Who are the Israelis?

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Memorial Day - How do You commemorate a hero soldier whose identity remains a secret? | Interview with Sylvia and Shumel Morano

 

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LIVE: Prayer and Celebrations | Independence Day in Jerusalem

With Rabbi Oury Sherki, Chief Rabbi David Lau, and Rabbi Yehudah Ben-Yishay

 

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#OnThisDay Israel’s first Independence Day Parade passing between Allenby and Ben Yehuda Streets in Tel Aviv, May 4, 1949.
Source: Hans Pinn, Government Press Office.

 

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Israel Independence Day Film Festival 2022 | David Ben-Gurion

 

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Independence Day - Israeli population nears 10 million​

 

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'Amir Benayoun - Prayer For The Wellbeing Of The State

 

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Rethinking The Future - Israel's Emerging Cultural Revolution
20 years since the passing of Manitou - What was Manitou?
A Philosopher? A Rabbi? A Kabalist?

Rabbi Oury 'Amos Sherki, student of Manitou
and founder of The Noahide World Center,
at the Manitou institute -

You know, once the French newspapers wrote about Manitou as a "Jewish philosopher",
to which he exploded with laughter, said 'look what they've said about me'.

The clear thing is that Manitou wasn't a Philosopher.
Also clear above that, is that he wasn't a Rabbi, and it needs explanation.

He wasn't a Philosopher because he came in the name of G-d's word, the ancient prophecy, the Hebrew prophecy, which he found a way to pass to this generation. He wasn't a Rabbi,
in the meaning of the Rabbis of the diaspora, he was already after...so what was he?

So he was 'on the way', he always said that the human identity is on a journey,
a journey towards what? Towards the renewal of the prophetic identity.

Manitou wasn't a prophet,
but he was appropriate for that.

The Hebrew identity Revolution
Story about the Jewish book shelf | Manitou

Manitou: I want to tell You a story, maybe I already told some years ago. About 30 years ago, I've heard on the radio, it was specifically before the Passover, an interview with someone, how do You say it on the radio?

Student: Interviewer?

Manitou: Not exactly, You'll understand immediately, and tell me which word should be used.

He was going to every apartment, typical Israeli homes, and his question was - why Jewish homes have so many books?

Because it's different from society to society. There are books, but not so much, scholars have libraries, well, book sellers have books, but among Jews, You enter an apartment and immediately, from the beginning You see books. Also in the rooms, within the rooms of the rooms, there're books.

So he made a report about this.

And specifically among the religious, so he went to religious homes and saw these big books, You see the Talmud and all that.

Then he asked, not only out of curiosity, but irony, he asked the homeowner - "do You think You'll read this and become wise?"

The homeowner answered - "Listen habibi, one has to be wise first, to read all this."

בס"ד​

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Rabbi Yehudah Bivas - Torah, science, arms | 170 years now

Shalom my teachers and Rabbis a holy audience,
we're in the central synagogue of Shlomi,
2nd day of Hol HaMo'ed Pesah.

3 subjects in 25 minutes,
let's see what we can manage,
of course in summarized chapters.

First this year 170 years since the passing of, how was he called, 'noble holy of G-d', that is what they called him. HaRav Yehudah Bivas, this is the wise, HaRav Yehudah Bivas, exactly 170 years since his passing. What is unique about him?

First of all most historians write that he is the grandson of Or HaHayim HaKadosh. What is the meaning of this? Or HaHayim HaKadosh, there's a famous quote of his, about 250 years ago, regarding leaders of Israel who don't motivate the nation of Israel to make 'Aliyah - those leaders of Israel will give the judgment for that, Vayikra 25,25. Most historians write that he is is his grandson from his daughter, in Gibraltar, before he had a Yeshivah in Morocco. Or HaHayim HaKadosh writes, that the troubles Jews suffered there were worse than during the days of Egypt, and there was no other choice but to escape Morocco, they would sneak out the students of the wise, so they can study. Where could they study? In Gibraltar, in his Yeshivah those days, when it was under British protection, there was all the persecution of Morocco, they've murdered Jews without an account.

