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Jerusalem Heritage House The Jerusalem Heritage House provides safe and comfortable lodging for young Jewish travelers, students and lone soldiers in the Old City of Jerusalem.

The Heritage House provides safe and comfortable lodging for young Jewish travelers, students and "lone soldiers" in Jerusalem so that they can best experience and develop their connection with Israel, Judaism, and the Jewish People. We provide our guests with a warm bed, fresh bedding, laundry facilities, food options, wifi, long-distance calling, an extensive library, and information on numerous

tours and educational/service opportunities throughout Israel. We organize and lead exciting hands on in-depth tours of the entire Old City of Jerusalem, Hevron, Shilo and many more important places of tremendous historical, political and religious significance not included in your standard tours. Additionally, we provide Shabbat and holiday programming, featuring home-cooked meals with local families, beginner services, and general explanations of Jewish customs and practices. These services, and many more, are all provided free of charge and with abundant genuine warmth and sincerity to all who come through our door.

03/06/2026

This Week Today
Current Events from Israel

The annual Israel Day Parade was held this past week in New York City. For the first time in the last 60 years, the Mayor, citing his past strong and consistent support for terrorism against Jews, refused to participate. Instead he attended an anti-Israel event with Jill Jacobs, who is famous for her likeness being used in the scene in which the Godfather successfully scares the movie producer in Hollywood while he’s sleeping in his bed. Seemingly because of the Mayor’s absence, attendance was stellar at the parade and included very right-wing members of the current Israeli Government, like Betzalel Smotrich, Amichai Eliyahu and Yitzchak Wasserlauf. This is kind of how things are going these days: The abandonment of Israel/the Jews by a large segment of the left has opened the door to the entire right. In that sense, these leftists are something of unintentional heroes. Funny sometimes how G-d runs the world.

Speaking of running the world, President Trump sometimes seems to think he does that. This week there was apparently a contentious phone call between Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu concerning planned Israeli attacks in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut. Similar to many a red-headed girlfriend, President Trump is often tons of fun, but also at times displays some pretty unhinged behavior. The Israeli left celebrated this incident, but President Trump quickly downplayed it and Israel continued to bomb the heck out of southern Lebanon. More on that now.

Lebanon
In a momentous accomplishment, after crossing the Litani River, Israeli forces conquered the legendary Beaufort castle fortress. Both the Israeli and Golani Brigade flags were subsequently flown above the site. Some Israeli leftist made a movie about this place after Israel retreated from it and the rest of Lebanon 25 years ago. That move has gone great by the way. The film portrayed Israel to be so weak that it was rewarded with a nomination for an Academy Award. It didn’t win and now it will no longer be able to inspire Israel’s enemies. A different kind of Israel conquered the place this time, not nearly as accommodating as the previous one. After messing around, everyone is certainly finding out now.

After suffering tons of losses, Hezbollah decided to target northern Israeli communities with rocket fire and drones. Israel planned to respond by taking out Hezbollah targets in southern Beirut, until President Trump reportedly demanded that those plans be aborted. Despite Israel’s seeming acquiescence to the “request” by the American President, the bombing of terrorist sites throughout southern Lebanon intensified, including in larger former cities like Tzur (Tyre) and Nabatieh. Anti-Israeli media is howling about these specific targets as their capture/destruction will virtually spell the end of Hezbollah’s presence near the previous Israeli border. There are likely terrorists still in the area, but they will be effectively trapped very soon.

Hezbollah continues to attack Israeli forces with fiber optic drones that make warning and jamming nearly impossible. More Israeli soldiers were tragically killed and wounded this week, including a combat doctor (killed) and an infantry battalion commander (wounded). In short, Hezbollah is getting some lucky shots in, but it is completely incapable of stopping the Israeli offensive. Only President Trump seems to be able to do that.

