Quote of the day from Catherine Perez-Shakdam, executive director of We Believe in Israel:

“Israel, Mon Amour. You are my identity, my history, my future. You are the embodiment of a people’s unyielding spirit, the living proof that we will not be erased. I shall never cease to love you.”

 

9 children in 4 years

Nachum Fleischer is an ultra-Orthodox Jew who lives in Canada. He got married in 2020, and 9 months later, his wife gave birth to triplets. A year and a half later, they had triplets again. And now, just 4 years after getting married, they have had their 3^rd set of triplets. That’s 9 children in 4 years!

 

Direct from Gaza to donate bone marrow to 3-year-old

When Matan Amir registered with Hadassah’s bone marrow registry on the day he enlisted in the IDF, he provided a saliva sample and forgot about it - until Hadassah informed him, while he was fighting in Gaza, that he was a genetic match for a 3-year-old boy diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. Matan agreed to help. He was released from Gaza, and underwent a pelvic bone procedure. The recipient is doing well. After a regulatory 12-month delay, Matan hopes to meet the boy. Matan means gift. How appropriate!

 

Volunteer medic injured on Oct. 7 returns to service with ‘ambucycle’

Seriously wounded United Hatzalah emergency medic Rabbi Chaim Sassi is back on active duty after receiving a custom-made ambucycle that accommodates his lingering leg injury. Sassi, who also serves as the regional rabbi for United Hatzalah in Sderot, underwent a long rehabilitation, but was determined to get back to work. The ambucycle allows Sassi to ride safely despite balance issues caused by his leg injury. United Hatzalah CEO, Ehud Davidson: “Sassi is an inspiration to us all.”

 

Disabled rehab patients enjoy an exhilarating treat

ADI (Ability, Diversity, Inclusion) helps the rehabilitation of people with disability. More than a dozen war-wounded military and civilian rehab patients from ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran recently took to the southern Israel skies with pilots from “Ananim: Flights for the Community.” The exhilarating flights are a metaphor for unlocking potential beyond limitations.

 

Golders Green boy wrote Brian Epstein’s first UK #1

Martin Dover, who was a teacher at Carmel College when I was there, once shared with me that he was Brian Epstein’s barmitzvah teacher. Epstein – the subject of a new biopic, “Midas Man” – not only managed the Beatles, but also another popular Liverpool group, Gerry and the Pacemakers. In fact, Epstein’s first UK number one was Gerry and the Pacemakers’ “How Do You Do It?” The lyrics for this hit song were written in Golders Green by a good Jewish Golders Green boy, songwriter Mitch Murray.

 

Medical clowns shorten hospital stay for children with pneumonia

We already know that visits from a medical clown can help reduce stress and anxiety in hospitalised children. After studying the impact of medical clowns on children who are hospitalised with pneumonia, a team from Carmel Medical Center in Haifa has found that the children spend less time in hospital if they are visited by medical clowns, who sing and play music with the children, and encourage them to eat and drink independently.

 

Bigoted vandals smash bust of Chaim Weizmann at Manchester University

In Room 27 on Floor 2 at the London’s National Portrait Gallery is a bust of Chaim Weizmann that Sir Jacob Epstein completed in 1934. I recall a replica of this bust in Rabbi Kopul Rosen’s study in Carmel College. I thought of this bust when I learned that bigoted anti-Zionist vandals had destroyed a bust of Weizmann in Manchester University, where Israel’s first president worked for decades in his chemistry laboratory.

 

Upgraded training base in Jordan Valley for ultra-Orthodox soldiers

Despite current tensions surrounding the Haredi military service exemption law, the new ultra-Orthodox brigade of combat soldiers is set to move into its upgraded training base in the Jordan Valley in December. The base has 4 new synagogues and specialized infrastructure designed to accommodate religious requirements. The first ultra-Orthodox infantry battalion is expected to be combat-ready by November 2025.

