WHAT WAS AGREED UPON
[with Jordan, Egypt and ?]
WHAT IS NOT BEING REVEALED?
Why isnt this front page news?
25 October 2026
Haifa is no longer red: Thousands listened to the address of the leader, Maran HaGaon Rav Dovid L...
The central burden in each of the meetings was borne by our Rabbaniu Maran Gaon Rabbi Dov Lando, Shlita, and in his words he called for the duty of the hour to vote and influence in favor of the "Torah Judaism" list, which was marked by C: "With divine help, we see today that the Torah is resounding in all corners of the earth, in new places and even new places, and even the old ones are multiplying in the families of the Torah. We all know and feel that the Torah and the Torah are being subjected to abuse and contempt, and people are sitting around and plotting more terrible decrees against the Haredim to do so. But the duty of effort in this is to vote for List C in the government elections. This is the salvation of the Torah and the Torah. And God forbid, the opposite. "In these communities, where the Torah is a minority, there is great significance for the hour and for generations in every place and place - how many are the temples of God, who proclaim Moses as true and His Torah as true. Therefore, the obligation is for each person to vote specifically in their place of residence, and there is no exemption in this based on their means, ability, or strength, and not to seek all sorts of other solutions. "In addition to the obligation to vote, it is possible to influence other people in ways that are pleasant, especially when they see the pleasantness of the behavior of the Torah's followers. And often the mere fact of voting for the ultra-Orthodox list for the Torah gives them a sense of belonging to the Torah, and this can make them stronger in keeping the commandments and fearing God and in educating their children for a life of Torah. "Everyone who walks the straight path, the path that our sages have taught us from the rocks of the land of their right, will protect us, and especially when he grows up in this way from his father's house and does not deviate from his ways to see foreign fields - will merit that the Holy One, blessed be He, sees him with the greatest pleasure of all his descendants, and may God fulfill the desires of his heart for good. Let us all pray that we may merit to increase the glory of Heaven, and that the Holy One, blessed be He, will redeem and save us, and that we may merit heavenly assistance in all our actions, and may our eyes behold your return to Zion with mercy, Amen." #Shorts #TheGardalando Join the activity for the fateful campaign on the Flag Activists Line: 1700-111-600 Emergency Line: 1700-111-306. Information from Degel HaTorah headquarters: 1700-111-666 To receive a weekly booklet, Otzar Parsha from the Torah of our rabbis, ztzuk"l and shlita, send an email to a169258235@gmail.com
Netanyahu: 'No Palestinian state. Period.' His terms for a coalition
IS THIS HIS ANSWER TO THE CLAIM OF THE PA TAKING OVER JUDEA AND SAMARIA WITH FULL APPROVAL OF DJT AND THAT GERMAN MAP (think Abraham accords)? HAVE WE HEARD THIS BEFORE? WERE ANY OF THE REALLY TOUGH QUESTIONS ASKED? DID DJT ASK HIM TO RETIRE IN TWO YEARS?
REMEMBER WHAT HE PROMISES!
Six days before Israel's October 27 election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits down with The Jerusalem Post at 2:14 a.m. on his 77th birthday.
Netanyahu says Israeli military intelligence and the Mossad have warned that Iran and its proxies are weighing ways to influence the vote.
He describes Operations Rising Lion and Roaring Lion as having done "ninety percent of the job" against Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, and he warns that the regime is trying to rebuild them.
The prime minister addresses President Trump's surprise endorsement, which he says he did not know was coming, and why Vice President JD Vance declined to offer one. On pressure from a potentially less friendly Washington, he is blunt: "If you bow your head, you're dead."
Netanyahu also lays out the four principles he says any coalition partner must accept, starting with no Palestinian state. He calls settler vigilantism "wrong" and damaging to Israel abroad. He repeats his claim that his criminal trial has collapsed and calls for an investigation of the officials who led it.
He traces Qatar's role in what he calls the vilification of Israel to a warning from his late father, historian Benzion Netanyahu, that Jews who are "prominent and weak" invite antisemitism when societies change. He also explains why he sees the race as an even tie, and why he says a right-wing party falling below the electoral threshold, as happened in 1992, could decide the outcome.
