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Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by grandstar(m): 9:59pm On Oct 13, 2023
Kenmatt:
No need of watching any video .

The damn thing is staged, Isreal and US planned it all.

The script is working out well for them, they're cheering.

They can't believe that the Palestinians are carrying their Foams on their head leaving Gaza for Isreal, is this a dream?.


I totally agree. That is why Gazans want their city state to look like this

Also the Holocaust never happened. It was staged.

Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by JoeEeL(m): 10:01pm On Oct 13, 2023
Taylor94:
Wait oo


Do you people remember when Lai Mohammed threatened Israel to hand over Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria or Nigerian Army will invade Israel


Una know say we get luck? Na so we for take die oo


Three hours later Lai Mohammed denied that he didn’t threaten them that he only said wetin Israel dey Nigeria no good say if Nigeria do them like that wether them go like am


grin grin grin grin

May God punish Lai mohammed, the ilorin terrorist and liar wherever he is. A shameless bingo.
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by writeprof(m): 10:25pm On Oct 13, 2023
crismark:
A whole Isreal dey fight battle with bombs and guns but in this our devilish Nigeria, they will tell you "leave am for God" grin

Na because Isreal dey practice Judaism - an eye for an eye - BUT Nigeria dey practice Christianity - turn the other cheek...though we refuse to take responsibility for what God has given us responsibility over...
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by gfelo(m): 10:34pm On Oct 13, 2023
They thought russia wiĺ support then

Prechgold1180:
Why Gaza go start war
Wey dem know say them nur go fit finish

I dedicate Gaza by olamide to them
Great jam
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by floret23(f): 10:54pm On Oct 13, 2023
FreeStuffsNG:
Isreal is confused right now. They need new leaders that can actually think. This is not a symmetric war. Even if you bomb Gaza or raid Gaza, you will not find anything!

Asking the people who have seen you steal their lands with new settlements to move in forced migration is not going to work either. They ain't dumb. They know that you want to steal their lands. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Below is an interesting throwback article by the NYT. Read to understand that the war is a political manifesto reached with the ultra orthodox Isreal party in the ruling coalition.



In Power With Netanyahu, Ultra-Orthodox Parties Chart Israel’s Future

Bolstered by growth in numbers and political influence, ultra-Orthodox parties are pushing for greater autonomy, with potentially far-reaching implications for the country.


Election signs urging members of the Haredi community to vote for ultra-Orthodox parties in November in Bnei Brak, Israel.

Election signs urging members of the Haredi community to vote for ultra-Orthodox parties in November in Bnei Brak, Israel.Credit...Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times
Isabel Kershner
By Isabel Kershner
Jan. 9, 2023

JERUSALEM — To preserve his new government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is making significant concessions to far-right political parties on Palestinian issues, judicial independence and police powers, but also less noticed moves on behalf of another key member of his coalition: parties that represent the fast-growing ultra-Orthodox public.

Members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community have long enjoyed benefits unavailable to many other Israeli citizens: exemption from army service for Torah students, government stipends for those choosing full-time religious study over work and separate schools that receive state funds even though their curriculums barely teach government-mandated subjects.

Those benefits have fueled resentment among large segments of the more secular public, and Israeli leaders have declared for years that their intention was to draw more of the ultra-Orthodox, known as Haredim, into the work force and society.

But the string of promises by Mr. Netanyahu in recent weeks as he pulled together the country’s most right-wing and religiously conservative government ever suggest that Haredi leaders are pushing hard to cement the community’s special status, with broad-ranging implications for Israeli society and the economy.

Mr. Netanyahu has promised ultra-Orthodox leaders a new, separate city for Haredim where the Haredi lifestyle would guide planning. He has agreed to increase funding for Haredi seminary students and provide access to government jobs without university degrees. And he has pledged a wide range of government handouts for the Haredi school system.

“It’s very clear that the Haredi leadership that sewed up these agreements is going for strengthening the Haredi autonomy and not integration,” said Prof. Yedidia Stern, president of the Jewish People Policy Institute, an independent research center.

The departing finance minister, Avigdor Liberman, a staunch critic of the Haredi parties, said the cost of all of the additional promised funding for Haredi causes would come to an estimated 20 billion shekels (about $5.7 billion) a year and constituted “an attempt to collapse the Israeli economy.”

