JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As the eighth light of Chanukah is lit in Jewish homes worldwide, IDF soldiers are lighting makeshift menorahs in various places in Jenin, Gaza and other places where they are stationed.
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חיילי גדוד המילואים 941 בוגרי נצח יהודה, מדליקים נרות חנוכה בג’נין pic.twitter.com/DkdcQJS9UY
— יענקי פרבר | Yanki Farber (@yankihebrew) December 14, 2023
In Jenin, IDF soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda (Nahal Haredi) unit lit candles during the intensive operation taking place there over the past days. IDF soldiers discovered tunnels, ammunition, weapons manufacturing factories and terror funds in Jenin and arrested 60 terrorist suspects. 12 terrorists were eliminated from the air after they attacked IDF forces.
חיים הרש מייזליש נין מרן רבינו הברך משה מסאטמאר מדליק נר שביעי של חנוכה בעזה pic.twitter.com/xibfihsgQH
— ישראל כהן (@Israelcohen911) December 14, 2023
In Gaza, Chaim Hersh Meisels, the great-grandson of the Beirach Moshe, lit the seventh candle last night for his unit stationed there.
זאת חנוכה
חאן יונס pic.twitter.com/X9CxgpIrrS— ינון מגל (@YinonMagal) December 14, 2023
In Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip, IDF soldiers fighting in the region were treated to a pyrotechnic Chanukah show as members of the artillery unit sent eight flares up skywards.
And at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station, a moving ceremony took place in which Chagai Engelman, the son of Israel’s state comptroller Matanyahu Engelman who was seriously injured in the fighting in Gaza a month ago and has Baruch Hashem recovered, lit the Chabad menorah placed on a platform near the station as his father looked proudly on.
They give us chizzuk, Hashem should protect every one of them. Such an emotional moment.
וְהֵשִׁיב לֵב אָבוֹת עַל בָּנִים וְלֵב בָּנִים עַל אֲבוֹתָם
I am not Satmar and I definitely do not share their views via-a-vis the IDF. Having said that, I can’t help but suspect that this attention-grabbing headline is not in the best taste.
1. The ego of some, to think that the Govt in Israel cares whether Satmar is still anti Tzioni, is mind boggling. 2. When Zionists were anti-Frum & Zionism was a replacement for Yiddishkeit, it was a problem. But today Zionism (especially as opposed to Secularism) is more of a Baal tshuvah movement, and should be embraced. 3. Why would people speak poorly of Horav Kook??? 4. Just when there’s been such a tremendous Ahavas Yisroel, and “B’lev echud” in Klal Yisroel, why would some in the Eiriv Rav try to take us back to pre October 7th???? 5. Let’s embrace one another & fight our enemies in the world; not each other.
Not every Jew follows their father’s or grandfather’s path. But he is OK being in the IDF.
may the creator protect him and all israel’s soldiers.
so is the satmar rebbe’s grandchild learning torah, eating kosher, lighting chanukah candles? is his only ‘sin’ that he is a tziyoni? leave him alone. he may be a disappointment to his zeida, but he is not shaming him. who was it who said many years ago that thr worst part of all of this is that his turned young jewish people into murderers. this is what really hurts.
I heard that he went to belzer rav to get bracha and rav asked why he isn’t becoming belz instead of going to army he answered that becoming belz will hurt his father more!!! LOL;););)
Very nice, may all Satmer serve in the IDF.
Paying back for Isreal’s saving and housing reb Yoel in isreal while the polish and Hungarian Jews were being killed by the Nazis in the 1940’s
He was on the kastner train out of hungry
If the Israeli government had any brains, which clearly they don’t, they would shut their mouth and stop showing him off. It is not doing them any good. Oh it might do good for the leftist Israelis to say look at that, but the leftist israelis don’t count. HKBH counts!
He’s mentioned numerous times, though not sure why, that he feels so overjoyed & connected to Satmar whenever he rides on a Zionist train.
Hashem Yerachem that a person can stray so far.