Elad Frizat, 3, died over Shabbos in a Tzfat fire which broke out in a residential building on the city’s David Elazar Street. Frizat was transferred to the city’s Ziv Medical Center in critical condition, as paramedics performed CPR. He was later declared dead.
The fire injured eighteen others, including a 4-year-old boy who suffered burns and a 14-year-old girl who was having difficulty breathing. The other victims suffered from smoke inhalation.
“Despite the medical staff’s hour-long attempt to revive the 3.5 year old boy, doctors were forced to declare his death. We share the family’s sorrow. Medical staff and a social worker are with them,” a hospital statement read.

As wildfires destroyed most of the 50 or so homes in the town of Mevo Modi’in in central Israel on Thursday, Israelis from all around the country and Jewish organizations have sent emergency assistance to the families affected as Shabbos approached. The moshav had a population of 246 in 2017.
Some 3,500 residents were evacuated from their homes in the extended area affected by the fires with only a few minutes warning, with more than 200 returning on Friday morning to find their homes severely damaged, and some even burnt to the ground. According to Magen David Adom spokesman Zaki Heller, two-dozen people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, including two in moderate condition.

A get refuser who was jailed for 18 years was sentenced to another 15 months by a Yerushalayim court for persisting in his refusal.
The decision to send him back behind bars was based on a 2016 decision of the attorney general that defying a bais din’s order to divorce one’s wife is a criminal offense.
The state bais din rejects a private bais din’s spurious decision that the marriage was void. Paradoxically, feminist organizations helping the wife do accept the private bais din’s opinion and are against the husband returning to jail.
 {Matzav.com Israel}

Following reports that Eilat’s new Ramon Airport plans to operate two bus lines that will make 80 trips to Eilat every Shabbos, MK Bezalel Smotrich wrote to Transportation Minister Yisroel Katz that the decision is based on a mistake.
Noting that the rationale for the chillul Shabbos is that Eilat has a status quo of running Shabbos bus lines, Smotrich argued that the law only applies to existing bus lines, but the two new lines never existed and were not replacing defunct lines.
Tourists should make do with cabs on Shabbos as in all Israeli airports, he said.
{Matzav.com Israel}

The Simon Wiesenthal Center awarded former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley with its highest honor – the Humanitarian Laureate Award – at its Midwest Region’s 2019 Spirit of Courage Benefit dinner in Chicago on Thursday.
The award was granted to her by Rabbi Marvin Hier for her “courage and compassion in protecting global human rights and the State of Israel,” the Wiesenthal Center wrote in a press release.
“Nikki Haley personifies the legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, who reminded the world that freedom is not a gift from heaven, rather, it is something that we must fight for each and every day,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Weisenthal Center.

A French-Jewish taxi driver was mugged and beaten in what he said was an anti-Semitic crime by perpetrators who targeted him because of his Jewish-sounding name.
33-year-old Israel Hai was picking up a passenger in Clichy Sous-Bois near Paris at the appointed spot when a group of about 10 young men surrounded the car and pulled the victim out by his hair, kicked him, and stole his jewelry. They then stole his car, glasses, wallet and his shoes, he said.
Bruised and barefoot, Israel asked passersby to drive him to a police station, where officers also referred him to medical attention.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}


About Yom Hashishi
When describing Hashem’s completion of creation, the Torah says, “Vayehi Erev Vayehi Boker Yom HaShishi – And it was evening and it was morning The Sixth Day.” Why the emphasis of The Sixth Day, an emphasis given to no other of the seven days of creation?
Rashi quotes the famous Chazal that although Hashem seemingly finished creating the world, the creation wasn’t fully stable. Creation was conditional on a key component, Torah, which would be given on THE sixth day, the sixth day of Sivan, more than 2000 years later. Once the Torah was given, creation is dependent on its study. As long as Torah is studied, the world continues to exist.
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