Interesting Posts #101

1. A new blog by a kitchen/cooking hobbyist called Kishy's Kitchen has what looks to be like a great burger as his first post. Great start!

2. Aussie Dave reviews what Suha told Yasser Arafat according to most recent reports, and he considers what she likely did not say to him...

3. The Yeshiva Guy found holiness in Haifa.

4. Hadassah has an interesting question about how we would relate to someone like Avraham nowadays, and how they did then..

5. Not Brisker Yeshivish gives a bio on the recently deceased legendary Rosh Yeshiva Rav Elefant. Welcoming Olim gives a short bio on the Klausenberger Rav.

6. I naturally hate the NY Mets, as I am a Cubs fan. We will never forget 1969 (even though I was not yet even born). But this might be as close as they can get to making me forget it. Muqata points out the Mets will be hosting an evening for the Hebron Fund.

pashkevils supporting Elior Chen

The latest pashkevils in Yerushalayim are supporting Elior Chen. They must believe only the graphologists who say his handwriting indicates he is a real swell guy.

David vs. Goliath. Two versions (video)

This is the final round of the fight between David Haye and Nikolai Valuev. The size difference between them is amazing. This was billed as a fight between David and Goliath, and David won.



Another fight that was also billed as a fight between David and Goliath, and also featured a tremendous difference in size between the two contestants, was the fight between Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago. The fights are very similar, with each one being won by the David.



My opinion is that the Rocky fight was much better. He actually beat Drago, and didn't just win by a couple of points.

no profiting in RBS c/g/3

There is something I don't understand about the planning for construction in RBS C/G/3.

Many groups are no vying and positioning themselves for winning the rights to build on various plots. The haredi media ran many articles in the recent weeks about the issue, and this one item is quoted by all the askanim and rabbonim involved in discussing the issue of preparing for the tenders.

That is, they have all said that if any kablan thinks he is going to make money off the backs of haredi avreichim, they will end up with no houses sold. The haredi housing crisis is not just a business, but is a national mission to be resolved. They will not accept anybody trying to make a buck off their backs.

I don't understand why a kablan would build knowing that the community he is building for has no intention of paying him any reasonable level of profit. No kablan builds as charity. This is their business.

I don't know if anyone has the power to stop it from happening, but just the attempt seems unreasonable.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu's GA speech (video)

Bibi's speech at the General Assembly yesterday

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Personal Rabbinic Responsibility

While it seemed like the elevator issue was pretty final, with some technician raising some issue with rabbonim including Rav Elyashiv, claiming that because of the issue shabbos elevators should be assur to use.

Based on that, the rabbonim came out with a conclusive psak completely banning the use of shabbos elevators, even in the most b'dieved situations saying that it is pure chillul shabbos.

It turns out it is not so clear cut and we might not yet have heard the final word.

Bchadrei is aware of a meeting of rabbonim, instigated by a concerned rav who is director of the Technological Institute for Halacha. Rav Halperin is concerned with the severity of the psak, considering as he says, the technician who raised the issue "does not know his right from his left".

A team of rabbonim have been meeting to go over and analyze the variou sissues of the elevators and their ramifications. The team is headed by Rav Efrati, Rav Elyashiv's right hand man and a leading Rabbi in Jerusalem.

There are 3 main concerns being discussed:

1. the question of pikuach nefesh. People who are not well who relied on the elevators and are now physically walking up flights of stairs putting their health in danger.
2. bein adam l'chaveiro - people bought apartments based on the knowledge that they had working, kosher, shabbos elevators. The fact that they will no longer be allowed to use them is a serious damage to them.
3. Rabbonim who have previously paskened the elevators were kosher might have liability because of changing their psak. Supposedly Rav Elyashiv would be immune from this because he is like a "free craftsmen" offering his opinion, but others who receive salaries will likely be legally liable for any monetary damage caused by their changing their opinions.

Rav Shubaks, a dayan involved with the team of rabbis, has requested based on the 3 reasons listed above that the psak be changed back to allowing the use of shabbos elevators. Rav Elyashiv agreed to convene the group of rabbis to meet and analyze all the issues, and come out with a final decision in the coming days.

A cynic would wonder which of the 3 reasons mentioned above is really the one that got them to reconsider....

5 times as large as the Torah (video)

The GOP is attacking the Obama Health Care plan as presented by Nancy Pelosi - the thing is a whopping 1990 pages long. Or as they are putting it, it is 5 times as many words as the Torah.

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Interesting Psak from Rav Elyashiv: 40 days of davening at the Kotel

In the latest edition of the publication "Dvar Hashem - Zu Halacha", there are a number fo questions that were asked to, and answered by, Rav Elyashiv.

One of those questions is if there is anything to the common custom of somebody in need of salvation davening 40 days in a row at the Kotel - is there any inyan in doing this?

Rav Elyashiv's answer is that there is no basis for this. Any time, and every time, one goes to the Kotel to daven his prayers are accepted.

Gotta love it. Let's see how long it takes until the tzedaka organizations force the ladaat website to take this psak down, and whoever else published it as well....

Mi K'Amcha Yisrael

There was a great and very moving story in the Mishpacha newspaper that I want to share with you.

The article was about how more and more doctors are performing bris mila in hospitals, and how it is a dangerous but growing phenomenon.

They spoke to a young mohel (23 yrs old) who works as a mohel in the army. Many of the circumcisions he performs in the army are for soldiers of Russian background who are uncircumcised who now want to get their bris.

The mohel told a story about a recent bris he performed on a Russian.

The soldier tells him that in the Soviet Union there was a mohel who was moser nefesh to perform the bris on as many children as he could, secretly of course, putting his life in danger. if he would be found out, it would be a death sentence for him.

One day he receives a message telling him to arrive to a certain building at a certain address.

he thought to himself that the gig is up. he has been found out and he is about to receive his punishment for the crime of performing bris mila in the Soviet Union.

He goes on the designated day to the address specified. He is met in the building by a senior KGB officer. The officer tells him we know what you have been doing, performing bris mila on Jewish children. We have brought you here because we are a group of officers who want bris mila performed on our children.

The officer brought the stunned mohel into a room where there were 10 other officers and a bunch of children and babies).

The soldier concluded the story in tears saying he is the child of one of those babies who had been circumcised in that room by the mohel who was moser nefesh for mila, and now he wants a bris.

Mi K'amcha Yisrael!

Abbas retires - who cares?

On Friday PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would be stepping down come January and not running for re-election.

After the initial announcement, everyone in the media went into overdrive trying to figure out what that meant - why he announced it, is he serious, is just trying to put pressure on Bibi and/or Obama, can he be talked out of it, what it means for the future of the peace process, etc.

I say, who cares? What has he done anyway? He advanced the peace process even less than Arafat did. He accomplished absolutely nothing in his years as PA Prez. He lost half of the PA territory to Hamas, he never even got talks to nearly the point Arafat got them in his day, he did not bring any sense of stability or hope for the future to his people. He accomplished nothing except for keeping the PA in almost a holding pattern.

So who cares if he retires? He did nothing as president anyway...

Headline of the Day (hotd)

Man seriously hurt as whipped cream can explodes at T.A. ice cream shop

---------Haaretz

Sorry, I know it shouldn't be funny, but it made me laugh...

Interesting Posts #100

1. Muqata covered the IDF press conference about the boat they caught transporting weapons to Hezbollah..

2. Rabbi Fink posts the NBC ad for the Olympics that uses Matisyahu's new hit song "One Day". That is simply amazing. Kol HaKavod to Matisyahu for his continued success.

3. Frum n Flippin describes her relationship with her blog and how it and she has developed in its wake.

4. The Yeshiva Guy describes the tummult of the beginning of a new zman in yeshiva and looking for a chavrusa.

5. Zoo Torah is now offering live classes via the Internet for free! Zoology and Torah, and Science and Torah are the topics. Just head on over to register...

6. What would you do if you found out something you owned and used regularly was connected to the Nazis? How to be Israeli has that exact dilemma right now and is trying to figure out what to do.

7. Wow. They couldn't wait a bit and miss a few innings? they had to watch the game during the chuppa? very rude.

Mayor Abutbol accuses RZ of leading up to another assassination

I received this message by email:

As you may know, Wednesday night there was a town council meeting in Beit Shemesh. The meeting was legally forced upon the Mayor by seven city council members who raised a motion to nullify the agreement to divide RBS Gimmel into three parts and to begin the planning of RBS Gimmel from scratch.
(The mayor had begun to implement the planning of Gimmel in ways that violated the original coalition agreement.)

