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It is not clear what a community newspaper meant when it chose the headline "The Beginning of the End" on its front page. What is clear is that, even if it did not mean it, according to many writers in the Haredi press this weekend, the government's beginning of the end was already visible on the horizon, looming and looming immediately after the war ended. Sorry, operation.
""A sour victory," the announcer called the end of the war.
And like the trend that led the ultra-Orthodox press this week, the anti-Bibi tune also played in the community: "Heads of local authorities attack: We have surrendered to terror, our lives are not life.".
We surrendered, because what? Because we didn't risk the lives of more soldiers in a ground operation that might have been unnecessary? Because we didn't continue bombing more towers in Gaza, until the city was completely destroyed, while increasing the world's condemnation of Israel?
Netanyahu, according to Shaar in the community, "surrendered to whoever was holding the gun in their hand at the given moment." And why bother explaining that he didn’t actually surrender to his Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman or Economy Minister Naftali Bennett – who each held a smoking media gun? That he didn’t surrender to the Americans? That he had more than once confronted John Kerry?
No need to make an effort. Just read the explanation of another reporter in the newspaper, in a column located towards the end of the issue. "The masses who are now angry at Benjamin Netanyahu for not defeating terror, do not ask themselves how it is possible that right-wing prime ministers, one after another, discover the limits of power when they come to power.".
Lieberman and Bennett would die to reach this high place, just to understand their mistakes today.
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And perhaps the explanation was given at Bet Ne'eman, where the political reporter said that Netanyahu bothered to brief senior reporters by telephone.
Is it possible that there are some ultra-Orthodox reporters that he 'skipped' over, and therefore were unable to be convinced of the righteousness of his path? Well, to be honest, the attitude towards the ultra-Orthodox press has never been Benjamin Netanyahu's strong point.
3.
'Mishpasha' also lashed out at the prime minister. "The image of 'Mr. War on Terror' must undergo rehabilitation, not just Gaza," the newspaper wrote.
Also according to 'Day by Day', "the leader who was perceived as 'strong against Hamas' is today presented as weak and hesitant." However, he also took the time to emphasize the other side: "We must not forget that Hamas was badly beaten, Israel has quite a few achievements.".
For balance.
4.
Yated Ne'eman, just like Yated Ne'eman, did not forget to connect the days of Elul that fell this week with the end of the war. "Outside - a ceasefire, inside - a burning man that will not cease," was its headline.
So it's true, the articles inside were a bit 'heavy', less colorful, but there's only one 'Elul' a year.
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I loved it.
• A family reporter spent a few hours at the Arazi family home in Netivot, and returned with an amazing color report after spending Tuesday in the shadow of the red color. How to stop the car with a squeak when the alarm sounds, what to do when the child is in the shower, how to lie down on the road and then shake out the clothes, and how to look out from the roof of the house over the rooftops of Gaza.
Speaking of such a beautiful article, it turns out that the same reporter who was in Netivot on Tuesday, shortly before the ceasefire, managed to get to Netivot on Wednesday, at the opening of the time. "It turned out to be" at the opening of the time... Well, don't exaggerate, and do you want to say that after parking his car at his house on Tuesday night, at dawn he returned and left for the south? I would bet that Wednesday's article was done by phone, and that's fine, and that's legitimate. You had an amazing field report, we don't need another one from Netivot, just don't fake the headline and give us the feeling that here we are, we wrote a letter to Netivot... The truth is so beautiful. Why ruin it?
• I also liked the article by the informant's field reporter, who returned to the Gaza enclave (I mean, I'm not convinced he returned there this week, it's possible he collected from his notebook the color articles he did during the war, but who cares), who drew the map of the bombed settlements, the road map, how to travel from where to where, who is on the border and how close...
Definitely fascinating.
• I, like every Haredi mother who is proud of her Torah-educated children, was deeply hurt by what the wife of the Minister of Finance, Lihi Lapid, shared on her Facebook page. Well, it's not that she herself formulated it, but the very fact that she shared it...
""The Haredim who don't go to the army are a destructive sect that is destroying the country from within like a malignant disease.".
It's unpleasant to read that your son, whom you love so much, is considered a malignant disease in her eyes. And...vote for my husband, of course, she asked. Only he will save us from the hands of malignant diseases and all that blah blah.
