News
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Enforcing Freeze Impossible
Eitan Fried 26/11/2009 09:35According to the Attorney General, Israel does not present have the financial means to enforce the building freeze that was announced yesterday. The budget can only cover 14 inspectors. In a heated cabinet meeting, the responsibility for funding the inspectors was tossed back and forth between the different ministries. Finance Minister Steinitz said to Barak: "I am not your private change purse." The Prime Minister will decide.
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We've Taken Action
Reuven Stein 26/11/2009 08:00"The freeze only applies to the construction of homes. We will not halt existing construction and we will continue to build synagogues, schools, kindergartens and public buildings essential for normal life in the settlements." Netanyahu called upon our Palestinian neighbors: "Israel's government has made an important step toward peace today," Netanyahu said. "Let us make peace together."
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Yesha Building Freeze
Avi Moshe 25/11/2009 16:10Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to announce today on a building freeze in Yehuda and Shomron – not including East Jerusalem – for a period of ten months, in order to bolster Abu Mazen opposite the Hamas "victory" in the Shalit deal, which is due to be complete in a matter of days. The army is preparing to implement the building freeze.
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Hesder Rabbis Must Answer
Eitan Fried 25/11/2009 14:00The head of the IDF Personnel Directorate, during a hearing of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset to discuss the recent acts of insubordination committed by soldiers from the Kfir Brigade, demanded that the Hesder yeshiva heads answer his questions by tomorrow. If not, the ultimatum to end the relationship between the Hesder yeshivot and the army. The head of the Personnel Directorate says that concrete steps must be taken by the yeshiva heads against the "refusniks". Knesset member Ofer Pines, "It is a cancerous growth."
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Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Yochanan Weisberg 25/11/2009 11:40Rabbi Friedman had a heart attack while driving, and was critically injured when his car crashed. After 6 months of suffering, he returned his soul to his Creator.
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Rachamim Malul
Reuven Stein 25/11/2009 10:07By a very small margin, the chareidi candidate, Rachamim Malul, beat his secular opponent, Uzi Salant, in the elections for mayor of Rechovot. The "city elders" say that "Rachamim" is popular and kind. The suspense reached its peak at midnight, when the final winner was announced: "Rabbi Rachamim Elul is the new mayor."
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Lebanon Responsible
24/11/2009 23:10At a conference in the Western Galilee on Tuesday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Lebanon of a potential deterioration of the security status on the Northern border. He placed all the responsibility for future clashes with Hezbollah on the Lebanese government. "The Lebanese government is responsible for any clash rather than the Hezbollah, and all of Lebanon's systems will be held accountable," warned Barak.
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Rabbi Teitelbaum hy"d
Yochanan Weisberg 24/11/2009 20:39The Toldos Avraham Yitzchak chassidus commemorated one year since the murder of Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum hy"d. The main speaker at the event was his father-in-law, the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe shlita
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Vizhnitz Simcha in Bnei Brak
Yochanan Weisberg 24/11/2009 15:20Hundreds participated in the sheva brachos celebration for the great-grandson of the Admor of Vizhnitz, in the hall of the large beis midrash, in Kiryat Vizhnitz – Bnei Brak.
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Shabbos Simcha in Vizhnitz
Yochanan Weisberg 24/11/2009 13:08Hundreds participated in the "Shabbos Sheva Brachos" and "Shabbos Aliya l'Torah" for the great-grandsons of Maran, the Admor of Vizhnitz, shlita
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