Israel
By Yoni Weiss
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View of a Knesset plenary session at the Knesset. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich informed Blue and White head Benny Gantz on Monday that she will not run in the upcoming Knesset elections.
She is the latest of the Blue and White list to drop the race for the next Knesset. Slates need to be submitted by Thursday night.
Jewish Ledger
My Holocaust survivor mother made me a better general
By Benny Gantz
(JTA) – I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that 2020 was one of the toughest years that the world has endured in recent history. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reflect on the lessons I learned from my parents, both Holocaust survivors, who taught me the capacity for both evil and kindness that exists within the human spirit.
Even as a general who witnessed up close the ravages of war, and as a politician who engages in challenging political battles, I couldn’t have foreseen the current state of affairs facing the Jewish people today.
At the peak of a medical and financial catastrophe,
the defendant is taking the country as hostage in order to delay his trial and is caving in to the
haredim (ultra-Orthodox community in Israel), his natural partners .
Instead of managing the crisis he extends the lockdown and presents a financial plan with the sole purpose of bribing voters. Several violent incidents were reported between protesters and police officers during the march to the Prime Minister s Official Residence on Balfour street in Jerusalem. The police statement read: While marching near the Presidential residence, protesters began violating the public order while attempting to breach a police barricade and throwing items at police officers on the scene.
Israel
By Hamodia Staff
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shochet checks his knife in a kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary, Jan. 15. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has written to a number of European leaders, asking that they allow
shechitah to continue in their countries.
Netanyahu reached out after Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich asked for his help following an EU court ruling that upheld a Belgian ban on kosher slaughter.
The letter went out to the leaders of Poland, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, France, the office of the EU presidency and the president of the European Council. Some of the countries on this list have already begun passing laws to ban