But why would he do that? Seemingly the answer is the possible disruption these attacks could cause to the never ending ongoing negotiations between the US and Iran. There continues to be a ceasefire between the two sides that includes an awful lot of shooting at each other. After a US drone was targeted by Iran this week, the US then targeted Iran and then Iran struck both Bahrain and Kuwait, then the US assassinated a pro-Iranian leader in Iraq. One heck of a ceasefire, definitely worth preserving…

Gaza
Israel continued this week to take out Hamas terrorists in Gaza, including those who were heavily involved in the atrocities of Oct. 7th. One of those eliminated this week personally participated in the kidnapping of Israeli hostages. Without the hostages, Hamas seems completely incapable of preventing the assassinations. However, they also completely refuse to disarm, as demanded by the ceasefire agreement. Prime Minister Netanyahu has been threatening to conquer another 10% of Gaza that would bring Israeli control to 70% of the area that was previously under Hamas control. Hasn’t happened yet, but it almost sounds better to my ears than Eric Church at the UNC Commencement this year.

Judea and Samaria
Judea and Samaria continue to be a world unto itself since Oct. 7th. Israeli victories proliferate by the day. Although there was a terrorist attack this week at the Gush Etzion junction (4 wounded, terrorist eliminated), terrorism continues to be mostly suppressed. Meanwhile, Israel is making moves. Over 2000 new residential units were advanced through the planning stages this week, including a new neighborhood for Kiryat Arba/Hevron - their third new neighborhood in the last year. Exclusive: More coming in the near future!

Also this week, the Government approved the expropriation of land around the historic “Herodion” site in eastern Gush Etzion. Now the area will be much more accessible, preserved and developed. This is a big blow to extensive Arab efforts to prevent all this from happening in the past.

In the Old City of Jerusalem, another property was purchased and redeemed through the Ateret Cohanim organization this week. The move contributes to the significant strengthening of the Jewish Presence in the highly historic and strategic area. Exclusive: More to come there as well!

New Mossad Chief
The Israeli Supreme Court approved the appointment of a new head of the Mossad - Major General Roman Grofman. He was previously appointed by the democratically elected Prime Minister but for some reason needs the approval of the non-democratically elected Supreme Court. These are the same folks who have now required the Government to allow representatives of the Red Cross to visit imprisoned terrorists and fomented national social unrest by invalidating laws concerning the IDF draft.

They and their leftist allies have caused a good amount of domestic drama leading up to the upcoming national elections. In the meantime, we’ll see how much this Coalition can accomplish in the months remaining. After that, who knows what will be.

-Ben Packer
+972-54-447-0221

27/05/2026

This Week Today
Current Events from Israel

With the conclusion of the Shavuos holiday festivities, the summer is officially upon us - yalla balagan (as they say). There are no Jewish/national holidays for a while now - time to get down to business. Regardless of the current Knesset discussions/decisions, national elections will certainly be held close to when they were originally scheduled for - right after the Jewish holidays in the fall. Now is the time for Israeli politicians to prove their worth to the voters. There are wars going on and there is a Trump Administration in the White House. Hold on tight, this could be a wild ride.

Iran
Who knows. It’s anybody’s guess at this point as to what is going to happen over there and when. President Trump demands that Iran admit that their entire navy has been destroyed and at the same time, Iran continues to shoot missiles from boats in the water at other boats. I’m totally confused.

Lebanon
After more Israeli soldiers were tragically killed by Hezbollah operated explosive drones this past week, the IDF has launched more aggressive and farther reaching attacks. IDF forces are now attacking Hezbollah targets on the ground north of the Litani River, which had been something of a border until now. All the terrorist drones are being operated from north of the Litani. Enough of this sitting ducks idiocy. Now the IDF is pursuing the threats everywhere, at least officially. Beirut hasn’t been struck nor has any national infrastructure.

