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True kindness in this war

Plato is attributed with stating that we must be kind to everyone, as we don’t know what people are going through. In Judaism the ultimate true...

05.11.2023 10

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In the Kibbutz of the Slaughter

Yesterday, I visited the ruins of Kibbutz Be’eri with soldiers in my IDF unit.  As I saw the scenes of barbaric devastation, I recalled the poem...

03.11.2023 30

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Where are the Ceramic vests for all of our combat IDF troops?

The national spirit is at an all time high.  We all realize that we are fighting a war against absolute evil that threatens not only our tiny Jewish...

24.10.2023 10

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Liverpool’s Salah Is Offside about Gaza!

As a lifelong Liverpool fan, I was extremely disappointed with our star player, Mohamad Salah’s, response to the terror war we are currently...

19.10.2023 20

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I fought and I fought and eventually got back into the army!

What can I do? This was the first thought that went through my mind when I woke up last Shabbat to an air raid siren and the terrible news just kept...

17.10.2023 7

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Why the BBC refuses to call terrorism ‘terrorism’ when it come to Israel

Why won’t the BBC use the “T” word to describe those evil barbarians who shoot thousands of unguided missiles at (Israeli) civilian population...

13.10.2023 4

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Hell on earth! Eyewitness report from Kibbutz Kfar Aza

This harrowing and shocking post is from a good friend of mine, and fellow Tour Guide, Ralph Lewinsohn, who made aliyah from Namibia and has raised...

10.10.2023 30

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The Iron Will of the Iron Dome Operators

One of the enduring images of the current relentless terror war from the Hamas controlled (for now) Gaza Strip is that of the “Iron Dome”...

09.10.2023 10

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Saving Queen

This week I closed an emotional circle which began in East Africa eight years ago. I reunited with Queen and her mother, Grace, at the “Save a...

05.10.2023 10

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“Force Tzvika” and the thin olive-green thread that saved Israel 50 years ago

As September draws to a close we pause to remember the fateful days fifty years ago when the Jewish State was hanging on by a thin olive-green thread....

24.09.2023 30

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Oz 77. Honouring Kahalani Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War

This year the State of Israel marks fifty years since the Yom Kippur War.  Israeli intelligence and strategic planners were caught by surprise on the...

22.09.2023 30

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How Tal Brody helped put Israel on the map

Tal Brody recently celebrated his 80th birthday. Brody helped snap the country out of its deep funk following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He was captain...

20.09.2023 10

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The Point of the Bar Kokhba Revolt Swords

This week there was tremendous excitement as the Israeli Antiquities authority revealed that it had uncovered four remarkably preserved Roman swords...

08.09.2023 20

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A Jew in Malta

Recently I returned from a mini break to Malta. There are so many wonderful things to say about this small Mediterranean nation only a short flight...

14.08.2023 20

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Seventeen Years without Michael Levin

On Tisha b’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, in 2006 Michael Levin z”l, the only American/Israeli casualty of the Second Lebanon War,...

25.07.2023 10

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Tisha B’Av 2023. Let history not repeat itself

Let history not repeat itself. Witnessing the scenes in the week of Tisha B’Av in Jerusalem as Israel tears itself apart over the Judicial reform...

23.07.2023 20

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Remembering Lone Soldier Max Steinberg

Max Steinberg was, until nine years ago a name most of us were unfamiliar with. He was one of the few thousand of Chayalim Bodedim (“lone...

18.07.2023 30

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Uganda, July 4th, 1976

Today, as Americans celebrate July 4th, here in Israel we remember that on America’s bicentennial, Yonatan Netanyahu and the IDF troops in Uganda on...

04.07.2023 10

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Agony to Ecstasy: From the Warsaw Ghetto to Celebrating a Bat Mitzvah in Israel.

Last week I was honoured and moved to be guiding three generations of the Brand family in Israel for a Bat Mitzvah trip.  What made this even more...

27.06.2023 40

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Schiffer Teens Adventure in Israel

I have just finished guiding one of the most memorable Israel experience trips I have ever had the fortune to work with in my professional career. ...

16.06.2023 40

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The IAF at 75: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

As we celebrate 75 years of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) it is difficult to comprehend how modest were the beginnings of the much vaunted IAF.  Back...

09.06.2023 20

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The Jerusalem Tunnel that Saved Judaism. Archeology and the Bible intersect.

If the holy city of Jerusalem had fallen in the eighth century BCE it would have meant the end of Judaism and altered the course of human history. ...

21.05.2023 10

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