I received the following, extremely troubling information, from someone who was in the room Wednesday night:

At last night's city council meeting which the Mayor illegally closed to the public, he railed against the national religious community of Bet Shemesh for all their haredi bashing and then preached in a screaming voice:

"Not too long ago we commemorated the yarzheit of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. The way the religious Zionists in Bet Shemesh have been speaking against the hareidim, reminds me of the inciting words which led up to the assassination of the Prime Minister."

He was immediately shouted down by the reporters and city council members who were in the room but this disgrace must become known by all."

Such incitement by the Mayor (who claimed he would be mayor of ALL residents of Beit Shemesh when he was elected) against one segment of the community is bad enough. However, what he said turns the problem here on its head. The Dati Leumi, secular and many in the Chareidi communities in Beit Shemesh are literally under siege from a minority of religious fundamentalists who have the outward appearance of "Chareidim".

The Mayor can be contacted as follows:

Phone - 990-9801, 9802, 9803, 9804

Fax - 990-9960

e-mail: mosheab@bshemesh.co.il

I am surprised he would say something like this. The Mafdal ad its supporters, as does anybody else, has a right to protest anything in city government they do not like. they tried to bring it to a vote and it failed. that does not suddenly make them into assassins or supporters of violence.

Abutbol is forgetting that it was not just the religious zionists, but all the right wing, including and especially shas and other haredim, who were, and are constantly being, vilified as being responsible for creating the atmosphere that led to the murder of Rabin. There is no reason for him to go this route just because he doidn't like the political maneuver they tried to pull.

TOV on the City Council meeting and vote

Message from TOV Bet Shemesh regarding yesterday's City Council meeting and vote about RBS C/G/3

What is RBS Gimmel?
Ramat Bet Shemesh Gimmel is the designation for the area just over the mountain across the street from Ramat Shilo. It is accessed by the long road up the mountain from the kikar on the entrance to Ramat Aleph. In fact, if you drive up that road, you will see that ALL the roads of Ramat Gimmel are already paved!! It is literally a city with no buildings.
(Note: there is actually RBS Gimmel A and RBS Gimmel B. For this discussion we are discussing RBS Gimmel A only as that is the current area in the discussion.)
This area has been designated by the Misrad Hashikun and the Israel Land Authority as the next stage in the development of Bet Shemesh. Remember, Bet Shemesh 20 years ago had about 35,000 people and today it has over 90,000 people. It is truly a growing city. RBS Gimmel A will have 2,200 housing units. Of this, over 170 are "Bnei Betichah", about 600 are "Micraz Hamishtakan - low income housing", and the rest (1500) are assorted building and cottages.

What has the "fight" been about?
The contention over this land has been that the various populations of the city have been trying to allocate as much of this land as possible for "their people". The Chareidi population wants land for their tzibur, the Dati Leumi population wants for their tzibbur, and we could name many other "groups" that want a piece of the pie. This division has caused the development of RBS Gimmel to stall many times over the last ten years.
Mayor Abutbol has made it his priority to grow Bet Shemesh. Growth includes more people, more housing, more jobs and more building. As the battle lines were drawn between the various political parties in the city the issue got very contentious and personal.
A few weeks ago, the Mayor seemingly reached an agreement with all the parties to divide RBS Gimmel into three sections - Charedi, Dati-Leumi, and Chiloni/General. All the parties signed on this agreement and the process started to move forward.
Now comes the issue.
The Israel Land Authority which actually issues the tenders for the building, refused to include this agreement into their tenders. They maintain it is illegal to set aside certain land for only a certain population. The Mayor tried very hard to push the issue, but they did not budge and the tenders were issued without any designation as to the target population.
A number of parties in the city council felt that the Mayor was reneging on his agreement and "plotting" to make RBS Gimmel "Charedi".
In fact, when the Mayor distributed the tenders to kablanim last week, he specifically included his "recommendations" for which tzibbur each piece of land should be allocated.

