By: Zvi Gluck
Let me be the first to admit that I am not a math person, yet, unfortunately, it seems that right now my life has been all about numbers.
For those of you who have been spared the pain that has devastated klal yisroel since mid-June, let me fill you in on what has been taking place in Jewish communities all over the United States. Over a three week period, drug overdoses killed nine of our own, with six more remaining in comas as I write these words. Another 17 overdoses had more positive outcomes, baruch Hashem, with Narcan successfully reviving those victims, but without proper treatment I can’t honestly tell you that any of those individuals are really out of the woods.

The Israeli Antiquities Authority, Hebrew University in Yerushalayim and Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia, have announced the discovery of what they believe is the biblical city of Ziklag, the Philistine city in which according to the Torah a young Dovid  Hamelech took refuge from Shaul.
Ziklag is mentioned in the Torah multiple times in relationship to Dovid, who the Torah states received sanctuary in the city along with his army, with the permission of Achish, King of Gat. The site is also believed to be the place from which Dovid left to journey to Chevron, where he was anointed as melech Yisrael and ruled for seven years before ascending to Yerushalayim.
Later on, Ziklag is mentioned in the Nechemiah as a center for Jews returning from the  galus.

The Israeli Police Department has decided to immediately remove the policeman who was caught on camera brutally pulling the payos of a charedi man from Beit Shemesh who was arrested during an evacuation of a shul.
While he was being led to the patrol car, video footage shows Mordechai Kreuzer  surrounded by a number of policemen. Although he was not resisting arrest and was walking with with the police in handcuffs, one of the officers suddenly pulled his payos tightly.
For many seconds, the detective seemed to be pulling at Mordechai Kreuzer’s payos with his head folded in pain, unable to resist or take any action until they reached the police car.

Otniel Elkayam, who was injured in a terrorist attack in Yerushalayim about three years ago, is now suing the terrorist who is running over NIS 1 million, following the physical and mental damage caused to him.
The suit described the attack, which took place about three years ago. While the Plaintiff and another member walked near the Mount Zion hotel in Yerushalayim, they heard “the sound of an engine from a vehicle accelerating behind them, a motorcycle in the hands of the defendant collided deliberately with the Plaintiff in the back, with the force of the collision throwing him into the air.”

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Activist Linda Sarsour tweeted on Saturday that “[Yoshka] was Palestinian of Nazareth and is described in the Quran as being brown copper skinned with wooly hair.”
Many including Yair Netanyahu were quick to bash Sarsour for her tweet.
“Are you that stupid? On the cross above [his] head was the sign ‘INRI’ – ‘Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm,’” the prime minister’s son replied, “Which means in Latin – [Yoshka] of Nazareth king of the Jews! The Bible say that [Yoshka] was born and raised in Judea!”
Many Twitter users pointed out that [Yoshka] was Jewish, to which Sarsour rejoined that the two were not mutually exclusive.

A Yerushalmi man in his 50s, was killed in a car accident on the way out of the city of Modi’in.
A short while ago, MDA teams, Hatzolah Petach Tikva and Ichud Hatzala were called to Highway 431, near the Ispro Center at the exit from Modi’in, following a report of a pedestrian injured by a vehicle.
When the drivers arrived, they performed emergency resuscitation attempts but were forced to declare the victim dead at the scene.
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}

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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who recently launched his new ‘Democratic Israel’ party ahead of the September elections, excoriated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Right on Sunday, accusing them of indulging in dangerous ‘messianism,’ citing the Gemara of the Shalosh Shavuos – the three oaths Hashem made in which He warned the Bnei Yisrael not to return to Eretz Yisrael until the coming of Mashiach.
Barak cited the Shalosh Shavuos in his more narrow criticism of the Israeli Right, while warning that Netanyahu and his allies were “straying” from the vision of Israel as a “Zionist, democratic, enlightened, liberal state.”