Also a great great admixture of good and not so good! Maybe not what Hashem envisioned.
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15 April 2021
13 April 2021
On The Jewish Population of Israel
The proportion of Jews in Israel's population fell below the threshold of 74% for the first time this year, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published on Monday in honor of Israel's 73rd Independence Day has revealed.
The report shows that close to the establishment of the state in 1948, the Jewish percentage of the population stood at 82.1%, while today it stands at only 73.9%. On Israel's 70th Independence Day, the rate of Jews was 74.5%, a decrease of more than half a percent in just three years.
Additional data reveals that on the eve of this Independence Day, the population of Israel is about 9.327 million. Segmentation shows that about 6.984 million are Jews (73.9%) and about 1.966 million are Arabs (21.1%), including Muslims (and Circassians), Arab Christians (including Armenians) and Druze. About 467,000 people are defined as others, including non-Arab Christians, members of other religions and those registered as having no religious classification in the population registry.
Since last Independence Day, Israel's population has grown by 137,000 people, an increase of about 1.5%. During this period, about 167,000 babies were born, about 16,300 immigrants arrived and around 50,000 people died.
Since the establishment of the state, about 3.3 million people have immigrated to Israel, with around 1.5 million of them arriving since 1990 with the beginning of the great wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union. During this period, about 129,000 citizens born abroad also immigrated to Israel.
In addition, according to the CBS forecast, the population of Israel in 2030 is expected to number about 11.1 million people, and in 2040 Israel's population is expected to be about 13.2 million citizens. The forecast also shows that the 100th Independence Day of the State of Israel (in 2048) will be celebrated by about 15.2 million citizens.
The CBS data also show that at the end of 2019, about 46% of the total Jewish population in the world lived in Israel and about 78% of the Jews in Israel were "sabras" (natives). Another statistic reveals that the population of Israel is a young population, with about 28.1% of them being children aged 0-14 and about 12% aged 65 and over.
"This year, too, the proportion of the Jewish population in the State of Israel continued to decline rapidly, largely due to immigration, but most of the public is unaware of the tectonic demographic changes," said Yonatan Jakubowicz, executive director of the Israeli Immigration Policy Center.
"The CBS data emphasize the strategic importance of a responsible immigration policy that will safeguard Israel's interests as a Jewish and democratic state," he said.
Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/jews-make-up-smallest-percentage-of-population-since-founding-of-israel-664899
04 April 2021
Is There Any Benefit to the mRNA Vaccines?
Death rates very similar in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated regions
Raw data on Covid-19 mortality, obtained from John Hopkins University, shows that Covid-19 death rates are similar in the vaccinated and unvaccinated regions. This data does not include deaths from vaccination. Since the beginning of 2021, South Africa has vaccinated 0.3 percent of their population. Israel, on the other hand, has instituted a medical police state that forces people to vaccinate as a precondition to participate in society
By using tyrannical vaccine passports, Israel has coerced over 55 percent of their population to participate in experimental vaccine trials in a short amount of time. Israel’s Covid-19 death rate has improved since the beginning of the year, but so has South Africa’s Covid-19 death rate. Are the vaccine programs a complete waste of time, energy and money?
Heavily vaccinated Israel currently has same mortality rate as unvaccinated South Africa
Despite spending billions of dollars on vaccines, human tracking technology, and vaccine compliance propaganda, Israel continues to experience similar trends in Covid-19 mortality as South Africa. In fact, the death rate per million in Israel is higher now than it was at any time in the country between March and September of 2020.
Strangely enough, the death rate per million people from January 5, 2021 to March 29, 2021 is similar for both Israel and South Africa. While the death rate per million was higher in South Africa at the start of the year, the rolling seven-day average has fallen tremendously in just three months, at a faster rate than the heavily vaccinated country of Israel. The death rate for both countries is currently about the same, hovering at less than two people per million.
The fatal flaw of Covid-19 mortality and case data
Of course, any reference to “Covid-19 death numbers” are inherently inaccurate, unreliable and fraudulent because a Covid-19 diagnosis is based on non-specific symptom observation and is fraudulently confirmed using high cycle PCR tests that are prone to false positives. In some cases, false positives are as high as 97 percent, as confirmed by a Portuguese court. Most of the Covid tests that were approved by regulatory agencies in 2020 amplify non-infectious virus material, do not determine viral load, and are used as false evidence to illegally quarantine healthy people.
In fact, the late Tanzanian President John Magufuli ran the Covid test on a goat and a papaya. Both tested positive for Covid-19 because the cycle count for the PCR test is intentionally designed to drive up the number of positive cases.