In short, Israel’s claims of specifically attacking Hezbollah, seem to be quite credible. This is in stark contrast to the many clearly anti-Semitic journalists and online clowns (both parasitic professions) who report that all residents of southern Lebanon are being forcefully evacuated. It’s not true at all. Hezbollah supporters are being removed, but all of the Christians are being left in place. Why is no one reporting this? Not Qatarlson! Not Candace Ovens! None of these morons. We keepin’ it real over here. The Lebanese Christians are not considered a terrorist threat and they are being left alone. Does anyone think those Christians want the Hezbollah terrorists to come back anytime soon? Come on bro.

Gaza
Another week, another head of Hamas was killed in Gaza. The new/former head of Hamas’ “military” wing in Gaza was eliminated in a surgical missile strike this week in the central Gaza Strip. He had played a prominent role in the planning of Oct. 7th. He won’t be planning anything else. A little bit later, more prominent Gaza terrorists were targeted and may have been eliminated. Israel will get all of them. It’s not a left/right thing, it’s a being normal thing.

Things to look for moving forward this summer:

-Approval for even more Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and vast improvements of infrastructure - roads, water, electricity

-Approval for more Jewish building in Jerusalem

-More evictions of squatting Arabs, primarily in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of the Old City, Silwan/Kfar Teimanim and Nachalat Shimon/Shimon HaTzadik/Sheikh Jarrah

-More demolitions of illegally built Arab construction, especially in the “King’s Garden” section of Silwan. These have been delayed for decades and now it’s full steam ahead.

-The clearing of all illegal Bedouin encampments between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, including Khan al-Ahmar

-The establishment of control, access and development of historical sites throughout Judea and Samaria, including The Tomb of the Patriarchs (Hevron) Samuel’s Tomb (Jerusalem area), Solomon’s Pools (Bethlehem), Joseph’s Tomb (Shechem), Sebastia (Samaria) and many more

-Serious attempts to establish Jewish communities in what was formerly the Gaza Strip

-Large-scale demolitions in the Negev against illegal Bedouin communities

-Strengthening and expansion of Jewish rights on the Temple Mount

-Many more things

All the boycotts of woke co-ops in gay areas of Brooklyn won’t change any of this. Nothing that happens outside of Israel will likely affect any decisions that are implemented inside of Israel. Diaspora Jews/Communities need to decide: Are they going to stay there and fight back or are they going to leave and come to Israel. Those are the only real choices for anyone wishing to continue identifying as a Jew. Israel just gave a thorough tutorial with the Gaza flotilla freaks on how to deal with active anti-Semites. The pics are amazing, but also instructional. Get’er done.

-Ben Packer
+972-54-447-0221

20/05/2026

This Week Today
Current Events from Israel

The Holiday of Shavuos is coming up here right quick, but this has been an especially active week.. It’s hard to know where to even start, but we better get right to it so we’ll be able to digest this very important content before it’s straight to all-night Torah study.

There was another Jew-hating flotilla attempt to reach Gaza this week. The Israeli Navy rocked this one as well. All the boats and their moronic passengers were seized by Israeli authorities. Of course it’s all “legal” and in accordance with international law: Israel’s embargo on Gaza is allowed and it’s also allowed to arrest those attempting to disrupt it. But now the fun starts. A few videos were just released of Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir visiting and taunting the detained failed maritime terrorists. Just one man’s opinion, but it’s hilarious. He’s got them listening to the Israeli national anthem being played while they are bound and blindfolded on the ground and he’s waving an Israeli flag. White people everywhere are outraged, but this ain’t Europe and it’s very likely that these and other folks are going to think a few more times before they embark on such a stupid escapade again. Otherwise, we’ll just have more entertaining videos to watch. Personally, I recommend just sinking this ships and letting the sharks r**e them.

In other international legal affairs, there are reports circulating that additional Israeli political figures have been issued arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. One of them is supposedly Israeli Minister of Finance and Minister in the Defense Ministry Betzalel Smotrich. He seems quite annoyed by the whole thing. I’d be elated! Pick me! Pick me! Anyway, as a result. Smotrich has signed paperwork to destroy illegal Bedouin encampments near Jerusalem. What’s the connection? Basically, the Palestinian Authority is responsible for Smotrich’s arrest order and also heavily actively supports these specific illegal encampments. It’s still pretty unclear to me why this wasn’t done earlier, but better late than never I guess. Unfortunately no frisky sharks out there in the desert to be utilized.