His opponents, including main rival Gadi Eisenkot, reject his characterizations of them, and this interview presents the prime minister's case in his own words.
Chapters:
00:00 - Netanyahu on intelligence warnings of Iranian election interference
04:35 - Trump's endorsement and "finishing the job" on Iran's nuclear program
09:25 - JD Vance, US pressure and expanding the Abraham Accords
11:50 - Settler violence, Ambassador Huckabee and vigilantism in the West Bank
14:15 - Eisenkot, the Arab parties, his trial and four coalition principles
19:00 - Qatar, antisemitism and his father's warning about Jewish history
23:45 - An "even tie," Ofer Winter's party and the threshold lesson of 1992
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Reb Sones: THREE DAYS TO THE VOTE
THREE DAYS TO THE VOTE One question, in writing, before TuesdayDear friends, Israel votes on Tuesday. A week ago the prime minister put a map on the screen behind him that labels Judea and Samaria "Palestinian Authority." His own doctrine does not contain the word sovereignty, Likud will not state its position, and Israel Hayom reports that Washington is preparing a Likud–Eisenkot government built around Saudi normalization, whose price is a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines. None of that will be on the ballot. All of it will be decided by the people the ballot puts in office. | |
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A Kiss From Shamayim
We had a light fragrant sprinkle of rain 💦 today in
Rehavia, Yerushalayim
Anybody else notice?
Rebbetzen Tziporah: Me, Avraham, and Staying Young
Dear friends,
CHAPTER 1 – WHAT HAPPENED ON THURSDAY
It was Thursday about 1. I was heading back to Bnos Avigail to finish up some work in my office. I was holding a small plate of tuna/egg salad mix in my right hand. I tripped on the fake grass, sending the plate flying. A few girls helped me to my feet (strengthening my resolve to diet…). I knew something was wrong, and getting “wronger” by the minute. By the time I got to 16 Kablan, just a few houses away from 29, I called my dear friend Michal to drive me home.
CHAPTER 2 – NEW VOCAB
Urgent care, then Shaarei Tzedek, and a new vocabulary. Instead of osteoporosis, which was the official reason for my previous broken bones, which some of you remember, the newest villain is osteoarthritis, which is one of the ways your body tells you that you are Getting Older. You may wonder why I feel a need to tell you any of this. It’s part of a bigger picture in which we trace back the history of illness, suffering, and death.
Stay Tuned for CHAPTER 3 – ME AND AVRAHAM AND STAYING YOUNG
The contemporary idealization of youthful appearance didn’t appeal to Avraham. The Gemara tells us that when people came to speak to him, they ended up speaking to Yitzchak since they looked almost identical. Avraham pleaded with Hashem, and Looking Old came into existence. Maharal explains that as you age, the depth of thought grows, while your physical strength diminishes. This has to do both with your external reality and, ideally, on a deeper level, with your identity. Avraham brought an entirely new brand of intellectual depth into the world by seeking Hashem in every dimension of reality. His years were his teachers. He learned the falsehood of idol worship by watching it happen. He saw what endeavoring to replace Hashem with human creativity and ambition led when he saw the Tower of Bavel. Each day opened new doors.
He was unique in the way he aged. Before Avraham, people grew old biologically. Some of them lived incredibly long lives, but all they had to show for it was what would be today a new number on their teudat zehut. There was no real inner growth or change. To Avraham, being mistaken for Yitzchak would be a denial of all he developed and achieved in the 100 years until Yitzchak was born. The changes that Avraham made didn’t only affect him. They changed the way all future human beings see the world. To one degree or another, if you were to survey every person in Yerushalayim, for instance, and ask, “Is your life different than it would have been if Avraham never lived?”, the only honest answer they can give is, “Yes.” This would be true if they are Jewish, Muslim, or Christian, or have come in contact with people who see the world as having one Creator.
An interesting halachah is derived from the way a convert and an elder are both meant to be honored. The fact is that Avraham was the first real convert – the first one who moved beyond seeing only the physical or only the spiritual aspects of life, but not the absolute unity between them which is constantly re-created by Hashem. This is also why, when the siddur was composed, and a blessing in which we ask Hashem to have compassion on the righteous (who we all desperately need both for their example and their merit) was included, the Men of the Great Assembly put the request for this blessing to touch the lives of the elders and the converts together.