According to historians, he was the grandson of Or HaHayim HaKadosh. However HaRav Shlomah Dayan, the Rabbi of the Ma'aravi community in Jerusalem, a big student of the wise, wrote books, and he claims he was the grandson of HaRav Yehudah HaLevy, which is a great head of Beit Din in Gibraltar. But what is agreed among all are two main things, this is Rabbi Elkaly who passed in 1878 and this HaRav Yehudah Bivas, it is exactly 170 years since he passed, the first time his picture is painted in color, focus on that...HaRav Yehudah Elkalay met him. And he says 'I was terrified of what I have heard from him', and he didn't want to write exactly what. The thing came it's way, HaRav Yehudah Elkalay calls him a 'noble holy of G-d'. Rabbi Bivas also had a doctorate from the London University,
because he said that Jews need to prepare for 3 things -

First thing Torah.
The second is arms, teach every Jew to hold a weapon.
The third is science. Without science, it is impossible to be a light unto nations.

Student: Is the Jewish nation dumb?
R. Elharar: No, it means the nation of Israel needs to invest in as much as possible in all existing wisdom, regardless of the subject. Torah, science, arms. What was HaRav Yehudah Elkalay terrified about?

Torah, I understand, ok we study Torah.
Science? In such terms saying 'every Jews', without it impossible to be a light unto nations.
Till now we had the Iron Dome, now we're developing something different, unlike anywhere, a laser that is cheaper and further reaching, in terms we are yet to grasp.

Brauch HaShem,
they are developing this very quickly,
we are the only country having this technology.

Torah, science, arms - what scared them?
It was the Ottoman rule those days, he was going through Europe in regions under the Ottoman rule, to call for arms 170 years ago meant rebellion against the Turkish Sultan. Meaning death, no jokes, so he was terrified. And this we only know through other sources, 170 years since his passing, and he talked about it everywhere.

One of his greatest students is, of course,HaRav 'Uziel, the student of HaRav Elkalay.
Rabbi Yehudah Bivas - 170 years, Rabbi Yehudah Elkalay - 1878, Rabbi 'Uziel - 1953,
this is the line of the sages.

As You know Rabbi 'Uziel, You have heard this countless times, all First To Zion after him, since this institution of the First To Zion was established, admit there was no greater First To Zion as he was.
This is the way of the wise, the tradition of these three wise, this is agreed upon all.

These two things, Torah - science -arms, 'noble holy of G-d'.
There's an argument whether he was the grandson of Or HaHayim Hakadosh, unclear whether he is his grandson, or the grandson of HaRav Yehudah HaLevi, the great judge and student of the wise in Gibraltar.

This is one subject.
The second subject, and we'll do it shortly
because this Passover we have to do a lot of things.

 

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Israeli Military Forces begin the largest exercise in history
"Fire Chariots" | Simulation of war on multiple fronts

Context - a week after the start of the war in Ukraine, the top members of Hamas traveled to Lebanon for consultations with Nasrallah, after which Nasrallah traveled to Iran. Now it turns out that Russia is leaving Syria because it has deployed forces for Ukraine and Iran is left to fully take over Syria, filling the vacuum left by Russia.

Not to underestimate the Islamist incitement about "the end of Al-Aqsa",
the main reason Hamas have launched into attacks is that they feel something happening,
fateful days are approaching, and there is a strategic change that soon will lead to a major war,
perhaps the biggest since 1973.

 

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Israeli Cultural Revolution Pesah 5782 -
Revival of Prophetic Poetry

Rabbi Mosheh Elharary,
chief rabbi of the city of Shlomi.

'Amir Benayoun - Nitzaht Iti HaKol (Won with me everything)

I am fortune to have You
Always You are playing
Always complete in Yourself
Blessed You are caressing the strings of Your voice
What a fortune

What a fortune that there is You
You understand me and You show me myself
Excited like a child indulging in You, and then I stay

At the end of each night I come
The secrets of Your modesty You let me learn
And You have are merciful to me like mother
And You are winning with me everything

Great fortune that there is You
I am immersed in the hidden of You, love what is revealed
I am slave to Your wisdom, and nothing in You is restrained
What a fortune with You, at the end of each night I come...

 

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Israeli Cultural Revolution - Normal Prophecy | Human Virtue




Here we talk about true human virtue.

There bears the question, whether the prophecy is a bonus or is it normal?
It's usually said among simple people, that a human is a wise creature, sometimes there are people who get the virtue of a bonus - they're prophets. But that it's not needed, the main thing is to be wise and righteous.

However, in Torah You see it's not thus. That when the Holy Be Blessed created Adam, spoke to him. If so prophecy is in human nature. This is the original level, and the absence of prophecy is the corrupt state.

Since there have already passed on us two thousand years, without prophecy, it means our world is corrupt very much. It is a scandal that there is no prophecy, how come? For the reason that it's allegedly unfair - to take someone, throw him into the world and tell him to get along on his own, I don't talk to You. Wait a moment, what am I to do here at all? Tel me anything? Has to be that will inform him, who threw him here, what He wants here.