Lawmakers of the United Torah Judaism alliance before a meeting in the Israeli Parliament in November in Jerusalem.
Lawmakers of the United Torah Judaism alliance before a meeting in the Israeli Parliament in November in Jerusalem.

The promises to the Haredim are a part of a range of changes that the Netanyahu-led coalition is trying to enact, including judicial overhauls that would allow Parliament to strike down Supreme Court decisions and give politicians more influence over the appointment of judges. The coalition has the numbers in Parliament to push through the measures, which it plans to soon introduce as legislation, as long as the various parties stay united, but they could also face challenges in the courts.

The new coalition government has also promised an uncompromising approach to the Palestinians, with some senior officials ultimately supporting the annexation by Israel of the occupied West Bank, territory that the Palestinians see as part of a future state for them, as well as an acceleration in Jewish settlement construction there.

More on Israel
The Roots of Turmoil: A contentious judicial overhaul has plunged Israel into political chaos. The crisis can be traced back to the outsize personality of Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister.

A Fractured Nation: Israelis are deeply split about what kind of country Israel should be. Four encounters at four recent protests show how that division plays out in daily life.
A Model for Peace: In the Oasis of Peace, a small village in Israel, Jews and Arabs have chosen to live side by side. But even here, the agonies of the conflict can’t be escaped entirely.

In one of his first acts as Israel’s minister of national security, the ultranationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir last week visited a volatile Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims, defying threats of violent repercussions and eliciting a furious reaction from Arab leaders and international condemnations.

Mr. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, was ousted from office 18 months ago and replaced by a tenuous coalition of anti-Netanyahu forces from the right and left, but excluding the Haredi and far-right parties. After that coalition collapsed, Israel’s fifth election in under four years brought Mr. Netanyahu and his far-right and ultra-Orthodox bloc back to power, together winning a majority of 64 seats in the 120-seat Parliament.

Ultra-Orthodox parties won the most parliamentary seats in years in the November elections, reflecting the fast growth of this largely insular community and making them linchpins of Mr. Netanyahu’s government.


To ensure the loyalty of the ultra-Orthodox parties, Mr. Netanyahu also agreed to create special budgets for public transportation in Haredi areas and to pass a law anchoring Torah study as a national value, akin to compulsory military service. Another contentious law is to be introduced to formalize the longstanding arrangement granting exemption from the draft to Torah students, further undermining the once-hallowed principle of universal conscription.

Newly constructed Haredi housing in 2021 in Nof Kinnrert-Poriyah, Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised ultra-Orthodox leaders a new, separate city for Haredim.

Newly constructed Haredi housing in 2021 in Nof Kinnrert-Poriyah, Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised ultra-Orthodox leaders a new, separate city for Haredim.


Haredi society is not homogeneous, and some more modern Haredim join the army, seek a secular higher education to equip them for the labor market and even work in high-tech.

Most Haredi women have jobs, albeit often low-paying ones. But only about half of ultra-Orthodox men go to work. Critics say that the promise to increase stipends for Torah students will act as a disincentive for them to join the labor force.

Haredi children now make up a quarter of all Jewish children in the school system and a fifth of all pupils in the country, Jewish and Arab. Most Haredi boys focus on religious studies and learn little or no math, English or science.

“When the Haredim were a small group, that was OK,” Professor Stern said. “Now it’s impossible. To allow this to go on despite the large numbers of Haredim means the country won’t be able to function.”

In order to increase at least one area of employment for Haredim — their representation in public authorities and corporations — a university degree will no longer be a criterion for some, mostly unspecified jobs. (One of the few examples cited was for art therapists, who are much in demand but in short supply in the ultra-Orthodox community.)

Diplomas like those given out to graduates of post-high school religious seminaries for women will be considered as equivalent to a university degree, as will five years of work experience. At present, the vast majority of ultra-Orthodox high school graduates do not meet the minimum university entry requirements.

Torah study will be formally recognized as higher education, and yeshiva students will get the same 50 percent discount on public transportation as university students.

Haredi politicians have long promoted a conservative social agenda that rejects the idea of civil or same-sex marriage, and opposes gay rights, as well as work and the provision of public transportation on the Sabbath. And their political involvement has alienated many Jews abroad who practice less stringent forms of Judaism.