The drop in case numbers and deaths attributed to Covid-19 in 2021 could simply be the result of stricter PCR testing standards that are being implemented in 2021. The World Health Organization issued new guidance on Covid-19 tests in January 2021, instructing laboratories to run fewer cycles to prevent false positives. The ideal number of cycles is 17, but only a few governments have been transparent about the number of cycles used in their Covid tests. Due to this medical fraud, many different types of viral infection have been falsely classified as Covid-19 since the start of the so-called pandemic. This is evidenced by the drop-off in flu cases over the past two flu seasons. In the 2019-2020 flu season, there were approximately 38 million flu cases. In the 2020-2021 flu season, there were only 1,822 recorded flu cases.
Death rate could increase because of the vaccines
The existence of widespread medical fraud does not mean there won’t be people dying from respiratory infections in the upcoming months and years. The death rate for infectious disease could easily go up. Because health authorities are ignoring the issue of pathogenic priming with coronavirus vaccines, there could be new waves of death that make current statistics meaningless. While thousands of deaths post-vaccinationare now classified as death by “natural causes,” medical authorities will not be able to ignore the wave of deaths that are the result of pathogenic priming from routine Covid vaccination and subsequent exposure to coronaviruses.
These deaths may not appear on Covid-19 mortality charts, but they are still significant as hospitals deal with populations that are perpetually immune-compromised from vaccines and drugs. Moreover, a vaccine campaign this aggressive will inevitably put pressure on coronaviruses to survive, causing mutations that put everyone at risk. As a result, Covid variants are already appearing in the wild.
Of course, medical authorities will blame the unvaccinated population for causing these ongoing death waves, when it’s really the vaccinated shedding the virus and spurring mutations. Medical authorities will demand that vaccine passports be installed to curtail “vaccine resistance.”
Healthy, free, unvaccinated people with functioning immune systems will continue to be segregated, discriminated and socially isolated. This medical tyranny and hysteria will never correct the underlying health issues that cause people to die from infections in the first place. Populations cannot vaccinate their way out of immune deficiency.
This medical police state will never correct the fraud and deceit that is suppressing lives, causing misery and leading people to their death, and it will never solve the current health crises taking place in medical systems around the world, no matter how far the truth is distorted.
Sources include:
01 April 2021
03 September 2020
ISRAEL Health Ministry Sued
Health Ministry sued in Freedom of Information Act COVID-19 request
Doctors, journalists, thousands of citizens hire attorney after Health Ministry repeatedly ignores queries on mortality, testing, treatment.
B”H It is about time citizens started asking the hard questions, and demanding answers
Hundreds of physicians, journalists, and citizens have engaged an attorney to submit an official Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Health Ministry regarding various issues related to the COVID-19 coronavirus. This, after queries by journalists representing the entire spectrum of Israeli media outlets consistently revealed a pattern of Health Ministry avoidance of certain issues.
The law firm of Waldman-David-Zuchowitzky-Fraidin today addressed Health Ministry's FOIA Officer Attorney Shulamit Blank, saying: "On behalf of my clients, many dozens of medical, scientific, academic, media, and ordinary citizens, I am hereby honored to address to you the matter in question, as follows:
"From the end of 2019, the world has been dealing with a disease caused by a novel virus from the corona family, known as SarS COVID-2.
"Although there is no argument that the virus exists, is contagious, and can cause severe morbidity and mortality, there are serious disagreements about the severity and extent of morbidity and mortality caused by the virus, the link between measures taken and prevention of infection and morbidity, and the degree of health burden.
"As you probably know, every decision, step, and policy affects the lives, health, and future of millions of Israelis and therefore reliable information and true data are critical."
The request is signed by Professor Eitan Fridman of Sheba Hospital, Professor Eyal Shahar (Arizona), Professor Udi Kimron of Tel-Aviv Univresity, Professor Zvi Bentoich of Ben Gurion University, Professor Doron Lancet of the Wetziman Institute, and Dr. Aviv Segev at Shalvata Hospital.
The letter was also signed by Health Communication Lecturer at IDC Herzliya International School Dr. Yaffa Shir Raz, Channel 13 News reporter Alon ben David, Meytal Ysoor (Israel Hayom), and others.
The request says: "My clients, a group of medical, science, academia, media, and ordinary citizens, is contacting you for answers and data to the following questions:
A. Mortality questions:
1. How many of the deceased were defined based on a positive laboratory test?
2. How many of the deceased died from an accident or an obvious external cause, and were also virus carriers regardless of the disease due to which they died or were resuscitated?
