#maariv

[psychologeek]

The difficult medical findings in the women and children who returned from Hamas captivity

An article about the medical issues of 26 of the kids and women that were kidnapped by Hamas, and exchanged in the prisoners deal during Nov-Dec 2023, after 50 days in captive.

Tw: mention of torture, abuse and medical lasting issues (physical and mental) - both adults and children.

I personally didn't find it graphic, by I've been exposed to a lot of bs in the last months, hence I'm not a reliable measurement.

If anyone reads, pls lmk any other tw?

The data was collected from the medical records of 19 children between the ages of 2 and 18 and seven women between the ages of 34 and 78, who were hospitalized at Schneider Hospital. The patients included 6 nuclear families who were abducted together, as well as 7 children who were abducted alone and held captive separately.

They were hospitalised (in the special ward) for 1-9 days. 70% of the released didn't have a home to return to - due to destruction or being in active warzone.

[jloisse]

🔻Journal sioniste Ma'ariv : "l'existence d'Israël est menacée"

🔹️Dans un article intitulé « L'existence d'Israël est menacée et la direction politique doit changer », le journal sioniste, Maariv, écrit : "Le passage du temps n'est pas en notre faveur et des changements dans le domaine de la direction politique et militaire doivent être fait rapidement."

[starlight-edith]

Where’s my pretty jewish boy who recites Maariv with me and then gives me a little forehead kiss goodnight??

[snissel613]

Oh shoot I forgot ya'aleh veyavo in mincha just now

[sayruq]

I figured I should list setbacks and consequences (including signs of internal collapse) faced by Israel in the past couple of months. I'll make this as chronological as possible. Add any you think I missed.

While Hezbollah targets Haifa, Golan Heights, and new settlements

Gaza continues to punish the invading army

More and more western publications are forced to admit that Israel cannot defeat the Palestinian resistance

“This is a very high number that encompasses many sectors. About 77 percent of the businesses that have been closed since the beginning of the war, which make up about 35,000 businesses, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy,” Yoel Amir, CEO of Israeli information services and credit risk management firm, CofaceBdi, told Maariv. The report adds that “the most vulnerable industries are the construction industry, and as a result also the entire ecosystem that operates around it: ceramics, air conditioning, aluminum, building materials, and more – All of these were significantly damaged,” according to CofaceBdi’s risk ratings. The trade sector has also been severely affected. This includes the service sector and industries including fashion, furniture, housewares, entertainment, transport, and tourism. Israel is in a situation where “there is almost no foreign tourism,” the report said, adding that “damage to businesses is all over the country, and almost no sector has been spared.” This includes the agriculture sector, which is based mainly in the south and the north – both considered active combat zones due to the threat posed by the Palestinian resistance and Lebanon’s Hezbollah – whose support front against Israel has significantly contributed to the downfall of the economy. The CofaceBdi CEO estimates that 60,000 Israeli businesses are expected to be shut down by the end of 2024.

ICYMI, Yemen's armed forces have said they got a direct hit on Eisenhower, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, forcing it to leave the Red Sea

Israel's attack on Yemen is playing a role in bringing Yemen's civil war to an end.

Etc, etc.

The point of this post is to encourage everyone who reads it. Keep talking about Gaza, keep boycotting, keep protesting, keep resisting.

[mishpacha]

There was a Pro Palestine protest in front of my synagogue Shabbat evening.

There was a Pro Palestine protest in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in DC last night. No one was there, the museum was closed at that hour, and - having been in the museum - the museum focuses exclusively on the history of Jews in the DC area.

[vague-humanoid]

Forty-six thousand Israeli businesses have been forced to shut as a result of the ongoing war and its devastating effect on the economy, Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on 10 July, referring to Israel as a “country in collapse.” 

“This is a very high number that encompasses many sectors. About 77 percent of the businesses that have been closed since the beginning of the war, which make up about 35,000 businesses, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy,” Yoel Amir, CEO of Israeli information services and credit risk management firm, CofaceBdi, told Maariv. 

The report adds that “the most vulnerable industries are the construction industry, and as a result also the entire ecosystem that operates around it: ceramics, air conditioning, aluminum, building materials, and more – All of these were significantly damaged,” according to CofaceBdi’s risk ratings.

The trade sector has also been severely affected. This includes the service sector and industries including fashion, furniture, housewares, entertainment, transport, and tourism. 

Israel is in a situation where “there is almost no foreign tourism,” the report said, adding that “damage to businesses is all over the country, and almost no sector has been spared.” 

This includes the agriculture sector, which is based mainly in the south and the north – both considered active combat zones due to the threat posed by the Palestinian resistance and Lebanon’s Hezbollah – whose support front against Israel has significantly contributed to the downfall of the economy. 

The CofaceBdi CEO estimates that 60,000 Israeli businesses are expected to be shut down by the end of 2024. 

Hezbollah’s attacks have severely affected local business and education in the north. Tens of thousands of settlers have been forced to evacuate. “Our goal of draining the enemy’s economy … has been achieved,” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on 10 July. 