Mr. Netanyahu has also agreed to create special budgets for public transportation in Haredi areas and to pass a law anchoring Torah study as a national value, akin to compulsory military service.

Mr. Netanyahu has also agreed to create special budgets for public transportation in Haredi areas and to pass a law anchoring Torah study as a national value, akin to compulsory military service.

The new concessions agreed to by Mr. Netanyahu — including proposals to restrict the Law of Return, which currently grants refuge and automatic citizenship to foreign Jews, their spouses and descendants who have at least one Jewish grandparent — are already straining Israel’s ties with many in the Jewish diaspora.

More than half of the country’s Haredim live in Jerusalem or Bnei Brak, just east of Tel Aviv, or in ultra-Orthodox suburbs of those cities, according to the annual statistical survey of the Israel Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan research group, and poverty rates are higher than among the general population.

Haredim make up some 13 percent of the population, but Haredi families have an average of seven children, more than double the number of the average Israeli family. If current trends continue, almost one in four Israelis, and about one in three Israeli Jews, are projected to be Haredi by 2050.

Another significant pledge by Mr. Netanyahu to the Haredi parties would allow rabbinical courts to arbitrate in civil matters if both sides in a dispute agree, meaning that some work disputes, for example, could be settled according to ancient religious law.

Secular Israelis have been alarmed by other Haredi demands they view as further encroachment in the public sphere, including demands for more gender-segregated beaches to comply with modesty rules.

Yitzhak Pindrus, a senior representative of the United Torah Judaism alliance, made up of two Haredi parties, sought to play down the concerns, saying that nothing had changed in the Haredi mind-set.

“Our demands are the same since 1977,” he said in an interview. “We are really old-fashioned — 2,500 years old. We don’t change our demands as a result of elections.”

“If 3 percent of the beaches were enough, we now need more if we are 20 percent of the population,” he said, referring to a practice of setting aside gender-segregated areas of beaches for Haredim. “The idea is to get closer to 6 percent,” he said, insisting that the point was not more autonomy, but to cater to the community’s larger numbers.

The separatist approach of the Haredi politicians has become a matter of debate within the Haredi community itself.


A Haredi family at home in 2021 after a Friday Sabbath dinner in Tiberias, Israel. About 20 percent of Israel’s children are now Haredi and, if current trends continue, one in three Israelis are projected to be Haredi by 2060.
A Haredi family at home in 2021 after a Friday Sabbath dinner in Tiberias, Israel. About 20 percent of Israel’s children are now Haredi and, if current trends continue, one in three Israelis are projected to be Haredi by 2060.


The coalition agreements for the new government “lay the foundations for the two-state solution: the state of Israel and the state of the Shtetl,” wrote Eliyahu Berkovits, a Haredi research assistant at the Israel Democracy Institute, in a recent article, using the Yiddish word for the traditional Jewish villages of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

The “Haredi enclave” has grown much larger, he wrote, and “is set to go one step further and become an autonomous state.”

In an interview, Mr. Berkovits said that Haredi politicians still acted as if they were representing a small minority that needed to protect its own interests. “The Haredi community has to understand that we are bigger,” he said, “and we are responsible for the future of Israel.”

He said he was proud of his community and praised its “amazing values.” But, he added, “it’s easier to do what you have done for past 20 years than to rethink the whole thing.”

While the numbers of modern, working Haredim are increasing, so are the hard-core and extremist factions. In recent weeks, extremists in Jerusalem vandalized an optical store because it used pictures of women wearing spectacles in its advertising and rioted over the arrest of a Haredi suspected of setting fire to a cellphone store, critically wounding a mother of 11 who was hit by a burning dumpster.

The Haredi approach over the years was one of “exile mentality,” said Israel Cohen, a political commentator for Kol Berama, a Haredi radio station, and was about remaining apart rather than trying to influence general society.

A “Haredi-Israeli culture” has now grown up, he said, and “Haredim want Israel to be more Jewish.” He added: “You’d think a Haredi becoming more Israeli would become more liberal. But no, it’s the opposite. They want Israel to become more Haredi.”


