Parsha Eikev Part 1
We continue with the first speech of Moshe that is Mussar.
7:12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers,
You keep the Mitzvos and the L-RD will keep the covenant.
13 and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
You observe the Mitzvos, you will become wealthy along with your produce and animals.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou know, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Question why is it that the evil Corona Disease affects us. Even more so religious people? The answer is that we are not trying to education the non-religious and weak religious into following properly or even minimally the Mitzvos. We ignore substandard observance and behavior. {One of my biggest problems are folks who are ignorant in their observance. As many of you know, I started out as a Reform Jew who lived my early life among Catholics. I knew more about their religion than I did of Torah Judaism. This is what we call a child that was captive among the Gentiles. Conservative Judaism back then was a larger denomination consisting of a lot of older people who began to break from Shabbos Observance during the Great Depression. They only partially returned even in their last days and left empty Synagogues to most of my generation and the generations after as one cannot observe Torah only on the High Holidays and Yomim Tovim. Torah is our life and the length of our days. Failing to inspire my generation and the ones after mine has left most of their Synagogues and the Reform Synagogues empty.}
To answer the question about the Corona it is our failure to attempt to inspire our fellow Jews on Shabbos, Kashrus, Family Purity, Tzedakah and other Mitzvos has cost us dearly. For it is not enough for us to sit in our communities and learn for ourselves but we must inspire others to inspire others to spread Torah. Of course some Tzaddikim will be taken from us as an atonement for those who continue on with Torah.
16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'
These are artistic and historic artifacts. Do not be deceived have no pity upon these gods like the museums have. In our land we cannot have idols!!!
18 thou shalt not be afraid of them; thou shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt:
If you do not see miracles that HASHEM does you are blind! When the week started, we were on the highest alert because of the threats of Hezballah with a warning to destroy the infrastructure of Lebanon. What does HASHEM Yisborach do? – HE causes an ammonia explosion equivalent to a 4.8 earthquake or about 1/5th the size of Hiroshima. Suddenly, a good deal of Lebanon is against Hezballah with more than 100 dead, people evaporated in buildings and their cars and 4000 injured and 300,000 plus homeless.
19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee.
What we saw in Beirut this week is just a little taste of the power of HASHEM Yisborach.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.
Tehillim 23:4 “Though that I walk in the valley
of death I shall fear no evil.” Tehillim 27:1 “[A Psalm] of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom
shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh,
even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear;
though war should rise up against me, even then will I be confident.
4 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life.” – This is
how to act so that a person about 5 feet tall can fight a giant between 8 and 9
feet tall and not fear.
22 And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little; thou may not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
For if they were cast out in one big swoop, wild animals would take over.
23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 24 And He shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against thee, until thou have destroyed them.
It will appear slow and natural, but it is anything but so. The L-RD is working behind the scenes.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and be accursed like unto it; thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Gold or silver just destroy it.
To be continued next week
8:1 All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. … 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee. … 7 For the LORD thy God bringseth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; 9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; …
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; 13 to keep for thy good the commandments of the LORD, and His statutes, which I command thee this day? These are just some of the Torah that hopefully I will cover next week.
Hiding from the Nazis by Adam Roth
https://www.aish.com/ho/p/Hiding-from-Nazis.html?s=sh1
Unable to copy and paste please try to read link.
New/old security Technology by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles.
http://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=1182-45
Four years ago, Rabbi Dov and Sarah Henig, the emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Chengdu, China since 2012, returned there with their three small daughters from a visit to Israel, where he is from (she is from Brooklyn). The rabbi tells:
After a very long flight and with lots of suitcases in tow, we headed towards the complex where our house is. But the security guards wouldn't let us in. They told us that they need to call the police.
What was the reason? While we were away there were many robberies in the area, so they were sure that during the three weeks we had been out of the country the robbers had also "visited" our house.
The police officers arrived with devices to check fingerprints and walked with us towards our home. We opened the doors with a heavy heart. When burglars break in, they also leave a big mess. We were also worried to see what they took.
