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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjgiuU-Jf-U&feature=youtu.be YouTube VIDEO: Weekly Israel Update Published on Feb 22, 2019 Rabbi Moshe Rothchild of the Global Israel Alliance summarizes the news from Israel for the week ending February 22, 2019

Some of the Israelis who were chosen to light Independence Day torches shared their emotions and revealed their warm personalities when they spoke with Arutz Sheva Sunday. Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg - whose daughter and son-in-law, Rivki and Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, were murdered in Mumbai - will be accompanied by his grandson Moishie when he lights the torch. He spoke of his feelings and those of Moishie.

Indians wanted to adopt Moshe- ISrael envoy speaks SAMYABRATA RAY GOSWAMI Mumbai, Nov. 26: The day baby Moshe was rescued during last year’s Mumbai attack and his picture was splashed by the media, the Israeli consulate here had its phone lines choked. “Every phone was ringing — the calls came from across India. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs — they all wanted to adopt Moshe. That was the singularly most overwhelming experience I have had in India so far,” said Mark Sofer, Israel’s ambassador to India, sitting in his sixth-floor suite overlooking the Gateway of India. Sofer was in Mumbai to...

Last November, people around the world shed tears over one of the most tragic images of the Mumbai attacks — a newly orphaned little boy crying at the loss of his parents. “Mommy, Mommy,” Moshe Holtzberg wailed during a tearful ceremony held in a Mumbai synagogue days after a terrorist attack in India’s financial capital last November 26 left at least 166 people dead. But the heartbreaking story of little Moshe, then 2, was also hailed as an example of courage and humanity in the face of unspeakable violence. As Islamist terrorists kept Chabad’s Nariman House under siege, Moshe’s Indian...

A DEADLY plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbours into a state of panic. A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has called in the World Health Organisation and a team of nine specialists are...

Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world. - Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:8 (37a) This video is in Hebrew. But words are not needed here, not now. My heart breaks for this child and his family. The whole world needs to see this video and really take to heart the question as to what kind of world we are creating for our kids? How many deaths is it going to take before the world wakes up to the profound...

"I fear that the government is refraining from sending IDF troops into Gaza to stop the Kassam rockets because it doesn't want to admit its mistake in withdrawing from Gaza in the first place." So said Prof. Moshe Arens today, speaking with Arutz-7's Uzi Baruch. Prof. Arens served as Defense Minister in four different Israeli governments and Foreign Minister in one. Arens said that a military ground operation is necessary because the "IDF's artillery barrage on northern Gaza is totally futile, as the terrorists fire the rockets from densely populated areas while Israel shells empty areas." "The security establishment must...