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Land of My Birth – At the end of the First World War (1918), the Zionist movement began to awaken in Damascus. The participants were Hebrew activists who had been expelled from...

Parashat Vayikra 5767 Rabbi Elazar says in Ketubot 111a: Whoever resides in Eretz Yisrael is without sin, as the prophet says (Yeshayahu 33:24): “Let no one say that he is ill...

Courageous Personalities Leading and Standing Firm When you hear the shachar adom—the warning alarm that a Kassam missile is imminent, what are you supposed to do? Find the concrete structure to...

Land of My Birth – The sixteenth century was the golden era of Tzefat. At the time, this city in the Galil was the home of the majority and the most...

Question: What is the most important thing to keep in mind if you get lost in Israel? Answer: Yashar, yashar, yashar* There’s a man in my life that I’m trying to...

Sderot is a ghost town. The streets are empty; the parks are barren; the stores are closed, and for sale signs are on some of the homes. Only ‘some’ of the...

My company recently finished a long and complex project in which we had partnered with a German company. This project required several engineers and specialists from the German company to spend...

Land of My Birth – On this very date, the sixth of Adar (Adar I in that year), the great battle was held over the isolated kibbutz, Tirat Tzvi, in the...

I’m still not sure how the fight broke out. Eight-year-old Aviv and I were out in the courtyard in front of our apartment on Shabbat afternoon, throwing a ball around, when...

Parshat Mishpatim 23:20 “Behold, I am sending an angel to protect you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared for you.” After we have completed...