We all went inside and thank G-d, everything was in its place, looking exactly as we left it. Nothing was stolen from us; all was well.
Two weeks later I received a phone call from the commanding police officer in the area. He said "Rabbi, please come. I want to meet with you!"
I arrived at the police station and immediately was shown into his office. He says to me, "Remember what happened when you arrived and we told you about the burglars? Well, we caught them! And can you guess what our first question to them was? It was: 'Why didn't you break into the house of the foreigners, the home of the Rabbi?'
"In reply, the burglars took out their phones and showed us photos of the doorways of your home, and that thing attached on the right side of the doorframe of each of your external entrances. They said, 'We know how to deal with and control many different security cameras, alarms, remote programs, wireless and WiFi systems, but this is a technology that is completely unknown to us. That's why we took photos of it, so we can investigate it and know how to deal with it in the future.'"
The commander turned to me and asked, "Rabbi, maybe this is special technology from Israel? Perhaps you can bring it here as well!"
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[1] The capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province, with the country's fifth highest population, more than 16 million in the 2019 census.
Source: Adapted by Yerachmiel Tilles from the video of Rabbi Henig telling the story, based on the faithful transcription by Mrs. C. R. Benami. (If you would like to receive a copy of the video by WhatsApp, send a whatsapp request to +972-526-770-137.)
Rabbi X's conclusion:
I explained to the Chengdu police what a mezuzah is all about. For those Jews
who are unfamiliar with this mitzvah, know that we are commanded in the Torah
to put a mezuzah parchment scroll on the entrances to our home. This mitzvah is
first of all a protection for us and for our home. On the outside of the rolled
scroll is written the Hebrew letters shin-Dalet-Yud, which, in addition to
spelling one of G-D's holy names, is an acronym for "Shomer Deletot
Yisrael" -- "He who watches over the doors of the Israelites."
[Indeed, an excellent security device! -YT]
Too, it reminds us that we have to be proud Jews also when we are at home and no one is watching us as well as when we are outside on the streets. So if you want this special 'security technology' and you don't have it yet, order it from the Chabad House nearest to you [or from a reliable authorized Jewish scribe]. If you already have a mezuzah but haven't had it checked in a while, and especially if it has been years, it's worthwhile to have it checked now.
Connection: Weekly Torah Reading of Eikev -- and of Vaeschanan) - contain the source verses of the mitzvah of mezuzah.
How the Mossad hunted the “Butcher of Riga”.
A true-life psychological thriller reports on ‘Mio’ Meidad’s undercover mission without backup to extract justice – and foil a German plan to give Nazis amnesty. By Robert Philpot
LONDON — In March 1965, the West German Bundestag overwhelmingly defeated a proposal to bring to an end the hunt for Nazi war criminals and introduce a statute of limitations for their crimes.
The months leading up to the debate had seen a wave of opposition to the plans across the world. Thousands took to the streets from Tel Aviv to Toronto and Los Angeles to London. Nobel Prize winners, politicians, playwrights and the future Pope Benedict XVI raised their voices in protest. And in Germany, a bitter and divisive national debate broke out about how the country should atone for its sins and how widespread the responsibility for them truly lay.
But in those months another effort had also been launched to derail the German proposals. Hatched in secret by Israel’s intelligence chiefs and approved by prime minister Levi Eshkol, it was one that was nonetheless designed to focus the world’s attention on the hundreds, if not thousands, of perpetrators who had never seen the inside of a courtroom or prison cell — and likely never would if the Bundestag approved the statute.
It was also an effort in which Israel itself would act as judge, jury and executioner. Israel’s foreign intelligence agency the Mossad, it was decided, would hunt down and kill Herberts Cukurs — the “Butcher of Riga” — who was accused of being personally responsible for the deaths of at least 30,000 Latvian Jews.
Cukurs’s assassination, for which Israel would claim no responsibility, would publicize and punish his terrible crimes. It would serve, too, as a warning of the kind of rough justice that would be meted out to others if Germany provided an amnesty to war criminals.