An emergency vote was called by some members of the city council to attempt to stall/cancel the building of RBS Gimmel.
This was the vote that took place last night.
The vote ended as follows:
10 votes to continue building - Agudah/Degel Hatorah - 5, Shas - 3, Balaish - 1, Tov - 1
9 votes to stop building - Mafdal - 3, Avodah - 1, Likud - 2, Dor Achar - 2, Moti Cohen - 1

Why did TOV vote for RBS Gimmel?
Tov's position is that Bet Shemesh must continue to grow. We can not grow as a city without building and RBS Gimmel is the next step in this growth process. "Our" tzibbur, as well as other tzibburim need more affordable housing and more space. RBS Gimmel is the logical solution to this problem.

Is TOV concerned about the population that will come to RBS Gimmel?
Of course we are. However, the solution is not to stop the building. The solution is to market the area to the people who we want. (Details will be forthcoming on TOV's group that is forming to market and purchase homes in Gimmel). For those who are more concerned, we can only tell you that in the Mayor's and the city council's perfect world, RBS Gimmel will end up looking very similar to the population of RBS Aleph.

Did the Mayor and others in the city council act and say the appropriate things in regards to this issue?
Absolutely not. Many things could have been done, said, and presented in much better and nicer way. In fact, the protests that were organized were very helpful in driving home this point! People were upset and had a right to be heard. We personally sat with the Mayor for a number of hours (one on one) on Tuesday night. We feel that he now realizes that he vastly underestimated the concerns of many of the residents and he is now working to make sure he does a better job communicating and getting his message across. Specifically, including everyone in these types of decisions and not letting other people in the city council speak on his behalf. Therefore, we still feel that the building must go on. You can not make major decisions that affect the future of the city based on personal disagreements or insults. We need to fix the issues and move forward.

TOV has now joined the Mayors coalition.
Despite reports otherwise, we were offered to join the coalition over eight months ago. Because of the size (14) of the coalition at that time, it did not make political sense to join. We had more say and more opportunities to have input as the opposition. Now that the Mafdal is no longer in the coalition, there is more room for us to have a say from within the coalition. We therefore decided the time was right to join. This was NOT a quid-pro-quo from the mayor for our vote. We voted based on our conviction and opinion.

So to summarize, while the process was not even close to perfect and while many mistakes were made, TOV feels that for the good of Bet Shemesh, building in RBS Gimmel should continue.

We hope to be able to continue to serve our voters and all the residents of Bet Shemesh in the future.
Feel free to email with any questions.
Thank you.
TOV Bet Shemesh

Barak Obama's Jewish connection

Barak Obama's half brother is Jewish it turns out. I didn't know that before.

His father's 3rd wife is Jewish, and his son from that marriage is therefore jewish as well.

Like his novel's main character, Ndesandjo had an American mother who is Jewish and who divorced his Kenyan father. The novel, which goes on sale Wednesday by the self-publishing company Aventine Press, is one of several books in the works by relatives of the president.

President Obama's parents separated two years after he was born in Hawaii in 1961. The senior Obama, a Kenyan exchange student, divorced the president's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in 1964 and had at least six other children in his native Kenya.

For the past seven years, Ndesandjo has been living in the booming southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, and has refused all interview requests until now.

Ndesandjo, who said he attended Obama's inauguration as a family guest, declined to discuss his earliest memories of the president or describe their relationship over the years. However, he said he plans to meet his brother in Beijing when the president makes his first visit to China on Nov. 15-18.

hmmmm...

Kedushas Haaretz over the State

It is pretty unusual that this guy who was killed in Russia, Shabsai Kalmanovitch, who had been a double agent and had been jailed for spying against Israel requested that he be buried in Israel. He was a spy against Israel, and had sat in jail for spying against Israel, yet he still wanted to be buried here.

The opposite is also amazing, if he feels the attachment and holiness of Israel, why would he spy against us?

But despite the absurdity of it, it still shows the respect he has for the kedusha of Eretz Yisrael even if he did not hold the State in high regard.

Archaeologist on the Status of Temple Mount (video)

Interesting Posts #99

1. Y Karp is training for the Jerusalem Marathon 10k...

2. Does anybody know how to find somebody's Holocaust number? the number that had been tatooed on someone's arm?

3. Wednesday's Wacky Sign at In The Pink...

4. Aussie Dave has the Photo of the Day..

5. Alleyways to Torah dedicates a post (2 really) to the tenth yahrtzeit of Sweetness, Walter Payton of Da Bears...

6. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner prefers to be indignant rather than apathetic..

