypt from Hamas: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4785602,00.html
How the rich
launder money with politicians and Trump might just expose this if elected 36
minutes skip the first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKr6zgPTcg
Israel conducts
a large naval exercise both above and below water with navy seals: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4785734,00.html
It might mean
that I could do conversions but I am unsure that this is the way to go about
it: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/High-Court-strikes-another-blow-against-chief-rabbinate-monopoly-on-religious-life-449880
Female Arab
teacher who won an anti-violence award is married to a senior terrorist who
spent time for accessory to murder as he provided the knowledge and ingredients
to make bombs: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Husband-of-Palestinian-teacher-who-won-nonviolence-prize-participated-in-terror-attack-449944
Tank damaged in
training exercise: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4785837,00.html
Criminal
actions of politicians either with money Deri and Herzog: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4785941,00.html or with power:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4785932,00.html
Be
well, start learning about Pessach and during the week prepare and have a good
Shabbos,
Rachamim
Pauli
