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Awesome Elbit!
Love this Israeli defense company, Elbit Systems!
They are Israel’s largest defense company with brilliant defense, homeland security, and national security solutions.
Proven on the battlefield on land, sea, air, and space.
From the advanced F-35 Joint Strike Fighter helmet mounted display to the Iron Fist active protection system to drones, lasers, C4ISR, cyber, electronic warfare, electro-optics, countermeasures, combat vehicle systems, and artillery, mortar, munitions and more.
Elbit offer high-tech solutions that uniquely combine brain with brawn!
Defending the Holy Land and other countries around the globe.
In the fight of good over evil, I’m proud that Elbit is one of the good guys! 😉
Merry-Go-Round and Round
Merry-go-round and round.
Bobbing up and down, up and down.
Faster and faster and slower and slower.
Animal figures, colorful props, mirrors that reflect it all up.
Children smiling, children happy, what can be more satisfactory. 😉
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)
I’m Still Alive!
600 Holocaust Survivors and their descendants sing “Chai” (Life) by Ofra Haza.
Hope is not yet lost.
I live. I live. I live.
I cried my eyes out watching this.
The Jewish people not only survived the Holocaust as most of the world sat by and watched the genocide of six million men, women, and children with a soulless indifference, but G-d has kept his promise and restored the Jewish people and returned them to the Holy Land and made it flourish again!
(Thank you to my sister, Roz, for sharing this with me)
Singing Frankie The Fish + Happy Engagement Day
At the fish counter at Seven Mile Market in Baltimore, they had Frankie the Fish singing away.
Give me that fish…if it were you in that sandwich you wouldn’t be laughing at all.
And most important today is I am singing because of a very happy day:
Thank you Hashem on the the engagement of Minna and Nafi!
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)
Am Yisrael Chai!
I love the Merkava IV, Israel’s main battle tank.
The shape, the versatility, the power!
Complete fighting awesomeness.
The new “Merkava IV Barak” (scheduled for deployment in 2021) will even have artificial intelligence (AI) for advanced battle management systems.
I wish we had the Merkava during the Holocaust and could’ve given the Nazi bastards what they rightfully deserved.
Never again! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Trying To Maintain Normality
People are trying to get out of the house for just a little bit each day amidst the mandated social distancing.
Especially difficult is to try to get some exercise with all the fitness centers, gyms, and pools closed down.
Some people are just choosing to go for a walk around the track or get in a quick workout with a few friends or family members.
Can we be normal when everything is abnormal? 😉
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)
Israel 2020: Day 7
Today, we went to the Kotel (Holy Western Wall) in Jerusalem.
We went on a special tour of the Kotel Tunnels.
Got to see the foundation stones under the Temple Mount where legend has it that G-d created the world from and where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac.
This is also the place where the first and second Jewish temples stood.
We literally got to see so much of the ancient underground building stones, pillars, arches, bridges, waterways, and even learned how they think that these mega limestones (weighing over 520 metric tonnes) were moved into place so many thousands of years ago with pulleys, gears, and levers.
It was a fascinating and fun tour.
Thank you to my son-in-law and daughter for getting us tickets to this.
Lovely time by all. 😉
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal, and sorry about turning it sideways once it gets to the underground waterway)
Help Victims Of Terror
I don’t usually do this, but I felt this situation truly merits your compassion and charitable giving.
Niv Nehemia was the victim of terror in 2017 in this Israeli grocery. He suffered “14 stab wounds to the head, chest, hands, and necks, including a cut in his esophagus.”
The article appealing for help to cover his mounting medical costs appeared in the Jerusalem Post last week: Don’t leave a hero behind.
I still remember this video from when it happened two years ago. Niv is truly a hero in fighting off his brutal attacker and in saving other store employees and shoppers!
Further, Niv and his wife, Sigal, have 5 beautiful children aged 18 to 4 1/2
If you can kindly open your heart to these victims of terror, here is the link for your donation as listed in the Jerusalem Post: https://www.jgive.com/new/en/ils/donation-targets/24591.
May Hashem give a full and speedy healing to Niv and may He bless this family and all of us with peace! 😉
Traveling Chasidim @AISH Greater Washington DC
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal and Credit Photo: Minna Blumenthal)
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