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Thousands Sing at the Kosel "Vehareinu"

Thousands gathered at the Kosel Hamaaravi yesterday singing "Vehareinu" composed by Sholomo Yehuda Rechnitz.

וְהַרְאֵנוּ, בְּבִנְיָנוֹ

 וְשַׂמְחֵנוּי בְּתִקוּנוֹ

וְהָשֵׁב כֹּהֲנִים לַעֲבוֹדָתָם

וּלְוִיִּם לְשִׁירָם וּלְזִמְרָם

וְהָשֵׁב יִשְׂרָאֵל לִנְוֵיהֶם

וְשָׁם נַעֲלֶה וְנֵרָאֶה וְנִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לְפָנֶיךָ

בְּנֵה בֵיתְךָ כְּבַתְּחִלָה 

וְהָשֵׁב כֹּהֲנִים לַעֲבוֹדָתָם

וּלְוִיִּם לְשִׁירָם וּלְזִמְרָם

וְהָשֵׁב יִשְׂרָאֵל לִנְוֵיהֶם

Replay: Thousands at Birkat Kohanim at Kotel

Tens of thousands of worshipers gathered Thursday morning for the traditional Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing) ceremony during the Passover holiday at the Western Wall.

The ceremony was led by Israel's Chief Rabbis and the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites. During the ceremony, prayers were offered for the swift return of the hostages, for the healing of the wounded, and for the well-being of the State of Israel, the IDF soldiers, and the security forces.

Horrific: Hamas Terrorist Shooting at Jerusalem Bus Stop

Three people were murdered Thursday morning in a shooting attack at one of the entrances to Jerusalem.

The murdered have been named as Livia Dickman (24) of Har Nof, Chana Ifergen (67) of Beit Shemesh, and Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman (73) of Ashdod.

Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that five additional victims were moderately injured. Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center have received eight victims who were evacuated from the scene. Two of the victims suffered light injuries, one suffered moderate injuries, and five suffered serious injuries.

Hadassah Eiin Kerem reported that the hospital received three victims: a man of 56 in moderate condition; a woman of 22 in moderate condition; and a boy of 17 who suffered light injuries. All three are fully conscious.

According to initial reports, two terrorists arrived at the scene by vehicle and opened fire at passersby, using M-16 automatic weapons.

The attack took place on Weizman Blvd. at the junction of the entrance to the city, from the direction of Ramot.

The terrorists, who are from Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods, were eliminated by two soldiers and a civilian.

Zaka Volunteers Sing at Kotel

In a moment both heartbreaking and heartwarming, Zaka volunteers gathered at the Kosel on Thursday night to daven and pay tribute to the victims of the Hamas terror attacks against Israel.

Standing in a semi-circle in the shadow of Klal Yisroel’s greatest tragedy, the Churban Bais Hamikdash, they lit candles formed into the number 1,350 – the amount of innocents murdered by Hamas – and sang “Acheinu,” praying to the Hakadosh Baruch Hu to shield them and all of Klal Yisroel in the face of the ongoing unprecedented threats to their lives.

Additionally, the Zaka volunteers and others at the gathering recited Tehillim for the Refuah of the thousands who have been injured in the Hamas attacks, and were led by Kosel Rav Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz in saying a Tefillah for the safety of the IDF.

Drone Videos From Gur And Belz Chupahs

Two gigantic weddings took place in Jerusalem Tuesday, as both the Belzer Rebbe and the Gerer Rebbe married off grandchildren in their respective Batei Midrash which are both situated in the Romema district of Jerusalem just 500 meters apart.

The Gerer wedding took place first, as tens of thousands congregated on Yirmiyahu street near the famous Beis Midrash of Gur. A gallery of illustrious rabbis, including Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, Rav Yitzchak Yosef, the Boyaner Rebbe and Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau participated in the chupa, as the crowd burst into song immediately afterwards.

The Belz wedding took place in the evening, as thousands of chasidim gathered near the Beis Midrash and rejoiced with the Rebbe, his son Rav Aharon Mordechai and grandson, the eighth grandchild to be married.

The celebration moved after the chupa to the huge Arena center in the south of Jerusalem, where the meal and Mitzva Tanz took place. The chasidim were gratified to see the rebbe dance with them after he underwent significant back surgery just two months ago.

The Belz wedding was also attended by prominent litvish rabbis, including Aterest Yisrael rosh yeshiva Rabbi Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi (who also participated in the Gur wedding) and Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, rosh yeshiva of Slabodka.

Drone: Gerrer Chupa



Drone: Belzer Chupah

7 Injured in Car-ramming Attack Near Machane Yehuda

At least seven were injured in a car-ramming attack in central Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli Police reported.