The Yemeni army’s maritime operations have also contributed to the economy's downfall. Revenues at key ports, such as the southern port of Eilat, have fallen significantly.

In the final months of 2023, the Israeli GDP plummeted by nearly 20 percent.

The threat of escalation with Hezbollah has also posed fears in Israel that any full-scale war with the Lebanese resistance would plunge the economy much deeper into the abyss. Hezbollah has demonstrated through recent video warnings that it is capable of attacking energy infrastructure such as oil refineries and gas tanks.

@el-shab-hussein

[news4dzhozhar]

Yasmin Porat, a survivor of the bloodshed at Kibbutz Be’eri, near the boundary with Gaza, says many Israeli civilians were killed by Israeli forces.

An Israeli woman who survived the Hamas assault on settlements near the Gaza boundary on 7 October says Israeli civilians were “undoubtedly” killed by their own security forces.

It happened when Israeli forces engaged in fierce gun battles with Palestinian fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri and fired indiscriminately at both the fighters and their Israeli prisoners.

“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she told Israeli radio. “There was very, very heavy crossfire” and even tank shelling.

The woman, 44-year-old mother of three Yasmin Porat, said that prior to that, she and other civilians had been held by the Palestinians for several hours and treated “humanely.” She had fled the nearby “Nova” rave.

A recording of her interview, from the radio program Haboker Hazeh (“This Morning”) hosted by Aryeh Golan on state broadcaster Kan, has been circulating on social media.

Notably, the interview is not included in the online version of Haboker Hazeh for 15 October, the episode in which it apparently aired.

It may well have been censored due to its explosive nature.

Porat, who is from Kabri, a settlement near the Lebanese border, undoubtedly experienced terrible things and saw many noncombatants killed. Her own partner, Tal Katz, is among the dead.

However, her account undermines Israel’s official story of deliberate, wanton murder by the Palestinian fighters.

Although it no longer appears on the Kan website, there can be little doubt about the recording’s authenticity.

At least one Hebrew-language account posted part of the interview on Twitter, now officially called X, and accused Kan of functioning as “media in the service of Hamas.”

Porat also gave her account to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

However, the Maariv story, published on 9 October, makes no specific mention of civilians being killed by Israeli forces.

And in a half-hour interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday, Porat speaks of intense gunfire after Israeli forces arrived. Porat herself received a bullet in the thigh.

Not only does Porat tell Kan that Israelis were killed in the heavy counterattack by Israeli security forces, but she says she and other captive civilians were well treated by the Palestinian fighters.

Porat had been attending the “Nova” rave when the Hamas assault began with missiles and motorized paragliders. She and her partner Tal Katz escaped by car to nearby Kibbutz Be’eri where many of the events she describes in her media interviews took place.

According to Porat speaking to Maariv, she and Katz initially sought refuge in the house of a couple called Adi and Hadas Dagan. After the Palestinian fighters found them they were all taken to another house, where eight people were already being held captive and one person was dead.

Porat said that the wife of the dead man “told us that when they [the Hamas fighters] tried to enter, the guy tried to prevent them from entering and grabbed the door. They shot at the door and he was killed. They did not execute them.”

“They did not abuse us. They treated us very humanely,” Porat explained to a surprised Golan in the Kan radio interview.

“By that I mean they guard us,” she said. “They give us something to drink here and there. When they see we are nervous they calm us down. It was very frightening but no one treated us violently. Luckily nothing happened to me like what I heard in the media.”

“They were very humane towards us,” Porat said in her Channel 12 interview. She recalled that one Palestinian fighter who spoke Hebrew, “told me, ‘Look at me well, were not going to kill you. We want to take you to Gaza. We are not going to kill you. So be calm, you’re not going to die.’ Thats what he told me, in those words.”

“I was calm because I knew nothing would happen to me,” she added.

“They told us that we would not die, that they wanted to take us to Gaza and that the next day they would return us to the border,” Porat told Maariv.

In the Channel 12 interview, Porat elaborates that although the Palestinian fighters all had loaded weapons, she never saw them shoot captives or threaten them with their guns.

In addition to providing the captives with drinking water, she said the fighters let them go outside to the lawn because it was hot, especially as the electricity was cut.

[palms-upturned]

‘Threat is not Hamas but Gazans, and Arabs of Judea and Samaria’

Oct 29th, 19:50 GMT

A leading Israeli security expert has told the country’s Maariv newspaper the “threat is not Hamas but the Gazans and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria”, referring to the occupied West Bank.

“As long as the state of Israel does not understand what the threat is – it will not be able to win,” Eliyahu Yossian, research fellow at Meshgav Institute for National Security and winner of the Israel Defense Prize, told the newspaper in an example of the discourse among Israel’s far right as the Gaza assault continues.

“If we don’t treat Gaza as an enemy, we will never get out of the rounds and each time it is going to get worse to the point that we reached the acute situation of [October 7] morning. The state of Israel needs to understand and accept that there are no innocents in Gaza.”

