Jerusalem News Now. News and Views Regarding Israel and the World from a Brit-Am Perspective. 8 December 2025, 18 Kislev 5785.
Contents:
1. Not Serving in the IDF.
2. Countries that do not recognize Israel.
3. Yad Vashem: 5 Million Holocaust Victims Identified After Decades of Research,
4. Irish Perfidy Confirmed.
5. Groundbreaking Israeli research challenges core assumptions of Darwinian evolution
6. Knesset Committee: Over 1,400 Israelis Die Annually from Palestinian "Eco-Terrorism."
7. Lost Ten Tribes will return by Ship and by plane over the Atlantic Ocean.
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1. Not Serving in the IDF.
In Israel there are two factions Secular Jews and Religious Jews.
The two sides usually overlap with each other but each side has its hard liners.
In Biblical Times the Tribe of Levi did not serve in the army when the Israelites went out to conquer the Land.
In the Book of Numbers we hear how each of the Tribes was numbered in preparation to go out to War.
Numbers (TCB) 1:
45 ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COUNTED ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHERS' HOUSES, FROM TWENTY YEARS AND UPWARD, ALL WHO WERE FIT TO GO OUT TO THE ARMY.
46 THE SUM OF ALL THOSE WHO WERE COUNTED: SIX HUNDRED AND THREE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
47 BUT THE LEVITES, ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHER'S TRIBE WERE NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM.
48 THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES SAYING:
49 ONLY THE TRIBE OF LEVI YOU SHALL NOT NUMBER, AND YOU SHALL NOT RECKON THEIR SUM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
50 BUT YOU SHALL APPOINT THE LEVITES OVER THE TABERNACLE OF THE TESTIMONY, OVER ALL ITS VESSELS AND OVER ALL THAT BELONG TO IT; THEY SHALL CARRY THE TABERNACLE AND THEY SHALL MINISTER TO IT, AND THEY SHALL ENCAMP AROUND THE TABERNACLE.
Other sources say that not only the Levites but also from among the regular Israelites for each one who went to war there was another who stayed behind to learn.
Within the IDF one has front-line fighters and rear-base soldiers. Both elements are needed. Nevertheless it is worth noting that 40% of the front-line fighters come from the National Religious ranks even though they comprise only ca. 13% of the Population.
Also within the IDF one has a minority of senior commanders who are against Jews being religious. As stated they are a minority but they exist and have influence.
The Secular Group also seems to control; important sections such as the Education Corps.
So too, at the insistence of the Secular many young girls also serve in the IDF.
Some of these fulfill very valuable tasks.
Nevertheless if it could be shown by statistics that on the whole the service of females is detrimental to the Army the Secular would still refuse to do without them.
Much of the claims made against Ultra-Orthodox Jews learning instead of serving is stirred up by negative anti-Jewish elements.
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2. Countries that do not recognize Israel: Ishmael-Islam.
Key Regions & Countries:
Middle East/North Africa: Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.
Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, North Korea.
Africa (Sub-Saharan): Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Somalia.
Americas: Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia (suspended).
Reasons for Non-Recognition:
Arab-Israeli Conflict: Most Arab League members do not recognize Israel due to the unresolved Palestinian conflict, with many maintaining a formal state of war.
Islamic Solidarity: Many OIC members align with the Arab stance, refusing to recognize Israel's legitimacy.
Political Stances: Countries like Cuba and North Korea have distinct political reasons for non-recognition or severed ties.
Note: The list can vary slightly as some countries have suspended ties (like Bolivia, Venezuela) or withdrawn recognition (like Cuba, Iran) rather than never recognizing Israel at all.
15 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen
10 non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
Most of the Nations who deny the existence of Israel are either atheistic oppressive entities or Islamic States.
Islam represents is Ishmael the son of Abraham by the Egyptian hand-maiden Hagar.
Ishmael was referred to as a "wild-donkey of a man."
Genesis (TCB) 16:
12 AND HE WILL BE A WILD DONKEY OF A MAN; HIS HAND WILL BE UPON ALL, AND EVERYONE'S HAND UPON HIM, AND BEFORE (with hostility towards) ALL HIS BROTHERS HE WILL DWELL."
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8211
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3. Yad Vashem: 5 Million Holocaust Victims Identified After Decades of Research
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2468761/yad-vashem-5-million-holocaust-victims-identified-after-decades-of-research.html
In a milestone nearly eight decades in the making, Yad Vashem announced that it has successfully recovered the names of five million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, an unprecedented effort to restore individual identity to victims whom the Nazis sought to erase from human memory.
Researchers at the memorial said that while roughly one million victims, names may never be recovered, artificial intelligence and machine learning are now being used to analyze 'hundreds of millions of archival documents' to uncover another 250,000 names.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates that six million Jews were systematically exterminated during the Holocaust, a figure derived from Nazi records, demographic analyses, Jewish community archives, and resistance documentation.
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4. Irish Perfidy Confirmed. The Good and Bad in Ireland.
https://israel365news.com/413351/irish-presidential-election-the-rise-of-a-pro-hamas-anti-israel-candidate
It was revealed in 2009 that Douglas Hyde, Ireland's president during the Second World War, offered condolences to Germany's representative in Dublin over the death of Adolf Hitler, newly declassified records show. Until now, it was believed that Ireland's prime minister, Eamon de Valera, was the only leader to have conveyed official condolences, a gesture widely criticized. The presidential record for 1938-1957 revealed Ireland's decision to maintain cordial relations with the Nazis even after news of the Holocaust emerged.
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5. Ground-breaking Israeli research challenges core assumptions of Darwinian evolution.
Proof of Divine Providence.
Brought to our attention by Mark Williams.
By World Israel News Staff
Extracts:
Study by team at University of Haifa suggests genetic mutations are not always random, potentially reshaping science's understanding of evolution.