Footage shows the attack aftermath in the busy Machane Yehuda market, police officers and ambulances could be seen on the ramming attack scene. The terorist was shot dead at the scene by a civilian.

Police reported the assailant was a 39-year-old man from East Jerusalem. According to the Israeli security forces,

A heightened alert was announced in Israel ahead of Memorial Day, which commemorates soldiers and civilians who were fallen during Israel's wars.

Mother: Don't Look for Revenge

A car drove into people at a bus stop in Jerusalem, killing Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 5, and his brother Asher Menachem Paley, 8, along with 20-year-old Alter Shlomo Lederman in a Horrific terror attack. The Paley boys' 42-year-old father who was injured remains hospitalized. CNN's Hadas Gold speaks to the boys' mother.



Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, this evening (Tuesday), paid a condolence call on the Paley family at their home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot

Terror in Jerusalem: 2 Killed, 4 Injured in Ramming Attack

A man in his 20s and a 6-year-old boy were killed, and 4 others injured after a terrorist rammed a vehicle into pedestrians waiting at a bus stop on Golda Meir Blvd. in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.

The terrorist was shot and killed by IDF soldiers who were nearby. The terrorist has been identified as a 31-year-old resident of East Jerusalem.

A 6-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene, while a man in his 20s was transported to Shaare Tzedek hospital in critical condition, where he too tragically passed away.

The older victim has been identified as Pinsk-Karlin chassid Alter Shlomo Lederman hy”d. He got married just five months ago and was heading with his wife to his parents’ home in Elad for Shabbos when the terror attack occurred.

The second victim identified as 6-year-old Yaakov Yisroele Paley hy”d, a resident of Ramot. According to a Psak by HaRav Ezriel Auerbach, the Levaya will be held before Shabbos.

An 8-year-old victim is currently at Shaarei Tzedek in critical condition, with other victims transported there as well.

Terror in Jerusalem: Teen killed in Attacks at Bus Stops

A 16-year-old boy has been killed and 22 other people have been wounded in two saperate bomb attacks at bus stops in Jerusalem, Israeli police say.

The explosions happened at two busy areas on the outskirts of the city as people were heading to work.

Israeli media said the teenager who died was an Israeli-Canadian religious student named Aryeh Shtsupak hy"d

Israel's internal security minister said at one scene that this was "an attack we haven't seen in a long time".

A return to the use of explosives in Jerusalem makes it one of the most significant attacks of its kind in years.

No group has so far said it was behind the blasts. However, the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both praised the perpetrators of what they referred to as the "operation".



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Israeli Woman Stabbed In Front Of Her Children

A 26-year-old woman was stabbed and seriously injured next to Kever Shimon HaTzaddik in Jerusalem at about 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning as she was pushing a stroller with her twin babies on the way to taking her three older children to school in the morning.

The female terrorist fled the scene.

Paramedics administered emergency medical aid at the scene and evacuated the woman to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital. B’Chasdei Hashem, doctors at the hospital designated her condition as lightly injured.

MDA deputy spokesperson Nadav Meltzner said that “there was a huge commotion at the scene when the team arrived and the injured woman was in a state of great distress as the knife was still lodged inside the wound.”

The knife was one foot long and the woman was evacuated to the hospital with the knife still lodged inside her back.

The children were Baruch Hashem, unharmed and were supervised by police officers at the scene.

A large number of police forces, aided by a helicopter, began an extensive manhunt immediately after the incident, which was documented on security cameras. A little over an hour after the attack, they located the 14-year-old terrorist in her school, located next to the scene of the incident.

Security officials fear a new wave of terror as the attack comes days after a security guard was seriously injured in a ramming attack and less than a week after a man was stabbed by Sha’ar Shechem.

Palestinian Terrorist Kills One, Wounds Three in Old City

A Hamas gunman opened fire in the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, killing one Israeli man and wounding four others, two of them seriously, Israeli officials said.

Police officers at the scene opened fire at the terrorist, a 42-year-old Palestinian man from East Jerusalem, and killed him, according to police.

The fatality was named as Eliyahu David Kaye, 26, an employee of the Western Wall who resided in the central city of Modiin. He was the first Israeli civilian to be killed by Palestinian violence in over six months, since May’s 11-day conflict with terror groups in the Gaza Strip, which killed 12 civilians in Israel.

Hamas hailed the attack, calling it a “heroic operation,” and identified the terrorist as a member of the organization, Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, a Hamas leader in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, where he lived.

According to police, Abu Shkhaydam entered the Old City armed with a Beretta M12 submachine gun and opened fire at three Israeli men who were walking through the area, near the Chain Gate entrance to the Temple Mount, fatally wounding one of them and seriously injuring the other two.