Just to finish off the diplomacy front here, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter referred to JStreet as a “cancer” this week. The diplomatic lexicon is being re-written constantly these days. I’m no trained oncologist, but it seems to me that cancer must be a bit more honest than JStreet.

Iran
President Trump is apparently still deciding if the US and Israel should attack Iran again. This week he announced that he was just one hour away from ordering a new attack before deciding to give the negotiations some more time. How much more time? Unclear. Everyday both an agreement and an attack are reportedly imminent repeatedly throughout the course of the day. It’s a bit much at this point.

Gaza
The head of the Hamas military wing - effectively the head of Hamas in Gaza - was eliminated by Israel this week. This would have been huge news in the past and now it’s just a thing. The unalived terrorist was the last remaining main planner of Oct. 7th. A new terrorist has been appointed to take his place and it’s only a matter of time before he gets shaheeded as well. Other terrorists were eliminated this week as well, including some who actively participated in Oct. 7th.

Prime Minister Netanyahu announced this week that Israel now controls 60% of Gaza. This is up from 53% that was previously claimed to be controlled by Israel. Of course, Hamas seems in no way interested in giving up their guns and stuff, so Israel seems rather intent on solidifying its presence in the 60%. As mentioned in previous updates, expect attempts to establish Jewish communities in the Israeli-controlled area to increase dramatically very soon. Betzalel Smotrich has already come out publicly in support of the establishment of such communities as soon as the northern Shomron (Samaria) is rebuilt. More on that soon.

Lebanon
There were some very hard losses for Israel this week. Two Israeli soldiers (one married and the other engaged) were killed and others seriously wounded in southern Lebanon. Most of the casualties continue to be the result of Hezbollah’s explosive drones. One of those seriously injured is the Colonel in command of an entire tank brigade - G-d should grant him and the others injured a complete recovery.

Israel continues to eliminate terrorists throughout Lebanon and this week succeeded in killing a high ranking leader in the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. No one is immune and all terrorists will be found and targeted - sooner, rather than later. Israelis are clamoring to be allowed to settle in this area as well.

Northern Shomron (Samaria)
Speaking of settling, it was announced this week that a group of families, primarily currently living in the Tel Aviv area, will be relocating to help refound the soon to be rebuilt Jewish community of Kadim, next to Jenin in the northern Shomron (Samaria). It was previously announced that families connected with the Bnei David pre-military prep school in Eli are planning to relocate to and refound Ganim, right next to Kadim.

This is all quite an accomplishment and requires some high level of recognition. Over twenty years ago, four Jewish communities in northern Samaria were destroyed and the residents expelled as part of the “Disengagement”. Yossi Dagan was one of those expelled, along with his family, from the community of Sa-Nur. Dagan subsequently became the head of the local regional council and consistently promised a return to the destroyed communities. That promise has almost been completely fulfilled and likely will be in the next few weeks/months. Of course there were many factors and individuals involved in causing these communities to be rebuilt, but it would be simply unjustifiable to not acknowledge Yossi Dagan’s strenuous efforts and what will be in many ways his personal and professional massive accomplishment. Truly an incredible thing. Kol Hakavod to Yossi Dagan and all those who helped right the wrong that was inflicted just over 20 years ago.