A new study conducted by researchers in Israel and Ghana is challenging a core tenet of the traditional understanding of how biological evolution functions, potentially reshaping Darwinian theory.
The research was carried out by a team including scientists in Ghana and at Israel's University of Haifa, led by Dr. Daniel Melamed, the lead author of the study, and Prof. Adi Livnat, director of the Sagol Lab for Evolution Research.
The team's findings, which were recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), demonstrated that a key mutation in humans does not appear at random but instead manifests de novo significantly more frequently exactly where needed.
The mutation, known as APOL1 1024A>G, protects against African sleeping sickness while at the same time increasing the risk of kidney disease in people carrying two copies of the mutation.
Until now, Darwinian evolutionary theory has assumed that all genetic mutations are random, with beneficial mutations tending to be selected for, and thus preserved in the gene pool, by giving their carriers a greater chance at surviving and passing on their genes, while detrimental mutations tend to be removed from the gene pool by negative selection pressures.
Now, however, according to the work of the team in Ghana and Israel, it appears that mutations tend to occur more frequently in conditions where they are beneficial, with the APOL1 1024A>G mutation occurring far more frequently in sub-Saharan African populations than among Europeans, precisely where it is most likely to be protective, rather than a net negative, given its impact on kidney disease risk.
'These results are completely unexpected from the random-mutation point of view. From that view, individual mutations are not supposed to arise more frequently where needed,' said Livnat.
The findings mirror the group's previous work showing that the HbS mutation, which protects against malaria while causing sickle cell anemia in homozygotes, originates de novo more frequently precisely in the gene and population where it is needed.
Livnat speculates that rather than being random, mutations are driven by some previously unrecognized internal force operating inside the organism, which assembles genetic information that has accumulated internally in the genome over generations in useful ways.
Work by Livnat's team, for instance, appears to show that fusion mutation, where two genes fuse to form a new one, is not a random process, but is instead driven by some patterns established over generations.
Rather than local accidents disconnected from other genetic information, mutations combine and integrate genetic information into streamlined instructions. Over the generations, and with feedback from natural selection, interconnected mutational activity enables long-term directed mutational responses to specific environmental pressures, as shown by the APOL1 and HbS mutations.
Not only are gene fusion mutations nonrandom, their mechanism of origination is actually analogous to one of the most basic principles of cognition and learning in the brain.
Summary: Mutations are not chance happenings but rather physical adaptations meeting environmental needs.
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6. Knesset Committee: Over 1,400 Israelis Die Annually from Palestinian 'Eco-Terrorism'/
https://israel365news.com/414339/knesset-committee-over-1400-israelis-die-annually-from-palestinian-eco-terrorism/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Stop%20In%20the%20Field%20%28And%20Pray%29&utm_campaign=I365%20-%20Daily%20-%20December%2003%2C%202025&vgo_ee=eLK898MMbyuP21izrX1n%2BtcTUp%2BLKhd74mc8llCJVA%3D%3D%3AboLiZtnhzZcrjlJK5AhbnhEytbtVAHFw
Some 250,000 Israelis living in communities along the Samaria security barrier face what Channel 12 News described as an 'escalating environmental and health emergency.' Tens of thousands of residents in Emek Hefer, Menashe, Shoham, and surrounding towns have reported sleepless nights, strong odors, and respiratory problems. This is caused by their Arab neighbors deliberately burning plastics in places where the wind will carry the fumes to Jewish areas.
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7. Lost Ten Tribes will return by Ship and by plane over the Atlantic Ocean.
Ends of the Earth.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/proofshort.html
The LTT Exiles will Fly Back. Redemption Begins from America.
They will come by Ship over the Atlantic Ocean and ALSO by plane!
Isaiah 27:
13 SO IT SHALL BE IN THAT DAY:
THE GREAT TRUMPET WILL BE BLOWN;
THEY WILL COME, WHO ARE ABOUT TO PERISH IN THE LAND OF ASSYRIA,
AND THEY WHO ARE OUTCASTS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT,
AND SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE HOLY MOUNT AT JERUSALEM.
Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) commented:
#.... the outcasts (which are in America) shall come by the Mediterranean Sea to Alexandia in Egypt....
And because the gathering together of the Captivity, shall begin at those who are in America, therefore Isaiah says,
Isaiah 60:
9 SURELY THE ISLES SHALL TRUST IN [WAIT FOR] ME, AND THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH FIRST, TO BRING THY SONS FROM FAR, THEIR SILVER AND THEIR GOLD WITH THEM...
# They shall then come with seed from those countries, prostrating themselves at the Mountain of the LORD in Jerusalem, as the Prophet Hosea says of that Redemption, in
Like a Bird... a Dove.
Hosea 11:
10 THEY SHALL WALK AFTER THE LORD.
HE WILL ROAR LIKE A LION.
WHEN HE ROARS,
THEN HIS SONS SHALL COME TREMBLING FROM THE WEST;
11 THEY SHALL COME TREMBLING LIKE A BIRD FROM EGYPT,
LIKE A DOVE FROM THE LAND OF ASSYRIA.
AND I WILL LET THEM DWELL IN THEIR HOUSES,
SAYS THE LORD.
so says Isaiah in:
Fly Like a Cloud.
Isaiah 60:
8 WHO ARE THESE WHO FLY LIKE A CLOUD,
AND LIKE DOVES TO THEIR ROOSTS?
[9 SURELY THE ISLES SHALL WAIT FOR ME, AND THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH FIRST, TO BRING THY SONS FROM FAR, THEIR SILVER AND THEIR GOLD WITH THEM, FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD, AND FOR THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE HE HATH GLORIFIED THEE. ]
In both these cases we have a reference to travel by air, i.e. by aeroplane.