The story of the mission to kill Cukurs is told in journalist and author Stephan Talty’s new book, “The Good Assassin: Mossad’s Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia.” It is a brilliantly written, heart-stopping, and, at times, heartbreaking tale; one that crosses continents from the “blood lands” of Eastern Europe to the jungles of South America.
At the center of Talty’s retelling lie two men: Cukurs and the undercover agent dispatched by Mossad to ensnare him, Yaakov “Mio” Meidad.
Known in the agency as “the man with the hundred identities,” Meidad was a German-born Jew whose parents had perished in the death camps. He had helped abduct Adolf Eichmann and bring him to Israel for trial.
Talty, who first encountered the story of the mission when reading Ronen Bergman’s “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,” was fascinated by both Cukurs and Meidad, as well as the events that had brought them together.
“It was this idea that these two characters existed on either side of a terrible historical moment and now they had to meet, and Mio had to basically form a friendship with someone who was sort of the face of the ‘ordinary men’ of the Holocaust,” Talty told The Times of Israel.
Cukurs was, as one survivor later wrote, “full of tremendous contradictions.” Known as “the Latvian Lindbergh,” the aviator had become a household name and national hero in the prewar Baltic state, renowned for his dash and daring.
“I actually found myself admiring the prewar Cukurs,” admits Talty. “He was very much the kind of adventurer who not only built his own planes but dreamed up these kind of bizarre trips and odysseys.”
Those trips had famously seen him fly in 1933 from Latvia to the British African colony of The Gambia in an open-cockpit aircraft he had had cobbled together from cast-off and salvaged parts.
Six years later, in December 1939, he returned from another expedition — a 2,900-mile (4,667 kilometer) flight to Palestine — to enthrall Riga’s Jewish Club with a talk, complete with photographs, describing the sights, sounds and smells of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Petah Tikva and Rishon LeZion.
“I remember Cukurs speaking with wonderment, amazement, even enthusiasm, of the Zionist enterprise in Israel,” a young Jewish man who was there that night later remembered.
This was not the only indication that, his fierce nationalism and occasional anti-Semitic remarks aside, Cukurs was, as one Latvian Jew later put it, “not really considered a Jew-hater.” He was, for instance, often seen with Jewish intellectuals in Riga’s cafes.
Talty’s interest in Cukurs was, in part, sparked by this background. “I wanted to know,” he remarks, “what had changed him into what would seem to be a beast, a monster.”
That description is entirely apt. As Yosef Yariv, the head of the Mossad’s special operations arm, told Meidad when he outlined the mission to him, Cukurs was not “a desk murderer like Eichmann.” Among those who knew his reputation, the mere mention of Cukurs’s name could provoke a physical reaction. When Israel’s intelligence chiefs gathered to discuss potential targets, a list of names was read out. Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, collapsed on hearing that of the man who had murdered several of his family and friends. Cukurs’s crimes had been committed just under 25 years previously.
Under the secret terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the Soviets had snuffed out Latvia’s independence and brutally occupied it in the summer of 1940.
A year later, a second tragedy befell the Baltic states, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union seeing Latvia come under Nazi rule. Some of Cukurs’s fellow countrymen viewed the Nazis as liberators; a view not shared by their terrified Jewish neighbors.
No pity and no compromise must be shown. No Jewish tribe of adders must be allowed to rise again. Within hours, the now German-controlled press began to pump out the vicious lie that Latvia’s Jews were the “enemy within” who had betrayed their country to the Soviets and participated in the atrocities the Red Army had committed. “No pity and no compromise must be shown. No Jewish tribe of adders must be allowed to rise again,” wrote one newspaper.
No pity was, indeed, shown. “Riga became a pen where Jews were hunted for sport and profit, and Hebert Cukurs was an enthusiastic player in the game,” writes Talty.
Cukurs was no bit player — instead, he became second-in-command of the notorious Arājs Kommando, a 300-strong Latvian paramilitary group which enthusiastically participated in the murder of the country’s Jews.