Isabel Kershner, a correspondent in Jerusalem, has been reporting on Israeli and Palestinian politics since 1990. She is the author of “Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” More about Isabel Kershner

As a Muslim,I like the way Israel is bombing Palestine and killing those Muslim terrorist trying to spoil the teachings of Islam..until we Muslim condemn Hamas and all other terrorist gp we will not know peace.mohameed taught us to love and live in peace .Israel should wipe out the whole of Palestine for supporting Hamas .this is coming from a Muslim and I enjoyed our worship today at the mosque.

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Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by SolomonGrandi: 11:22pm On Oct 13, 2023
Taylor94:
Wait oo


Do you people remember when Lai Mohammed threatened Israel to hand over Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria or Nigerian Army will invade Israel


Una know say we get luck? Na so we for take die oo


Three hours later Lai Mohammed denied that he didn’t threaten them that he only said wetin Israel dey Nigeria no good say if Nigeria do them like that wether them go like am


grin grin grin grin
you know nothing about transcontinental war

Kids
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by Prechgold1180(m): 11:24pm On Oct 13, 2023
gfelo:
They thought russia wiĺ support then


Russia wey nva fit tame ukraine

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Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by Bigchristo: 11:40pm On Oct 13, 2023
Taylor94:
Wait oo


Do you people remember when Lai Mohammed threatened Israel to hand over Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria or Nigerian Army will invade Israel


Una know say we get luck? Na so we for take die oo


Three hours later Lai Mohammed denied that he didn’t threaten them that he only said wetin Israel dey Nigeria no good say if Nigeria do them like that wether them go like am


grin grin grin grin
Hahahaha country wey nor get ordinary anti missiles batteries or even have control over their air space and water territories I laugh make dem nor even dream of starting a war in Niger otherwise e go blast meet us na northern Nigeria Niger be
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by viodemus: 12:04am On Oct 14, 2023
Keep going harder Israel. Sane people are with you.


hammer dem with more brutality.

Also make sure no two state solution. They don't want peace. Just one minute you let your guard down, the terrorstinans capitalized on that humanity. No more. pound dem to oblivion.


We are aware that the many terrorists in the sham forces of Nigeria, want to use some excuse to genocide the igbos.
Igbos, be wise. We should be smart and work that international alliance well. We should be ready for non peaceful idi*ts like we have in Nigeria.


The Israeli defence forces are welcome in the SE of Nigeria. You will work with the igbos, mutual respect. We are still in Nigeria, which was an igbo lead project; nobody can accuse us of not being patriotic. After all, we have been denied economic and security cooperation.

The Israeli ambassador need to think of relocating to the SE, where they will be safer than among non animals that share sane ideologies.
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by Nobody: 4:04am On Oct 14, 2023
Taylor94:
Wait oo


Do you people remember when Lai Mohammed threatened Israel to hand over Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria or Nigerian Army will invade Israel


Una know say we get luck? Na so we for take die oo


Three hours later Lai Mohammed denied that he didn’t threaten them that he only said wetin Israel dey Nigeria no good say if Nigeria do them like that wether them go like am


grin grin grin grin
lai Muhammed is mentally unstable
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by tenpipsperday: 4:45am On Oct 14, 2023
Rahkman:
They might start killing hostages shocked



Is that news? What of the ones they have killed before?
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by adeautos645(m): 5:04am On Oct 14, 2023
Kenmatt:
No need of watching any video .

The damn thing is staged, Isreal and US planned it all.

The script is working out well for them, they're cheering.

They can't believe that the Palestinians are carrying their Foams on their head leaving Gaza for Isreal, is this a dream?.

thank you my brother, some people just dont wise, dey just have to you use d Hamas to disguise n this they are d one who started it [color=#770077][/color]
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by africanusvu(m): 5:17am On Oct 14, 2023
I suspect isreal set HAMAS up, palatine can't be that stupid to risk killing these high number of isrealis without provocation,there may be a set up just to wipe away HAMA
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by africanusvu(m): 5:26am On Oct 14, 2023
viodemus:
Keep going harder Israel. Sane people are with you.


hammer dem with more brutality.

Also make sure no two state solution. They don't want peace. Just one minute you let your guard down, the terrorstinans capitalized on that humanity. No more. pound dem to oblivion.