 

Mazal tov to the winners of the Israel Defence Award

The Israel Defence Award is presented by the President of Israel to people and organisations who made significant contributions to the defence of the State of Israel. At the 2024 awards ceremony, the winners included the David’s Sling air defence system, the Namer armoured personnel carrier, and the IDF’s technology-enhanced target bank project. Because some of the recipients are still working on top secret projects, the group photos of the winners featured some winners standing with their back to the camera.

 

“You are my identity, my history, my future.”

Catherine Perez-Shakdam is a French Jewish journalist, political analyst and commentator who converted to Islam. After divorcing her Muslim husband, she now identifies as a Zionist and as a Jew. In an op-ed in The Times of Israel headlined “Israel, Mon Amour,” she writes: “You are my identity, my history, my future. You are the embodiment of a people’s unyielding spirit, the living proof that we will not be erased. You are not just the land I inhabit, but the hope that inhabits me. You are the story we write anew, the promise we keep alive. I shall never cease to love you.”

 

 

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Israel supporters post ‘rape tunnel maps’ on London Underground

 

 October 7, 2024

Hamas’s extensive tunnel network in Gaza, much of which was dismantled by the IDF, was larger than London’s subway system. 

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

On the first anniversary of the October 7th massacre, Israel supporters placed “rape tunnel map” posters throughout the London Underground to raise awareness about the terror group’s sexual crimes and to advocate for the release of hostages.

The goal of the campaign was to put up posters at every station of “The Tube.”

Hamas’s extensive tunnel network in Gaza, much of which was dismantled by the IDF, was larger than London’s subway system.

Anti-Israel protesters have often used the London Underground as a prime location to post misinformation about the Gaza conflict.

A graphic similar to London Underground maps on the posters suggested Gaza tunnel routes.

The text at the bottom of the posters read, “On October 7th, 2023, Hamas murdered hundreds and kidnapped hundreds. The UK government must do all it can to  ensure the release of 100 hostages still unaccounted for after 365 days of terror.”

The campaign was intended to counteract demonstrations involving tens of thousands of anti-Israel protesters marching through London ahead of the first anniversary of the October 7th massacre.

The group behind the campaign, London Against Hamas, issued a statement, “On the first anniversary of the unimaginable horrors committed by Hamas murderers on October 7th, 2024, the tunnels of London Underground today have featured maps showing that terror organization’s Rape Tunnels of Gaza.”

“Trains on every Underground line now feature “Gaza Underground” maps, reminding Londoners for what appalling purposes Hamas have created their subterranean network – rape, murder, torture, further terrorist activities – as supporters call for the UK Government to do everything to ensure the release of the 100 hostages still unaccounted for after 365 days,” the statement continued.

On Monday, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to “stand behind the Jewish community” and called October 7th “The darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust.”

“One year on from these horrific attacks, we must unequivocally stand with the Jewish community and unite as a country. We must never look the other way in the face of hate,” the Prime Minister said.

Douglas Murray: A Time of War

 When we planned this episode of Honestly, I thought we would be looking back at the past year from a slightly quieter vantage point. We were going to release it on October 7. But quiet is the last thing happening in the Middle East right now.

HOW ISLAMISTS OVERRAN MY COUNTRY LEBANON

 Brigitte Gabriel tells the story of how Islamists overran her country Lebanon 🇱🇧 with the aid of Islamic countries in the 1970s.

It's important to note that religion and thus religious extremism is dangerous and needs to be checked especially in Africa so that what happened to the Middle East won't Take place on the continent. This is the reason why the enlightenment and advocacy towards naturalism needs to be intensified in Africa and the world.

BBC’s Bowen Claims “Israel Trying to Control the Media”

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BBC’s Jeremy Bowen complains that “Israel continues to prevent independent journalistic access to Gaza – it will do so until there is a ceasefire and even then, if Israel remains in control of the territory, I am not sure we will be allowed in.

