Tel Aviv Wandering and Who’s who in the race for Jerusalem city council? Stick with Arieh King and Yossi Daitch

Can't see images? Click here... Yehuda Lave, Spiritual Advisor and Counselor Admit To Justified Criticism As a young man, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk (19th century author of "Bais HaLevi") once made an offer to a wagon driver. The rabbi would get a ride to a certain city without payment, in return for helping to drive the wagon. Unfortunately, the young rabbi lacked expertise in this skill and made a number of mistakes. The wagon driver kept screaming at him and finally hit him. Near their destination, they stopped at an inn where someone recognized the young man as a brilliant scholar. On discovering the identity of the person he had insulted and hit, the wagon driver was deeply embarrassed. He ran over to Rabbi Soloveitchik and begged his forgiveness. To the relief of the wagon driver, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik forgivingly smiled and said, "What is there for me to forgive? You did not insult me for my lack of Torah knowledge. You were irritated over my lack of skill in driving the wagon. You are correct. I am an ignoramus in this area, and can understand why you become angry at me." Love Yehuda Lave I personally believe that the most important person that I have worked with in Jerusalem is Arieh King. Arieh King, Founder Arieh King, director and founder of the Israel Land Fund (ILF), developed the idea over the course of ten years of working in the East Jerusalem area with several organizations and government bodies. Arieh realized the desire of Diaspora Jews to take a more active role in redeeming the land of Israel, especially in Jerusalem. Born on Kibbutz Alumim, Arieh, 41, is one of the ten original residents of Ma'ale Zeitim (Ras-Al-Amud) where he currently resides with his wife and six children. Arieh was also one of the first people in the national religious camp to stand up to extreme left-wing organizations pushing the post-Zionist agenda. Bringing more than ten years of experience in redeeming the land of Israel, Arieh started the Israel Land Fund while trying to recover land on the Mt. of Olives in 2007. Since then, he has been active both in recovery and preservation of Jewish land in East Jerusalem as well as throughout the Land of Israel. Arieh started the Israel Land Fund to offer unique opportunities for any Jew to personally acquire a piece of the land, part of a building or a number of buildings in Israel. Arieh endeavors to acquire land of strategic national importance as well as areas of historical and religious value to the Jewish people. In October 2013, Arieh was elected to the Jerusalem City Council, where he continues to fight for the rights of Jews to live and travel with equal treatment in every part of the holy city. For this reason, I am voting for his party and Arieh has recommended Yossi Daitch and I am therefore voting for him. See the story below Who's who in the race for Jerusalem city council? Who's who in the race for Jerusalem city council? A primer on the Jerusalem lists and the leading candidates for city council. By Peggy Cidor October 20, 2018  With municipal elections around the country only ten days away, Jerusalem residents are facing a big choice. There are 10 lists running for 30 seats in the next Jerusalem city council – with the 31st seat belonging to the next elected mayor. Each mayoral candidate must also present a list, so six of the lists are aligned with the six final candidates, and there are four additional local lists. The six mayoral candidates are Ze'ev Elkin, Moshe Lion, Ofer Berkovitch, Yossi Daitch, Haim Epstein and Avi Salman. Notable about these elections is the splitting of the traditionally strongest political groups. If there is a central trend in Jerusalem, it is the fact that the religious, the Likud, and the haredim (ultra-Orthodox) have departed from their traditional unity to compete in separate groups. The national religious are split into two lists: the "official" Bayit Yehudi list headed by Chagit Moshe, and the Me'uchadim (United) list headed by Arieh King, which perhaps represents the more radical religious and right-wing The Likud is divided into no fewer than four groups. The one officially aligned with candidate Elkin is formed by the remnants of exiting Mayor Nir Barkat's list and still bears the name "Jerusalem Will Succeed." However, Elkin also draws large support from activists in the Likud rank and file. The second group is the official Likud council list, led by former deputy mayor Elisha Peleg. The third Likud-oriented group is that of Lion, himself a Likud member with significant support from Likud members and activists who are also represented in his list. Finally, there is Salman, whose list is based mostly on active members of the Likud in Jerusalem. The most notable split is probably in the haredi sector, which is running four lists and two candidates for mayor. This is unprecedented and is an indication that profound changes are occurring inside haredi society.  The Likud is divided into no fewer than four groups. The one officially aligned with candidate Elkin is formed by the remnants of exiting Mayor Nir Barkat's list and still bears the name "Jerusalem Will Succeed." However, Elkin also draws large support from activists in the Likud rank and file. The second group is the official Likud council list, led by former deputy mayor Elisha Peleg. The third Likud-oriented group is that of Lion, himself a Likud member with significant support from Likud members and activists who are also represented in his list. Finally, there is Salman, whose list is based mostly on active members of the Likud in Jerusalem. The most notable split is probably in the haredi sector, which is running four lists and two candidates for mayor. This is unprecedented – and is an indication that profound changes are occurring inside haredi society. "The times when one rabbi and spiritual leader told all the haredim who they should vote for is over," says a source in that sector. "Today each group in the sector decides for itself and even the few rabbis who still declare what their followers should do inside the voting booth know that this is not always what will happen." The hassidic group is running with Daitch; Degel Hatorah is running a separate list of its own, as is Shas, and those two groups support Lion. Finally, there is the Peleg Yerushalmi list, a radical splinter group from Degel Hatorah led by candidate Epstein. Ofer Berkovitch is emerging as the candidate of choice for voters – from secular to modern Orthodox – who have reservations regarding a Haredi candidate or a religious candidate identified with the Right. This is the message he is conveying to the general public: students, young adults, and