3. How many of the deceased had a significant background illness (heart disease, cancer, advanced Alzheimer's, etc.)? We request to receive the answer by age segmentation.
4. In how many of the deceased was the background disease (the underlying disease) the leading cause of death? We request the answer by age segmentation.
5. We would like to receive an Excel file of the deceased, with information clarifying which of them came from institutions: a. From nursing homes; b. Helping institutions; c. Rehabilitation institutions; d. Palliative institutions.
6. Which of them died within the institution itself?
7. How many of the deceased who were defined as deceased from coronavirus were not hospitalized at the time of death, and were defined as deceased originally due to receiving a positive lab response at some point in time in the past?
8. Of all the haredi/Arab carriers, what is the mortality rate in each sector? And how they equate to percentages of general mortality among all carriers?
B. Questions about critically ill and respiratory patients:
1. Since July, how many of the most difficult patients have been defined as such based on the parameter of saturation lower than 93%?
2. How many went to hospitals due to illness/other medical condition (e.g. heart attack) and were transferred to coronavirus wards due to a positive test result?
3. Among the severe patients, how many of them have undergone intubation, and how many are assisted by oxygen support or means other light breathing aids?
C. Questions about the PCR tests:
1. How many of the positive tests reported so far reflect repeat tests for those people?
2. Of all the people who performed two tests in a row (ie. - within 24 hours), in how many tests were the two results different?
3. Is there a uniform standard for setting a viral threshold for a positive coronavirus test, and if so, what is it?
4. How many of the tests are borderline and is a borderline test considered positive?
5. Someone whose test was defined as borderline - what was the diagnosis?
6. In the context of the epidemiological investigations, people defined as borderline or asymptomatic - what was the percentage of people they infected?
7. What is the percentage of positive tests among medical staff in the various hospitals?
8. What is the percentage of people who have had a test for symptoms? How many of them received a negative answer?
9. What are the details of the contract agreement with My Heritage Corporation? If other private laboratories were blocked from entering the field of coronavirus testing, why?
10. How much money will the State of Israel pay My Heritage?
D. Questions about the chain of infection and connection to the disease:
11. In cases where the location of the infection is known (based on epidemiological investigation), is there a connection between the location of the infection (house, mall, plane, etc.) and the intensity of the disease in the infected?
12. Is there a difference in morbidity between people infected by asymptomatic carriers and people infected
by patients with clinical symptoms (eg. hospitalized)?
13. Is there a relationship between the age of the person infected and the intensity of the illness caused by the person infected? And in particular, from among adults (over the age of 18) who were moderate ill, severely ill, or who have died, how many of them have been infected by children (in the following segmentation - up to the age of 10, up to the age of 18)?
E: Questions about the burden on the health system:
1. What is the percentage of occupancy in the inpatient wards + coronavirus wards + intensive care units this year, compared to internal + intensive care wards in the previous two years?
2. What is the number on ventilators in the coronavirus wards and intensive care units in each of the months from March to August this year compared to the corresponding months in the previous two years? And compared to all intensive care patients in the previous two years?
3. What is the number of malaria referrals in each of the months from March-August this year compared to the corresponding months in the previous two years?
4. How many ventilator (intubation) patients was the health system prepared to treat in August 2020, as opposed to its readiness in March 2020, and how many were on assisted breathing?
"In view of the urgency of the matter, we will be grateful for a response as soon as possible," concludes the Freedom of Information Act request to the Health Ministry. arutzsheva
30 August 2020
The High Court of Destruction and Our Land Threatened
This is not the Rule of Law it’s the Rule of Foreign Persuasion and Desecrators of Jewish Life (see *US and Sovereignty below)
Maaleh Shai: New settlement evacuated by Israeli security forces - during “Shabbat”
Maaleh Shai, a new settlement founded in memory of Petah Tikva stabbing victim, evacuated for the third time in less than a week. Maaleh Shai, a new settlement founded in memory of terror victim Rabbi Shai Ohayon, was evacuated for the third time on Saturday.