We are aware that the many terrorists in the sham forces of Nigeria, want to use some excuse to genocide the igbos.
Igbos, be wise. We should be smart and work that international alliance well. We should be ready for non peaceful idi*ts like we have in Nigeria.


The Israeli defence forces are welcome in the SE of Nigeria. You will work with the igbos, mutual respect. We are still in Nigeria, which was an igbo lead project; nobody can accuse us of not being patriotic. After all, we have been denied economic and security cooperation.

The Israeli ambassador need to think of relocating to the SE, where they will be safer than among non animals that share sane ideologies.







who is this fool, Anakogheri,the arogant nnamdi kanu feed u guys with lies,a high school dropout brainwashed igbo youths,hr lied to u that isreal and trump eats with him,but where are those guys, they don't even know he is in prison
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by ukpahu(m): 7:13am On Oct 14, 2023
FreeStuffsNG
Pls don't stop talking till you tier post =126384952:

Isreal is confused right now. They need new leaders that can actually think. This is not a symmetric war. Even if you bomb Gaza or raid Gaza, you will not find anything!

Asking the people who have seen you steal their lands with new settlements to move in forced migration is not going to work either. They ain't dumb. They know that you want to steal their lands. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Below is an interesting throwback article by the NYT. Read to understand that the war is a political manifesto reached with the ultra orthodox Isreal party in the ruling coalition.



In Power With Netanyahu, Ultra-Orthodox Parties Chart Israel’s Future

Bolstered by growth in numbers and political influence, ultra-Orthodox parties are pushing for greater autonomy, with potentially far-reaching implications for the country.


Election signs urging members of the Haredi community to vote for ultra-Orthodox parties in November in Bnei Brak, Israel.

Election signs urging members of the Haredi community to vote for ultra-Orthodox parties in November in Bnei Brak, Israel.Credit...Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times
Isabel Kershner
By Isabel Kershner
Jan. 9, 2023

JERUSALEM — To preserve his new government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is making significant concessions to far-right political parties on Palestinian issues, judicial independence and police powers, but also less noticed moves on behalf of another key member of his coalition: parties that represent the fast-growing ultra-Orthodox public.

Members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community have long enjoyed benefits unavailable to many other Israeli citizens: exemption from army service for Torah students, government stipends for those choosing full-time religious study over work and separate schools that receive state funds even though their curriculums barely teach government-mandated subjects.

Those benefits have fueled resentment among large segments of the more secular public, and Israeli leaders have declared for years that their intention was to draw more of the ultra-Orthodox, known as Haredim, into the work force and society.

But the string of promises by Mr. Netanyahu in recent weeks as he pulled together the country’s most right-wing and religiously conservative government ever suggest that Haredi leaders are pushing hard to cement the community’s special status, with broad-ranging implications for Israeli society and the economy.

Mr. Netanyahu has promised ultra-Orthodox leaders a new, separate city for Haredim where the Haredi lifestyle would guide planning. He has agreed to increase funding for Haredi seminary students and provide access to government jobs without university degrees. And he has pledged a wide range of government handouts for the Haredi school system.

“It’s very clear that the Haredi leadership that sewed up these agreements is going for strengthening the Haredi autonomy and not integration,” said Prof. Yedidia Stern, president of the Jewish People Policy Institute, an independent research center.

The departing finance minister, Avigdor Liberman, a staunch critic of the Haredi parties, said the cost of all of the additional promised funding for Haredi causes would come to an estimated 20 billion shekels (about $5.7 billion) a year and constituted “an attempt to collapse the Israeli economy.”

Lawmakers of the United Torah Judaism alliance before a meeting in the Israeli Parliament in November in Jerusalem.
Lawmakers of the United Torah Judaism alliance before a meeting in the Israeli Parliament in November in Jerusalem.

The promises to the Haredim are a part of a range of changes that the Netanyahu-led coalition is trying to enact, including judicial overhauls that would allow Parliament to strike down Supreme Court decisions and give politicians more influence over the appointment of judges. The coalition has the numbers in Parliament to push through the measures, which it plans to soon introduce as legislation, as long as the various parties stay united, but they could also face challenges in the courts.

The new coalition government has also promised an uncompromising approach to the Palestinians, with some senior officials ultimately supporting the annexation by Israel of the occupied West Bank, territory that the Palestinians see as part of a future state for them, as well as an acceleration in Jewish settlement construction there.