Speaking of righting wrongs, a decision made almost 60 years ago as part of efforts to re-establish the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem may finally come to fruition. The original plan called for the Quarter to reach north until the “Chain Street” that leads to the Western Wall and to the Temple Mount. The entire area was expropriated from any legal owners, of all religions, for this purpose. However, over subsequent decades the Quarter was rebuilt but without a whole section that was originally meant to be included. In that area, Arabs continued to live and work and often harass Jews on the way to and from their holy sites. There have been numerous terror attacks in the area over the years and many Jews are tragically afraid to walk there even today. The Government decided this week to establish a committee to examine the possibility of finally implementing the original decision. Undoubtedly there will be much opposition from local Arabs and the international community to anything more Jewish in the Old City - this is not new nor should it be considered relevant in the decision-making process.

On Shavuos we celebrate the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. The Rabbis tell us that the name Sinai comes from the Hebrew word “sina” - hatred. Nobody wanted the Torah until the Jewish People accepted it and then it was on. They hate us because they ain’t us. Chag Sameach!

-Ben Packer
+972-54-447-0221

13/05/2026

This Week Today
Current Events from Israel

I must say that things have gotten quite ridiculous with the anti-Semitism stuff about now. It’s so bad and weird that it’s hard to know where to even start. I suppose it makes sense to start with the New York Times and their amazingly re****ed accusation this week: Israel has trained dogs to r**e Arab terrorists in custody. It’s really quite incredible on so many levels. The Germans actually did use dogs to torture Jews, so there is that. Why didn’t the Germans train their dogs to r**e the Jews? Perhaps because IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!! If you’re a Jew and you still buy the New York Times then there must be a recently used toilet nearby where you can thoroughly cleanse your brain. Sometimes basic morality isn’t so simple, but sometimes it’s as easy as pie. I must say that I personally once got a call from a New York Times reporter and even though I normally hang up right away on these parasitic vermin, this particular time I’m not the least bit ashamed to say that I tortured the hell out of him.

Speaking of New York, there was a protest against the Jews this week in Brooklyn. Yes, that’s where this is all headed and Mayor Achmed Mamdani is cheering it all the way. It all reminds so much of the entrance to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. I always found that part leading up to the Holocaust not so interesting, but now… Anyway, there were no serious injuries just yet, but not due to a lack of visceral hatred on the part of the protesters.

It’s as if all this has been building up over time. Was no one ever trying to prevent all this? They kind of were, but incredibly ineffectively. Their bumbling leader, the former head of the ADL, Abe Foxman, died this week. He was old. Pretty ironic that there was a full-on pogrom in a Jewish part of Brooklyn the same week. Really a testament to his lifetime of incredible lack of success "fighting" anti-Semitism. Fighting anti-Semitism is a bit like fighting gravity - only extreme levels of force have any chance of success. He was much better on the fundraising front, constantly mentioning his personal Holocaust survival. Like they say: There’s no business like Shoa business. With a life filled with such abject failure, death was probably the best gift he could be given, so it's no wonder that G-d delayed that for so long.

And finally, I have always been a bit annoyed by carpetbagger comedian Shane Gillis more or less pretending he’s Southern. He’s got some good jokes, but in general he’s just some Yankee saying what everyone in the South thinks. He made a major exception to that rule this week by conflating Zionism and killing babies/abortion at some dumb event making fun of some black midget attended by the Synagogue of Satan’s actual congregation. By his reasoning, the US Army must be quite “Zionist” because they killed or seriously wounded over 40,000 children in Afghanistan and thousands more in Iraq and Yemen. I won’t pretend that those numbers bother me, but Shane Gillis and his bad joke do. Maybe I’ll catch up with him one day below the Mason-Dixon line to explain my side, southern-style.

Elections!
As of now, it looks like Knesset elections will be held slightly earlier than originally planned - before the Jewish holidays. The Likud party is submitting a bill to dissolve the current Knesset and go to elections. This move is prompted by the inability of the current coalition to honor the pledges made to the Haredi parties at the outset of the current government to pass a law regulating draft exemptions for yeshiva students. Prime Minister Netanyahu initially delayed passing the law for a few years and the Haredi parties accepted his excuses and showed patience as long as there were no major negative consequences. However, recently the Attorney General and her evil friends have successfully increased their levels of persecution of the Haredi community over the issue. The Haredi parties insisted a law be passed now and Netanyahu has claimed that he is currently unable to garner the necessary votes due to objections from certain Knesset members from the Likud party and other coalition partners. They’re basic claim is that Oct. 7th changed the situation, however they ignore the obvious political reality that there is no coalition without the Haredi parties and a deal is a deal. In the meantime, Netanyahu will stay Prime Minister and the government will function in a caretaker role until the next coalition government is formed.

