As Israel is entering the third week of its offensive against Hizballah in Lebanon, many are speculating about possible exit strategies. Some things everyone agrees on: Someone will need to watch over Southern Lebanon to make sure that Hizballah (or their successors) are not able to rebuild their infrastructure. That someone cannot be Israel Israel [...]

From Arutz Sheva: Despite the Re-Engagement War, 650 French Jews arrived on Aliyah (immigrating to Israel) Tuesday – the largest number to arrive in a single day since 1971. [snip] AMI reports that many of the new immigrants will be moving to northern Israel, and like the planeload of North Americans that arrived last week, [...]

As reserve soldier activation orders have been announced across the country (tzav shemoneh), now is the time to read this first-person account of a reserve soldier who was called up for emergency duty in 2002, for Operation Defensive Shield. (Hat Tip: Ari Kinsberg). May our soldiers carry out their missions with success, and return home [...]

Much of the conversation relating to Israel today features some very polarized view points. Many commenters (myself included) are strong supporters of Israel, her policies and actions. Many other commenters have the exact opposite view: they are against Israel’s policies and think that Israel’s actions are wrong (or racist, genocidal, criminal, etc). Some people in [...]

Rav Gil from Hirhurim gives some aliyah mussar based on current events and a verse in Parashat Matot. He cites the verse: ????? ??? ???? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ?? And Moshe said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuven: Will your brothers go to war and you [...]

Hard to believe it, but not everyone moves to Israel with NBN. Welcome home to the Weissman family. ??? ??? ?????? ???!

Hi All- Baruch Hashem, our little family is OK. Klal Yisrael on a whole – please G-d we will be OK and will pull through. And really- please G-d, B’ezrat Hashem Yitbarach. Of course the new “matzav” is an unavoidable topic to be talking about here. A good amount of families are moving southward to [...]

Adina works with a number of children as an Occupational Therapist. All of these children come from a hareidi (what some may call ultra-Orthodox) background. On Monday, one of the children said that he had been scheduled to go on a tiyul (fun outing) with his school that day but it had been cancelled. Why [...]

After the new version of Google Earth was released a few weeks back, I can now get high resolution images of the yishuv (settlement) in which I live. I can even make out the exact street and house. Amazing technology. This also enabled me to measure the exact distance from my home to the center [...]

Welcome to 240 new Olim who came Home from a sojourn in the US with the help of Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency, including our new neighbors, the Lyons family. You should have a ????? ??? ?????? ??? (much success and an easy absorbtion).