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The war between Israel and the Hamas human animals continues to rage, with tragic news that the bodies of six Israeli hostages, one of whom was an American citizen, have been recovered. These captives were apparently not abandoned or killed in the fighting, but coldly executed.
The always eloquent British author and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray, who has spent time reporting in the region, joins Piers Morgan on Uncensored to analyze the latest developments. Douglas is steadfast in his belief that Hamas is the central cause of the conflict, stating that the aim of Hamas is not a ceasefire, but the destruction of Israel.
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NEVE ORI: New Gush Etzion Town, Named for Terror Victim, Paves the Road to Yerushalayim
Last month, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration set borders known as “blue lines” for a new 150-acre Gush Etzion town called Nahal Heletz, located in the Judean hills just outside of Yerushalayim, in an area with a Jewish presence dating back thousands of years.
The new community, also known as “Neve Ori,” in memory of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, a Gush resident who was murdered in 2019 by an Arab terrorist, will essentially create a contiguous Jewish presence between the Etzion bloc community of Neve Daniel and Yerushalayim’s southern neighborhood of Gilo.
Nahal Heletz was one of five communities in Yehuda and Shomron that received Cabinet approval in June in response to the Palestinian Authority’s push for statehood and support for international legal action against Israel.
A spokesperson for the Gush Etzion Regional Council told JNS that at this point, the municipality has not yet solidified building plans for the new community. However, JNS obtained a copy of a form, recently sent out as a feeler to local residents and non-residents alike, to see if there are those who had interest in moving to the new community, essentially as founding pioneers, once plans were finalized.
The approval for Nahal Heletz and the four other communities, along with additional building in Yehuda and Shomron, drew ire from outgoing European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
“The European Union condemns the planned so-called legalization of five Israeli settlement outposts and the announcement of thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank,” according to the E.U. statement.
The move was also blasted by Israeli left-wing organizations including Emek Shaveh, Combatants for Peace and Peace Now, all of which oppose a Jewish presence in Yehuda and Shomron.
According to the Regavim organization, a young Christian Arab woman named Alice Kisiya, whose family lives in the nearby Palestinian Authority town of Beit Jala, has drawn international attention to the issue by creating a series of viral videos and appearing on international news channels to falsely claim that the area belongs to her family.
Naomi Linder Kahn, director of the International Division of Regavim, told JNS, “Regavim has 10 years of documentation from Israel’s courts, both on a municipal and supreme court level, indicating this land does not belong to Kisiya family.
“Nahal Heletz, per the court, is a combination of Israeli state land and private “‘himnuta,” an arm of the Jewish National Fund which purchases land on behalf of the Jewish People,” said Kahn.
“The Family from Beit Jala [Kisiya] said they owned a part of that land and went to court. However, claims that they owned the land and had building permits were proven to be false. They lost in court and the structures built there were demolished,” she added.
Kahn noted that the family gained global support when they accused Israel of discriminating against them as Christian Arabs. However, she stressed, “they have absolutely no claim to the land. Two years ago, they invented a new name for the area calling it ‘Al-Makhrur,’ saying it was some ancient Arab village. But that name didn’t even exist.”
At the same time, she explained that UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, recognized part or all of the area where Nahal Heletz sits as a world heritage site within the “State of Palestine.”
UNESCO referred to the area as the “Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir.” Battir is a P.A. village in the area, named for Betar, an ancient Jewish town that fell in the final battle of the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Romans in 135 CE. The town was recognized by UNESCO for its magnificent ancient agricultural terracing.
Kahn stressed UNESCO called it the Land of Olives and Vines to leave its status ambiguous, adding that Israel doesn’t recognize declarations of world heritage sites in “Palestine.”
Kahn said the area has been a battleground for a long time “because of the area’s strategic importance as a crucial buffer zone, protecting Jerusalem from the south, and the fact that it overlooks the two main southern access points to Jerusalem—the tunnel road and the road to Malha, Road 285.
“The P.A for years has been attempting to annex the area, along with many other strategic points throughout Area C. Regavim demands the government take action,” Kahn continued.
