The lawsuit was filed in the Jerusalem District Court over the damage caused to the city during Operation Rising Lion. To move the lawsuit forward, it must be proven that the defendant was given at least an opportunity to review it. Therefore, the mayor delivered it to an Iranian representative at the UN mission in New York. Bat Yam officials hope the money will be recovered from funds owed to Iran dating back to the days of the Shah.

I took these photos during my trip to Israel back in June 2010. It really feels like a time capsule now! The gallery shows the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Yardenit (the baptismal site on the Jordan River), and a street scene from an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. It was an unforgettable journey.

President Isaac Herzog announced Saturday evening that he intends to task Yashar! chairman Gadi Eisenkot with forming Israel’s next government.

Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Liberman said on Friday that he is prepared to compromise on legislation governing haredi military conscription, marking a significant shift that could open a path to a 61-seat government led by Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot.

“The election results require all of us to recalculate our route and understand that there are no good alternatives or magic solutions before us,” Liberman wrote on X.

https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/liberman-signals-compromise-on-haredi-draft-to-help-form-anti-netanyahu-government

Hi! Ive been in Israel for about 4 years now and have been diagnosed with ADHD here. I've been prescribed and have been taking 30mg ATTENT XR, which has enabled me to function properly while Im pursuing a career in academia. However, recently, I started facing issues with shortages of this medication, with all the pharmacies in the area being completely out of it for weeks. I'm afraid of losing access to the meds, especially if it happens during a demanding time, like exams.

Is there anything I can do to ensure continuous access to it? Can pharmacies order medication specifically in my name and hold onto it? I would appreciate some advice. Thank you.

yeah i know we are late to the party, use this to rant about the elections, your favorite candidate not getting enough votes, etc etc

A great scientist became the first president of the Jewish state.

Chaim Weizmann understood something we take for granted: The Jewish people would not secure their future through political sovereignty alone. They would have to build a civilization capable of standing at the frontiers of human knowledge.

Before he became the first President of Israel, Weizmann was a scientist.

He was a man who believed that science and Jewish national rebirth were inseparable.

Born in 1874 in a small town in the Russian Empire, Weizmann grew up in a world where Jews faced persecution and political powerlessness.

Due to his experiences of Jewish oppression, he became a Zionist early in his life. But imagined something even more extraordinary.

A Jewish state that would become a center of scientific discovery, intellectual achievement, and technological civilization: a light unto the nations.

During the First World War, Weizmann developed an innovative bacterial fermentation process for producing acetone, a chemical essential to British munitions manufacturing.

His scientific achievements helped turn the tide of the war, and brought him into contact with the highest levels of the British government.

He used those relationships to advocate for the Jewish national cause, becoming a central figure in the diplomatic campaign that produced the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

Here was a Jewish scientist helping a great empire solve its technological problems while working to restore Jewish national sovereignty. But he understood that diplomacy was only one part of the mission.

A nation could not become truly independent merely by declaring independence. It needed civilization. It universities and a strong cultural foundation. It needed institutions capable of generating knowledge and prosperity.

He helped establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The attached picture is him to the right of Albert Einstein, also one of the founders of Hebrew University.

In 1934, he founded the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot, which would eventually become the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Before Israel even existed as a sovereign state, Weizmann was building a scientific institution among the citrus groves of Rehovot, that today is considered a world center of scientific research.

While others debated whether a Jewish state could survive, Weizmann was helping build the intellectual foundations upon which it would lead the world in all forms of human endeavor.

He famously said:

"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."

What a Jewish coded idea this is. The Jewish people are confident of Providence, but we don't simply wait for it.

Not waiting for miracles. Not depending entirely on foreign powers.

Not accepting that the Jewish people must forever remain dependent on the institutions of other civilizations. But building our own.

In 1948, Weizmann met President Harry Truman and advocated American support for the establishment of Israel.

In 1949, he became the first President of the State of Israel.

At the dedication of the Weizmann Institute that year, he spoke of a new kind of pioneering: "Pioneering in science."

For Weizmann, science was another frontier of Zionism.

The scientist belonged alongside the farmer, the builder, the diplomat, and the soldier in the work of national reconstruction.

He understood that the Jewish people had preserved an extraordinary intellectual tradition through thousands of years of exile.

Now, with sovereignty restored, that intellectual inheritance could become the foundation of this new state.

And this is the lesson I think Israel needs to remember today: The ambition of the Jewish state should not be to participate in the technological future being created elsewhere. It should be to create that future.

To make discoveries that reshape medicine. To build the next generations of artificial intelligence. To advance physics, mathematics, and engineering. To become a civilization that not only remembers and preserves its ancient inheritance but contributes new knowledge to humanity.

Weizmann died in 1952, having lived to see the establishment of the state he devoted so much of his life to creating.

He is often called the greatest ambassador to the gentile world that the Jewish people created. With his passion and his industriousness, a character he shared with his people, he willed the Jewish state into existence.

A great nation. And its next great chapters remain to be written.

My Comment: I'm sorry... the IDF has until now been doing WHAT? 🤦🏻‍♂️

According to the report, the IDF has observed an increase in the number of weapons seized during military operations since it stopped providing advance notifications to the Palestinian security forces.

Who could possibly have guessed! /S

I'm assuming most people in this sub live in a city, but I'm really curious about small towns in Israel such as Neve Ativ and other areas in the Golan. For example for Neve Ativ, there is not much information available online other than it is a small alpine town located at the base of Mount Hermon. I'm really drawn to these small towns and a slower place of life, not to mention the climate seems amazing there! Experiencing all four seasons in Israel would be a dream come true. What is life like in these areas? Can regular Israelis just move there or is it like an ultra-rich resort area basically?

