IDF Prep Academy Prays for Meron Victims

This week students at the Bet El IDF Prep Academy dedicated special learning and prayers for the "elevation of the souls" of victims of the tragedy at Mount Meron:

They decided to add into their regular learning schedule the Ramchal's Derekh HaShem, and tomorrow they will travel to Mount Meron - an almost 3-hour drive - to pray for the "elevation of the souls" of those who died.

Additionally, on Sunday, in an effort to increase acts of loving kindness in the wake of the horror, students volunteered to help renovate the home of a local Holocaust survivor.

Hamas: "Blaming Israel for Cancelled Election Is Bad Excuse"

by Hillel Fendel

Former Shabak chief: "Anyone who wants to translate the cancellation of PA elections into terror attacks would be advised to prepare himself a gravesite."

Israel has held too many elections of late – but that's a lot more democratic than what is going on in the Palestinian Authority: no elections at all. 

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has held his position since January 2005, when he was elected in a popular vote for a four-year term. A quick calculation shows that his term ended over 12 years ago – yet he has never vacated his seat. Abbas has found every excuse in the world since then not to hold a new election, because of his sense that he and Fatah would lose control of the PA to the Hamas terror organization.