Proud of my people in times of crisis.

Israeli Arabs from a village near Meron have been offering food and drink to all who need, non-stop, for hours.

In Tel Aviv, hundreds of secular Jews have turned up to give blood to their ultra-orthodox brethren.
In Jerusalem, a blood donation station downtown has been turning people away - there's already enough.

In Givat Shmuel, a religious Jew is distributing food for free to families with loved ones who haven't yet made it home, and have been too busy to cook for Shabbat.
A funeral is taking place right now for a Canadian Jew, Shraga Gestetner of Montreal, who has no family in Israel. Hundreds have come to pay their respects.

If only we could harness this togetherness and take it with us always.
Radio reporting that leaders of Arab communities in Galilee have opened spots where people can stop, eat (kosher) and drink on their travels on their way back from the disaster at Meron. This includes Muslim villages where people are fasting for Ramadan.
They have also called on people to donate blood. Muslims, Christians and Druse are supporting ultra-Orthodox and other Jewish victims.
Secular Israelis waiting in line to donate blood for victims of the stampede, mostly ultra-orthodox Jews, in Meron last night.
More Israelis, mostly secular Jews, in line to donate blood for the religious victims of the tragedy last night.
Food being given away to worried families who are too busy to cook for the Sabbath this weekend.
It should be noted that Tamra is a Muslim village, and as the villagers are in the middle of Ramadan, they are therefore fasting from sunrise to sunset. Truly heartwarming.

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21 Feb
Let's clear this up:

1.9m Palestinians are Israeli citizens, have the same rights to Covid vaccines as Jewish Israelis.

5m Palestinians are ruled by the PA and are dependent on the Palestinian health care system. Per the Oslo Accords, Israel is not responsible for their doses.
Is Israel preventing Palestinians ruled by the PA from gaining access to the vaccine?

No. Israel has shared thousands of vaccine doses with the Palestinian Authority, and is looking to vaccinate Palestinians working in Israel.

apnews.com/article/israel…
Is Israel preventing vaccines from reaching Gaza?

No. It briefly considered holding Gaza-bound doses in return for progress regarding the plight of 2 mentally ill Israeli civilians held captive by Hamas, but decided against. Not a single dose sent to Gaza has been turned away.
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Shavuot is supposed to be a happy time, with families gathering and eating cheesecakes. But in Iraq in 1941, it was anything but as a massacre befell the Jewish community.
As someone with a Jewish Baghdadi grandfather who fortunately escaped Iraq a few years earlier, I am compelled to tell the story that decimated the community he left behind.
The #Farhud pogrom of June 1-2 left over 180 dead and 1,000 injured Jews, saw hundreds of homes destroyed and property looted.
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ON THIS DAY in 1950, the first flight taking Jews from in Iraq to Israel in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah departed from Baghdad.
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Dear @Airbnb,

My Jewish grandfather, along with many thousands others, fled from Iraq, losing property there, as a result of the Farhud (murderous pogrom in 1941).

Please delist all stolen Jewish lands in Iraq.

And Syria. And Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, Morroco, Jordan, etc.
We can also get into stolen Jewish land in Gaza, Hebron, Jericho, and Jerusalem, too.
People would do well to remember that it wasn't just in Europe that Jews were refugees - over the ages right up the even the last few years(!) Jews were made to flee their homes across the Middle East.

google.co.il/amp/s/m.jpost.…
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Locked up in #Gaza for the crime of being Jewish.
Is this "freedom fighting"? Is this "resisting #occupation"? No and no. This is depraved, wicked, brutal and utterly wrong.
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