That's why I loved the columnist's reminder in the community so much. "Mine and yours – Lehi." Behind every 'great' man, there probably stands a 'great' woman. 'Great'...
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I didn't like it.
• The phenomenon of copying, which has become a scourge of media sites.
It started with an excellent article that appeared last week in the family, about the yeshivots - the number of students accepted into each, their style, and so on. An article that is certainly thorough and worthy. But then I found it on one of the media sites, as their exclusive project, without any credit to the source.
This continued with a daily interview article with El Ha'ayan CEO Moshe Illoz - it was also copied verbatim. Without credit.
What is interesting is that asking the editors of the weekly and daily newspapers where the credit is, yielded stammering and unclear answers.
In an era where a website writer becomes a 'messenger in the community', everything is open, everything is still possible...
• The color article by 'Yated Ne'eman' about the Ba'al Teshuva (Rabbi Ora Zimmerman) from Sessofah was so beautiful, a fascinating story, full of content and interest. So why, for God's sake, ruin it with so much PR for 'Keren Hashiit'?
• The family newspaper's celebrations of the victory of the Chief Rabbi Yosef and his office with the appointment of Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz as head of the conversion organization ("The cheerfulness he displayed towards the stream of well-wishers," upon his grandson's arrival at the wedding, "His associates walked through the hall with broad smiles as if they were grooms on their wedding day and not ordinary guests at a family event"). Is it possible that all this is so that we forget that he even served as head of the office of Rabbi Amar?
And in general, how nice to read things when they are already so irrelevant. Just a few hours after the newspaper came off the printing press and with Shas' failure on what was supposed to be the eve of its victory, on Thursday night...
7.
Speaking of Shas.
• What brought Yosef Segal, the drafter of the Haredi orphans law, to praise the community for the achievement of the law specifically for Eli Yishai. After all, until today he has been careful to praise everyone? I contacted him to check, so far I have not received a response. The guy is probably busy with the Eluloli Stigen...
• I strongly agree with the family reporter who wrote that Deri Lishi's resignation announcement is a "real knockout." But isn't this a self-knockout?
• How beautiful it was to see the picture of the Gra "A" Yosef, and his four (!) sons beside him, in the picture that appeared on the front page of the newspaper, in a very central location. They were exactly what I expected to see at the rally, all four of them, and also in the news that was prepared afterwards.
For those asking and interested: Two sons did not appear - the rabbi of Holon, the Gra"a Yosef, and the rabbi of Kashrut, the Beit Yosef, the Gram Yosef - which did not prevent the headline "Yom Liom" from reporting that the rally was "with the participation of the sons of Maran Zia"a, our teacher, the Gra"i Yosef, the great Gaon, Rabbi Avraham Yosef, the rabbi of Holon, the great Gaon, Rabbi David Yosef, a member of the Council of Torah Sages, and the Gaon, Rabbi Moshe Yosef, the head of the Beit Midrash "Maor Yisrael" and the Beit Yosef.".
So how did they participate, if they didn't? That is, the news reporter was optimistic and believed that they would appear (the newspaper was printed a day earlier). How would they appear if their names were not published in the ad the week before? Did anyone expect them to appear, just because the news reported that they participated?
Day by day solutions.
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This week's Yated Ne'eman was in the spirit of Elul. With the passing of the hearts of a spiritual director, a grandfather to a grandson who began studying in a yeshiva, and an eighth-grade teacher.
But believe it or not, the most touching of all of the above was the article by Y. (Y. period. A woman, how could you not...) who accompanied her son to the bus on his way to yeshiva.
On Friday, when the newspaper arrived at home, I couldn't read the section. Tears welled up in my eyes. Somehow, on Sunday evening, I tried again. This time I succeeded.
Exciting, believe me. Very exciting.
And not just because just a few days earlier I had done the same route, with the same tears (they come naturally, right?).
Read, and you will see.
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A 'Family' reporter firmly states that, unlike the Jibril deal, which was done in secrecy and under heavy censorship, the Shalit deal was conducted in a stately manner, "accompanied by strategic advisors who turned Gilad into everyone's child." So far, everything is correct.
But note the following addition..."and with the purchase of the major newspaper systems that rallied in its favor.".
Are you crazy, are you there in the 'family'? And does this sound like someone buying a newspaper editorial? Where did you learn such concepts? (Note to the designer: A smiling smiley was supposed to appear here, but there's no need for an icon)...
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