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• Rainstorm in Israel: A Blessing or a Curse?

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  Jews all over the world have been praying for rain since early autumn. It seems that these prayers have been answered and then some. Starting on Friday, December 10th Israel has been hit hard with meteorologists are calling the largest storm in over 20 years.

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• Israel Mossad executioner lethal injection

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on December 06, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  The Sunday Telegraph reports: “Kidon”, the Mossad’s assassins unit, includes 38 professional killers, five of them women. The fighters are all in their 20’s, and are language experts. “The assassination of nuclear scientists in Tehran last week was a Mossad hit, Dagan’s farewell.”

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• Likud Starts its Own Tea Party: “End the Peace Process”

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on November 01, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  Likud activists headed by Knesset Member Danny Danon and former Knesset Member Michael Kleiner, held a “tea party” last night in the spirit of the protest movement against the lack of US fiscal discipline. “Another freeze will be a death trap for Israel.”

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• Netanyahu’s Plan: Building freeze extension for 1 whole year

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  Those who thought that Netanyahu would never extend the building freeze are in for a surprise. His plan to replace Lieberman with Livni—Israel Beiteinu with Kadima—is meant for one purpose: To push through another Judea and Samaria building freeze, this time for one whole year. The only thing stopping him: the Likud party itself.

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• Haredi university students to jobless Ultra Orthodox: “Yeshiva heads killing your future!”

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  A haredi MA student explains the hard reality of being stuck in an Ultra Orthodox world with no options, no training, and no way out of the poverty/donation cycle. Instead of blaming the government for funding Yeshiva stipends, he blames the Yeshiva heads for creating bad programs.

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• Netanyahu Polling Likud Members over Renewed West Bank Freeze

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  Thousands of Likud party members received an automated phone call today from pollsters working with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu. Among other questions asked in the poll, was this one: “Would you consider shifting your support to another candidate if the [West Bank] building freeze were extended for 60 days?”

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• Abbas no to Jewish State

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  In a telephone conversation with Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List), Abu Mazen explained that “there already is an agreement concerning mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO in 1993 and there will be no further recognition.”

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• Jewish halachic ruling: Jews must celebrate after assassination of terrorists

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  A new halachic ruling holds that one should celebrate after the assassination of any terrorist. The decisive ruling was issued by Rabbi Bentzion Mutzpi, a senior Sephardic Rabbi.

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• Israel to be changed to “Israel the Jewish State”?

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on October 04, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  In response to Palestinian intransigence against recognizing the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, a new initiative is being advanced in the Knesset: Changing the official name of the state from “The State of Israel” to “Israel—the Jewish State”.

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• Moshe Feiglin’s Miracle: His son David Wakes up from Coma (Part I)

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  15 minutes before the beginning of the Yom Kippur fast, David, son of Moshe Feiglin, woke up from a 3-month coma after a car accident. “When something like this happens to a man, he examines his deeds,” says the Likud’s bad boy to Yediot Acharonot.

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