[nessvn]

keeping the momentum going (abt to spend 30 mins fighting for my life with the hebrew)

haven't been the best at davening regularly on my own lately but trying to get back into the swing of it, BH for friends who inspire you to be a better jew

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

This morning in Herzliya., a Palestinian man stabbed an 83-year old woman, Ludmila Lipovsky, to death.  She was waiting outside her assisted living facility for her daughter to take her to a doctor.

Palestinian media typically celebrates terror attacks, claiming that the victims are all soldiers. That is a little more difficult when the victim is an elderly lady stabbed multiple times. 

So they do everything they can to hide that fact.Hamas-linked Felesteen Online's headline is "A settler was killed in a heroic stabbing operation near Tel Aviv" calling the victim a "Zionist settler" and not mentioning that she is a woman.

Palestine Information Center mentions it was a woman, calling her a "settler."

Safa just says "Israeli woman," basing it on Israeli reports and avoiding saying her age.

The official Wafa news agency simply avoids mentioning the story altogether. 

Arabi21 links to the Hebrew Maariv article whose headline emphasizes that she was an 83 year old woman, but in Arabic refers to her merely as a "settler" - and then offers a "quote" from "occupation forces" that say "What we can confirm is that a Palestinian suspect stabbed a settler, and Israeli forces are searching the area to rule out the presence of other perpetrators."

Apparently, the Palestinian algorithm automatically changes any mention of an Israeli "citizen" to "settler." 

[transmascpetewentz]

look i know we've all been making jokes about secular jewish dipper/mabel/stan but hear me out: in all their shenanigans they still manage to be observant & do shacharis mincha and maariv every day.

[zhabe]

Lowkey my grandma is dramatic and died right before tisha b’av so she could make it about her

Guys i failed tisha b’av so hard

[zvaigzdelasas]

Israel’s airstrikes and Hezbollah’s rocket and drone launches that followed soon after was the biggest cross-border engagement since the two sides fought a war in 2006 in terms of the number of aircraft sorties and munitions launched, though not in terms of casualties. Three Hezbollah and allied fighters were killed and one Israeli sailor, killed by fragments of an Israeli interceptor.[...0

The prime minister was widely blamed on Monday, from both the centre and right of the political spectrum, for the limited goal of Sunday’s air raids, which disrupted Hezbollah’s planned aerial assault, but had done nothing, the critics said, to allow up to 80,000 residents of northern border towns, displaced from northern Israel since October, to return home.

Representatives of the displaced population, forced from their homes by bombing by Hezbollah in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, have said they would boycott meetings with government representatives, accusing the coalition of prioritising the defence of central Israel but not the north.

Ben Caspit, a columnist in the centre-right Maariv newspaper, wrote: “For nearly a year, the Galilee has been pulverised, ravaged and set on fire; tens of thousands of Israelis have been torn from their homes; and the entire country, which not long ago was considered to be a regional superpower, has been humiliated.” He said Netanyahu had chosen the most cautious of the military options presented to him by his generals.[...]

Benny Gantz, a retired general, former minister in Netanyahu’s coalition and one of his main rivals, described the airstrikes as “too little, too late”.

In a video statement during a visit to northern communities, he said: “We must keep up the advantage of the initiative that was taken and increase the political and military pressure to push Hezbollah away, to return northern residents to their homes safely.”

Netanyahu’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, joined in the criticism.

“Israel must not be content with a single, pre-emptive sortie. We must bring a decisive war against Hezbollah that will remove the threat in the north and allow the residents to return home safely,” Ben-Gvir said.

26 Aug 24

[sayruq]

Former Israeli Maj. Gen. Itzhak Brik revealed on Saturday the “total chaos” suffered by soldiers in the Gaza Strip in terms of the availability of equipment and logistical services needed for war, Anadolu reports. Brik, a former military general, told the Israeli daily Maariv about the “total chaos in Israeli army ranks that is not talked about in the media.” He said “the equipment, logistics, food, and everything needed to move us forward is not working, because the army has entrusted everything to private companies.” “There is no one to repair the tanks immediately, dozens of tanks are stuck in the Gaza Strip waiting to be withdrawn,” he added. The former Israeli general noted that “of course, the media does not talk about this, but the equipment does not work.” Brik pointed out that he has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu six times since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7. “But his staff did not want him (Netanyahu) to hear the truth, so they kept him away from me,” he said, adding: “I told him that the army is not ready to go immediately to war, because there are soldiers who have not trained for five years and there is a shortage of equipment.”

The situation is very dire for the Israeli occupation government

[troythecatfish]

46,000 Israeli business shut down during

Gaza genocide

According to a report by Maariv, 46,000 Israeli businesses have closed due to the war on Palestinians and neighbouring countries, describing the Israeli entity as a "country in collapse."

Yoel Amir, CEO of Israeli information services and credit risk management company CofaceBdi, predicts that up to 60,000 Israeli businesses could shut down by the end of 2024.

The sectors most affected include services, fashion, furniture, housewares, entertainment, transport, and tourism. These issues are further exacerbated by a significant decrease in foreign tourism. Agriculture in the southern and northern regions of the occupied territories is also suffering due to threats from Palestinian resistance and Hezbollah.

Source: Mintpress