Jerusalem’s Pride and Tolerance March announced that it too would be held in a “special format” this year in “the spirit of the time”...

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai announced that the city had decided — in coordination with LGBT groups — to not host its usual Pride Parade, saying this is “not the time for celebrations.”

Huldai said Tel Aviv would instead host “a rally marking pride, hope and freedom”...

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אחד הדברים העצובים שעשיתי בשבעת החודשים מאז שעזבתי את הבית באוקטובר השחור: הבוקר הבנתי שהמפתחות של הבית הם רק משקולת בכוס. ניתקתי אותם מהצרור. מי יודע מתי אזדקק להם שוב.

אם שאלתם איך נראה גיהנום..

National Lawyers Guild on Oct. 8 - this is a “historic moment,” we emphasize “the legitimacy of the right of the Palestinian people to resist… by all available means.” nlginternational.org/2023/10/nlg-in…

Update. We are safe, if very shaken. broad day light at daycare drop off.

The Israeli parents explaining to their young children that this morning when they hear a siren it doesn't mean that they have to run to a bomb shelter but that they have to stand still.

We were at the doctor’s office during the memorial siren for Yom Hashoah this morning. My babies were fussing and crying as we stood in silence.
“I love hearing babies cry during the siren,” said the doctor after the siren ended. “These children are alive.”

'It was a horrible thing that happened, and we should see that it will never, never, never happen again.'

I am of the belief that as unimaginably awful as Oct. 7 was, it's wrong to compare it to the Shoah. Yet I can't shake the feeling we let survivors like my grandfather down.

Another barrage at Kiryat Shmona today

For a moment, forget about the inane insanity on US college campuses and spare a thought for Kiryat Shmona, which after 6 months of war is still 90% empty and whose future is entirely uncertain

ejewishphilanthropy.com/kiryat-shmona-…

It is truly, deeply depressing that Transport. Minister, Miri Regev (who for some reason demanded to organize the national Yom Haatzmaut ceremony), is squabbling with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana over the minutiae of the event, which is going to be an absolute shitshow in any case.

41-year-old Tal Chaimi was killed by Hamas on October 7 while fighting to protect his kibbutz. His body has been held in Gaza for seven months.

Today, his wife, Ella, gave birth to their fourth child, a boy.

Happy Birthday Theodor Herzl

Nearly five years into Lebanon's financial crisis, the EU breaks with its 'aid conditional on reforms' policy to give Lebanon $1 billion to stop migrants landing on its shores.

Confirms Lebanese elite policy of letting the crisis fester till it get so bad the West intervenes.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising famously being a nonviolent act of civil disobedience in which no Germans were harmed.

She's seemingly trying to dunk on people for taking issue with calls to 'globalize the intifada' by further demonstrating that it is an explicit call for violence.

It's almost quite funny to see how Novara are slowly coming round to realising who they've got into bed with