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Mourning the Bais Hamikdosh In the Knesset, which goes into recess this week, there was tension in the air as things wound down. The coalition...

The Police Deny Responsibility In the midst of this sadness, the preparations for the hillula of Rav Shimon Bar Yochai on Lag Ba’omer continued. With...

Provisions for Pesach Here in Israel, there are organizations in every neighborhood and city that distribute food packages to the needy in advance of the...

“Hefetz Doesn’t Know Anything!” Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu may have been out of the country, but his thoughts were focused on the investigations at home....

Lingering Memories of Purim On Thursday, it felt as if the entire country descended upon Bnei Brak. The next day, everyone flocked to Yerushalayim. In...

It Isn’t Over for Netanyahu Yet The scandals just keep coming. Shlomo Filber, a close associate of Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu and director-general of the...

Adar Begins with Chaos Here in Israel, insanity has set in. It is as if our country misread the halachah of “mishenichnas Adar marbim b’simchah,” and...

Israel Shows Its Religious Side Sukkos has arrived. We have been waiting for this Yom Tov for an entire year. I don’t know what Sukkos...

The Supreme Court’s Latest Ruling – A Political Earthquake In the United States, the recent upheavals have come in the form of powerful storms that...

Netanyahu En Route to the United Nations The submarine affair here in Israel has been growing to ever greater proportions. Last week, several public figures...

Toppling a Government Over Gifts? It is now almost clear that the investigations surrounding Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu will end with the cigars – perhaps...

“Are you a talmid of Rav Moshe Shapira zt”l?” That is the question people started asking me after a picture of Rav Moshe and...

About a month ago, I was walking along the perimeter of the Knesset during an ordinary sitting, when I suddenly froze in my tracks....

If You Daven, Of Course You Will Be Saved Last week, I promised you more details about the State Comptroller’s report on Operation Protective Edge....

Binyomin Netanyahu has gotten himself into another mess. What began as an effort to ingratiate himself with one world leader led to a breakdown...

Painful Scenes in Amona The signs declared, “Amona will not fall again,” but Amona has fallen. And why? As I told you last week, the...

It is called Question Hour, and this time it was the prime minister’s turn. Prime Minister Netanyahu entered the Knesset plenum last Wednesday at...

The Real Story Behind Operation Protective Edge This past week, the cabinet protocols from the period of Operation Protective Edge were released, and it wasn’t...

The Embodiment of Kavod HaTorah I must make note of the tremendous sadness that enveloped the Torah world in Eretz Yisroel this past week in...

Our Problems Keep Mounting Here in Israel, we have been dealing with a steadily growing array of problems. Unfortunately, as new problems arise, the old...