Tribe Journal

05/11/2024

Prime Minister fires Defense Minister and clarified the following:

“The reports to the effect that the Prime Minister intends to dismiss senior officials in the security services are incorrect and are designed to sow discord and rifts. This is also the case with the mendacious reports that the ultra-orthodox ministers were in on the matter. They learned about it from the media.”

FULL STATEMENT FROM PM:

"As the Prime Minister of Israel, my chief obligation is to preserve the security of Israel and to achieve our total victory.

In the midst of war, more than ever, complete trust is required between the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister.

Unfortunately, even though such trust was present during the first months of the military campaign, and we had a very productive cooperation, during the past several months this trust between myself and the Defense Minister has begun to crack.

Defense Minister Gallant and I had substantial disagreements on the management of the military campaign, disagreements which were accompanied by public statements and actions that contravened the decisions of the Government and the Security Cabinet.

I have made multiple attempts to resolve these disagreements, but they became increasingly wider. They were also brought to the knowledge of the public in an inappropriate manner, and what is even worse, they have reached the knowledge of the enemy; our enemies have taken great delight in these disagreements and have derived much benefit from them.

Different opinions in open debates, as anyone who knows me can attest to, are my way of holding discussions and consultations, and making decisions. Everyone knows that. However, the increasingly wide crisis of confidence between myself and the Defense Minister had become public knowledge, and that crisis is hindering the continued proper administration of the military campaign.

I am not the only one with this opinion; in both the Government and the Security Cabinet, the majority of the members of which, virtually all members, share the feeling that this state of affairs cannot continue.

In view of the above, I have decided today to remove the Defense Minister from his post. In his stead, I have decided to appoint Minister Israel Katz to this position. Israel Katz has proven his abilities and has made a contribution to national security as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Intelligence for five years, and equally important, as a long-standing member of the State Security Cabinet.

Israel Katz brings to the table an impressive combination of rich experience and executive capabilities. He is known as a man of action who combines responsibility with reserved decisiveness, all important qualities for driving a military campaign.

Also, I have spoken today with Minister Gideon Saar and proposed that he join the coalition along with his faction and serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs. As a member of the Government and Security Cabinet for many years, Gideon Sa'ar will bring to the table much experience and consideration in the areas of policy and security, and will be a significant addition to our leadership team.

Gideon Saar's addition and the addition of his faction will increase the stability of the coalition and the government, important factors at any time, and especially important in time of war. I am convinced that these steps will reinforce the Government and the Security Cabinet, transforming them into bodies that work cooperatively and harmoniously for the security of the State of Israel, for the citizens of Israel, and for our victory."

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30/10/2024

30/10/2024

4,000 Haredi Ultra Orthodox men answered the call in the months following Oct. 7, 2023. The IDF rejected 85% of Ultra Orthodox Jews in Israel and accepted only 600 (15% of Ultra Orthodox applicants).

This quote is from an official Knesset document from the official government website (link in comments):

“To clarify the data presented in a previous version of this document, below we will present the data divided into two groups, ultra-Orthodox over the age of 26 (the exemption age) and under the age of 26:
According to data from the IDF Manpower Planning Division, which was presented in a discussion in the Knesset State Audit Committee, from the outbreak of the Iron Swords War until the end of February 2024, approximately

4,000 ultra-Orthodox, most of them apparently over the age of 26*, submitted applications for enlistment in the IDF – as part of the “Phase B” track that includes a short compulsory service training period and then integration into the reserve force;

3,120 of them were found unfit for a wide variety of reasons (mostly due to medical ineligibility), and of the 880 found fit, 600 ultra-Orthodox were drafted.

In addition, 540 ultra-Orthodox under the age of 26 were drafted for compulsory service since the beginning of the war. Regarding this group, the IDF did not provide data on the number of candidates who were rejected, if any, but only the stated number of Haredim who were drafted. We should note that at that time there were 66,000 Haredim who were in the status of being rejected for service due to [yeshiva enrollment].”

* This was stated in the words of Lt. Col. Avni in the State Audit Committee hearing mentioned above. However, in the hearing of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee mentioned above, Lt. Col. Shai Taib, Assistant to the Knesset Chief of Staff, said: "Some 4,000 requested to enlist. Some requested to enlist at ages that were not exempt..." (emphasis not in the original) It is therefore unclear what the proportion of Haredim who requested to enlist in the Phase B track who were under the exemption age (age
26) was.””

19/06/2024

TWO JEWS DRIVING IN A CAR COULD IGNITE WORLD WAR III?
- Undisclosed location

(Parody) Sometimes we need to take a step back and laugh at the situation.

Where can two Jews drive these days if not the middle of a desert?

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16/06/2024

Meet Moshe. Moshe left everything behind to farm land in one of the most highly disputed pieces of real estate in the world, in the middle of a desert.

Much of the mainstream media demonizes the "settlers" because they view these Jews as impediment to the road to peace. We all know that the road to a Palestinian State is a road to the murder of close to 10 million Israeli Arabs, Jews and Christians. Additionally, the Oslo Accords were the agreed upon first steps towards peace and they divided up Judea-Samaria and the Jordan Valley into Areas A, B and C. Since 2009 the Palestinian Authority has been agressively and unilaterally building residential, commerical and farmland on the Area C which the failed Oslo Accords had designated for Israelis. The P.A. openly publishes their Fayyad Plan to unilaterally build their state regardless of Israel. And so, the media portrays the Jews on the front lines as the obstacle to the Palsetinian Authorities unilateral land grab designed to choke out the Jewish communities throughout Judea Samaria and the Jordan Valley and create a nightmare called the "West Bank" which would make Gaza look like a butterflies and roses.

