A few quiet days this week…. We had a relatively calm four-day break this week from Hezbollah firing missiles and suicide drones into northern Israel. Why? The Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. It is the holiest festival in the Muslim calendar and it culminates in the Hajj (Pilgrimage) to Mecca and the circling of the […]
Ham – Salami – Baloney : Biden’s peace plan
Ham, Salami and Baloney! First the Baloney This past Friday, long after Shabbat had started in Israel, President Biden decided to give a speech. He announced that Israel had offered a ceasefire agreement to Hamas. Biden then began to list the details of the offer! If you read the transcript of the speech, you will […]
‘Israel Abandoned – or a Nation Alone?’
Passover is over, and the Festival was a quiet one for us. Because of the war, we stayed close to home. A rocket barrage could come from Lebanon (and now I guess Iran) at any time. But it gave me time to read and study, which helped provide insights into the miraculous times we are […]
Respect Ramadan?
The US and the rest of the world are pressuring Israel for a pause in the war before Ramadan For Moslems, March 10, 2024 will be the beginning of the Islamic festival of Ramadan. They spend the entire month fasting from Dawn to Dusk. There is tremendous pressure, particularly from the Biden Administration to reach […]
Palestinian Terrorist “Children” Released from Jail
Palestinian Terrorists “Children” Released from Jail As wonderful as it is to have had 66 out of 240 hostages released to date, I refuse to fall into the trap of posting heartwarming photos of cute curly-haired Israeli 4-year-old orphans reunited with family members. Those photos distract us from the reality we are still facing, and […]
They target our little ones… We rescue the orphans
The photo and caption above was sent to me by a close personal friend. The medic is his work colleague. This is not Shalom Avitan’s job, he is a volunteer.Our enemies target our little ones – shooting them in the head, burning them alive and even decapitating them. We rescue the orphans they missed. My […]
Not all bad news in Israel – Vietnam & Israel ink deal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vietnamese Deputy Premier Tran Luu Quang Attend Signing of Israel-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement in Jeruslem on July 25,2023 It’s not all bad news in Israel While the world (and Israeli) press have been focused on the hyperbolic claims of “imminent collapse of democracy” and “civil war” in Israel, life here […]
How to heal Israeli Society and the World
The photo above popped up on my Facebook feed from three years ago. I was astonished to realize it is even MORE true today, in both Israel and the USA (as well as many other parts of the worlds) A few weeks ago, I discussed the “shared values” between the USA and Israel that were […]
ISRAEL & USA : Which shared values?
This week Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited with USA President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. This honor is usually reserved for the Prime Minister of a newly elected government of Israel who is the true political leader of the State of Israel. The President of Israel is a ceremonial position that is supposed to […]
Terrorizing the Terrorists
Last week we learned in the Torah portion Balak, about how the Midianites seduced the Jewish men and caused them to sin with the women of Moab and worship their idol Peor. In the end, the Princess of the Midianites, Cozbi, had relations with Zimri, head of the Tribe of Shimon in front of the […]