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Some Knesset Members gave angry “statements” in response. As though that will help any… Even in theory, the Shabak kapos שר”י are unaccountable to the Knesset in any real sense.

Ultimately, I believe in only one solution, but this wasn’t completely worthless.

Find it at the link over here…

ערנות קודמת לכל: היה ערני ופתח את עיניך בסביבתך. הימנע מלהיות שקוע בטלפון הנייד. יכולת הזיהוי המוקדם עשויה להיות מכרעת.

זיהוי סימנים מחשידים: שימו לב לסימנים לא שגרתיים. התנהגות חשודה, לבוש חריג או מבטים לחוצים ומזגזגים עשויים להעיד על כוונות זדון.

נשיאת נשק והצטיידות: נשק המאוחסן בכספת לא יסייע בעת חירום. מומלץ לשאת את הנשק עליך ולשאת גם מחסנית נוספת, כיוון שמחסנית אחת לא תמיד מספיקה.

זיהוי וקבלת החלטה: לפני כל ירי, ודא שהאיום הוא ודאי. יש לוודא שהיורה הוא אכן מחבל ולא אדם חף מפשע, כדי למנוע פגיעה מיותרת.

אימונים ותרגול: במצבים עם ריבוי אנשים, נדרש ירי מדויק. יש להתאמן ולתרגל ירי כדי להבטיח שלא תפגעו בטעות בעובר אורח תמים.

המשך קריאה באתר “בחדרי”…

I copy-and-paste from the author himself:

One of the numerous challenges in writing my Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom is that I am trying to make it suitable for as broad an audience as possible – including the charedi community. In cases where I run into an insoluble conflict between Chazal and science, I simply acknowledge the conflict (and I will write something in the introduction that outlines the range of approaches). But one animal requires me to point out that the Talmud Bavli misunderstood the Mishnah (although I am writing it more delicately than that!)

Many students of the Gemara have been perplexed by a mysterious creature called the bardelas, which appears in several places in Shas. People ask, is it a cheetah? A hyena? A polecat? (And, some people ask, what the heck is a polecat, anyway?) Even Tosafos admits to being perplexed.

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Quoting the NYT (?):

Afghan cultural norms, enforced even in emergencies by the ruling Taliban, forbid physical contact between men and women who are not family members.

In the village of Andarluckak, in Kunar Province, the emergency team hurriedly carried out wounded men and children, and treated their wounds, said Ms. Aysha, 19. But she and other women and adolescent girls, some of them bleeding, were pushed aside, she said.

“They gathered us in one corner and forgot about us,” she said. No one offered the women help, asked what they needed or even approached them.

Tahzeebullah Muhazeb, a male volunteer who traveled to Mazar Dara, also in Kunar Province, said that members of the all-male medical team there were hesitant to pull women out from under the rubble of collapsed buildings. Trapped and injured women were left under stones, waiting for women from other villages to reach the site and dig them out.

“It felt like women were invisible,” said Mr. Muhazeb, 33. He added, “The men and children were treated first, but the women were sitting apart, waiting for care.”