Eve Harow, a licensed tour guide, educator and podcaster, told JNS, “Nahal Heletz is right next to Battir. One of the biggest mistakes Israel made was turning Battir over to the P.A. That is flat-out ours. It’s from Bar Kokhba, you can still see remains there from the war with the Romans. It’s actually one of the most beautiful examples of Jewish agriculture from the times of the Second Temple.”
She added, “We have coins and the history books to prove that this was part of an independent Jewish State called ‘Beit Yisrael’ from 132-136 CE. It’s really the height of chutzpah to take our ancient terracing and say it was there’s. The people who built it and used it, were Judeans from Judea.”
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement, hailed the approval to build Nahal Heletz.
“It is extremely important because of the need for Jewish continuity of communities between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion. As we know, the Arabs have been building in recent years precisely in these areas in order to prevent Jewish continuity,” they said.
They added: “Nahal Heletz is very important to the Greater Yerushalayim Plan, which will add about a quarter of a million Jews to the capital. In this way, the existing sovereignty of Yerushalayim will also spread over Gush Etzion, Ma’ale Adumim, Givat Ze’ev and parts of Binyamin.”
The pair concluded, “Yerushalayim must grow, expand south, north and east in order to deal with the dangerous demographics, as the Arabs are already almost 40 percent of the population of Yerushalayim.”
(JNS)
PLAYING WITH FIRE: Jackson Child In Critical Condition After Hatzulas Nefashos Botches Emergency Response
The Lakewood Alerts website has consistently cautioned the community about the severe dangers posed by Hatzulas Nefashos, an organization that presents itself as a volunteer ambulance service in Jackson, NJ. The repeated alerts, along with strong warnings from rabbanim, have emphasized that this group’s operations are a direct threat to the safety and lives of the broader Lakewood community. Unfortunately, on Tuesday evening, Lakewood Alerts reports, these warnings turned into a grim reality.
The event unfolded in a residential area near E. Veterans Highway, where a young child sustained a serious head injury after falling off furniture. Blood was seen oozing from the child’s ear, a clear indicator of a skull fracture, which is a critical emergency requiring immediate attention from paramedics.
The parents, seemingly unaware of the repeated warnings regarding Hatzulas Nefashos, contacted the organization for help. When Hatzulas Nefashos’ inexperienced EMTs arrived, they were completely unprepared for the severity of the situation. Despite recognizing the need for urgent paramedic intervention, they did not take the necessary steps. Instead of calling Hatzolah of Central Jersey (HCJ), which is known for its qualified paramedics and established protocols, they opted to contact the Ocean County paramedic service. Reportedly, they were informed that it would take an astonishing 20 minutes for assistance to arrive.
Despite this dangerous delay, Hatzulas Nefashos did not contact HCJ. Instead, they made a reckless choice to transport the child themselves with only basic life support (BLS) to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, fully aware that they were not equipped to manage such a critical emergency. Approximately 45 minutes after the initial emergency call, while speeding down Jackson Mills Road, the situation worsened—the child became unresponsive in the back of their poorly equipped ambulance.
Finally realizing the severity of the situation, Hatzulas Nefashos made the call they should have made immediately. They reached out to HCJ, desperately requesting paramedics to take over. HCJ’s paramedics quickly arrived and assumed care for the child, but by that time, valuable moments had been lost. The child, who had been deprived of necessary care for an extended period, was rushed to the hospital, where they remain in serious condition in the PICU.
A deeply upset relative of the family contacted Lakewood Alerts to express their outrage, urging the community to take the warnings about Hatzulas Nefashos seriously. They called on the public to heed the advice of the rabbanim of greater Lakewood, who have clearly stated that only Hatzolah of Central Jersey has the capability to manage severe medical emergencies.
This close call is a stark reminder of the perils linked with Hatzulas Nefashos. The community cannot continue to allow this hazardous organization to operate, putting lives at risk. Let this incident be a wake-up call to all: in a medical emergency, the only organization to trust is Hatzolah of Central Jersey.