I don't think the Israeli forces are worried about whether we are safe in there or not – I think there are things they don't want us to see and that they want to master the media battlefield. So they are fighting on all fronts and controlling the media is one of them.

If you look at Israeli TV, it is focused 24/7 on Gaza of course. But what you don’t see is Palestinian suffering. You see troops, the home front, constant reminders of what happened on 7 October. You see the pain of the hostage families.

What you do not see are stories of individual Palestinians, nor the colossal scale of the damage going on in Gaza.”

So this is his point of biased view, but let’s break this down.

1. Israel’s borders with Gaza are shut. Period.
2. Foreign journalists were previously able to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez Crossing, which has been closed since October 7 after Hamas destroyed it.. There is no “business as usual” for passage between Israel and Gaza for anyone, including journalists.
3. The international media do, however, have the ability to attempt to enter Gaza through the Rafah Crossing on the Egyptian side.
4. But Bowen believes that Israel is preventing foreign media from entering because “there are things they don’t want us to see and that they want to master the media battlefield.

”It is arguably not to Israel’s benefit that foreign journalists are not in Gaza. Because Palestinian stringers and agenda-driven Arab outlets such as Al Jazeera are currently the only ones supplying all of the coverage from inside the Strip.

5. Despite a steady flow of damaging footage from Gaza showing injured women and children while suspiciously never showing Hamas terrorists, Bowen still believes Israel is “controlling the media.”

But is Israel also controlling its domestic media in the cause of ensuring its people don’t see any Palestinian suffering? Israel’s government may wish it had some semblance of control over the country’s newspapers and TV stations but the reality is that Israeli media is fiercely independent.

Israel is a country still traumatized by those events and for Bowen to expect Israeli media to be broadcasting the same sympathetic content on Gaza as his own BBC or other foreign media is both unrealistic and meant to portray Israelis as somehow immune to the suffering of ordinary Palestinians.

How dare Bowen make such a judgment. Israelis are still processing and trying to come to terms with October 7 and the resulting impact on the country. Israeli TV news is now broadcasting footage of the funerals of Israeli soldiers, many of whom were reservists who left their families and day jobs to defend their country. Many may have lost their lives because the IDF has used ground troops rather than airstrikes precisely to avoid causing Palestinian civilian casualties.

Jeremy Bowen is correct: there is a media battlefield. Israel has every right to fight on that battlefield especially when foreign journalists like himself weaponize their news reports to assault the Jewish state.

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“Money Talks and the Mullahs Kill”

Video of the week -Cost of Ceasefire is Unacceptable! http://tinyurl.com/yc4b988s

For the full Article go to - http://tinyurl.com/yck69r7p by Majid Rafizadeh  •  December 9, 2023 Not surprisingly, billions from the West have enabled the Iranian regime to help plan, finance and support, among other aggressions, the invasion of Israel and genocidal massacre of Jews perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. Western money gifted to Iran is also helping the regime advance its nuclear weapons program to near-completion by "a few weeks or less, after which they can make as many bombs as they like. The more money the Iranian regime is handed, the more trouble it causes. Compared to the tens of billion the US delivers to Iran, the US government's annual $3.8 billion investment in Israel -- which invariably inspires extensive howling from some quarters -- is proportionately bus fare. It is high-time for the Biden administration to learn from previous administrations -- inconveniently for them, Republican -- that only economic and military pressure work on rogue and predatory regimes such as Iran. Appeasement, regrettably.... just ignites conflict. The Biden administration's policy towards the expansionist regime of Iran has been anchored in appeasement policies, including handing over billions of dollars in a seeming effort to bribe Iran's mullahs not to cause even further trouble in the Middle East before the US presidential election on November 5, 2024. Not surprisingly, billions from the West have enabled the Iranian regime to help plan, finance and support, among other aggressions, the invasion of Israel and genocidal massacre of Jews perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. Western money gifted to Iran is also helping the regime advance its nuclear weapons program to near-completion by "a few weeks or less, after which they can make as many bombs as they like. From the Iranian regime's dispiriting record of cheating (such as here, here and here), no "deal" will stop them. The more money the Iranian regime is handed, the more trouble it causes. Continue Reading Article

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American Muslim Women Visit Ravaged Kibbutz

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American-Muslim women leaders visit scene of Hamas massacre

‘I feel Israel is fighting for the whole world,’ said one of the women.