more recently the moderate religious and the middle-aged generation. Meretz, which traditionally captures two or even three seats at the council, is no longer the only actor on the social activism front with the emergence of former city legal adviser Yossi Havilio, who dropped out of the race for mayor but is running a separate list for council seats. Honesty, morality (even in the political arena), watching over elected officials – all of which for years were the buzzwords of Meretz, are now also the call to action for Havilio's list (Saving Jerusalem). The Labor Zionist Camp has completely disappeared from the arena; its last representative, Itay Gutler, decided not to run. One of the interesting new alliances made is the agreement between King and Daitch. If Daitch is elected, he will make King president of the local committee for planning and construction – a position King intends to leverage to enlarge the number of Jewish residents in predominantly Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Daitch's decision in this regard indicates two things: 1. Jerusalem might be the first arena with alliances and collaboration between haredim and national religious from the Right wing; 2. Daitch feels that while he is the representative of a large part of the haredi sector, he still can take independent actions not necessarily aligned with the positions of his haredi party. Interestingly, Daitch maintains that the largest support he gets from the non-haredi sector comes from secular and left-wing residents, something that his alliance with King seemingly hasn't affected. A conversation with Jerusalem's Me'uchadim list head Arieh King "I have more in common with most haredim than with most secular people." By Peggy Cidor October 17, 2018  Who initiated the agreement between you and candidate Yossi Daitch? I did. I have always said that I strive to reach unity as much as possible with the haredim. But why? You are not haredi and neither are most of your voters. I have more in common with most haredim than with most secular people. On which grounds? The religious issues or the political ones? Both. In regard to these elections, I am more concerned by the religious issues at stake. But you know that Daitch cannot close down the First Station or any non-kosher restaurant or bar. So how does it help you? That's exactly the point. The issue is not the First Station today, but what will happen when and if there is a Second Station. I want to be sure that the mistakes that enabled opening the First Station for activities on Shabbat do not happen again. Does it mean that secular residents will have no other choice than to leave if you are elected? No. It means is that I will not tolerate that in Jerusalem, events financed by the municipality will serve food that I, as a religious person, cannot eat, for example. Secular people do not leave Jerusalem because of religious issues. Both you and Daitch focus on the need to build affordable housing. According to your agreement, if he is elected, you become president of the local committee for planning and construction. Will you emphasize building in predominantly Arab neighborhoods for Jews? I want less investment in city renewal projects that harm the city's look; I want to enhance construction in Homat Shmuel, Gilo, Ramat Shlomo and the like. As for the neighborhoods in the east – Jews will have the right to build and to live wherever they want. Your message to the secular residents? As a brother to three secular people, I want to say that most of my friends are secular. I will do everything to ensure that they feel at home, but without treading on our Jewish values. A promising cure for acute leukemia may be within reach | Israel21c  https://www.israel21c.org/?p=92142 Only in This Stupid World Only in This Stupid World .....do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. Only in This Stupid World ....do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke. Only in This Stupid World ....do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.. Only in This Stupid World  ......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. Only in This Stupid World .......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in Packages of eight.. Only in This Stupid World .....do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering. EVER WONDER  ... Why the sun lightens  Our hair, but darkens our skin? Why don't you ever see the  Headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'? Why is  'abbreviated' such a long word? Why is it that  Doctors call what they do 'practice'? Why is lemon juice made  With artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? Why is the man who  Invests all your money called a broker? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? Why isn't there  Mouse-flavored cat food? Why didn't Noah  Swat those two mosquitoes? Why do they sterilize the  Needle for lethal injections? You know that  Indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?! Why don't sheep  shrink when it rains? Why are they called  Apartments when they are all stuck together? I like this one!!! If con is the opposite of  Pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? If flying is so  Safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle) Tel Aviv Wandering Quotes from my sister   I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. Mariel Hemingway All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. Max Beerbohm Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. Terry Brooks If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality. Bernard Schubert We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. Fran Lebowitz   Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Forbes The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. Andrew Carnegie When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself. Layne Staley  I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. -        Michel de Montaigne   Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will. - J. C. F. von Schiller   It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! - Merrill Markoe   It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own. - Noel Coward   What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca   Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead   You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. Sometimes the first one is more than enough. Hadassah Goldberg     Lee Van Cleef meets the Rifleman Lee Van Cleef (Dan Mowry) shares a drink with The Rifleman (Chuck Connors)This was their first scene together. Although, Van Cleef stood over six feet tall, at nearly 6'6", Connors towers above him. Van Cleef would go on to appear in a total of 4 "RIFLEMAN" episodes.....Mr. Billespie. 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