Picture of the Day (potd)

I don't know what he thinks he was victorious about.... but this is Yaakov Teitel being brought into court today.. (source: Ynet)

Quote of the Day (qotd)

All the settlers are [like] Teitel, not because they murder, but because they live in criminal neighborhoods, that is the settlements... The authorities invest more energy in an indictment against MK Mohammed Barakha then in uncovering "the terrorist Teitel who was active for 12 years".. Everyone is describing Teitel as deranged and a wild weed, but the Title of Teitel is simple - Terrorist.

---------- MK Ahmed Tibi

The sins of the fathers on the sons

Rav Elyashiv recently declared that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews run by Rabi Eckstein of Chicago is a problematic organization because of the Christian influence and therefore Jews, haredi organizations, should not accept donations from this Fellowship.

Rabbi Eckstein's son has been learning in a yeshiva in Jerusalem and has become close to Rav Chaim Kanievsky (son in law of Rav Elyashiv). Young Epstein just got married, and Rav Kanievsky told his grandson to arrange a sheva brachos dinner in his house. Rav Kanievsky was the guest of honor.

When it was suggested that it would be wrong to participate because of the recent statement by Rav Elyashiv and that his appearance would look like he is giving his approval, Rav Kanievsky refused to change his mind. Rav Kanievsky said he does not know the father, but the son who got married is somebody worth going out of the way for and he participated in the sheva brachos. (source: Bechadrei)

The father might be "hands off", but the son doesn't have to suffer because of it...

Headline of the Day (hotd)

Gosselin ignoring rabbinical advice

--- New York Post

I didn't know he needed to heed rabbinical advice. He isn't Jewish (though he claims to be partly Jewish)
If every time someone didn't listen to the rabbi it made the headlines of the local newspapers....

Interesting Posts #98

1. Modern Uberdox is sitting shiva.. Baruch Dayan Ha'Emes

2. Chaviva is up to the Beis Din stage...

3. Am Kshe Oref has a video of a speech in the UN showing how anti-semitic the UN really is..

4. In honor of the recent rains in Eretz Yisroel, here are the halachos of lightning and thunder by Rabbi Enkin..

5. hubscubs on the yahrtzeit of the rebbe, Reb Shlomo Carlebach...

6. Muqata says Hamas has been testing longer range missiles - they can now hit Bet Shemesh. Uh oh.

4 years for 25 years of abuse

Just a quick update - the Burqa Lady of Bet Shemesh was just sentenced to 4 years in prison.

Rav Steinman decides the NJ elections

A number of elections are coming to a close in the USA, including interesting races in NY for mayor and NJ for governor.

In NJ, the rosh yeshiva of Lakewood yeshiva announced that he asked Rav Shteinman which candidate they should support. Rav Shteinman told him to support the Democrat candidate, because he thought this candidate will better support the yeshivas.

The ultra-orthodox community has generally supported the Republican candidates, so this decision is a bit surprising, but so Rav Shteinman advised.

The askanim of NY have gotten upset at Lakewood over this. They say the haredi community should not interfere in elections. They always call people to go out to vote, but they never specify a candidate. Rav Yehuda Levin, an rav in Flatbush, said that the Lakewood community did not explain the dynamics of the local politics, and the haredi community should not interfere in the elections.

1. I am surprised Rav Shteinman said anything. I don't remember any previous election in the US where the rabbonim of Eretz Yisroel actually specified a candidate to support. the closest it came to was when Obama ran for President, but even then I seem to remember they kept quiet.

2. I am surprised this Rav Levin accused Rav Shteinman of not understanding local politics. Since when do haredim believe that to be an issue when discussing the gedolim? I thought they automatically understand everything and all related nuances... (tongue-in-cheek)

3. I am surprised he said the [local] haredi community should not interfere in US elections. Perhaps it is not a direct or accurate quote. While it might be smart to keep quiet and play your cards right as supporting both, or at least not being against either, candidate, it is not called "interfering" when you live there and call to support a specific candidate. It is part of living and participating in local issues and elections. You might decide not to, but there is nothing inherently wrong with doing so.