CHAPTER 3: WHAT IF YOU ARE NOT EXACTLY LIKE AVRAHAM?
There is a way in which aging confronts us with one of the most fundamental questions of human existence: Who are we when we can no longer define ourselves primarily through what we do? For much of life, our identity is sustained by activity, achievement, responsibility, and the sense that we are moving toward something still to be accomplished. When you ask people, “Who are you?”, the answer is often a job or profession. You may be a parent raising children, professionals building careers, people pursuing ambitions, solving problems, making plans. Even our disappointments are often organized around the future: what we will yet repair, attain, or become. Aging gradually alters the way you see things. You can bring Hashem and His providence into the picture. It isn’t only about you. The body becomes less compliant; some possibilities close; the world we helped build continues, without requiring your participation. What once seemed central may become peripheral, and the assumption that our significance rests on our capacity to act is quietly challenged. This doesn’t have to equal diminishment for you any more than it did for Avraham.
A non-Jewish thinker, Erik Erikson, identified the central psychological task of later life as the struggle between integrity and despair. Integrity, in his understanding, involves more than satisfaction with one's achievements. It requires the capacity to look at one's life as a whole – to acknowledge its failures, its compromises, its irretrievable losses and unrealized possibilities – and nevertheless recognize it as a life of meaning. If you relate to life the way people did before Avraham, years do not necessarily produce wisdom; they can produce bitterness just as readily. The question is what you have allowed our years to teach you. You can choose to become less preoccupied with being consequential and more attentive to what is intrinsically valuable. Time itself acquires a different texture. The future is no longer an indefinitely expanding territory in which everything important can be postponed until you have finished your more urgent tasks. Ordinary moments can therefore acquire a density they did not previously possess: a conversation, a familiar landscape, the presence of someone we love, the unexpected pleasure of an afternoon. This is not necessarily because these things have changed, but because our relationship to them has
This is far more relevant when you see Hashem in your past, in your present and in your future. None of this makes aging inherently beautiful. Illness, dependence, bereavement, and the contraction of one's world can be genuinely painful; it doesn’t help to go into denial. When you let your life teach you about Hashem’s presence, it offers, new options: the possibility of a different relationship with contribution, of continuing to give without needing to prove our worth through giving, and of accepting help without experiencing dependence as a negation of dignity.
CHAPTER 4 – WHAT IF YOU ARE STILL YOUNG? SHOULD YOU SKIP THE LETTER?
There can be a great dividend – a deepening of understanding – seeing that you have a self whose significance may become more, rather than less, and being willing to see that “self” in other people just as easily as you see it in yourself. The part of you that is like Avraham can discover what that life has been making of us all along.
Lech Lecha literally means, “Go to you.” This is what Hashem told Avraham the first time He spoke to him. It’s in the Torah, which means that it is what Hashem is also telling you.
Love,
Tziporah
24 October 2026
The Showbread of the Beit HaMikdash: Geulah Is Unfolding
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SACRED RETURN: IDF Soldiers Revive 700-Year-Old Minhag Near Lebanese Border Ahead Of Shabbos Lech Lecha
AND ON SHABBOS B”H THERE WAS A SPRINKLING OF RAIN IN (REHAVIA) YERUSHALAYIM
Commanders and soldiers from the Carmeli Brigade’s 21st Battalion ascended Mount Betarim on Har Dov Friday morning, reviving a centuries-old Jewish minhag at the site traditionally identified with the Bris Bein Habesarim.
The gathering near the Lebanese border took place ahead of Shabbos Parshas Lech Lecha, which recounts Hashem’s covenant with Avraham Avinu and His promise to give Eretz Yisrael to Avraham’s descendants.
Historical sources dating back approximately 700 years document a minhag for Jews from the Galil to ascend the mountain on Erev Shabbos Lech Lecha, daven and read the pesukim describing the Bris Bein Habesarim.
During Friday’s gathering, one of the battalion’s company commanders read the pesukim recounting the covenant, including Hashem’s promise to Avraham: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.”