Say, alright He did it once, gave Torah, as well we have enough information, already almost getting along.
Not sure, not sure we get along so well.

However, even if there's clear instruction, everything is written, but some dialogue, anything face to face... What is this that You shut me the windows? Not pretty, the feeling is terrible for the human. For a human is a personality, he is not only an entity, and since he's a personality he wants to stand before a personality, someone who talks to him.

Therefore it's possible to say, the absence of prophecy is abnormal, and say even more than that - the speech is the foundation of the moral structure of the soul, if there's no speech there's no morality, and the relationship between the Creator and the created is a moral standing, therefore there must be prophecy. Meaning, speech.

Here's to explain more what is prophecy.
The first rule to know what is prophecy, this is how Rabbi Ashkenazi used to explain it, the first principle is to know there's no such thing today. Meaning if You don't notice the absence of prophecy, You don't know what it is. Because You'll start comparing it to sorts of inspiration, religious experience, emotion, and philosophy, but it's not that. Prophecy is neither emotion, philosophy, or religious experience, nor mystics, then what is it? Prophecy is God's speech to the human - the fact that God speaks to the human.

It's not connected at all to what according to foreign tounges, is explained, as revealing of future, because according to this, the meteorological service is a prophet, a false prophet nonetheless but a prophet. And thus required to understand that sometimes God wants to tell humanity what is going to be in the future, alright, and this is what He is talking about. Sometimes wants to speak to him, tell him how are you? "And HaShem appeared before him in Aloney Mamre" - what do our sages say about this - 'came to visit the ill'. Didn't come to tell him anything, 'came to visit the ill'.

Student: The content of the speech is the visit? Sort of speech?
Yea, a sort of speech, but the speech doesn't have to be in words.
For example, sometimes I'm silent and You understand what I want, correct? Meaning the speech is not always through words, rather there's a delivery of intent and will from the One to another.

Student: can You give an example of the essence of intent and will?
There can be a message of friendship, how Rambam says, there can be a prophecy for the purpose of widening the consciousness of the prophet. And that's enough, no need for more than that.

The idea that we got used to, from the TaNaCh, to prophets being sent over, You should know it was an innovation. According to Rambam the first in history who was a sent over prophet - was Mosheh, before there was no such thing.

Student: Avraham?
Avraham, HaShem spoke to him, spoke to-him, didn't send him to anyone, didn't send Avraham to tell anyone anything. Therefore when for the first time Mosheh told Pharaoh, that HaShem told me to tell you to do, Pharaoh says he's never heard such a thing. "Who is HaShem that I shall obey by His voice?". As to say - this is a very serious question. You want me to listen, obey the voice, but I don't know Him. Would He talk to me directly, alright, but He didn't, "who is HaShem that I obey by His voice? I didn't know HaShem and won't send over Israel" - Pharaoh's is totally rational. Usually, the Pharaoh is seen as a sort of wicked caricature, he was indeed wicked, but as a sort of stubborn, which is not, he wants clarification.

So the question - what is prophecy.
One of the things that testify to prophecy as a historic fact, is the fact that it interrupted, something that stops, a sign that it used to be. As the proof that the small prince existed, is that he wanted a sheep, whoever wants a sheep, means he exists - but if we get into it it's really true.

The stopping of prophecy caused in its footsteps, a significant spiritual crisis in the entire humanity. The feeling that the human stands in a world emptied of the Godly spread all over the entire culture. In Greece especially, and Persia and India and China and the nation of Israel. Them main centers of culture.

You see that the Greeks suddenly feel that they're in a new world, that they need to fill with content. Suddenly there start religions in the world. The religion of Zarathustra in Persia, of Budha in India, of Lau Tze and Confucious, if You can call that religion in China. Suddenly the world starts a reset, starting anew. If You need to start over, sign that something happened. At the same time in Israel, there starts the project of the great Knesset.

Student: Are You saying that before that everyone believed in the prophecy of Israel?
No, before that all the world was in touch with the Godly and received the Godly light, whether in the purified form in Israel, or in a fragmented form through idol worship.

Student: Even when they served a foreign service (idols)?
Of course, what is a foreign service, it is a service of HaShem, in a foreign form, but it's a service of HaShem. How does the prophet say: "From the rising of the sun till its setting, My Name is great among the nations, and in every place burnt and offered for My Name and a pure offering, for great is My Name among the nations, said HaShem the Lord of Hosts".