{Matzav.com}
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HORROR: Jackson Child Critical After “Hatzulas Nefashos” Delays Patient Care
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Over 200 Terrorists Killed in IDF Operation in Tel al-Sultan
Israeli forces have killed more than 200 terrorists in recent weeks during operations in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah in southern Gaza, the military said on Wednesday.
Troops from the 401st Brigade are active in the area as part of the 162nd Division’s operations in the former Hamas stronghold along the Egypt-Gaza border.
Dozens of weapons stored in civilian structures have been located so far, including a large cache inside a basement where Hamas terrorists were embedded.
“In one encounter, terrorists fired at the troops from inside a building in the area. The troops conducted a targeted raid on the building, searched it, and then eliminated the terrorists inside,” the IDF said.
“In the basement of the building, the troops located large quantities of weapons that were used by the terrorists there,” added the military.
Additionally, soldiers located 10 long-range rocket launchers intended to fire projectiles into Israeli territory.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces in Gaza killed the Hamas terrorist who led the Oct. 7 assault on the northwest Negev moshav of Netiv Ha’asara.
Israeli fighter jets struck a Hamas compound near the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing eight terrorists from Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion. Among them was Ahmed Fozi Nazer Muhammad Wadia, a member of the terror group’s Nukhba force who led the invasion of Netiv Ha’asara, located directly adjacent to the Gaza fence.
On Oct. 7, Wadia, who was active in Hamas’s parachute array, infiltrated the moshav using a paraglider and oversaw the massacre of 21 residents and the kidnapping of one to Gaza.
(JNS)
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Matzav Inbox: Our Chinuch System is Losing Too Many Precious Kids
Dear Matzav Inbox,
As the school year approaches, families everywhere are busy readying their children for a new academic journey. Backpacks are being packed, uniforms are being pressed, and there’s a palpable excitement in the air. But as we prepare for another year of learning and growth, there’s a deep, aching pain that needs to be addressed—a pain that isn’t spoken about nearly enough.
We have a crisis on our hands. A crisis of children—precious, innocent children—who are falling through the cracks of our education system.
And I’m not just talking about a handful of exceptions or rare cases. No, this is an epidemic, a heartbreaking reality that is quietly unraveling in front of us, affecting countless boys and girls who are being spit out by a system that cannot cater to their needs.
These are not children who simply need to try harder or be more disciplined. These are children who, for various reasons—whether they struggle with learning, have been picked on, have faced social challenges, or, tragically, have endured abuse—are being left behind. These are children who have been turned off from Yiddishkeit, who feel that they do not belong, who are lost and adrift in a sea of expectations that they simply cannot meet.
The boys throw off their yarmulkas and the girls pull on their pants – and parents are left in tears.
This is not an isolated issue. It’s not just a problem that affects a few unfortunate souls. Visit a Kesher Nafshi event, and you’ll see for yourself—hundreds upon hundreds, if not thousands, of parents dealing with the agony of watching their children slip away. Call Nesivos in Lakewood and ask how many cases they’re handling—cases of children who have been chewed up and spit out by a system that, despite its many strengths, is failing them in profound and painful ways.
Speak to Rabbi Chaim Abadi, Rabbi Daniel Kalish, or the incredible heroes of Shalvah High School for girls, and you’ll hear stories that will make your heart break—stories of children in pain, children who feel abandoned, children who feel that they have no place in the very community that is supposed to nurture and protect them.
We have a wonderful chinuch system. We are blessed with extraordinary rabbeim, teachers who are devoted, caring, and passionate. In many ways, we have the best education system we’ve ever had. But it’s not enough to be the best. It’s not enough when we are losing our children in droves. It’s not enough when Yiddishe kinder are slipping through our fingers.
Something needs to change. We need to confront this crisis head-on. We need to acknowledge that our system, as good as it may be, is not working for everyone. We need to find a way to reach every child, to make sure that no one is left behind, to ensure that every child feels valued, loved, and understood.
The time for ignoring this issue is over. The time for sweeping it under the rug has passed.
We need to act, and we need to act now, before we lose another precious neshamah.