But home of killer of a Jew is let to stand
Rabbi Ohayon, a 39-year-old father of four, was murdered by an Arab terrorist at Petah Tikva's Segula Junction on Wednesday. Evacuees included the resident families, along with approximately 20 supporters who had arrived to spend Shabbat (the Sabbath) at the site. The residents reported harsh violence against them during the evacuation, as well as the use of pepper spray. arutzsheva
ABOVE Jews bringing in Shabbat on Friday Night BELOW: Arabs Rejoice, Burn Down Outpost, following Police Expulsion of Jewish Residents on Shabbat Night (do these look like arabs or leftists traitors?) JPress
Kumi Ori: Border Police demolished two settler homes in Area B
Border police forces reportedly on their way to the Kumi Ori outpost on the outskirts of the Yitzhar settlement to demolish two illegally built homes on January 15, 2020. (HONENU)
Mitzpe Kramim: 'The court is going to destroy my home, but not the terrorist's'
Residents of Israeli town ordered to demolished by Supreme Court blast ruling, notes court's refusal to allow terrorist's home to be razed. “You don’t fix a wrong with another wrong. Sometimes mistakes occur, and people settle on private land. But it is outrageous that the Supreme Court defends the home of a terrorist who murdered and IDF soldier, but then throws out 45 families from their homes,” said Leshem during an interview with Reshet Bet. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/286132
Netanyahu: "I regret the mistaken High Court of Justice decision on the evacuation of Mitzpe Kramim. I have instructed Prime Minister's Office Director General Ronen Peretz to meet with representatives of the community. We will exhaust all processes in order to leave the residents in their place and we are convinced that we will succeed.”
Mitzpe Kramim:
*The US is trying to turn Sovereignty into Unilateral Withdrawal Netanyahu is willing to accept the US proposal as is. His willingness to stand for Israeli interests is in a state of decline. arutzsheva
An exclusive news item published last week in Matzav Haruah, a weekly pamphlet distributed in Israeli synagogues, revealed that the U.S. is hardening Trump’s Deal of the Century, and now demands that the lines that demarcate the area where Israeli law is to be applied will be pre-defined as a “clear border”, without the possibility of amending them. This has caused many among the "settlement" leadership to demand that Netanyahu insist on changing the decision, and if he does not succeed– then to refrain from applying sovereignty.
Until recently, there was a widespread understanding with the U.S. that sovereignty would be applied over 30 percent of the territory of Judea and Samaria – half of Area C – and the rest of Area C would remain with an undetermined status for the foreseeable future, including the possibility that Israel might apply sovereignty there as well, if the Palestinian Arabs continued to reject the plan - as seems likely.
But in recent weeks, the article said, Americans have a new demand: Israel must already give up any future claims on the part of Area C where it does not apply sovereignty, even if the Palestinian Arabs don’t accept the plan and refuse to come to the negotiating table.
The original Trump plan, as it was presented to Israel in the festive ceremony at the White House on January 28th, noted that the attached map of sovereignty over 30 percent of Judea and Samaria, was a “conceptual” map only,, over which there would be negotiations with Israel. This was so in order to determine the map of sovereignty according to Israeli interests, and the interests of the "settlement" enterprise.
When the Americans published the map, it became clear that 15 of the communities in the entire area of Judea and Samaria would remain as enclaves within the area designated for a Palestinian Arab state:
- Hermesh and Mevo Dotan in northern Samaria;
- The four communities on the mountain ridge – Elon Moreh, Itamar, Bracha and Yitzhar;
- Ateret in the heart of Binyamin;
- Meitsad, Ma’ale Amos and Karmei Tsur in the east and in the south of the Etzion Bloc;
- Telem, Adorah and Negohot west of the Hevron Hills;
- Beit Hagai and Otniel in the center of the Hevron Hills.
The reality that the plan proposes to these communities is catastrophic, and eliminates all the advantage in achieving sovereignty: In these communities, indefinitely, from now on, it will only be possible to build upward. This was not the original American plan. This is a change that was made about two months ago. Any intelligent person can understand that the intention is to suffocate these communities and evacuate them. No one would come to live in a place where they tell him “you are isolated, you will suffocate, and your future will be as an enclave in a Palestinian state”.
This position already has practical, immediate ramifications: All municipal building plans (“Taba”) in these communities are already frozen in the Civil Administration’s Supreme Planning Board.
When representatives of Israel presented the demand to join these communities to a territorial contiguity, without changing the 70:30 ratio, they encountered American resistance – especially from Jared Kushner. It turns out that the conceptual map had become a map of fixed borders – even now, regardless of the current or future Palestinian position. Whether the Palestinian Arabs come to the negotiations or not, whether they accept the plan or not - the border is determined now, unilaterally by it.