Amazing, "great is My Name among the nations", but it's an idol-worshipping world entirely, "from the rising of the sun till its setting", but God says they serve Me, they don't know they serve Me, but they serve Me.

Meaning the Godly presence was well felt, giving birth to its stories; The mythology, was a specific form of inner certainty, there was no alternative, aside from prophets of Israel, who were considered totally insane saying there shouldn't be idol service, what happened to them - the entire world knows there are gods. Why does the world know? Because this was the reality, the world felt it.

Student: This is why there's the similarity?
Yes, this is also why there's a stylistic similarity between the prophets of Israel and those who worshipped idols.

Student: Like what?
For example in the academy they love this, the Gilgamesh stories and the flood story, there's the twenty-ninth song in Psalms which is similar to a Cana'anite song to Ba'al and etc. They do Zimmes from these in the university, but it's much logical, speaking the language of the era.

That's why in the period of prophecy, there wasn't a single atheist in the world, because the atheist was crazy, how can You say there is no God when we meet Him. Meaning the interruption of prophecy - caused a deep identity crisis around the 5th century BC.

Such a transition testifies to the existence of prophecy in ancient days.

Independence Day 5724 | Cutting of first stones for the Temple

Professional stonemason teaches • Stonemasonry tools at the 'Hurvah' plaza in the Jewish Quarter • All passers-by ask and are interested • Another personal partnership in the mitzvah 'And make me a temple' • Excitement!

 

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Temple Mount Beit Midrash - Despite restrictions Independence Day ascension has more than doubled since last year | Practicing the burning of the 'Omer offering | Routine at Newest Revival

The happiness of Mitzvah after ascending the Temple Mount

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עדכונים וחדשות על הר הבית, הלכות ומאמרים תורניים בנושא.

har-habait.org

 

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Israel's Olympic medalist Sasson retires - Archysport

AJN Agency.- Israeli Olympic medalist Ori Sasson will announce his retirement from competitive judo on Thursday, Israeli media reported Tuesday afternoon. The 31-year-old judoka will hold a press conference to conclude his successful career, which is highlighted by two bronze medals at the 2016...

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Independence Day 5724 | Cutting of first stones for the Temple

Professional stonemason teaches • Stonemasonry tools at the 'Hurvah' plaza in the Jewish Quarter • All passers-by ask and are interested • Another personal partnership in the mitzvah 'And make me a temple' • Excitement!

 

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The genius from Gaza envelope, among 120 soldiers who received the Medal of Excellence from Pres. Herzog on the Day of Independence

Corporal 'Ido 'Uziyahu (19) from Moshav Ein HaBesor in the Eshkol Regional Council, has not yet served in the IDF for a year, but has already made a difference. The young man, who decided to volunteer for the IDF, developed a system for managing and storing information in the Southern Command. Today (Thursday), in a ceremony to be held at the President's House, he will be one of 120 men and women soldiers who will receive a medal of excellence from the President and Chief of Staff on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day of the State of Israel.

Ido, who was born and raised in the Gaza Strip, excels in the field of computers. In the eighth grade, he joined a mathematics project at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, studied in a science class and excelled in every field. His childhood and adolescence passed in the shadow of the security situation in the Gaza Envelope and red color alarms and explosions were their soundtrack. Precisely because of this, his desire to volunteer in the IDF grew, even though he was exempt from it.

His parents, Moran and Roi Uziyahu, said: "Ido was brilliant when he was a baby. We realized from an early age that he was a genius, and as he grew up it manifested itself in many areas. We always educated him to love the country and it really stuck with him. Ido does everything for the country and society. Of himself and just wants to do more and more. "

Another volunteer, who will make history today, is Sergeant Gal Shabi, a 24-year-old from Yavneh, a young man with a mild intellectual disability who will receive the President's Medal of Excellance. He is the first to receive the President's Outstanding Medal from 900 "uniformed soldiers" of the "Hand for the Special Child" organization, which integrates young people with special needs at IDF bases throughout the country.

Gal began his career in the IDF at the age of 20 as a volunteer in the "Large Uniforms" program. Gal Shabi is doing his military service in the Arad camp of the Home Front Command in Yehud as a warehouseman.

Gal has a twin brother who served as an officer in the Iron Dome battery, and a little sister who recently enlisted as a medical officer. He is a permanent signatory at the base. "

Another soldier who will receive the President's Outstanding Medal is Sergeant S. from Unit 8200, who immigrated from Iran. "As a child in Iran, immigrating to Israel was a seemingly impossible task," he said, "I could not imagine the excellence I would receive in the president's house in my wildest dreams."

