Author: moshe

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Two More Rockets Fall on Eshkol Region [Between 10 and 11 AM]

Rocket Attack on Eshkol Area [Friday AM]

Kassam Attack on Shaar Hanegev

Rocket Fired From Gaza Hits Sha’ar Henegev Region; None Hurt

PA Releases 45 Hamas Terrorists

Tanzim Terrorist Arrested near Ramallah

IDF Arrests 2 Terror Suspects [Near Bethlehem, Near Jenin]

Attempted [Shooting] Attack [on Woman Driving] Near Dolev

Firebomb Attack next to Sinjil [Northeast of Ramallah]

Rock Attack Near Tekoa

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Military Intelligence: Iran Can Produce Nuclear Weapon

Four Kassam Rockets Strike South [Two Hit Eshkol Region, Two struck Sdot Negev], by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

Olmert to Barak: You’ve Shown There Was No Value to Cast Lead

IAF Aircraft Hit Munitions Warehouse, Smuggling Tunnels in Gaza

Israeli Car Damaged in Stoning Near Hebron’s Jewish Quarter

IDF Arrests Four Wanted Terrorists Overnight [in Bethlehem]

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By Moshe Burt

For many years, since 1991 when Parsha Ki Tisa marked my son Philip’s Bar Mitzvah, I have spoken or written about a posuk in our Parsha which alludes to an event which is recorded in Torah 40 years later, in a subsequent Parsha.

The posuk being referred to (Sh’mos, Perek 30, posuk 30) says that while Moshe Rabbeinu was on Har Sinai being given Torah, Hashem said;

“You shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them to minister (to serve) me.”

This seemingly obscure posuk which pops up in a couple of slightly different forms in both Parsha Tetzaveh and in our Parsha raises a challenging question which cuts to the chase of what we continue to face today. The question is; what about that Pinchas Ben Elazar? Why was he not anointed as a Kohen with his brothers? read more

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‘Terrorist Drove Unhindered to Scene’, by Shelly Paz, Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)

Commentary:

According to an updated Jerusalem Post report, since the original report came out on this latest tractor terrorist attack; certain other salient facts regarding the tractor terror attack have come to light:

The attacker – later identified as Mar’i al-Rdaidah, 26, from the capital’s northeastern Beit Hanina neighborhood – reached the intersection near Teddy Stadium and managed to push the police patrol car for about 30 meters, police said. He pushed the police vehicle into the bus, but his momentum was apparently stopped by the bus and an electrical post pinned between the police car and the bus.

The bus was full of girls dressed in Purim costumes en route to cheer up patients at Hadassah hospital, according to the Zaka rescue and recovery service.

Rdaidah drove the construction vehicle unhindered through the city to the scene of the attack, Channel 2 reported.

According to the report, Rdaidah, who lived on the Palestinian side of Beit Hanina and did not have an Israeli ID card, was the owner of the vehicle, unlike in the two previous bulldozer rampages in Jerusalem last year.

Police, Magen David Adom and Zaka personnel streamed to the scene within minutes. read more