The battalion’s rav, Rabbi Elyashiv Hacohen, participated wearing a white kittel and blew the shofar as part of the tefillos for victory in the war.
The commanders and soldiers also davened for the welfare of Israel and the success of IDF troops carrying out their missions.
Participants recalled a tradition attributed to HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu, zt”l, that the site is an appropriate place to daven for rain.
For the soldiers serving along the northern border, the ascent brought together the ancient minhag, the promise to Avraham Avinu and their present responsibility to defend Israel.
Soldiers described the gathering as “a very special and moving mission,” combining Jewish heritage, emunah, tefillah and determination in carrying out their duties.
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Numbers, What do They Tell Us?
766,000 Charedi Voters
67,230 Chareidim Facing Draft Enforcement, Urges Additional Sanctions
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Chareidim Represent 13.9% Of Israel’s Population But Only 10.5% Of Eligible Voters
What can they accomplish?
Only with HKB”H
"מה תענה לילדים שלך?!" | מסע הרבבות שהרעיד את הדרום: מנהיגי הדור באשדוד ונתיבות (התיעוד המלא) ⚡
A historic, awe-inspiring journey that shook Southern Israel:
The foremost Leaders of the Generation, Maran Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Dov Lando Shlit"a and Maran Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch Shlit"a, traveled to Ashdod and Netivot for massive emergency rallies defending the Torah world ahead of the critical elections.
Tens of thousands flooded the halls and surrounding streets, watching on giant outdoor screens as the Sages delivered piercing, uncompromising addresses:
Rabbi Dov Lando posed a haunting question to parents flirting with protest votes: "What will you answer your children when they see their parents separating from the Torah community?!".
Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch issued a dire warning: "A drop in votes is an unprecedented desecration of Hashem's Name—if they gain power, it will be complete destruction for Torah institutions!".
Watch the full, gripping two-hour coverage of the historic addresses, the massive crowds, and the unforgettable atmosphere.
Operation “Olive Leaf”: Jews Arrested, Arab Stone-Throwers Walk Free
Operation “Olive Leaf”: Jews Arrested, Arab Stone-Throwers Walk Free
I hear the police and Shin Bet have launched Operation “Olive Leaf” to arrest Jews over the olive harvest incidents.
Here’s a small collection (above) of Arabs with uncovered faces throwing stones at last weekend’s events in Burqa and Deir Jarir. Plenty more had covered faces. In Khirbet Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya there were dozens more.
Meanwhile, about 10 Jews of Judea and Samaria were arrested yesterday. Honenu lawyers are representing them and call it another blood libel — “the mountain will give birth to a mouse.”
Seven remain in custody for two more days; three were released to house arrest. Lawyers say it was a wholesale roundup of anyone in the area last Shabbat, with zero evidence against them. One detainee is a medic who was treating the wounded and has a solid, real-time alibi — yet he was still locked up.
The French diplomat wasn’t even injured and filed no complaint. No proof links any detainee to an assault on the American journalist. What does exist is footage of her walking for long minutes alongside masked Arabs armed with slingshots and stones.
Why is an American journalist lingering next to terrorists during Friday and Saturday violence?
Sources: Elchanan Groner, Investigative Journalist, and Honenu Legal Organization
23 October 2026
Olives Harvesting: Torah Law vs Turkish Law
Olives Harvesting: Torah Law vs Turkish Law
With the opening of the olive harvest season, terrorism in Judea and Samaria has intensified.
But, the harvest is not only a tool for terror, it’s a way to seize land. Roi Drucker, Regavim’s Judea and Samaria field coordinator, explains how the harvest is the visible part of a much bigger story. Nearly half a million dunams in Area C have been taken over through agricultural encroachment alone, under an Ottoman-era law and with foreign funding.
Agriculture is one of the Palestinian Authority’s main tools for land takeover, as part of the Fayyad Plan. Under Article 78 of the Ottoman Land Code, whoever cultivates land for ten years acquires rights to it.
As of last January: 101,993 illegal structures on some 100,000 dunams — and agricultural takeover covering 448,542 dunams, nine times the size of Tel Aviv.
Rav Dov Lior, former chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, among others does not recognize Turkish law in Eretz Yisrael. He rules: “The Arabs never purchased the land from the people of Israel or from any individual Jew. It is, therefore, stolen property in their hand.”
