Via IsraelNationalNews: Commemoration of Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers and terrorism victims, will begin at 8:00 this evening (Sunday) with a country-wide siren and minute of silence. The opening ceremony will take place at the Western Wall, with the participation of Chief Rabbis Amar and Metzger. A second siren will be sounded tomorrow morning, at 11 AM, once again bringing all activity to a standstill and marking the beginning of memorial ceremonies at the 43 military cemeteries around the country. A Knesset Member or government official will speak at each ceremony. A special ceremony will also
Read More +From IsraelNN.com: MK Aryeh Eldad (NU/NRP) has submitted a draft version of a law that would empower the Knesset to declare that a government had become “a government of disgrace” if one tenth or more of its members were under police investigation at a certain point in time. Should the Knesset declare the government to be a “government of disgrace” according to the proposed law, the result -– for the political system – will be as if the Prime Minister resigned. In such a scenario, says Eldad, the Knesset will be empowered to bring about the resignation of the government
Read More +From INN: For as yet unknown reasons, a massive Hamas terror attack intended to take place in the Tel Aviv area during the Passover Seder was averted. A similar attack five years ago killed 30 people in Netanya and triggered the IDF’s Operation Defensive Shield. The General Security Service (Shabak) has acknowledged that a Hamas terrorist successfully entered the Greater Tel Aviv area in a car laden with 100 kg. (220 lbs.) of explosives before Passover. Besides the explosives, it contained large amounts of shrapnel material, intended to maximize carnage. For reasons that are not yet known, the attack was
Read More +A highly-regarded kabbalist elder from Bnei Barak has issued a warning that the next war in Israel is on the way. Rabbi Eliyahu Leon Levi, who frequents the Western Wall every Saturday night to recite Psalms and teach Torah, told his students that there is an “evil decree” of war looming on the horizon. According to the Rabbi, Syria is liable to join Lebanon in firing missiles at the Jewish State in the pending war. The missiles will have a much greater range and carry much larger warheads than katyusha rockets… The missiles will have a much greater range and
Read More +From INN: Anne Frank’s family tried to escape the Nazis by immigrating to America – but they were turned away. This extraordinary new chapter in the teenager’s tragic saga emerges from seventy-eight newly-discovered documents from the correspondence of Anne’s father, Otto Frank. They detail his efforts, in 1941, to gain permission to bring his family to the United States. The new correspondence presents an opportunity – and an obligation – to tell the rest of the story. At the time of the correspondence, the Franks were living in exile in Holland, having fled their native Germany after Hitler’s rise to
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