Eyewitnesses later testified to Cukurs’s brutality. One remembered him in the ghetto to which Riga’s Jews were herded “laughing devilishly… shooting the people like a hunter in the forest.” Another recorded him at the notorious villa at 19 Waldemars Street where the Arājs Kommando held wild drunken parties as they tortured and murdered Jews.
Max Tukacier, a young Jew who had known Cukurs for over a decade and was taken to the house, saw the aviator “beat to death 10 to 15 people.” And Cukurs was recorded giving orders to his commandos at the scenes of the “Aktions” during the Rumbula massacre on November 30 and December 8, 1941, when roughly 25,000 Jews were murdered in or near the Rumbula forest.
After participating in the bloodletting of Riga’s killing fields, Cukurs and his men traveled around Latvia’s villages, towns and small cities, helping round up and murder Jews. Within five months, 60,000 Latvian Jews had perished. As Talty writes, the slim file the Mossad held on Cukurs was so thin, and the eyewitness accounts so few, precisely because of the thoroughness with which he and the Arājs Kommando had assisted the Nazis in their work.
But the most extraordinary — perhaps unique — aspect of Cukurs’s story was what happened next. Like many other war criminals, the Latvian joined the “ratline” and escaped to South America after the war. But, unlike his fellow killers, Cukurs arrived in Brazil under his own name — and then almost immediately began seeking out members of the country’s Jewish community. Cukurs portrayed himself as both a political exile who had been targeted by the Communists and a man who had rescued Jews during the Shoah.
While Cukurs assiduously wooed Rio’s Jews, however, his past started to catch up with him. Back in Europe, fledgling Jewish committees devoted to tracking down escaped war criminals compiled a dossier on the prominent prewar aviator who had become a mass murderer. Within weeks of his arrival, reports of the first possible sightings of Cukurs in Rio found their way back to London. The slow and painstaking process of confirming these reports commenced.
All the while, Cukurs continued to prosper and promote himself. He even gave an interview to Brazil’s highest-selling magazine — which appeared under the title “From the Baltics to Brazil” — in which he was described as “the epitome of humanity.” By 1950, though, the shocking truth — that Cukurs was nothing of the sort — began to dawn on some of his newfound friends in Rio.
Although the Jewish community’s efforts to have him extradited and brought to justice faltered in the face of official indifference, protests led to the collapse of Cukurs’s thriving business and the family was forced to leave the city. By the time the Mossad set its sights on him a decade later, Cukurs was a much-diminished figure, quietly running a small boat rental and air taxi business near São Paulo.
Cukurs’s overweening ambition was the source of both his rise and eventual fall. It was not simply his heinous crimes that made him a target in 1965, but the fact that he had left a trail that was so easy for the Mossad to follow.
“He could have had a very good life in Rio had he just not stuck his head up in the way that he did,” says Talty. “I think his narcissism just was so central to his character that he couldn’t resist it.”
While others like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele were “very particular about leading very mundane lives,” the author continues, “he just felt that Herbert Cukurs was born for the world and that he needed some kind of heroic story around his life to make it meaningful for him.”
This “curse,” Talty believes, led to Cukors’s downfall.
While Cukurs’s actions in Rio may have been foolhardy, he was no fool. As Talty explains, the Mossad mission is “not an action story” but more akin to a tense psychological thriller which pits Cukurs against the man the agency dispatches to trap its quarry.
Meidad himself, Talty says, was very much “the anti-James Bond,” and “seemed to be only fully alive” when he went undercover.
“When he was in character as someone else he was much more confident, much more assertive… than he was in real life,” says Talty.
The guise of Anton Kuenzle, a successful but buttoned-down Austrian businessman who would befriend Cukurs and lure him to his death, was one the Israeli played to perfection. The perfection was necessary, however, as the mission contained no room for error.
Highly unusually, Meidad, at his own insistence, worked in Brazil without any reinforcements or a Plan B. The decision, writes Talty, “deviated wildly from his precise, very Germanic methodology; it was as if he’d thrown away 20 years of spycraft in order to go after Cukurs.”
Meidad’s family and former colleagues emphasized to Talty that the mission was “personal” for him.