Sincerely,
Someone Who’s Been There
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Tel Aviv Defends Jewish Prayer Ban In Preliminary Court Hearing
The Tel Aviv District Court held a preliminary hearing on Wednesday regarding a petition claiming anti-Jewish discrimination on the part of the Tel Aviv Municipality.
The petition, filed by the Rosh Yehudi organization and 14 Tel Aviv residents, claims that thousands of Muslims attended a gender-segregated religious event at the city’s Charles Clore Park on June 16, whereas the municipality had refused to grant a permit for a public gender-segregated Jewish religious event.
Rosh Yehudi has information on three separate gender-segregated Muslim prayer events this year on public grounds, Rosh Yehudi head Israel Zeira told JNS on Wednesday.
At Tuesday’s hearing, the municipality appeared to sidestep the accusation altogether, claiming that the petition was based solely on media reports regarding the Muslim events.
“The petitioner is basing itself on a journalistic publication whereas journalistic articles […] cannot form the basis for allegations brought before the court,” the municipality argued, referencing a High Court of Justice case from last year.
The municipality further argued that the reports, which it neither confirmed nor denied, were about events that had already happened and for which no permits had been issued, and therefore irrelevant to a petition concerning the city’s refusal to issue a permit for events that had not yet occurred.
However, the petition, filed last month, argues that allowing gender-segregated Islamic events to take place without a permit is also discriminatory, as it punishes those who seek permits and benefits those who do not.
“Just as nothing prevents a separate policy for Tel Aviv-Yafo’s Muslim minority, which has segregated events, so there should be no opposition in principle in our multicultural society for the practices of the Jewish-religious minority,” the petitioners wrote.
The municipality also argued on Wednesday that gender-segregated events on public grounds discriminated against women, but neither addressed the views of women, including women’s rights activists, who dispute this, nor explained why such segregation is discriminatory only toward women.
Wednesday’s hearing follows a polarizing debate last year about gender-segregated prayer in Tel Aviv’s Dizengof Square. Highlighting coexistence issues between secular and religious Israeli Jews, the debate was sidelined by the outbreak of the Gaza war on Oct. 7, and is resurfacing ahead of this year’s Jewish holiday season.
Rosh Yehudi, whose mission statement speaks of strengthening Jewish identity, had held segregated prayer events at the square for years, with a permit, but last year the city decided to ban physical separation barriers from at such events. This year, the city didn’t respond to the organization’s request for a permit for three months, finally declining it outright last month.
The events of last year’s Yom Kippur prayer at Dizengof Square, which Rosh Yehudi held with a permit, shocked Jews and others across the world. Secular activists interrupted the event, tearing down Rosh Yehudi’s dividers—frames made of flexible materials to symbolically separate the sexes while respecting the municipality’s controversial ban on physical barriers. Some activists threw prayer books into the square’s fountain as they harassed and chased away Jews trying to pray on what many consider Judaism’s holiest day.
Tel Aviv is Israel’s second-largest city, with about 500,000 residents, including many thousands of religious and traditionalist Jews. Many of Tel Aviv’s residents celebrate its secularist identity and what they regard as its spirit of pluralism. These values, however, do not align with limiting the religious freedoms of residents who wish to gather and worship in accordance with their beliefs, the petitioners argued.
Judge Erez Yakuel instructed the parties to try to reach a compromise ahead of another discussion on Sept. 11. “I want you to imagine a square with everybody, worshipers and seculars, who use the whole space as they see fit within the confines of the law,” he told the parties.
But a representative of the municipality told the court: “Sex-segregated prayer cannot be allowed to take place in the city.” Harel Arnon, a lawyer representing Rosh Yehudi, told the judge that the group is prepared to move the event to any place designated for it by the municipality.
Irit Linur, a right-wing television pundit and columnist who is among the petitioners, called the municipality and its refusal to allow sex-segregated prayer in public “antisemitic.”
A secularist activist who attended the hearing, Moshe Peretz, told JNS that if sex-segregated prayer is allowed this year, he would take steps “that would make last year’s event pale in comparison to this one,” He added: “We have allowed Rosh Yehudi to grow and grow and we’re done. We will fight for our street and for our square.”