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A reverential silence fell on the room as the four American-Muslim women bowed their heads in prayer on Friday for the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel.

Moments earlier, the interfaith crowd in the apartment in this western Negev city, which included Muslims, Jews, a white-turbaned Sikh, a mixed Israeli family, and Mayor Yitzhak Danino, stood mesmerized as the Arabic words of supplication for the Israelis murdered in the massacre were intoned.

“The Muslim world was [mostly] silent about what happened on Oct. 7,” Bangladeshi-born Farhana Kohrshed, 51, who moved to Boston as a teenager, told the group. “We are here to denounce what Hamas has done to you.”

The extraordinary delegation of Muslim women leaders traveled, in extraordinary times, through war-torn southern Israel this weekend, braving renewed Hamas rocket attacks as the cease-fire collapsed and taking cover outside as the projectiles struck nearby.

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They hunkered down under a playground as rockets struck while they viewed damaged homes and heard the story of 81-year-old Geula Baher. When the Hamas terrorists broke into her home in Kibbutz Be’eri, she told her husband and nephew to hide. The terrorists then fatally stabbed her in her living room.

About 10% of the Gaza border kibbutz’s 1,100 residents were murdered on Oct. 7.

Be’eri had been on their itinerary, but with the end of the ceasefire and the renewal of the war, it was closed to all non-military personnel on Friday.

Next, they traveled to Ofakim, which lost 52 residents in the attack. They visited the bullet-ridden home of Rachel Edri, the grandmother who outsmarted the Hamas terrorists who had taken her and her husband hostage.

They then met the Elfasi family. The mother, Tali, a 40-year-old Moroccan Muslim woman, and her husband, David, a 56-year-old Moroccan Jew, have six children and have lived in the city for the last two decades. They do not have a safe room, and so they sheltered with an ultra-Orthodox Jewish upstairs neighbor during the Hamas attack.

The visitors then headed to a meeting with leaders in the Bedouin city of Rahat, who spoke about some of the 19 members of their community who were among the 1,200 persons murdered on Oct. 7.

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The women repeatedly embraced the victims’ families at each stop, offering them strength.

“This is the real Israel that you never hear about on the news,” said Anila Ali, 56, president and CEO of the American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council. “This is the Israel nobody knows about,” she told JNS during the tour.

Ali was born in Pakistan where, she said, she was taught to “hate and fear,” and moved to the U.S. as a young mother after several years in Saudi Arabia showed her a different version of Islam. She recently made headlines—and received death threats from California, where she used to live—for her speech at last month’s massive March for Israel in Washington, D.C., which ended with the Hebrew words “Am Yisrael Chai,” “the Nation of Israel Lives.”

“As Muslim Americans we are in a unique position to show others a mirror,” she said. “The evil is [among] us who do not allow our children to live in peace and want perpetual war.”

The war that began nearly two months ago is not about Israelis and Palestinians but about good and evil, Ali said.

“Universally we are taught that Israel is the oppressor and that the Palestinians have lost their homeland,” said Soraya M. Deen, 60, from Los Angeles, who was born in Sri Lanka and came to the U.S. as a young adult. “It’s like an oath to support the Palestinians, and people don’t even differentiate between Hamas and Palestinians. Many lines are blurred.”

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She said that the muted reaction of the Muslims in the world and their failure to acknowledge Hamas’s brutality on Oct. 7 as well as concern about the growing antisemitism in the U.S. prompted her to come on the five-day trip.

“Evil prevails when good people do nothing,” Deen said. “I feel Israel is fighting for the whole world.”

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