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The soldiers of the IDF want to salute their supporters from FIDF and wish them a Shabbat Shalom! 🥰

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Today, the 17th day of Tammuz, is set as a fast day and is marked by the events that happened to the Jewish People on this date. According to tradition, on the 17th of Tammuz the tablets of the covenant were broken, the perpetual sacrifice in the Temple was abolished, the walls of the city of Jerusalem were breached, and it was destroyed on the 9th of the month of Av, the Torah scroll was burned by the wicked Apostomus and a figure was placed in the temple. The 17th of Tammuz opens the three weeks that the Jewish People call "The Three Weeks" until the day of Ninth of Av. May we learn from the past, appreciate the present and strive for a better future of unity and brotherhood among the people of Israel. Have a beneficial Fast.

IDF soldier killed in Jenin identified as St.-Sgt. David Yehuda Yitzhak.

David Yitzhak was Killed by gunfire in the Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday evening, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Prior to the Holocaust, the city of Iași, Romania, was home to a large, vibrant Jewish community. But in just a span of a few days in summer 1941, Iași would forever be changed. On the orders of Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu, authorities in the city instigated violence against the Jewish population. A city-wide pogrom resulted in the murder of thousands of the city's Jews. The perpetrators were the Romanian soldiers, police, and civilians, with assistance from their German allies stationed in the city.

Haim Solomon, who had moved with his family to Iași in 1939, remembered how some of the Jewish population was assembled at police headquarters. "Aligned on both sides were Romanians, Germans ... and as the Jews passed by, they split their heads or shot them in their temple," he described. Hundreds more would be killed on the street or in their homes. The Romanian and German perpetrators also sent thousands of Jews to the towns of Călărași and Podu Iloaiei by packing them into crowded freight cars where they remained for days. The death toll was so high that these transports are often referred to as the Iași death trains.

As the attacks continued, Haim and his family were able to find hiding places. His brothers hid in a shed, stacking firewood around themselves to conceal their hiding spot. Haim and his parents remained hidden in their house, but escaped through a back exit when a mob burst through their door.

When Haim and his family emerged from hiding, they found an eerie scene. "Streets were still empty, and really scary. Cats, dogs were licking blood from puddles," he remembered.

Haim survived the Holocaust and eventually immigrated to the United States.

Photo: USHMM, courtesy of Haim Solomon

God bless Israel

“I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth”
(Isaiah 43:5-6).

Today the Church celebrates St. Vincent de Paul. A Frenchman originally from Gascony, a priest at age 19, he founded the Priests of the Mission (Lazarists) and together with St. Louise de Marillac, the Daughters of Charity in 1633. For him, the Queen of France "invented" the Ministry of Charity, and he organized aid to the poor on a national scale

Israel is the best country of the planet. If you don't agree, it means that you haven't been to Israel yet. Come, visit Israel and you will agree. 😉🇮🇱

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