And in addition: the Americans demand that in the part of Area C where Israel will not apply sovereignty there will be a building freeze – but only for Israelis. Because these territories are designated for a future Palestinian state. In the Trump plan, it states that “in the territories of the West Bank where it is not anticipated, according to this vision, to be part of the State of Israel, Israel will not build new settlements, expand existing settlements or promote plans to build in these areas. Israel will not expand the Israeli enclaves (that is, the 15 communities mentioned above – H.H) or promote plans to expand them in the territories beyond their present footprint”.
The plan also states that Israel “will not destroy any structure that exists at the time of this writing and will assure legislation and/or legal resolution to secure this result”. This refers to illegal Palestinian Arab building. (The only exception is “destruction of structures that present a security hazard, as will be determined by the State of Israel, or destruction of structures as punishment for acts of terror”).
Unprecedented building freeze
In a lecture given by U.S. Ambassador David Friedman at the Jerusalem Institute for Public and State Affairs on February 9th, he praised the State of Israel for “going the distance in agreeing to freeze construction in areas that the plan designates for a Palestinian state in Area C. This is a significant commitment that was not given in any prior agreement”. Friedman reveals here that Israel had agreed that half of Area C, where sovereignty will not be applied, another 30 percent of the territory of Judea and Samaria, is a down payment for a future Palestinian state – even if the Palestinian Arabs do not enter into negotiations, and even if they do not accept the plan.
And what is to happen after 4 years of this freeze? This is not clear. What is clear is that the Palestinians will take advantage of these four years to determine facts on the ground by building at their pleasure, as they are already doing. And if the Civil Administration is currently lax in enforcing its control over the territory, in the four next years there will be no such enforcement at all. Practically, we will lose half of Area C that is now under our control.
This is the main problem of the sovereignty plan! Not the willingness to consent to a Palestinian state and not the traffic arteries to the Jewish communities that would be under Palestinian control in the future. These things, after all, depend on the Palestinians entering into negotiations and accepting the Trump plan. And if they do not, those things will not happen anyway.
However, regarding the sovereignty map, this is an Israeli-American agreement that does not depend on the Palestinian Authority position at all. It bestows an immediate and unilateral status to the sovereignty map, which determines the fixed borders now, with Israeli-American agreement, regardless of the Palestinian position.
With Israel’s agreement to this, as demanded by Jared Kushner, head of the American team and President Trump’s son-in-law, Israel again finds itself in a sort of unilateral and irreversible withdrawal, this time from Judea and Samaria, very like Arik Sharon’s Disengagement.
The Trump plan is an agreement between Israel and the U.S., which obligates only these two parties. Therefore, Palestinian Arab rejectionism will not free Israel from the extensive concessions in the agreement made with the U.S.
It is not irreversible
The reality that I described is indeed bleak – but reversible. The Americans themselves are not consolidated and as we revealed last week in Matzav Haruah, there are some fairly complex disagreements between Vice President Pence supported by Ambassador Friedman, and Jared Kushner, the ‘bad guy’ in this story. Instead of struggling over the topic of recognition of a Palestinian state or the subject of traffic arteries – two issues that are not critical at the moment – we must focus the struggle on the main thing: the map.
Netanyahu can stand before the Americans and correct the map – provided that he is resolute enough to do so. Unfortunately, at the moment, he does not seem to have the required resolve. Netanyahu, who, in the past, could stand resolutely before the Obama administration, is willing now to accept his friend Donald Trump’s American proposal as is, even at the cost of abandoning the 15 communities, even with the one-sided cost of this process. It is as if the main thing is that he will be able to put a check mark on the paragraph “I brought sovereignty”. Bibi’s fighting spirit and willingness to stand strong for Israeli interests seem to be in decline.
And this is why we must not give in. Netanyahu can remind his friend Trump that his commitment in the ceremony in the month of February was to sovereignty over all of the communities without exception, as well as territorial contiguity with the State of Israel – and that is what must be. Not limited sovereignty, but to conclude in advance that if the Palestinians do not enter into negotiations, the other half of Area C would return to Israeli control, exactly as was stated in the Oslo Accords.
Haggai Huberman is a noted military correspondent, veteran reporter for Arutz Sheva Hebrew site and a regular columnist in the Hebrew weekly BeSheva. He is the editor of the popular religious Zionist weekly, Matzav Haruah.
Link to the original Hebrew article https://www.inn.co.il/Generic/Generic/SendPrint?print=1&type=0&item=438854
Israel’s New Peace Partner: A Look at UAE Slavery, Torture, Executions By Jewish Press News Desk https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/gulf-states/israels-new-peace-partner-a-look-at-uae-slavery-torture-executions/2020/08/30/
Boycott ended, F35s on their way,
BUT WHAT DOES THE UAE REALLY WANT FROM ISRAEL? (or is it the US?)