Iran
Nobody still has a clue what is going to happen with Iran. Reports are again saying that President Trump could restart the fighting at any given moment. Iran once again totally dismissed US demands this week. President Trump is currently visiting China, so he’ll probably wait until he’s back to eating American fast food before attacking.

Lebanon
The real action continues to be in Lebanon. Israeli forces crossed the Litani River and engaged Hezbollah terrorists in various locations. Although not the first time this has happened, it was definitely the most significant and may be a sign of things to come. Israel’s bombings of Hezbollah terrorists also continued and even included areas on the outskirts of Beirut, something that Israel has avoided since the “ceasefire” began. It’s estimated that at least 350 Hezbollah terrorists have been eliminated during that same time. Another Israeli reserve soldier was tragically killed this week by a Hezbollah drone. A total of 4 soldiers have been killed this way in recent weeks. Hezbollah is claiming many attacks, but with very little overall results. The possibility of Israel actually establishing a permanent border along the Litani River becomes more real by the day.

Gaza
Israel continues to successfully eliminate Hamas terrorists throughout the Gaza Strip, especially those who participated in Oct. 7th. It’s like that whole post-Munich hunt down and kill all the terrorists story all over again, but on a much larger scale. Hopefully some Hollywood Jew won’t make another movie to try to make us feel guilty about it. It won’t work this time either.

More detailed information was released this week about the horrific crimes of Oct. 7th, especially sexual atrocities. It’s not getting much international attention. No matter. The world seems completely obsessed with pics of the widespread destruction in Gaza.

Yemen
The Houthis awoke from their slumber and fired two drones toward Eilat. No damage or injuries reported. Seems that previous Israeli Air Force strikes may have crippled their capabilities and/or will to be too heavily involved. Or they are just lazy.

Six Day War/Jerusalem Day
This week marks the 59th anniversary of the Six Day War and the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, other parts of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The annual flag parade to the Old City will take place a day early from Jerusalem Day because it falls on Friday before Shabbos. The conquest of these biblical areas continues to be quite controversial internationally and European countries used the anniversary to announce sanctions on certain Jews and organizations for “violence” allegedly perpetuated against Arabs in the area. One of those sanctioned is 57, another is 67 and some lady is 80. It is very difficult to take these European neo-Nazis too seriously. Seems Europe is not getting the message, maybe it’s time to send in more African migrants and their dogs.

I was going to mention the Flatbush girl nonsense, but I was afraid I’d have to include a picture.

-Ben Packer
+972-54-447-0221

06/05/2026

This Week Today
Current Events from Israel

I’m not going to harp on all the anti-Semitism around the world right now, but protesters this week in NYC waved Hezbollah flags in front of a Synagogue. Pretty vile thing to do, but then you remember that Hezbollah has killed hundreds of American soldiers and it becomes totally insane. Not sure how to explain this stuff at this point. The West is unable to defend its Jews, but also increasingly unable to defend itself. At least if things get too bad, the Jews have where to go…

Also, an armada of circus freaks attempted to sail to Gaza this week. They didn’t even get close before they were boarded by Israeli soldiers and redirected to European ports. A better punishment would have been redirecting them to African ports!

