This is Oren Almog. Oren lost his eyesight and five relatives in the suicide bombing in the Maxim Restaurant in Haifa in 2003. Although he is exempt from army service, Oren insisted on being enlisted into the Israeli Army.
Oren said after swearing his allegiance to the State of Israel, the People of Israel and the Army of Israel that ‘as someone who was hit pretty hard by terrorism, (he) is proud to serve an organisation that aims to protect the security of Israel, to prevent terrorism and to protect its residents’.
Oren is a true hero.
January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era.
A little bit of a break
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We’d like to thank you for all your support and feedback. We are so grateful for the brilliant response we’ve received and three months ago when we started this blog we had no idea that we’d ever reach 500 followers!
However, Eretz Yisrael is taking a short break. We’ve recently experienced security threats and there is debate amongst our moderators regarding our future and the direction we will take. These are all issues that need to be addressed before we can continue posting content.
BUT…
WE WILL BE BACK SOON; BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!
Thanks for all your support and don’t forget
עם ישראל חי
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This song was written with our blood, and not with lead;
It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead;
It was a people, amidst burning barricades,
That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.
So never say “Now go on your last way”
Though darkened skies may now conceal the blue of day,
Because the hour for which we’ve hungered is so near,
Beneath our feet the earth shall thunder, “We are here!”
- If I forget Jerusalem (DJ PM Remix)
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tehillim - if i forget you jerusalem
(Source: allthestarscollide)
“Israel… is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world” - Martin Luther King Jr
Candle lighting ceremony held in Itamar this year on every night of Chanukah, in front of the home of the Fogel family.
As the Rabbi of Itamar, Rav Natan Hai said, “The terrorists wanted to frighten and silence us but we will go on building and lighting a great light in the hills of the Shomron. Our beloved righteous ones, the Fogel Family, were murdered, but their light will go on and their way shall overcome.”
The Kosher McDonald’s in Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel, which is taken down and replaced with Burger Ranch.
Map made in London, year 1700, of the Middle East.
Note: Jerusalem is in the area known as Judea - and the word Palestine is not present.
Look at them…
Mahane Yehuda - Israel
Meah She’arim market - Bukharan Jewish vegetable vendor (circa 1935)
Jew Vs. Jew - Salomon Says
This is a despicable misrepresentation of our beloved Torah.
IDF Bedouin Paratrooper Proud To Serve
On the night of the IDF Paratrooper induction ceremony in Jerusalem, JewishPress.com’s managing editor Yishai Fleisher met a special family. This is their inspiring story of national pride that has stretched over the generations of Israel’s founding and growth up to the present day.
Jewish Population In Yesha Set to Pass 350,000 in 2012
The Jewish population in Judea and Samaria soared to 342,414 last year, a yearly increase of 4.3 percent, and the 350,000 figure is all but certain to be passed this year.
The numbers, stated by the Interior Ministry and reported by the Hebrew-language Yisrael HaYom newspaper, are higher than the 300,000 estimate used by most mainstream news agencies.
There are also an estimated 250,000-300,000 Jews in Jerusalem neighborhoods that are claimed by the Palestinian Authority for its desired new country within Israel’s borders.
Population figures are less precise for the Arab population in Judea and Samaria and areas in Jerusalem that the Palestinian Authority claims. Using the Palestinian Authority estimate of 2.4 million, a number that may be largely inflated, Jews now make up approximately 22 percent of the total population.
The actual percentage may be substantially higher because the World Bank and American-Israeli Demographic Research Group identified a 32 percent discrepancy between first-grade enrollment statistics documented by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, according to Wikipedia.
The true figure may be only slightly over 1.6 million Arabs, which would raise the Jewish percentage to closer to 25 percent.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said that a PA state would be devoid of Jews. The Arab population of areas in the capital and in Judea and Samaria is estimated at 2.4 million. The presence of 650,000 Jews represents approximately 22 percent of the total population.
The figures for the Jewish population do not include thousands of students from urban centers who are learning in high schools and post-high school institutions in the region.
Judea and Samaria: The heart of the eternal Jewish homeland
(Source: israelnationalnews.com)