When he was four years old, S.'s family decided to fulfill his grandfather's dream and immigrate to Israel, after years of alienation from society and the regime. "Every holiday we would remember Jerusalem in Iran. If the government had known about our dream of immigrating to Israel, we would not have been able to get a foot beyond the borders of the country," S. said. "We lived there with dignity and friendship with the neighbors, but we always felt unwanted, that this is not our country."

When S. reached the age of enlistment he expressed a desire to serve a meaningful service. With his great affinity for the language and his deep familiarity with Persian culture, S. enlisted for the position of wireless in Unit 8200. My job is to match armament to purpose - the deep familiarity with language and culture allows me to bring quality intelligence that influences our understanding of reality on the other side and plays a huge role in defending the country. I get up every morning with a smile on my face knowing that I am making a huge contribution to the security of the country I dreamed of immigrating to. "

הגאון מעוטף עזה יקבל אות הצטיינות מהנשיא: אלו 120 החיילים המצטיינים

רב"ט עידו עוזיהו, שגדל בצל האזעקות, התנדב לצה"ל ותרם בתחום המחשבים כדי לחולל מהפך בפיקוד הדרום. סמל גל שאבי, שנולד עם מוגבלות שכלית קלה, התעקש להתנדב וכעת רוצה להתגייס לקבע. ס' עלה מאיראן ותורם מיכולותיו בפרסית בחיל המודיעין. היום הם יקבלו אות הצטיינות: "זה שיא השיאים"

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Exodus politics | Leaven breaks Yemina's coalition | Abbas' party Islamic council announces resignation from Knesset

Coalition Member Mansour 'Abbas: Non-Muslims Must Stay Out of Temple Mount

Following the Islamic Shura Council's hearing, the RA'AM party announced the resignation
of its membership in the coalition and also in the Knesset until further notice - in protest
of the "Israeli aggression on the Al-Aqsa Mosque"

Coalition Member Mansour Abbas: Non-Muslims Must Stay Out of Temple Mount

"If the security forces' activity in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque is not stopped immediately, I see myself outside the coalition."

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רע"מ הודיעו: מקפיאים את חברותנו בקואליציה ובכנסת - סרוגים

לאחר דיון החירום של מועצת השורא, מפלגת רע"מ הודיעה על הקפאת חברותה בקואליציה וגם בכנסת עד להודעה חדשה - זאת במחאה על "התוקפנות הישראלית...

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Channel 13 News poll: Religious Zionism Party is the third largest in the Knesset

Yamina wins eight seats and Ra'am does not pass the electoral threshold. The Likud has 36 seats.

www.israelnationalnews.com

 

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Largest number of 'Olim in 2 decades have arrived this past year​

Some 38,000 new immigrants have arrived in Israel since Independence Day 2021, including thousands of families and young olim who came to build their future, integrating into programs supported by the Jewish Agency and the Aliyah and Integration Ministry, the Jewish Agency reported Sunday. They will mark their first Independence Day as Israelis this week.

That represents the highest number of olim in the past two decades and is due, in part, to the wave of immigrants who have arrived during the war in Ukraine, mostly in rescue operations conducted by the Jewish Agency in cooperation with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the Jewish Agency said.

The olim were housed at hotels in Israel with assistance from the Aliyah and Integration Ministry. Thousands more from around the world have arrived this year in the shadow of the coronavirus crisis, which has increased interest in aliyah.

About half of the olim are from Ukraine and Russia, while some 4,000 came from the US and 3,700 from France, the Jewish Agency said. More than 1,000 came from Belarus and Argentina, more than 700 from the UK, 600 from South Africa, 500 from Brazil, 400 from Canada and fewer from Australia, Germany, Belgium, Chile, Italy and other countries, it said.

In addition, olim from Ethiopia arrived as part of Operation Tzur Israel, which is expected to be renewed soon by the Jewish Agency and the Aliyah and Integration Ministry.

Largest number of olim in 2 decades have arrived this past year

Thousands more from around the world have arrived this year in the shadow of the coronavirus crisis, which has increased interest in aliyah.

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Over 42,000 new olim to celebrate their 1st Independence Day in Israel

Some 488 immigrants came to Israel this year as volunteer soldiers, mostly from the United States and Britain. Many of them were integrated into special programs for lone soldiers.

www.jpost.com