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  • The Mission Continues

    As in the past so it remains today - we were and still are under the selfsame commitment to adhere to the directions of the Gedolei Yisrael, who stand guard against breaches of purity threatening our camp. When we were required to ask – we asked. When we were instructed to depart – we left. The moment we are summoned back to raise the flag, every other consideration is pushed to the side and we answer: We are ready!

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  • Harav Yisrael Friedman zy”a, the Rebbe of Husyatin

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    The ancestral chain of Harav Yisrael Friedman, the founder of the Husyatin chassidic court, originates with the holy Baal Shem Tov. The Husyatin chassidus has its roots in Galicia and eventually came to Tel Aviv, during the turbulent years between the two World Wars.

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  • Maccabi'im Gravesite

    In honour of Chanukah, we will discuss a fascinating, ongoing investigation attempting to establish the place of burial of Mattisyahu Kohen Gadol and his family.

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Barak: Although We Oppose, We May or May Not Support the Referendum

The Knesset will vote this afternoon on the bill for a referendum on withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The Labor faction prefers to oppose it, but the Labor chairman Ehud Barak announced that following Meretz’s intention to make the vote a no-confidence measure against the government, this will force Labor to support the government.

Avi Moshe 09/12/2009 16:30
Members of the Knesset's Labor Party are expected to support the proposal to apply the ‘law of continuity’ on the law that there will be a referendum on any possible withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Defense Minister Ehud Barak so announced following a Meretz faction demand that the bill be a no-confidence vote in the government.

Barak said this afternoon that he opposed the bill, because “it imposes unnecessary constraints on the Prime Minister when negotiating with Syria, and creates a wrong impression in the world that Israel is a peace refuser."

In addition, the Labor chairman said that “a referendum is a complicated legislative matter which somewhat contradicts the structure of the parliamentary regime."
 
However, Barak's opposition to the referendum bill could have negative political consequences. On the one hand, members of the Labor party can oppose the bill, despite that the government approved it and the decision is binding on all members of the coalition. But, on the other hand, the Meretz faction announced, as noted, that it intends to make the proposal into a no-confidence vote against the government. In this case, Labor ministers and MKs would have to support the law and the government.
  
This morning MK Yariv Levin (Likud) said that the Prime Minister must require the Labor Party to support the bill, arguing that Labor is being a hypocrite. "A month ago, they demanded that government ministers vote against the law following the appeal filed by Minister Dan Meridor. Now, when the government decides to support the law, the Labor members must support the proposal," said Levin.