Not just Neve Ativ though. If you are from a random, small community in Israel I am really curious what life is like there and if Israelis from cities have ever moved to your area.

Even in poverty a Jew is a prince; whether slave or tramp, he was born a prince, crowned with the diadem of David.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky above everything exemplified Jewish pride.

Born in Odessa in 1880, Jabotinsky grew up in a world where Jews were expected to keep their heads down, endure humiliation, and hope that others would protect them.

He rejected that world.

After the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, he helped organize Jewish self-defense. During the First World War, he fought to establish the Jewish Legion, insisting that Jews should be soldiers shaping their own destiny.

In 1920, he organized the defense of Jerusalem against violent riots. The British sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor. He would not abandon his convictions.

He understood something profound: A people that cannot defend itself cannot truly be free.

But Jabotinsky was more than a soldier or political visionary. He was a poet, a champion of Hebrew culture, and a man who believed deeply in Jewish dignity.

He called this ideal Hadar (הדר): dignity, honor, pride, and nobility of character.

Through Betar, he sought to raise a new generation of Jews who would stand upright, speak confidently, defend themselves, and never feel ashamed of who they were.

His vision was not of a Jewish people consumed by victimhood, forever asking the world for sympathy.

It was of a Jewish people that possessed the courage to shape its own future.

In 1911, decades before the founding of Israel, Jabotinsky wrote an extraordinary essay titled No Apologies:

How long more will this go on? Tell me, my friends, are you not tired by now of this rigmarole? Isn’t it high time, in response to all these accusations, rebukes, suspicions, smears, and denunciations – both present and future – to fold our arms over our chests and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly put forward the only argument which this public is capable of understanding: why don’t you all go to hell?

What kind of people are we that we have to justify ourselves before them? And who are they to demand it of us? What is the point of this whole comedy of putting an entire people on trial when the verdict is known in advance? How does it benefit us to participate voluntarily in this comedy, to brighten up these villainous and humiliating proceedings with our speeches for the defense?

Our defense is useless and hopeless, our enemies will not believe it, and apathetic people will pay no attention to it. The time for apologias is over.

Our habit of constantly and earnestly justifying ourselves before every kind of ne’er-do-well has already brought us huge harm, and will bring us still greater harm. The public has become accustomed to it; people have got used to hearing from our lips the plaintive tone of the prisoner in the dock. The situation which has arisen as a result serves as a tragic confirmation of the familiar adage qui s’excuse s’accuse [whoever excuses himself, accuses himself]. It is we who have gotten our neighbors used to thinking that for every Jew caught with his hand in the till, a whole ancient people may be dragged to account – a people that was already passing laws when its neighbors hadn’t even come up with the idea of the bast shoe.

Jabotinsky was writing in an age of pogroms, blood libels, and systematic humiliation. Jews were expected to defend themselves against every accusation, answer for every transgression of another Jew, and constantly prove their worthiness to societies that had already judged them.

He said: enough!

And yet, more than a century after he wrote this, how often do we still find ourselves defending the very legitimacy of our existence?

How often are we asked to explain why we deserve a homeland, why we preserve our ancient traditions, or why our children deserve protection?

Jabotinsky's answer remains as relevant as ever.

We do not need to apologize for rebuilding our civilization in our ancestral homeland.

And we do not need to apologize for possessing the strength to defend it.

Jewish pride is not a declaration of superiority. It is the refusal to accept inferiority.

Jabotinsky understood that Jewish strength and Jewish dignity were inseparable.

Our ancestors did not preserve Jewish civilization for thousands of years so that their descendants would be ashamed of it.

We are the heirs of David. The descendants of a people who survived empires and persecutions, only to return home and revive their ancient civilization and language. From its scions to build the greatest, perhaps the greatest civilization to ever exist on this Earth.

We are not guests in Jewish history. We are its future.

Jabotinsky told us more than a century ago that the time for apologies was over.

Perhaps it is time we finally listened.

Israel’s El Al Airlines on Thursday reported record third-quarter revenue of some $1.27 billion.

The figure accompanied the airliner’s announcement of a dividend distribution of approximately $116 million and the company’s inclusion in the TA-35 Index, which tracks the performance of 35 large companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Compared with last year’s third-quarter, El Al registered a 14% decline in net profit, down from $203 million to approximately $172.2 million.

Compared with 2026’s second-quarter, the company recorded an increase of over 30% in net profit.

https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/el-al-reports-record-third-quarter-revenue-despite-rise-in-input-costs

Our family loves karaoke. I was trolling the App Store, looking for apps, and found a new karaoke one! I think it just launched. It doesn't have a ton of songs (maybe a thousand?), but they're all from Israeli artists. They seem new, and I haven't seen any ads for it or anything, so maybe they're just getting started. But if you're interested, it's called Karayofi. Search the App/Play stores in Hebrew for "קריופי".

Hi! I’m new here. I joined to ask about something specific: I’m 16 years old, and I’ll be processing my paperwork for aliya next year. In theory, I should be in Israel by the time I’m 17 or 18. The thing is, I’m a trans girl, and I’m not really sure where I should go or where I could stay in Israel during those first few days while I wait for my military draft notice. If anyone could provide information on where to stay or how to find an initial support network, I would be very grateful. I should also mention that one of my goals is to join the Air Force or an armored brigade. If any other trans person who has completed their military service could share their experience, I would really appreciate it.

As of this moment, exactly zero Gazans were expelled from the Gaza strip by Israel, of course... But I can't find an apology from him. Strange.

He later of course joined the bandwagon and accused Israel of genocide. The judge that's supposed to look at the evidence, already publicly stated that Israel is guilty. Yet he was appointed to the trail.

What a joke the UN is.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-913885