16 August 2020
Prof. Udi Qimron: "History will judge the hysteria"
Udi Qimron will soon head the Department of Microbiology and Clinical Immunology at Tel Aviv University. In an interview with Yediot Ahronot, Qimron shed further light on the coronavirus.
B”H Someone with ‘sechel’ has spoken out, but only after 6 months of *manipulated and dictated draconian measures
14 August 2020
12 August 2020
The Gates Are Closing . . .
Fast.
Diaspora Jews are burying their heads in the ... Galut once again, and continuing on with their mass denial and fantasy lives. Op-ed by Tzvi Fishman, arutzsheva
My heart is broken. I am very sorry to say that Diaspora Jewry has not learned the lesson of Corona and the wave of violent riots.
- Friends in America and Canada have informed me that the initial panic in the Jewish community has calmed now that they know how to guard themselves from the virus.
- Also, the intermission in the rioting has presented them with an opportunity to return to “business as usual,” and to the illusion that Jewish life in the Exile will last forever.
- Diaspora Rabbis have returned to their old cobwebbed sermons, synagogues have hired armed guards, Jewish op-edders are continuing to op-ed in New York, and kosher travel agencies are preparing attractive Corona packages for the day the skyways are reopened.
09 August 2020
Unfair And Hypocritical Actions Against Haredim
POLICE OPEN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AGAINST BELZ
The police and the State Attorney’s Office have opened a criminal investigation into the Belz Hassidim after Wednesday night’s wedding of a grandson of the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach. It was attended by thousands of people in contravention of guidelines the police had stipulated.
[…] Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch condemned the wedding, calling it a “health terrorist attack.”
Criticism was voiced from several quarters against the wedding. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion accused such critics of hypocrisy, saying mass demonstrations outside the Prime Minister’s Residence have not been met with similar condemnation.
Jerusalem Mayor Lion:
“Every Thursday and Shabbat there are severe violations,” he said regarding the protests staged outside the Prime Minister’s Residence. “Is the entire Balfour Street area totally free from corona?” “When it comes to a haredi area, then immediately there are headlines and footage,” Lion said.
Will "Arakta D’Masanta" eventually be applied to the current anti-religious government applying hypocritical strictures upon the religious Jews?
Arakta D’Masanta (ערקתא דמסנתא, “even to change the strap of a sandal.”).
This is a special Halachic (Torah law) classification referring to times when a government (historically non-Jewish governments that ruled over the Jews in Israel) made decrees prohibiting in part or in entirety Jewish learning and observance. Under normal circumstances and with very few exceptions, Jews are forbidden from endangering themselves to perform mitzvoth (Torah commandments). When the prohibitions against the observance of the mitzvoth is with the intention of causing the Jews to abandon their faith, Jews are required to reject the anti-Torah decrees for even the smallest and most insignificant detail, such as the changing the strap of a sandal, even at the risk of endangering their lives. (Sanhedrin 74b).
This classification was used in the second century under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire. It was also declared under the Roman occupation of Israel, and during the Crusades of 1096. “And there is no greater time of danger than what we are facing at the present,” the rabbis wrote. “Woe to us that such a scourge has arisen in our times.”
Governments using the COVID-19 Trojan Horse to apply unnecessary restrictions upon the Haredim.
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Photo Credits to Shifra G and Micky Rosenfeld/Police, from rjstreets
and Paris Square from DW
05 August 2020
JERUSALEM: LAWMAKER EXPOSES ISRAEL’S “doctored" CORONAVIRUS DATA
An Israeli Knesset Member challenged the Health Ministry’s coronavirus stats, telling a senior ministry official on Sunday that many of those who died from other, preexisting conditions were erroneously included in the COVID death toll.
03 August 2020
Dror Tamir “According to the N.T., John the Baptist used to eat locusts with honey,"
RED and GREEN Zones and Countries
02 August 2020
Rav Keduri zt”l – A Fourth Election?
City of David – The Ashes of the First Temple
GAMZU L”RASHA — No Entry For Religious US Students (UPDATE: oh, wait, he’s reconsidering?)
Rabbi Weissman: Powerful Conclusion to the Footsteps of Moshiach
Part 11 concluded Rav Wasserman’s lengthy essay on the footsteps of Moshiach, and there is so much packed into this class. One of the most...