US and Iran
What’s going on this week between the US and Iran? Who the heck knows. President Trump continued to alternate between announcing an imminent agreement with Iran and threatening to destroy them - numerous times a day! The latest, as I write this, is that Iran has a one-week deadline to agree to something or else they get bombed. Meanwhile during the ceasefire, Iran shot at a US Navy vessel and international civilian boats this week and the US sank Iranian naval vessels and threatened Iranian cargo ships. Some US cargo ships were able to successfully transverse the Strait of Hormuz and almost all Iranian ships were prevented from crossing - reports that maybe one got through. Also Iran shot missiles at the UAE and Oman. Quite the ceasefire!

Israel vs. Hezbollah
Speaking of ceasefires, not much of one in Lebanon right now either. Some Israeli soldiers were wounded this week, primarily by explosive drones sent by Hezbollah. The IDF has struggled a bit with this threat, but nothing to get all surrender-ry about. In addition to bombing terrorist targets throughout southern Lebanon all week, the IAF took the liberty to eliminate the commander of the Radwan force who was hiding out in Beirut. The IAF had refrained from attacking Beirut for about a month, but some things are too good to pass up. And all week long, reported accurately by the haters, the IDF continued to physically erase hostile villages throughout southern Lebanon, especially along the previous border with Israel. To paraphrase the great Hyman Roth: This is the business they have chosen. Or as the young people say: Mess around and find out, but they say it better.

Gaza
This week, Khalil al-Hayya defeated some other terrorist to become the “political head” of Hamas, while he lives in opulence abroad. Also this week Israel switched the commander of the Israeli Air Force and now Major General Omer Tischler is in charge. Just days later, the Israeli Air Force took out the terrorist son of al-Hayya in Gaza. Tischler - 1, al-Hayya - 0.

Additionally Israel took out more terrorists who participated in Oct. 7th and/or were currently threatening Israeli forces. With the abundantly clear failure to implement further stages of the “ceasefire” agreement with Hamas, there is a strong feeling that fighting may once again resume. If so, it’s likely the IDF will conquer even more of Gaza. The young people would likely admonish the Gazans with the ancient proverb: “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.

Israeli Elections
With Israeli elections scheduled to take place in a little over 5 months time, various new political parties are starting to align and folks are making moves. Mostly dumb moves. There’s a new right-wing party that no one will vote for, Jonathan Pollard is running for some reason, some on the left are quitting politics and some are joining together, but none of them are bringing more votes to their side of the electorate. Finance Minister Smotrich’s statement comparing the Government’s failure on Oct. 7th to Naftali Bennett previously partnering with terror-supporting Arabs was viciously distorted this week and Ayelet Shaked’s remarks about Smotrich being to blame for the latter were correctly understood as completely asinine. She was right to quit politics, she doesn’t have to keep reminding us all the time! Hopefully they are getting the bulk of the nonsense out of the way already now, so we don’t have to suffer as much later.

Despite the unlikely possibility of a left-wing government being formed after the elections, folks on the ground are not taking any chances. New Jewish communities and farms in Judea and Samaria are sprouting up on a DAILY basis! Already existing communities are developing at unparalleled rates. Religious and historically significant sites are being preserved. This past week it was announced that the grave of the biblical Prophet Amos had been re-discovered in eastern Gush Etzion. Jews are now visiting the area and preservation efforts are being planned. I’d like to open a “Famous Amos” chocolate chip cookie stand there. A group from the famous pre-army academy in Eli has been organized to re-establish the Jewish communities of Ganim and Kadim in the northern Shomron after they were destroyed 20 years ago as part of the Disengagement. Once this is completed, all eyes will be on Gaza - but not like the leftists had hoped for back during the war.

Speaking of the “All Eyes” campaign (most famously “All Eyes on Rafah”, and how did that go?), the social media and physical attacks on Jewish pioneers in Judea and Samaria by leftist and international provocateurs has reached unprecedented levels. Clearly a sign that big things are happening out there. Tremendous levels of Jewish winning. Some folks really hate that, but G-d loves it. Don’t believe it? Just look at the Six Day War - we commemorate that massive victory next week and will hopefully have many more by then as well!

-Ben Packer
+972-54-447-0221

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