And the Rabbi emphasizes: “Jews are permitted to harvest the olives even in areas far from Jewish communities, to publicly demonstrate our ownership of the Land — and in doing so they fulfill the mitzvah of settling the Land of Israel.”
For the full story see: https://hilltopmaccabees.org/2026/10/19/rabbi-lior-fires-back-at-the-gush-etzion-rabbis-harvesting-olives-in-the-holy-land-is-entirely-permitted/
Rav Avi Grossman calls the matter of stopping the Arab pickers, a matter of common sense and pikuach nefesh. https://youtu.be/bAnllsn_z-s?si=G4cuI_9kKslV0V4m
Rav Elisha Wolfson on olive harvesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpxl2oNnWw
Lenny Goldberg – Olive Branches and Thorny Issues – The Jewish Truth Bomb https://israelnewstalkradio.com/olive-branches-and-thorny-issues-the-jewish-truth-bomb-audio/
Published: October 21, 2026
#55: MK Rabbi Meir Porush - אידיש: הרב מאיר פרוש
For the fifty fifth episode, Shloime sits down with United Torah Judaism Member Of Knesset Rabbi Meir Porush, to talk about being a public servant, the Chareidi draft crisis, and Israel's upcoming elections.
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Did Israeli Politician Ofer Winter Forget Something? האם עופר וינטר שוכח משהו?
Ofer Winter: The only solution for Gaza - emigration!
Yosef Hadad: I will be the first Israeli Arab in the cabinet!
Yosef Hadad: I will be the first Israeli Arab in the cabinet!
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Ofer Winter was one of the first IDF commanders to arrive at the Gaza border on his own, and to begin engaging the Hamas and civilian invaders on October 7, 2023. The completion of Ofer Winter’s service in the IDF in 2024, or rather his dismissal, did not make any sense.
His conclusion of service was criticized by several in the government. Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich said that he was the only one we know, who did not have anything to do with the failures pre-October 7, and that it should not be up to those, who did fail, to make such decisions.
Since then, Winter has been a critic of the government. Because this, in light of his heroism which preceded this, many have said we had better pay attention to this Jew, as a potential leader. Sure enough, he formed a political party, and is standing in the upcoming elections. Unfortunately for him, the current standing in the polls does not look good.
The number two on Winter’s party list is Arab Christian, social media influencer and IDF veteran, Yosef Hadad. Recently there has been an uproar over whether or not Hadad was in favor, or against, the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Well, I am here to tell you that his position on this matter is irrelevant.
Yet, it is unclear is Ofer Winter realizes the implications of adding a non-Jew to his party’s list of candidates. This is not the first time a non-Jew has been on a center right party’s list. Nor is it the first time in which a non-Jew has been present on a party’s list of candidates including religious (orthodox) Jews. Druze have served of Members of Knesset in the Likud and Israel Our Home Parties. However, this does seem to be the first time a non-Jew has been included on the list of a party headed by a religious Jew.
Either Ofer Winter believes there is no problem with this because or our current situation as a nation struggling with autonomy, or that there is no problem with this in any event. If it is the latter reason, is this because he taught to believe this by his notoriously mamlakhti (diehard state-loyalist) Yeshiva B’nei David? Was this an oversight on the yeshiva’s part? Was it irrelevant to the pre-IDF service curriculum?
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You shall surely set king over you, whom the Lord your God shall choose; one from among your brethren you shall set over you king; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. (Deut. 17:15)
A king should not be appointed from converts to Judaism. This applies even if the convert’s ancestors had been Jewish for many generations, unless his mother or father is a native-born Israelite, as Deuteronomy 17:15 states: “You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not one of your brother.”
This does not apply to the monarchy alone, but to all positions of authority within Israel. A convert may not serve as an army commander, a leader of fifty, or as a leader of ten. He may not even supervise the allocation of water from a stream to various fields. Needless to say, a judge or a nasi should only be a native-born Israelite, as it is stated (ibid.): “Appoint a king over you from among your brethren.” This implies that all appointments must only be “from your brethren.” (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and their Wars 1:5 [4])
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