MK Yisrael Eichler of the United Torah Judaism party has reportedly taken steps to assist the Belzer chassidishe community in securing private transportation services from the Transportation Ministry, as per a Channel 12 News report.
Approximately one month ago, the request was formally presented to Deputy Transportation Minister Uri Maklev, also a member of United Torah Judaism. The Transportation Ministry has reported a surge in requests for private transportation, particularly from the chareidi community.
Belz is purportedly seeking support for private bus services to facilitate travel to Yerushalayim for Yom Tov gatherings. Their request specifies the need for private buses that can pick them up around 3:00 a.m.

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Simchas Beis Hashoevah at Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo in Kiryas HaYeshivah, Rishon
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The Simchas Beis Hashevoah will be broadcasted live from the Yeshivah website!
The Simchos Beis HaShoevah of the Ateres Shlomo Network throughout Eretz Yisroel
are famed throughout the country and thousands of talmidim, rabbanim, families
and friends attend and participate. The Simchas Beis HaShoevah at the Kiryas
HaYeshivah is undoubtedly the height of these celebrations with thousands of bnei
yeshivah in attendance.

Former President Donald Trump seemed to shift his focus away from Justice Arthur Engoron to target New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James with sharp criticism on the eve of the second day of his civil trial in Manhattan.
Trump stated before entering the courtroom today, “He’s been given false information, misleading information, and corrupt information by a very corrupt and incompetent Attorney General Leticia James,” Trump told reporters before entering the courtroom Tuesday. “This woman is grossly incompetent. She ran on the basis, ‘I will get Trump,’ without knowing anything about me. So, he’s been given this information that’s now been proven to be false.”

Certain aravos that were sold in a number of communities in Eretz Yisroel have been found to be of the tzaftzafa species and not the aravah species. Tzafzafa, which grows in hills, is disqualified for the daled minim, as is well known.
The news came via Kollel Ponovezh in Bnei Brak, with Rav Meir Hershkowitz making the revelation and stating that everyone should check their aravos.

The sukkah of Rav Yisroel Meir Druk, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Nesivos Chayim and Tiferes Yisroel, was consumed by a fire, burnt to a crisp.
It appears that a cigarette thrown from above in a building at 26 Givat Shaul Street in Yerushalayim caused the blaze that destroyed the sukkah in the building’s courtyard.
The sukkah, which had been painstakingly prepared on the eve of the Yom Tov, complete with air conditioning and even a refrigerator alongside tables and food, was completely engulfed in flames. The sukkah had been intended to be used for several events during the Yom Tov.
Miraculously, no one was inside the sukkah at the time; they were all in shul at the time.

שב”ה באלעד עם ר’ מיילך בידרמןצילום: דוד ארזני
 
שב”ה באלעד עם ר’ מיילך בידרמןצילום: דוד ארזני
 

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef called secular Jews “pitiable” and “foolish” in comments made during a weekend drasha publicized on Sunday.
“I am in the rabbinical court, receiving cases and seeing what’s happening in the secular community. [The secular community is] suffering. They don’t find fulfillment in life. Everything is done for worldly desires,” Rav Yosef said.
“It’s unbelievable, but we need to bring them closer. What some organizations are thankfully doing — bringing them closer and returning them to repentance. This is what needs to be done and this is what [my father, Rav Ovadia Yosef] did,” he added.

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Simchas Beis Hashoevah at Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo Achisamach and Yeshivas Ateres Yisroel Ofakim!
These Simchos Beis Hashevoah will be broadcasted live from the Yeshivah website!
The Simchos Beis HaShoevah of the Ateres Shlomo Network throughout Eretz Yisroel are famed throughout the country and thousands of talmidim, rabbanim, families and friends attend and participate.
For the first time ever, per the request of friends and supporters of the yeshivah, the central Simchos Beis HaShoevah will be broadcasted live every Chol Hamoed evening through Hoshana Rabbah.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Betzalel Edelstein zt”l. He was 68.
Rav Betzalel was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Ahavas Aharon and a son of the late rosh yeshiva of Ponovezh, Rav Gershon Edelstein zt”l.
Two and a half years ago, Rav Betzalel fell ill and became bedridden. Doctors gave him only a few months to live, and the name Noach was added as a zechus.
On the first night of Chol Hamoed, he passed away at his home in Bnei Brak, surrounded by his family.

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
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