Mentshlik Israeli Soldiers Always - No Eating In Front of Palestinians During Ramaddan

IDF Soldiers Instructed To Refrain From Eating and Drinking in front of Palestinian population

The Following is from Y-NET:

"Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi have decided to ease a series of restrictions on the Palestinian population during the month of Muslim month Ramadan, which begins Saturday.

Remembering Gilad Shalit by Using Twitter (August 26, 2009)

I posted in my previous post why I think it is important to remember that Gilad Shalit is still in captivity. To follow-up, I wanted to write a post about the grassroots movement, "Tweet for Shalit." It was a campaign to push the issue of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit's captivity to top of the Internet world using the Twitter social networking mini-blog site.

While in Israel and the Mishaberach for Israeli Soldiers

"I was saying amen to a mishaberach that hashem should help the soldiers because the soliders were actually protecting me (i.e. me myself, my life, my body, etc), my family, my kids, my friends, my neighbors, and the entire state of Israel's existence. It wasn't something detached - it was something almost tangible."

I had a sort of any epiphany when I was in Israel a few months ago.

It was Shabbos morning and I was loving the davening. I was in some shul in Catamon, I loved receiving the bircat hacohanim by shacharit, and it was time for kriat hatorah.