“I think he really relished this one-on-one confrontation with a perpetrator of the Holocaust,” Talty says. “He saw it really as a test of everything he had been as a secret agent and… he wanted to outwit Cukurs and bring him down himself.”
And then there was Cukurs himself. “He was a very difficult target in that not only [was he] … paranoid, but he was intelligent and he could anticipate what an Israeli agent would be doing,” says Talty. “It was very much a psychological battle, and I think Cukurs very much was almost his equal in that.”
On one side of the battle lines stood Cukurs, who constantly sought to test whether Kuenzle truly was who he said he was. Those tests included staging a shooting contest between the two men on a remote plantation in the middle of the Brazilian outback to ascertain whether Kuenzle’s claim to have served on the Eastern Front during World War II rang true.
On the other side stood Meidad, who needed not merely to allay Cukurs’s suspicions but also to figure out the bait which would best reel him in. In this he excelled, says Talty.
“He had a certain empathy towards Cukurs and his journey, and his bedraggled state when he met him, [when he was] not obviously living up to his own dream of himself,” Talty says.
The prospect Meidad dangled before Cukurs of regaining his lost wealth and respect through a business partnership eventually led to the mission’s bloody denouement in a house in Montevideo where a small Mossad team awaited.
It was, however, a close call. A combination of Cukurs’s ever-vigilant paranoia, bad luck, and a reluctance on the part of some of the Mossad squad to believe that killing a lone 65-year-old man would really prove that hard nearly led to disaster.
“It was Mio’s nightmare,” says Talty. “There was kind of a schism between him and the Sabras [in the Mossad team] in that they believed they could handle any situation that missions threw at them, and he was very particular in saying this man is a formidable physical opponent.”
Not until the Mossad men finally came face-to-face with Cukurs — when, as Meidad later said, “he fought like a wild and wounded animal” — did they realize how prescient those warnings had been.
It is perhaps fitting that the answer to the question which first drew Talty to Cukurs’s story — what had led the adventuresome aviator down the path of mass murder? — was provided by a survivor.
Zelma Shepshelovich, a magnificent figure whose story Talty’s book also tells, was relentless in her attempts after the war to attain justice for her own murdered family and the thousands of other Latvian Jews who died alongside them.
In 1979, she appeared as a prosecution witness in the Hamburg trial of Viktor Arājs, the commander of the paramilitary battalion of which Cukurs had been such an eager member. During his time on the stand, Arājs revealed that Cukurs had collaborated with the Soviets during their short occupation of the country before the Nazi invasion. Terrified of exposure, and the bloody consequences that would follow, Cukurs sought to cover his tracks by joining Arājs’ band of killers.
As Talty writes: “It wasn’t, after all, a deeply rooted anti-Semitism that drove the former aviator. He betrayed the Jews because if he didn’t, he would likely have been murdered alongside them. The sacrifice of those men, women and children was necessary for him to go on living.”
Cukurs was not unique. But in Latvia, a country with no history of pogroms that some had viewed as a sanctuary in the 1930s, he came to symbolize what Talty terms “the double cross that had snared the Jews.” For its imperiled Jews, the speed and viciousness with which many of their friends, neighbors and fellow countrymen suddenly turned upon them was palpable.
It is, as Talty readily acknowledges, impossible to prove whether the news of Cukurs’s death changed any minds when the Bundestag came to reject the amnesty proposal in the spring of 1965.
“I want to believe that it played a psychological part in giving the Holocaust a face, but really I can’t substantiate that with sources,” Talty says. “But it was certainly part of a movement re-evaluating what had happened during the Shoah in Germany and I think it was important for that reason.”
Talty recognizes too that the Mossad’s decision to kill Cukurs and not bring him to trial had one unintended consequence. The effort in recent years by Latvian nationalists to rehabilitate the former national hero has exploited the fact that no jury ever convicted him of war crimes.
There is, however, a glimmer of light in Talty’s retelling of this dark story. It is represented by Jānis Alexander Vabulis, a young civil servant who fell in love with Shepshelovich and — at great personal risk — sheltered her throughout the war.