Two female police officers rushed to the scene from one side of the alleyway, opening fire at Shkaydam. Shortly thereafter, two male officers ran in to assist them.

“[The gunman] moved through the alleys and fired quite a bit. Luckily, the alley was mostly empty because otherwise — heaven forbid — there would have been more casualties. The entire incident lasted 32 or 36 seconds. The actions of the female officers was — operationally — at the highest possible level,” Public Security Minister Omer Barlev said at the scene of the attack.

Kaye was taken to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, where he was pronounced dead. One of the severely injured victims, a rabbi, was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where his condition stabilized somewhat after emergency surgery, doctors said. Another man sustained moderate-to-severe injuries — from gunshots and from shrapnel — and was taken to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem.

Jewish Driver Attacked by Arab Lynch Mob

An Israeli Jew was injured Monday morning after he was assaulted by a mob of Arab rioters outside of the Old City of Jerusalem.

The attack, which took place as Israel celebrates Jerusalem Day marking the liberation of the Old City from Jordanian occupation, took place outside of the Lions’ Gate Monday morning.

Rioters hurled large numbers of rocks at the victim’s car as he drove by, causing him to crash, with the car overturning.

The Arab mob then tried to lynch the driver, who was saved by the intervention of Israeli police officers.

MDA emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene to treat the driver.

Earlier on Monday, Arab rioters attacked police officers on the Temple Mount, hurling stones and firebombs and shooting fireworks at officers. Rioters also threw rocks at the Mughrabi Bridge, which links the Western Wall Plaza to the Temple Mount.

Monday's riots are the latest in a wave of Arab violence during the month of Ramadan, with attacks reported across Israel, including in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa.

Thousands Attend Levaya of Rav Dovid Soloveitchik, Z’TL

Levaya of Hagaon HaRav Meshulam Dovid Halevi Soloveitchik ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk. He was 99.

Thousands of people joined the levaya at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, which began from the niftar’s home on 17 Eli HaCohen Street and passed by the nearby Yeshivas Brisk on the way to Har Hamenuchos, where he will be buried next to his father, z’tl.

It was announced at the beginning of the levaya that according to the wishes of the niftar, z’tl, his oldest son, HaRav Yitzchak Zeev, the son-in-law of HaGaon HaRav Baruch Dov Povarsky, will take his position as Rosh Yeshivas Brisk.

Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik is the son of Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik, the 'Rabbi of Brisk,' and the grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, the originator of the 'Brisker method' of studying Talmud.



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Police Use Water Cannon on Protesters Blocking Roads

Police used turned water cannons on hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters who were blocking roads in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Officers could be seen dragging the demonstrators physically out of the street as they attempted to block the path of the water cannon with their bodies.

The demonstrators, who were blocking traffic at the Sarei Yisrael-Jaffa junction in the west of the city, were rallying over the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student who refused to appear at a military recruitment post.

Mounted police were also deployed to clear the demonstrators from the area, while the commander of the Israeli army's ground forces, Major General Yoel Strick, was also surrounded by protesters while driving through the area in his car and had to be rescued by police, according to local media.

Military service in Israel is compulsory for all men and women who are 18 years old, with a long-running exemption for the ultra-Orthodox being scrapped in 2014, while Israel's high court has repeatedly thrown out other draft exemption laws.

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Chareidim Clash with Police Over Neighborhood Closure

Protesters denounced alleged police violence during a similar gathering on Saturday night, brandishing banners reading "Charedi [ultra-Orthodox] Lives Matter," in a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement and the wave of protests and riots that engulfed the US after an African American man died in late May at the hands of Minneapolis police.

A few demonstrators shouted "Nazis" at police officers tasked with enforcing the lockdown on the neighborhood.

Last week the government announced that these neighborhoods, as well as several communities elsewhere in Israel, would be shuttered for seven days starting Friday.

An ultra-Orthodox Israeli lawmaker on Friday called on the country's two religious parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, to temporarily withdraw from the government to protest against what he decried as "selective targeting."

Police Throw Stun Grenade, 8-Year Old Girl Injured

Police brutality against Chareidim reached new heights Thursday night in Meah Shearim, with a stun grenade thrown near a mother and her 8-year-old daughter. The daughter was injured in her face. A baby in its carriage was also situated next to the mother but it was not hurt.

Police were attempting to enforce public health laws and remove extremists from a local synagogue but at some point after they were attacked with eggs and other items, they decided to throw stun grenades, one of which was thrown at the place where 8-year-old Zisel Margolies was standing. She was injured in the face and taken to Hadassah hospital for treatment, after which she was released with serious burn marks on her face. Miraculously her eyes were not affected.