More on Israel
The Roots of Turmoil: A contentious judicial overhaul has plunged Israel into political chaos. The crisis can be traced back to the outsize personality of Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister.

A Fractured Nation: Israelis are deeply split about what kind of country Israel should be. Four encounters at four recent protests show how that division plays out in daily life.
A Model for Peace: In the Oasis of Peace, a small village in Israel, Jews and Arabs have chosen to live side by side. But even here, the agonies of the conflict can’t be escaped entirely.

In one of his first acts as Israel’s minister of national security, the ultranationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir last week visited a volatile Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims, defying threats of violent repercussions and eliciting a furious reaction from Arab leaders and international condemnations.

Mr. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, was ousted from office 18 months ago and replaced by a tenuous coalition of anti-Netanyahu forces from the right and left, but excluding the Haredi and far-right parties. After that coalition collapsed, Israel’s fifth election in under four years brought Mr. Netanyahu and his far-right and ultra-Orthodox bloc back to power, together winning a majority of 64 seats in the 120-seat Parliament.

Ultra-Orthodox parties won the most parliamentary seats in years in the November elections, reflecting the fast growth of this largely insular community and making them linchpins of Mr. Netanyahu’s government.


To ensure the loyalty of the ultra-Orthodox parties, Mr. Netanyahu also agreed to create special budgets for public transportation in Haredi areas and to pass a law anchoring Torah study as a national value, akin to compulsory military service. Another contentious law is to be introduced to formalize the longstanding arrangement granting exemption from the draft to Torah students, further undermining the once-hallowed principle of universal conscription.

Newly constructed Haredi housing in 2021 in Nof Kinnrert-Poriyah, Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised ultra-Orthodox leaders a new, separate city for Haredim.

Newly constructed Haredi housing in 2021 in Nof Kinnrert-Poriyah, Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised ultra-Orthodox leaders a new, separate city for Haredim.


Haredi society is not homogeneous, and some more modern Haredim join the army, seek a secular higher education to equip them for the labor market and even work in high-tech.

Most Haredi women have jobs, albeit often low-paying ones. But only about half of ultra-Orthodox men go to work. Critics say that the promise to increase stipends for Torah students will act as a disincentive for them to join the labor force.

Haredi children now make up a quarter of all Jewish children in the school system and a fifth of all pupils in the country, Jewish and Arab. Most Haredi boys focus on religious studies and learn little or no math, English or science.

“When the Haredim were a small group, that was OK,” Professor Stern said. “Now it’s impossible. To allow this to go on despite the large numbers of Haredim means the country won’t be able to function.”

In order to increase at least one area of employment for Haredim — their representation in public authorities and corporations — a university degree will no longer be a criterion for some, mostly unspecified jobs. (One of the few examples cited was for art therapists, who are much in demand but in short supply in the ultra-Orthodox community.)

Diplomas like those given out to graduates of post-high school religious seminaries for women will be considered as equivalent to a university degree, as will five years of work experience. At present, the vast majority of ultra-Orthodox high school graduates do not meet the minimum university entry requirements.

Torah study will be formally recognized as higher education, and yeshiva students will get the same 50 percent discount on public transportation as university students.

Haredi politicians have long promoted a conservative social agenda that rejects the idea of civil or same-sex marriage, and opposes gay rights, as well as work and the provision of public transportation on the Sabbath. And their political involvement has alienated many Jews abroad who practice less stringent forms of Judaism.


Mr. Netanyahu has also agreed to create special budgets for public transportation in Haredi areas and to pass a law anchoring Torah study as a national value, akin to compulsory military service.

Mr. Netanyahu has also agreed to create special budgets for public transportation in Haredi areas and to pass a law anchoring Torah study as a national value, akin to compulsory military service.

The new concessions agreed to by Mr. Netanyahu — including proposals to restrict the Law of Return, which currently grants refuge and automatic citizenship to foreign Jews, their spouses and descendants who have at least one Jewish grandparent — are already straining Israel’s ties with many in the Jewish diaspora.