“I think he represents a certain percentage of Latvians that went out of their way [to help Jews],” Talty suggests. “I found a lot of testimonies about Jews finding farm houses and families who were very religious and very Christian and immediately brought them in.”
Personal Note: My Granddaughter in her last year of High School worked on a project to help people obtain Mental Health. She got the Girl Scout Golden Award. She is keeping up a tradition from my grandmother volunteering for “True Sisters”, my mother as President and Treasurer of her chapter of Hadassah, My own volunteering in High School and starting 3 Kollelim and extending a 4th. My three children in Ezra or leading the youth in our Yeshuv. Abby wrote:
I did it! I got a gold plated pin, a letter from a senator, a letter from the white house, a letter from the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York, a certificate, and a huge smile on my face. I imagined what it would be like if teenagers had access to a more in depth mental health education. I took that idea and I turned it into reality. Tagged are the many people I would love to thank for these accomplishments. First I would like to thank my troop leader for giving me all the opportunities in girl scouts! I would like to thank my girl scout troop for being such huge supporters during my presentation you are all so awesome I love you all. I would like to thank my parents and family who helped me and came to my presentations! I would like to thank the faculty and staff at Columbia who gave me access to the auditorium and let me present during Health Awareness week during my senior year of high school. Thank you so much to the students of Columbia High School. You all asked great questions, I could tell you were all fully engaged, and thank you so much for doing that. Last but not least I would like to thank my personal mentor Mrs. R for helping me fact check all of my information, giving me time to practice my public speaking skills, and for helping me find the most reliable mental health resources that teenagers can have access to. My video is still up on YouTube feel free to watch it, show it in your classrooms, clubs, etc. Remember Mental Health Matters and it can happen to anyone. Get help if you need it and check up on your friends. Sending all of my love.
There was a suprise write up today on the Yeshiva of my third oldest grandchild with his class pictured in the "Yeted Ne'eman" today.
Disney ride sinks with people on it. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284675
Israeli activist sues New Israel Fund. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284761
In order to get 4th election Netanyahu seeks 400 million NIS for Charedim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284739
Milestone: Adin Ben Yisrael Steinsaltz Talmud translator into Hebrew. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284883
Pre-historic migration route from Africa to Europe uncover in Dimona. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284714
The Rebbe told them to wear masks. Do you see any in the picture? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284806
Poll Arutz 13 had Likud at 29 Bennett at 19 this one is similar in other numbers.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284870
Inyanay Diyoma
Corona Deaths rise to 523. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HF20OLJ30
Corona cases begin to flatten. https://www.debka.com/israels-covid-19-death-toll-reaches-500-infection-curve-flattens-slightly/
Ed-Op Netanyahu’s manipulation not working. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/H16nGQ3eD
Holocaust Survivor dies at 98. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284556
Ed-Op Ben Yishai Israel missed deterrent. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkQYhLkZD
Left demonstrations increase. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284572
Israel will receive vaccine early. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/H1yKDn6eP
President thinks of banning Tik Tok.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tiktok-here-for-the-long-run-trump-floats-ban-security-fears
UK-US looking for new nuke warhead. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uk-seeking-us-congressional-support-coordination-14b-nuclear-warhead-program-report
Chicago sinks further. https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-shootings-homicides-july-2020
Astronauts to land on W. Coast of FL. https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-astronauts-aim-for-florida-coast-to-end-spacex-flight
Jewish Home proposes over-ride clause. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284576
Golan: Four terrorist killed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284620
Gazan terrorists targeted Sderot drive-in. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284621
Turkey becomes a rogue State. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284617
Israel may take 4 years to recover. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284605
Covid infection rated down. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284588
ISIS regrouping and restaging. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkbzYqEZv
Russia sending a strong message to Assad that Iranian Hegemony in Syria no longer tolerated. https://www.debka.com/long-live-syria-down-with-assad-russias-syrian-proxy-shouts/
Space-X successfully re-enters atmosphere. https://www.timesofisrael.com/spacex-capsule-with-2-nasa-astronauts-make-first-splashdown-in-45-years/
Former top generals want to see if there were conflict of interests on the Submarine Affair. https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-defense-brass-demand-commission-of-inquiry-into-submarine-affair/
Pass budget or lose credit rating. https://www.timesofisrael.com/treasury-reportedly-warns-failure-to-pass-state-budget-could-hurt-credit-rating/
IDF removes Iranian bases in Syria. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284679