These threats, and the events of last year, “show that even if the city does compromise, antisemites will disrupt the event. So what are we even talking about here?” Linur said.
In its preliminary reply to the court ahead of Wednesday’s hearing, the municipality, unusually, waded into theology. It explained that, despite the predominant Jewish Orthodox custom, dividing the genders in prayer outside a shuls is not mandated by halacha.
The city also noted certain prohibitions and reservations by rabbinical rulers on prayer in open spaces, apparently to suggest that Rosh Yehudi’s Yom Kippur events violated Jewish principles as well as the city’s regulations, or constituted some misinterpretation of Jewish custom.
The city’s also noted that it does not limit gender-segregated prayer in synagogues and authorizes them as necessary to expand prayers onto public grounds when they get overcrowded.
Leading rabbinical authorities, including David Stav of the Tzohar rabbinical group and former chief Sephardic rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, have supported Rosh Yehudi’s event and defended it against attacks and legal obstacles.
Following the public outcry over last year’s events at Dizengoff Square, the Tel Aviv Municipality on Oct. 6 authorized Rosh Yehudi’s request to hold a Simchat Torah event at the square. This decision came after the High Court of Justice criticized the city’s actions and encouraged a compromise.
The municipality and Rosh Yehudi reached an agreement to hold the event on Oct. 7 without physical barriers separating men and women, with segregation being optional. Additionally, the organizers agreed to relocate the event from the central square to a nearby area. However, the event was canceled due to the devastating Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and ensuing war.
The compromise followed a High Court ruling on a petition by Rosh Yehudi, where the court stated that the city’s claim—asserting Rosh Yehudi had violated permit terms and thus could not hold a gender-segregated event—was not sufficient to justify restricting freedom of worship. JNS
{Matzav.com Israel}
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Kiryas Yoel: Businessman Loses a Quarter Billion Dollars at Rebbe’s Request
Last Friday, Satmar community marked the 45th anniversary of the petirah of the Divrei Yoel zt”l. The commemoration, led by the current Satmar Rebbe Rav Aharon Teitelbaum and attended by thousands of Chassidim, included a poignant address on a pressing local issue: the soaring cost of housing, Arutz Sheva reports.
In recent years, the village of Kiryas Yoel, a hub for many Chassidishe families in New York, has witnessed a dramatic surge in real estate prices. Just five years ago, the cost per square meter was $1,800, but it has now skyrocketed to $6,000—representing an increase of roughly 400 percent.
In response to this crisis, the Rebbe established a dedicated committee in cooperation with municipal leaders. Approximately two months ago, new legislation was enacted to cap the prices of new apartments at $3,000 per square meter.
Recognizing that it would take time for the law to take effect, the Rebbe reached out to Akiva Hersh Klein, a Chassidishe entrepreneur currently developing a new neighborhood of about 2,000 apartments. He requested that Klein take immediate action to lower the prices.
In a bold move, the Rebbe announced that Klein had agreed to the request and would offer 1,000 of these new apartments at half the standard market rate. This initiative is expected to result in a substantial financial loss of around $250 million for Klein.
{Matzav.com}
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7-Year-Old Rivka Is Fighting for Her Life – Let’s Save Her Together!
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Hi everyone! I’m Rivka, and I’m only 7 years old.
I want to tell you about something strange that happened to me. I always loved running, playing in the yard, and drawing colorful pictures.
Every day was full of joy and laughter, I had so much fun, but now I’m sad.
The doctors said I have a serious illness. I don’t really understand what that means, I just know it’s something unpleasant. Suddenly, my body started hurting, and I can’t play the way I want to. Instead of laughing with my friends, I find myself in the hospital a lot.
I’m very scared. They say I will have to go through treatments that won’t be pleasant, and that I might lose my hair. That really scares me. I want to stay the way I am, a regular girl who loves to play and dream.
Mummy and Tatty are doing everything they can to help me, but I can see it’s very hard for them. They have to pay a lot of money for my treatments, and it’s not easy for them.
Please, if you can, help me get better. I will be so grateful to you. I really want to go back to playing, drawing, and living like all the other kids. Any help you give will give me great hope.
Thank you so much, Rivkush