More than half of the country’s Haredim live in Jerusalem or Bnei Brak, just east of Tel Aviv, or in ultra-Orthodox suburbs of those cities, according to the annual statistical survey of the Israel Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan research group, and poverty rates are higher than among the general population.

Haredim make up some 13 percent of the population, but Haredi families have an average of seven children, more than double the number of the average Israeli family. If current trends continue, almost one in four Israelis, and about one in three Israeli Jews, are projected to be Haredi by 2050.

Another significant pledge by Mr. Netanyahu to the Haredi parties would allow rabbinical courts to arbitrate in civil matters if both sides in a dispute agree, meaning that some work disputes, for example, could be settled according to ancient religious law.

Secular Israelis have been alarmed by other Haredi demands they view as further encroachment in the public sphere, including demands for more gender-segregated beaches to comply with modesty rules.

Yitzhak Pindrus, a senior representative of the United Torah Judaism alliance, made up of two Haredi parties, sought to play down the concerns, saying that nothing had changed in the Haredi mind-set.

“Our demands are the same since 1977,” he said in an interview. “We are really old-fashioned — 2,500 years old. We don’t change our demands as a result of elections.”

“If 3 percent of the beaches were enough, we now need more if we are 20 percent of the population,” he said, referring to a practice of setting aside gender-segregated areas of beaches for Haredim. “The idea is to get closer to 6 percent,” he said, insisting that the point was not more autonomy, but to cater to the community’s larger numbers.

The separatist approach of the Haredi politicians has become a matter of debate within the Haredi community itself.


A Haredi family at home in 2021 after a Friday Sabbath dinner in Tiberias, Israel. About 20 percent of Israel’s children are now Haredi and, if current trends continue, one in three Israelis are projected to be Haredi by 2060.
A Haredi family at home in 2021 after a Friday Sabbath dinner in Tiberias, Israel. About 20 percent of Israel’s children are now Haredi and, if current trends continue, one in three Israelis are projected to be Haredi by 2060.


The coalition agreements for the new government “lay the foundations for the two-state solution: the state of Israel and the state of the Shtetl,” wrote Eliyahu Berkovits, a Haredi research assistant at the Israel Democracy Institute, in a recent article, using the Yiddish word for the traditional Jewish villages of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

The “Haredi enclave” has grown much larger, he wrote, and “is set to go one step further and become an autonomous state.”

In an interview, Mr. Berkovits said that Haredi politicians still acted as if they were representing a small minority that needed to protect its own interests. “The Haredi community has to understand that we are bigger,” he said, “and we are responsible for the future of Israel.”

He said he was proud of his community and praised its “amazing values.” But, he added, “it’s easier to do what you have done for past 20 years than to rethink the whole thing.”

While the numbers of modern, working Haredim are increasing, so are the hard-core and extremist factions. In recent weeks, extremists in Jerusalem vandalized an optical store because it used pictures of women wearing spectacles in its advertising and rioted over the arrest of a Haredi suspected of setting fire to a cellphone store, critically wounding a mother of 11 who was hit by a burning dumpster.

The Haredi approach over the years was one of “exile mentality,” said Israel Cohen, a political commentator for Kol Berama, a Haredi radio station, and was about remaining apart rather than trying to influence general society.

A “Haredi-Israeli culture” has now grown up, he said, and “Haredim want Israel to be more Jewish.” He added: “You’d think a Haredi becoming more Israeli would become more liberal. But no, it’s the opposite. They want Israel to become more Haredi.”


Isabel Kershner, a correspondent in Jerusalem, has been reporting on Israeli and Palestinian politics since 1990. She is the author of “Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” More about Isabel Kershner
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by Autobiography: 8:38am On Oct 14, 2023
Kenmatt:
No need of watching any video .

The damn thing is staged, Isreal and US planned it all.

The script is working out well for them, they're cheering.