And where are your classmates today?

One of mine was just arrested for being a terrorist.

Ever since Yaakov Teitel was arrested I had this nagging feeling that I knew him. The name was familiar to me, but even before I saw his name in the news. As soon as I saw his picture, which I saw before I saw his name, I said to myself - I think that is Jack Teitel.

Mind you, I haven't seen Jack Teitel in maybe 25 or more years, and even when I was friends and classmates with him it was only for a couple of years (his family moved around a lot), so I couldn't be sure it was him when his face and name came up in the news.

When the info was first released, it was very sketchy, and very little background on him was mentioned. So, I saw the picture, and said to myself I think that is Jack Teitel.

Then I saw the name Yaakov Teitel. Still can't be sure, because no background of where he was from and all that, other than that he made aliyah from Florida. In the meantime I started asking people, old classmates along with people here, if they knew any details on this guy and if he had lived in Chicago for a few years as a kid. Nobody knew, and the papers still had little info on him.

I told people I wasn't sure, but I remembered they moved around a lot because Teitel's father had been in the US Navy, or maybe the Army though I was pretty sure Navy.

Then I see some articles start referring to Yaakov as Jack, and now more info has been published that his father was a dentist in the US Navy.

I still have not seen any article say he lived in Chicago at some point, but maybe because they moved around a lot that was not a very significant period to mention, or maybe they don't even know about it if he was only there for a couple of years.

Then a classmate of mine writes to me and also mentions that as soon as he saw the picture he was 99% sure it was him.

So, while I cannot yet be 100% sure (I am still waiting for a couple people to get back to me about some questions), I am 99.9% sure that Yaakov Teitel the Terrorist is my former classmate and friend.

And if you are the Shabak reading this, no need to bring me in for interrogation - it was a long time ago and I don't remember anything about him. Just that he existed and we were friendly. Though I also seem to remember that he was taking karate classes. I don't know why some info sticks in your head and other, more important info, doesn't...

Israel: Leader of Business Innovation (video)

CNBC ran a very interesting piece about Israel being the leader in business innovation..

Interesting Posts #97

1. DoubleTapper posts about an IDF soldier with real courage. She wants to continue soldiering on despite her cancer.

2. Joe Settler compares Jewish settlements to Arab settlements in the Southern Hebron Hills, and makes a suggestion...

3. Not Brisker Yehsivish has a video tribute honoring Rav Yaakov Horowitz..

4. Betarim in North America brings a first hand account of Yitzchak Rabin's real heroism, by a witness of the Altalena incident.

How do you ever know?

A story was going around recently about a Lubavitch couple who went childless for 28 years after their marriage, at which point they had a baby, and this was 20 years after they received a bracha and a dollar from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. They were crediting the Rebbe's bracha 20 years earlier as the reason for the successful birth.

I first saw the story mentioned by a few people on twitter, and then it was in some of the various electronic media, and was also in Mishpacha newspaper this past shabbos.

I am not a skeptic, and I believe in the power of brachos. My question is how they know to associate the baby to the bracha they received 20 years earlier? During the interim, I am sure they davened for children and did many mitzvos to obtain as much merit as possible. They probably even went to various tzadikim to get brachos, but if they are pure Lubavitchers, maybe they did not - I don't know.

So I have no problem with the merit of their mitzvos and the brachos they received having helped them to finally merit having a child. I am simply curious how they could be so confident to attribute it to a specific bracha they received 20 years earlier, rather than to anything they might have done in the interim.. It is not as if the Rebbe told them they would have a child in 20 years. He simply gave them a dollar and said it is for the children they will have.

So how do they know? How does anyone ever know what caused what (unless there was a direct cause and immediate effect that is clear) to be able to attribute anything as the cause?

The person who first related the story, when I asked him this question, simply responded by sayign why do you have a problem with what the cause was? My answer is I don't, but if they are associating it specifically with that I am curious how they know.

The Neturei Karta Cheerleaders... (video)

Here is a good laugh... The Neturei Karta Cheerleaders. Mayor Nir Barkat, who ran the NYC Marathon yesterday, is told to keep running and not go back to Israel...