After Oct. 7th Massacre, we are focusing on this untold part of Israel. The media demonizes the "settlers" and thus the "settlers" often run from their cameras. We at are very grateful to Moshe for sharing his story with us so we can better understand the context and dynamics in which the Pioneers work the land throughout the front lines.

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31/03/2024

Nearly all police officers that I've met are heroes for putting their lives on the line to keep the peace and enforce the law because without the rule of law society falls apart. History has shown that such an unraveling can happen very quickly. As a member of the Jewish community, I've seen both the courage of our police officers and the sensitivity.

By way of example of heroic sensitivity (which is the opposite of this particular story but needs to be mentioned to provide the proper context and gratitude and not just bash the blue....) One night about a decade ago a n**i sw****ka was painted on a girls school building and a Sergeant in our Boston police department precinct, then Sergeant Michael Ohara (he's now a lieutenant in Boston Police Department), showed up before school to make sure that the children would not see the sw****ka. It was literally like that brilliant and moving Super Bowl commercial that Robert Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism created showing the neighbor painting the sw****ka of so the little girl wouldn't have to deal with the haters. There are too many stories that come to mind of heroic and sensitive actions. And of course, sometimes people make mistakes...either consciously or unconsciously.

This episode of the TRIBECAST at Tribe Journal shares a story took place just hours after NYC Mayor Eric Adams delivered a fiery speech repeating "We Are Not Alright" expressing his support of Israel and the Jewish community of New York during one of the most challenging times since the holocaust, a Jewish man was arrested after the pro-palestinian mob attacked him for handing out fliers on the way to pick up his son from school.

After hearing about similar arrests these days in London and Atlanta just to name a few, Tribe Journal visited with Omri Schwartz to hear his story.

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17/03/2024

DOES THE U.S. PROFIT FROM AN ISRAEL AT WAR?
What is Uncle Sam's return on investment for amounts spent supporting Israel's military? We often hear congress refer to allocations to Israel's defense establishment as military "aid" to Israel. But perhaps the opposite is true.

Congress recently bucketed military aid to Ukraine and a U.S.-Mexican border allocation with an allocation for Israel into a single bill. The talking heads debated this bill and over time the Ukrainian aid was being used interchangeably with allocations for the Israeli military. However, the relationship that Israel has with the United States is more transactional than an aid package. In this episode we visit with former Ambassador Yoram Ettinger who served Israel as the Minister for Congressional Affairs from 1989 - 1992 and has spend the past four decades actively involved as a private citizen and columnist for Israeli and U.S. media outlets.

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22/02/2024

Let us know in the comments what you think of this deep dive with Col. Grisha Yakubovich. The conversation is packed with untold amounts of new insights and information about the war which no one seems to be discussing...which hopefully will change as we publicize this together.

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15/02/2024

Did the next front of the War against Israel start last night?

We ventured to Israel's northern border with Lebanon to see the land and hear from veteran IDF Intelligence Corps Lt. Col. Sarit Zahavi. The northern front has been ongoing for decades....but post Oct. 7th will be different. Take a look at the beautiful landscapes, see the lay of the land on the northern border and understand Hezbollah, Lebanon and why this front is more than likely to escalate.

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09/02/2024

Did Hamas already win the war? This episdoe looks at the role that Israel's benevolence towards Gazans may have helped build Hamas' popularity in the decades leading up to Oct. 7. Often times countries view the outcome of a conflict from their own national narrative's lens. How will Hamas spin this one?

This deep dive features Col. Grisha Yakubovich who spent decades as a civil liason to the Arab citizens for the IDF in Gaza and Judea Samaria (aka the West Bank) and served as acting "mayor" of Gaza from 2012 - 2016 before retiring from the IDF. He now works as a lecturer and consultant driving business initiaves throughout the region.

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05/02/2024

This was 100% predictable.

1. The nations of the world spend months condemning and pressuring Israel to cease fire without pressuring Hamas nearly enough to return Israeli hostages,

2. Israel is demonized by the world while putting their soldiers lives at risk to minimize civilian casualties, and

3. Egypt fortifies their border with Gaza.

As the inevitable effort to remove terror tunnels and eliminate the underworld terrorists hiding beneath the city while the citizens who voted Hamas into power suffer throughout....the IDF approaches the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

If all trends in the media continue, the international media will continue to pressure Israel without looking in the mirror. They also will not call out Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon or Syria for not accepting any refugees at all (the majority of Palestinian multigenerational UNRWA "Refugees" are already in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria...not Israel/Palestine). More than 1.4 million Gazans already have refugee status and are registered persons with the U.N. regardless of Hamas and this current lesson for all middle eastern enemies of Israel. Jordan's largest UNRWA city is a 10 hour bus ride....but Gazans apparently are not welcome there.

The world should be careful who they point a finger at because usually what goes around comes around and if a greater war continues to escalate then we will see just how "moral" the U.S., NATO, the E.U. rest of the world behave when they're sons and daughters are on the front lines.

Stop senselessly protesting and pressuring the Israeli government to release the hostages who Hamas abducted. They can't. Israel isn't holding the hostages. Hamas is. Pressure the evil Hamas regime (and their supporters) who are holding the hostages captive to finally release them. Pressure the nations of the world to give Gazans a choice on their own to relocate temporarily until the storm passes.

01/02/2024

To put things into perspective.... we don't need to cease fire. We need the hostages abducted by hamas returned now and gazans should be helping Israel to dismantle hamas forever.

28/01/2024

The world is waking up to the absurdity of the United Nations and the danger of ignoring stupidity and wasteful investments.