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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi Resigns His Post

By Hana Levi Julian

"My responsibility for the terrible failure accompanies me day by day, hour by hour, and will be so for the rest of my life."

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi Resigns His Post | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Hana Levi Julian | 21 Tevet 5785 – Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | JewishPress.com

The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.

Trump Annuls Biden's Order that Enabled Hague Court's Attacks on Israel By David Israel

President Donald J. Trump on Monday signed the "Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions Executive Order," among them former President Joe Biden's Executive Order 14022 of April 1, 2021, titled, "Termination of Emergency with Respect to the International Criminal Court."

The 2021 executive order read, "I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, find that, although the United States continues to object to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) assertions of jurisdiction over personnel of such non-States Parties as the United States and its allies absent their consent or referral by the United Nations Security Council, and will vigorously protect current and former United States personnel from any attempts to exercise such jurisdiction – the threat and imposition of financial sanctions against the Court, its personnel, and those who assist it are not an effective or appropriate strategy for addressing the United States' concerns with the ICC."

Trump Annuls Biden's Order that Enabled Hague Court's Attacks on Israel | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | David Israel | 21 Tevet 5785 – Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | JewishPress.com

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan

Trump Removes Biden's Sanctions against Judea and Samaria Jews

By David Israel

Upon taking office on Monday, January 20, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive decree titled, "Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions," announcing that "The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government."

"To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen. The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our economy," Trump's decree promised, starting with deleting 78 Biden executive actions, including:

Executive Order 14115 of February 1, 2024 (Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank).

Trump's decision represents a significant reversal of a major policy enacted by the Biden administration, which had imposed sanctions on numerous Jewish settlers and entities. These sanctions froze their US assets and broadly prohibited Americans from engaging in business with them.

In the 11 months following Biden's executive order against Judea and Samaria Jews, 17 individuals and 16 entities were sanctioned in eight separate rounds. Earlier in January, Biden announced the extension of his executive order, which enabled sanctions on "extremist Israeli settlers" for an additional 12 months beyond the emergency order's original expiration date of February 1, 2025.

In response to the lifting of sanctions, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich expressed gratitude to President Trump, stating:

"I thank President Donald Trump for his just decision to lift the sanctions imposed by the Biden administration against settlers and activists in right-wing organizations. These sanctions represented a blatant act of foreign interference in the internal affairs of the State of Israel and undermined the principles of democracy and the mutual relationship between our two friendly nations.

Trump Removes Biden's Sanctions against Judea and Samaria Jews | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | David Israel | 21 Tevet 5785 – Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | JewishPress.com