Jerusalem News (14 February 2016, 5 Adar-A, 5776)
Contents:
1. Likud activist wants to-pay arabs to-start new lives elsewhere by Naama Adler Bello
2. POLL: HALF OF ISRAEL'S JEWS WANT TO ANNEXÂ JUDEA-SAMARIA
by Ari Yashar
3. How Your Cell Phone Might Be Hurting Your Sperm by Anna Almendrala
4. United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler Delivers Fiery Interview on Israel
5. The Beit Hamikdash [Holy Temple] will unite the Jewish people By Joseph Frager, MD
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1. Likud activist wants to-pay arabs to-start new lives elsewhere
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/likud-activist-wants-to-pay-250000-arabs-each-year-to-start-new-lives-elsewhere/2016/02/14/
Naama Adler Bello
Extracts:
Naama Adler Bello, a real estate broker and Likud activist from Caesarea, has been pushing over the past few months a political initiative that has been gaining the support of fellow party activists if not by the official leadership  looking to establish an international fund to facilitate voluntary Arab immigration from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, Ha'aretz reported. Adler Bello is not a fan of the term 'transfer,' and prefers a more marketable name: a 'Listening and Fulfillment' program. Nevertheless, her approach clearly aims to offer the Arabs between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea the means to 'escape the harsh ghetto life and try their luck elsewhere in the big world.'
Much like another, similar plan, which has been pushed for at least a year by former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, Adler does not wish to force any Arab to leave if they'd rather stay than collect the reward, but she insists that in order to remain and live as equals they must sign a declaration of allegiance to the State of Israel.
In terms of numbers, the Likud activist expects that 'every year about 250,000 youths will be leaving, costing the state coffers about $12.5 billion annually, assuming they'd be moving to South America.'
She envisions an all out effort of the Israeli government and its embassies abroad to locate adopting homes and summer camps for the departing youths. And they don't see a penny while in Israel, Â the generous donations will be deposited for them at their destinations.
She cited a poll that reported that as many as 68% of the Arabs would like to leave if they could afford to. She believes they aren't leaving because they face insurmountable difficulties that should be relatively easily resolved: they don't have passports and they don't have money, making them undesirable immigrants in many countries.
'For the cost of one bomb, we could send away four happy people with a future,' she suggested, adding, 'When I talk to Arabs about it, their eyes open wide. They ask, Where do we sign up? And they say, give me $5,000 and I'm out of here.'
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2. POLL: HALF OF ISRAEL'S JEWS WANT TO ANNEXÂ JUDEA-SAMARIA
by Ari Yashar
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207455
A new poll has found that just under half of the Jewish public in Israel supports the annexation of Judea and Samaria, indicating that the notion of establishing a Palestinian state in Israel's Biblical heartland in a "two-state solution" is being shelved.
The poll was conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute, and found that 45% of Jewish Israelis back annexing the entire area liberated in the 1967 Six Day War.
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3. How Your Cell Phone Might Be Hurting Your Sperm
 06/12/2014 09:52 am ET | Updated Jun 16, 2014
Anna Almendrala Healthy Living Editor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/12/mobile-phone-sperm_n_5486067.html
"Altering where you keep your mobile phone is a fairly easy lifestyle change to make, and certainly will do men no harm," Mathews wrote. She also emphasized that scientists have already identified several factors that affect sperm health. She advised men to keep things loose and cool down there by wearing loose-fitting underwear and avoiding activities that keep genitals overheated for a long amount of time.
Other recent studies show that stress is associated with lower sperm concentration, while chemicals in many household items also have a negative effect on sperm function.
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4. United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler Delivers Fiery Interview on Israel
http://jpupdates.com/2016/02/03/united-torah-judaism-mk-yisrael-eichler-delivers-fiery-interview-on-israel/
Extracts:
"We're very afraid of taking control of the state. First, because as soon as we'll say we want to take over, make no mistake about it, the other side, the anti-religious, will forget all the rules of democracy and all the moral values, like that cat who was trained to serve as waiter at a ball, until it spotted a mouse, on the day the secular papacy understands that there exists such a danger, the entire IDF weaponry will be utilized to defeat the 'Jewish Hamas' and 'Jewish ISIS.''