N. Korea continues with Nukes. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284685
I suspect that we received bad medicine from China. Suddenly since Friday at least 49 people die and today is Tuesday. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/C9X4LDAZS
2.6 million have no missile protection. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJn4uKBbD
Government must not be toppled – Deri. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284687
World’s heaviest plane takes Iron Dome to US Military. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284672
Unmasking Arab-Iranian cooperation. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284683
Employees demonstrate against closure of Airline. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284653
44% of the people want Pres. Miriam Peretz. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284670
Disney ride sinks with people on it. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284675
100+ dead and more expected under the rubble as Hezballah stowage/weapons facility and Ammonia Gas explode 1/5th Hiroshima in power 4000 injured. https://www.debka.com/massive-explosions-in-beirut-port-kill-dozens-wound-thousands/
It appears that Hezballah used the port and Ammonia to make explosive devices. Films of the explosion and aftermath. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284736
Death toll surpasses 100. Blast heard in Cyprus. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/LLUS949GY
IDF Corona tracing force starts work. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkmJ0ZvWD
Corona cases 1806 in one day infections 1 on 1 but deaths rise to 561. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByKPl100bw
Defense Min., Foreign Min. and Hospital Director offer help to Lebanon. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284762
https://israelnewsagency.com/israel-asks-un-how-they-can-assist-lebanon
White supremacy attack in FL. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284713
Jewish and Black cemeteries vandalized in VA. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284758
Black antisemitism. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284759
Azerbaijan and Israel strategic cooperation. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284724
Twitter Hacker mastermind a 17year old. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284757
Israel may have another short lockdown. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284752
Plot and Deflect the Democratic plan to victory. Ed-Op by Barry Shaw. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284731
Ganz many implement bill to investigate Netanyahu corruption on Submarine Deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284750
Iran partially blocks own port with fake carrier. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284743
In order to get 4th election Netanyahu seeks 400 million NIS for Charedim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284739
Lebanese blame leaders for 135+ dead 5,000 injured. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rktP0tdbw
Lebanese authorities tell them they can return to their homes in a few months but with what money to rebuild and nobody believes them. Nazrallah mocked the Ammonia Storage in Haifa about 4 years ago. https://www.debka.com/monumental-blasts-leave-beirut-in-ruins-scores-dead-300000-homeless/
Bride swept off of her feet in blast. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284799
Corona Virus in Israel. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BJJkedu11P
Ed-Op Yemeni time for religious right to demonstrate. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryEn8OrWD
Ganz to give to Charedim Draft Law. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284813
From violent protests to antisemitism. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284808
Israel shores up defenses. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284784
Millionaire to buy a large percentage of El Al. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284795
POTUS answers questions on Fox and Friends congratulates Steve on the marriage of his daughter. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284800
The Rebbe told them to wear masks. Do you see any in the picture? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284806
Fire Balloons from Gaza – Reply. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284862
French Hostages released without freeing Palestine. https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/08/all-hostages-released-suspect-arrested-in-france.html
POTUS issues order against Chinese App. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284869
Israeli Youths almost lynched. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284861
Do salaried workers still need a clock? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284858
Beirut - Was the Ammonium Nitrate the fuel for missiles? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284844
Toronto Polish Paper blames the Jews. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284871
IDF Robot to reduce test response time. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284852
Israel’s morbidity the highest in the world. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284840
Ministry Of Education Sent teachers to Missionary site. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284833
After 99 days Corona Patient released. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284832
Beirut tragedy could happen in Haifa. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkQHVSF11P
Charedim plead for sanity and no elections. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HkwhvqKWw
Accidental warning sirens sounded in N.W. Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284878
Good Shabbos all stay healthy, follow distancing and wear a mask,
Rachamim Pauli
