Archive for October, 2011

Recently the Palestinians have started to demand that the UN would recognize them as a state (with Jerusalem as their capital) in a unilateral decision that would imply that Israel does not have the right to exist.

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You all probably know the Nobel Prize. Every year the winners of that prize are announced in different subjects, like literature, physics, chemistry and more.

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Selichot Tour to Safed

Gal S ORT Rabin On October - 8 - 2011

A few days ago, I went to a Selichot tour in the city Safed. I should explain – Selichot is a collection of prayers and poems that Jewish people say in the ten days between Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). The purpose of the Selichot is to ask for forgiveness. Safed is a city in northern Israel, which is considered to be one of the four holy cities in Israel (the other three are Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron) where people go to perform the Selichot.

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