"I complained once to a former justice minister about the activism of the courts, who were intervening in legislation without the authority to do it, disregarding the separation of powers. So he told me, 'Listen, forget this nonsense. When we realized that [Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas party chairman] Aryeh Deri and Rav Ovadia [Yosef] brought in 17 Knesset mandates (in the 1999 election), and you (UTJ) are getting stronger, we realized you were going to conquer our state. And we had two options: either declare a military coup d'etat, or a judicial coup d' etat. We didn't go for a military coup because we don't trust the army, Â back then Shas received more votes in the army than the entire left'"
"So we decided, Â he told me, "to shift the balance in all the government ministries to favor the judicial system, empowering the Attorney General, the State Prosecutor, the government legal advisers, the attorneys, because the legal system doesn't rely on the masses, 'And that's how we'll save our country.' And they did it. What we're seeing today, they did it."
"And I say that as soon as they realize that they're losing control, it will be dangerous [for religious people] to live here. That's why I say all the time, I don't want it. Give me Yavne and its sages (a reference to 1st century sage Rabban Yokhanan ben Zakai's request of the Roman emperor outside the burning Jerusalem], give me what I can handle. I'll try to make Shabbat more pleasant for people, do what I can using democratic means, I'll sit in the Knesset and will do whatever I can, Â but I don't want to rule over you."
MK Eichler includes the IDF, Israel's sacred cow, in the realm of great waste and low productivity, except there he believes it's 1 productive soldier for every ten. He is a sworn opponent of the open draft, not only because it plucks Haredi students from their learning, but because by insisting on drafting everyone, the Army ends up wasting astonishing amounts of resources, only to end up with a much less effective system.
Is MK Eichler really a prophet of doom? When he is pressed against the wall, probably. He repeats time and again his faith in God who would help Israel. But barring that, his observations are darkly pessimistic. 'I once told one of our great rabbis, It's not only that the gentiles in America aren't waiting to take us in (should there be another Holocaust], the Jews in America aren't waiting for us, either. They wouldn't absorb us there if we flee,' and MK Eichler emphasizes his next statement with a loud tapping of his fingers on his desk: 'The most dangerous place for a Holocaust by ISIS will be here, in Israel.'
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5. The Beit Hamikdash will unite the Jewish people
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207870
This week's Torah portion: Exploring how the mitzvah to build the Holy Temple connects the nation at its highest spiritual point.
By Joseph Frager, MD
"They shall make a Sanctuary for Me so that I shall dwell among them"(25:8). The Mitzvah of building the Beit Hamikdash is analyzed thoroughly and brilliantly by Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus of Blessed Memory.
The Rambam in Hilchot Beit HaBechirah says it is a Positive Mitzvah to build a Beit Hamikdash. He writes, "It is a Positive Command to construct a House for G-d, prepared for sacrifices to be offered within, we must celebrate there three times a year as it is written Exodus 25:8 "and you shall make Me a Sanctuary." The Rambam essentially is giving two reasons for the Positive Mitzvah. One is to bring Karbanot and the other is to celebrate the Three Festivals (the Holidays of Sukkot, Pesach and Shavuot). The question then arises as to why these two reasons? Are they connected? What is their essence? Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus Z'L says that they are in fact not two separate and disparate reasons. They are actually one reason.
Both of these actions (Karbanot and celebrating the Three Festivals) allow the Shechina (G-d's Presence) to come down to the Jewish People. This is their essence. Both of the Rambam's reasons for the Positive Command to build the Holy Temple bring the Shechina down to Earth. At Mount Sinai the Jewish People were bound as One standing around the mountain. (Exodus 19:23) "Bound the mountain and sanctify it"). In Exodus (24:3)this concept of Unity is further expressed ("Moshe came and told the people all the words of Hashem and all the Laws and the entire people responded with ONE VOICE and they said, "All the words that Hashem has spoken we will do". Rashi says on an earlier Posuk, the Jewish People were "as one man with one heart at Sinai based upon the words "and Israel encamped there" (Exodus 19:2) The Sinaitic experience was the highest Spiritual point in the Jewish People's existence.