They can't believe that the Palestinians are carrying their Foams on their head leaving Gaza for Isreal, is this a dream?.

shut d f*** up if u ain't got shit to say.
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by bdon123(m): 8:43am On Oct 14, 2023
nlfpmod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzTbnWDiy3Y?si=vHy3jHJx2j1-WOoR
Again they hav given them 24hrs to leave that city bt they wont . They prefer to be human shield who will later cry wit dead kids in their hands
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by viodemus: 10:41am On Oct 14, 2023
africanusvu:
who is this fool, Anakogheri,the arogant nnamdi kanu feed u guys with lies,a high school dropout brainwashed igbo youths,hr lied to u that isreal and trump eats with him,but where are those guys, they don't even know he is in prison



African mumu, wetin you dey try talk.


you dey talk like person wey get 2 holes for head. African mumu, didn't you see what the hateful tribalist ntufuibu did, and still do. Didn't you see how he encouraged m c oluomo to organize people to do igbo and some other tribe, ethnic cleansing.
Then, first week in office, he invites Asari and armed him, and also gave him the green light to be attacking the igbos under the guise of sit at home mondays, ( which was a lame start up idea). Asari, used that cover to kill over 500 or more igbos in a short period of time. He sent many of his men to go into igbo areas and then spread out, kill at will, and then clear back to their areas. He ordered this and even participated in some, before his evidence became obvious. Asari, some yoruba muslims, and then the boko harams in the sham forces, were having a genocidal joy in killing the igbos everywhere, basically hamas-ing the igbos.

I don't really know your tribe, but you strike me like a very fool*sh person. So, the igbos should be corned and oppressed by non progressive tribalist, and religious fanatics. for another 50 years. In another 50 years, I will be in my 80s, and it won't be nice to have my tribe still suffering from a continuous passing of back and forth systematic open oppression, and planned extermination. Igbos want peace, but the way things are going, we don't know where it is going. Too much systemic wickedness against the igbos from the hateful tribalist. He is a divider, a hamas terrorist supporter, a possible islamics wannabe conqueror, so that the terrorist parts of the north will respect him. A very hateful man okpolo eyes wet no dey see pass him wickedness. remember Awolowo name gor ph. Many more non progressive, only tribalism he knows. He tribalized Nigeria, especially with his intent
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by winner37(m): 12:57pm On Oct 14, 2023
Taylor94:
Wait oo


Do you people remember when Lai Mohammed threatened Israel to hand over Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria or Nigerian Army will invade Israel


Una know say we get luck? Na so we for take die oo


Three hours later Lai Mohammed denied that he didn’t threaten them that he only said wetin Israel dey Nigeria no good say if Nigeria do them like that wether them go like am


grin grin grin grin




Na so we go die oooo
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by sylve11: 1:48pm On Oct 14, 2023
crismark:
A whole Isreal dey fight battle with bombs and guns but in this our devilish Nigeria, they will tell you "leave am for God" grin

That'd ehn! sad cool
Re: Israel Raids Gaza, Looks For Hostages (Video) by africanusvu(m): 9:15am On Oct 16, 2023
viodemus:




African mumu, wetin you dey try talk.


you dey talk like person wey get 2 holes for head. African mumu, didn't you see what the hateful tribalist ntufuibu did, and still do. Didn't you see how he encouraged m c oluomo to organize people to do igbo and some other tribe, ethnic cleansing.
Then, first week in office, he invites Asari and armed him, and also gave him the green light to be attacking the igbos under the guise of sit at home mondays, ( which was a lame start up idea). Asari, used that cover to kill over 500 or more igbos in a short period of time. He sent many of his men to go into igbo areas and then spread out, kill at will, and then clear back to their areas. He ordered this and even participated in some, before his evidence became obvious. Asari, some yoruba muslims, and then the boko harams in the sham forces, were having a genocidal joy in killing the igbos everywhere, basically hamas-ing the igbos.

I don't really know your tribe, but you strike me like a very fool*sh person. So, the igbos should be corned and oppressed by non progressive tribalist, and religious fanatics. for another 50 years. In another 50 years, I will be in my 80s, and it won't be nice to have my tribe still suffering from a continuous passing of back and forth systematic open oppression, and planned extermination. Igbos want peace, but the way things are going, we don't know where it is going. Too much systemic wickedness against the igbos from the hateful tribalist. He is a divider, a hamas terrorist supporter, a possible islamics wannabe conqueror, so that the terrorist parts of the north will respect him. A very hateful man okpolo eyes wet no dey see pass him wickedness. remember Awolowo name gor ph. Many more non progressive, only tribalism he knows. He tribalized Nigeria, especially with his intent
,if u will be 80 in 50yrs, sorry bro,u are still very immature

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