by Hillel Fendel
Israel's new left-right government, currently headed by Naftali Bennett of the Yemina party, faced its first major test today – and apparently passed it. A compromise was reached regarding the new Shomron (Samaria) pioneer community of Evyatar, just east of Tapuah – grudgingly acceptable to both sides.
The Bet El Yeshiva site's Hebrew Q&A page is a free service and resource that currently has almost 100,000 questions asked by Israelis all over the country on over 550 topics, and over 50 Rabbanim who take the time and consideration to respond. The Q&A site's English counterpart has almost 9,000 questions asked, on over 560 topics, and with 20 Rabbanim who respond.
The following are questions posted on the Hebrew Q&A page (translated to English) by the same young man over a 7-month period.
by Hillel Fendel
With the formation of Israel's new Lapid-Bennett left-right government, the country in general, and the religious-Zionist public in particular, is all astir. All are trying to make sense both of what happened and what will happen.
Construction workers are still hard at work at the construction site of the IDF Prep Academy's new campus in Bet El. Currently, they are putting Jerusalem stone around the exterior of the dormitory. The Jerusalem stone is a huge project given that the entire campus consists of two buildings totaling 60,000 sq. ft.!
by Hillel Fendel
"If this nightmare comes true, and a Bennett-Lapid government is formed with all the left-wing and center-left parties, with the passive support of Mansour Abbas' Arab party and possibly even those of Ahmed Tibi and Ayman Odeh, it will be primarily the fault of the nationalist parties' leaders – Binyamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, and Gideon Saar."
So wrote a few days ago Emanuel Shilo, long-time editor of the B'Sheva weekly newspaper – a publication of the Bet El and Petach Tikva-based Arutz Sheva group. Since then, the situation has only become more sharply exacerbated. As of early Monday afternoon, Naftali Bennett (who heads the 7-seat religious-Zionist leaning party Yamina) and Gideon Saar (who heads the 6-seat right-wing leaning break-off from Likud) are seeking to join Yair Lapid (who heads the 17-seat left-leaning party Yesh Atid), and are ironing out the final wrinkles on their anti-Bibi, left-center-right government. There is still no guarantee that it will ultimately come to fruition, as significant wrinkles still exist, but vociferous fears are being expressed by the Likud and others.
Shilo places Netanyahu first on the blame list: