Elisha Yered: Severe poisoning attack in Binyamin: Goats died, shepherds were attacked with stones*

*Severe poisoning attack in Binyamin: Goats die, shepherds attacked with stones*

Poisoning terror strikes again: For the second time in the past week, a terrorist cell from the village of Al Mu'ayr in Binyamin infiltrated the grazing areas of an agricultural farm near the Alon Road today (Sunday), and spread deadly poison hidden in the drinking water troughs placed in the area.

The shepherds, who came to water their flock as they do every day, were horrified to see that some of the goats that drank began to immediately develop severe poisoning symptoms, foaming at the mouth and convulsing. Three goats have died so far, and the farm is trying to save others who are still in serious condition.

Residents from nearby farms were called to the scene in an attempt to provide emergency veterinary treatment to the livestock with antidotes, but were attacked with stones by dozens of Arab rioters from the village who had been ambushed nearby and began to charge at them and disrupt the rescue of the herd.

 IDF forces that were dispatched to the incident pushed the rioters back into the village, and began extensive searches in the area to locate the poisoning squad. So far, three rioters have been reported in the village to have been injured by security forces' gunfire while participating in the attack on the shepherds.

This is the second poisoning attack to take place in the pastures of the farms near the Alon Road in just the past week, and the tenth in number since the beginning of the year. The farms are expressing concern about the increasing audacity of the yet-to-be-caught squad, and say that this is a regular and dangerous pattern of action that could cost lives.

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*פיגוע הרעלה קשה בבנימין: עיזים גססו למוות, רועי הצאן הותקפו באבנים*

טרור ההרעלות מכה שוב: בפעם השניה בשבוע האחרון חדרה היום (ראשון) חוליית מחבלים מהכפר אל מועייר בבנימין לשטחי המרעה של חווה חקלאית הסמוכה לכביש אלון, ופיזרה רעל קטלני שהוסתר בתוך שקתות מי השתייה שמוצבות בשטח.

הרועים שהגיעו להשקות את עדרם כמדי יום ביומו, נחרדו לראות כי חלק מהעיזים ששתו החלו לפתח באופן מיידי תסמיני הרעלה קשים, להוציא קצף מהפה ולפרכס. שלוש עיזים מתו עד כה, ובחווה מנסים להציל נוספות שנמצאות עדיין במצב קשה.

תושבים מהחוות הסמוכות הוזעקו למקום בניסיון להגיש טיפול וטרינרי דחוף לבהמות עם תרופות נוגדות רעל, אולם הותקפו באבנים בידי עשרות פורעים ערבים מהכפר שארבו בקרבת מקום והחלו להסתער ולכיוונם ולשבש את הצלת העדר.

כוחות צה"ל שהוקפצו לאירוע הדפו את הפורעים בחזרה לכפר, ופתחו בסריקות נרחבות באזור לאיתור חוליית המרעילים. בכפר דווח עד כה על שלושה פורעים שנפצעו מירי של כוחות הביטחון בעת שהשתתפו בהתקפה על רועי הצאן.

מדובר בפיגוע ההרעלה השני שמתרחש בשטחי המרעה של החוות הסמוכות לכביש אלון רק בשבוע האחרון, והעשירי במספר מתחילת השנה. בחוות מצביעים בדאגה על תעוזתה המתגברת של החולייה שטרם נתפסה, ואומרים כי מדובר בדפוס פעולה קבוע ומסוכן שעלול לעלות בחיי אדם.

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Avi Abelow: Ayala Hasson on the Importance of Israeli Elections and will Determine if Someone Will Judge the Judges

They are being exposed!!!

One of Israel’s most prominent and independent journalists, Ayala Hasson, not from the right, is sounding the alarm about what she says is happening at the very top of Israel’s justice system, at the Supreme Court.

“Something here is deeply distorted,” Hasson warned. “What happened behind the scenes? Who fabricated this case?”

Then she delivered the line that should shake every Israeli:

“There is an attempt to bury this affair.”

And Hasson went straight to the Supreme Court:

“The Supreme Court should have been outraged that they (the Attorney General’s office) dared to deceive it.”

That is the real story.

The problem is no longer merely the former Military Advocate General. The problem reaches the institution sitting at the very top of Israel’s judicial system: the Attorjey General’s office and the Supreme Court.

And that makes the upcoming Israeli election enormously consequential.

With existing vacancies and expected retirements, as many as 10 of the Supreme Court’s 15 seats could require appointments during the next government’s term.

Think about that.

The government Israelis elect will shape the Supreme Court for a generation.

And the political divide could hardly be clearer.

A Netanyahu-led government and its allies have spent years demanding fundamental judicial reform to rebalance power between Israel’s elected branches and its unelected judicial officials, including the AG office and the Supreme Court.

An alternative government led by figures such as Gadi Eisenkot and supported by parties of the Israeli left would take a profoundly different approach toward the existing judicial establishment, they would strengthen the hold of the deep state within the Supreme Court and the judicial system.

That means this election isn't merely about Netanyahu versus Eisenkot.

It is about whether Israel reforms its judicial system, or further entrenches the extraordinary powers accumulated by the Supreme Court and legal establishment.

That is why Hasson’s warning matters so much.

The scandal surrounding former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi began with a betrayal of the IDF soldiers of Force 100.

The very military legal establishment entrusted with safeguarding our soldiers turned its enormous power against them, telling the world that they were “despicable rapists of terrorists”. The Military Advocate General admitted to leaking a video, proven to be edited, of the alleged crime and it spread around the world, helping portray Israeli soldiers as monsters while they were fighting our enemies.

That was a betrayal of our soldiers, our army and our country by the highest-ranking legal official in the IDF.

The video did not show what the world was led to believe it showed, and the indictment against the Force 100 soldiers was ultimately withdrawn. 

But by then, the damage had already been done. Global headline news. Anti-Israel UN resolutions. These soldiers publicly disgraced before the entire world, their names and reputations dragged through the mud before their guilt was ever established. 

The consequences devastated their personal lives, families were torn apart, jobs were lost, and one of the soldiers took his own life.

Their reputations were destroyed first. Still no accountability for those responsible.

Tomer-Yerushalmi subsequently became the central suspect in the investigation into the video leak.

You would therefore expect the entire justice system to demand:

Who authorized it?

Who participated?

Who knew?

Who misled the courts?

Who protected whom?

Expose everything.

Instead, Hasson is warning:

“There is an earth-shattering affair here... and they (senior officials in the Justice system) want to blur it and bury it.”

And that is where the Supreme Court becomes central.

When elected politicians are suspected of wrongdoing, Israel’s legal establishment unleashes investigations, interrogations, prosecutors and court proceedings.

But when allegations reach into that same legal establishment, suddenly Israelis encounter conflicts of interest, procedural obstacles and arguments over why further scrutiny isn't necessary.

This is the fundamental democratic problem Israel must confront.

An unelected judicial and legal establishment has accumulated extraordinary authority over elected governments while the mechanisms for holding that establishment itself accountable remain far weaker.

The Supreme Court can restrain elected governments.

The Attorney General can restrain elected ministers.

Legal advisers can prevent government policies from being implemented.

Yet when serious allegations implicate the legal establishment itself, who restrains them?

That is not sufficient checks and balances. It is an enormous concentration of unelected power.

And reforming that imbalance is not an attack on democracy.

It is strengthening democracy.

That is what makes the coming Supreme Court appointments so consequential.

If Netanyahu and the right-wing parties succeed in making a government, they will continue with judicial reform, to build a system with an independent judiciary and genuine accountability.

If Eisenkot and the political left form the next government, they will preserve and further entrench the existing deep state judicial power structure, halt the reforms and reverse the appointments and hard-won changes this government has managed to achieve so far.

This isn't an abstract argument anymore.

The Force 100 showed Israelis what happens when enormous legal power is exercised against our own soldiers.

The Supreme Court stonewalling an investigation into the former Military Advocate General raises the question of what happens when scrutiny reaches those exercising that power.

And Ayala Hasson is now warning Israelis that “there is an attempt to bury this affair.”

The coming election will help determine who appoints the next generation of Supreme Court justices and what institutional philosophy guides those appointments.

That is a democratic choice of enormous consequence.

Because the question is no longer simply who governs Israel for the next four years.

The question is whether Israel restores democratic accountability to its judicial system or allows an increasingly powerful unelected deep state establishment to become even more deeply entrenched for a generation.

The choice is ours. Hopefully, the people of Israel will choose wisely.

The question is whether enough Israelis have awakened to the reality of a powerful, unelected elite embedded at the highest levels of our security, intelligence, judicial and bureaucratic establishments, an entrenched establishment that too often obstructs the elected leadership and prevents the people of Israel from fully embracing its purpose back as a sovereign Jewish nation in our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland.

Or do more Israelis still need to wake up before we can finally break this stranglehold and restore genuine democratic accountability?

Regardless of what happens in the coming election, something much bigger is already happening. The Jewish people in Israel are awakening. We are strengthening our Jewish identity, reconnecting with our purpose and strengthening Israel as a proudly Jewish state.

The deep state may delay this awakening. It may fight it. But it cannot stop it.

It is not a question of whether Israel will ultimately break the deep state’s grip and restore sovereignty to the people. It is only a question of when.

Strengthen your faith in God. Great times are ahead even with the ups and downs. 

Am Yisrael Chai!!!

     

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Citizen Defenders — Rosh Hashana Update

As we approach Rosh Hashana, the Jewish people once again find ourselves facing a challenging security reality—but also an extraordinary opportunity to strengthen the resilience and security of Am Yisrael.

Recent revelations by Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs have highlighted a deeply concerning development: the PA has been building what amounts to a full-fledged military force of approximately 70,000 troops, including heavy weaponry, armored vehicles, and training designed to attack Israeli towns and cities in Judea Samaria and beyond.

The potential danger is not lost on the Israeli public. A recent poll published by the Center found that 86% of Jewish Israelis fear that such a force could carry out an attack similar to October 7.

The threat is serious. But there is also good news for Am Israel.

Citizen Defenders is growing.

We are excited to announce that Citizen Defenders is becoming an initiative of Israel Friends, a nonprofit organization that will help us scale Citizen Defenders nationally. 

Our first city in this new phase is Afula, which has asked Citizen Defenders to submit a proposal to establish and train a team of 750 volunteers. Other municipalities are already expressing interest and beginning to follow suit.

 *Our mission* remains straightforward: to prepare responsible, licensed civilians to protect their communities when every second counts.

We are also taking Citizen Defenders' message beyond Israel. Following our successful presentation at a U.S. Department of Defense international conference, we have been invited to sponsor a workshop at the prestigious International Counter-Terrorism World Summit in Herzliya next month.

There is much to do—and very little time to do it.

But we believe that preparedness saves lives, resilience deters our enemies, and a stronger, better-prepared citizenry makes Israel stronger.

As we enter the New Year, we are grateful to everyone who has supported Citizen Defenders and helped us reach this next stage.

On behalf of the Israel Friends–Citizen Defenders team, we wish you and your families a happy, healthy, peaceful and secure New Year.

May Hashem continue to protect Am Israel, strengthen our people, and give us the wisdom, courage and determination to build an even stronger and safer Israel.

Shana Tova - Am Israel Chai!🇮🇱

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A Warrior in Lebanon Shares his Pain "How is it Possible that We Win, Conquer the Territory and in the End Give it Back to the Enemy Every Time"?

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אל המקום אשר...

"עצוב כמה שזה נכון. לוחם משתף הכאב. "אך יתכן שאנחנו מנצחים, כובשים שטח ובסוף מחזירים אותו לאויבכל פעם מחדש"

So Sad how true it is. A warrior stationed in Lebanon shares his pain. "How is it possible that we win, conquer the territory and in the end give it back to the enemy every time."

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Basic translation 

This Warrior Chayal,  (IDF Soldier), is speaking from South Lebanon in 2026. 

He says that he was speaking from territory which was already conquered in 1985.

In 2000 Israel gave it back to the enemy in exchange for an illusive peace, for deceptive calm.

In 2006 Israel returned and reconquered the territory... just to end the war and then return the territory to the enemy in exchange for "peace".

In 2023 Again things exploded in our face.

In 2024 We were called to reconquer and when Hezbollah ran away we gave the territory back only so they can rearm...

In 2026 We are back and again they call me again to reconquer the territory and I am asking. What will be? Will we give it back to them again? What army acts like this? What country in the world acts like this? Will Ukraine capture territory and give it back to Russia? 

Israel gives it back and then needs to fight again and again to reconquer. 

We know Chayalim who have died here. We gather strength and fight and Conquer only to give it back to the enemy? For what? For a terror group that wants to humiliate us? There is no reason to build a wall to protect our communities only to have to conquer the territory again and again. 

To anyone that is "horrified" by the term "Conquer" כיבוש, This is what Ben Gurion did in 1948 and Rabin in 1967. Where is the idea that one conquers an area only to return it to an enemy that will go to war with you again? I am not willing to do this anymore!

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After listening to this Chayal share some painful truths it hit home even more when I watched the young daughter of a great Warrior Harel Birrenstock ob"m, killed in Lebanon this passed month August 2026, singing with longing for her father. 

In Tribute to Harel Birrenstock ob"m. Moving to Tears: Killed in Lebanon One Month Ago. His Daughter Ori sings to him out of Deep Longing for the Father he was.

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-tribute-to-harel-birnstock-obm.html?m=1

Was his untimely death really necessary? Why does Israel give back what they have conquered only to go to war again and lose more precious souls for no purpose? See how many family members are in deep loss... Our heart cries out for them in pain...May Hashem comfort them among the the mourners of Zion but may his ultimate sacrifice serve to revolutionize the Military strategy to be one that Conquers, Expels and Settles rather than Conquers and then gives the territory it conquered back to the enemy with some "peace deal" and then needs to reConquer and sustain painful losses only to give the territory it conquered back to the enemy once again, a non ending cycle of wasted sacrifice.

Enough is enough. Enough crying. Time to demand a change in military strategy that is dictated by politics and finally be victorious and fight to win. Victory and Winning translates to 

- Conquer, 

- Expel and 

- Annex 

Rather than be a puppet to outside, powerful, political forces.

Ein Od Milvado. 

Israel Trusts in G-d and in His Salvation Bzh!!! 

Am Yisrael Chai!

     

In Tribute to Harel Birrenstock ob"m. Moving to Tears: Killed in Lebanon One Month Ago. His Daughter Ori sings to him out of Deep Longing for the Father he was.

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Moving to Tears: Major Harel's Daughters Birnstock. 

A moving song in his memory. 

Birrenstock, 34, was killed in Lebanon exactly a month ago in the battle to protect the residents of the north and the entire people of Israel. He was a respected company commander, after serving in Miluim multiple times in all settings. A charismatic leader who understood the magnitude of the hour in the war for the homeland. Harel lived a full and wonderful life with complete professionalism as a commander, an engineer for Elbit and as an exemplary family man. Husband to Elia with four amazing young children. 

His Daughter Ori sings to him out of deep longing for the father he was.

The family launched a campaign in order to provide them with a stable and supportive foundation to continue the path for Elia and the children.

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At the Funeral: Harel's Wife and Children Mourned and Paid Tribute: "They will grow up in a happy home, with Dancing and Singing" 

"Remember Harel with his smile," requested the wife of Major (res.) Harel Birrenstock at his funeral on Mount Herzl, and his mother eulogized: "We will rise and become stronger just as Harel would have wanted, but I want to cry a little more." His father said: "I promise you, Harel - that no one can defeat the Birrenstock family." 

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Translation 

Harel's wife paid tribute with their children by her side: "They will grow up in a happy home, with dancing and singing"

"Remember Harel with his smile," asked the wife of Maj. (res.) Harel Birrenstock at his funeral on Mount Herzl, and his mother paid tribute: "We will rise and be strong just as Harel would have wanted, but I want to cry a little more." His father said: "I promise you, Harel - that no one can beat the Birrenstock family."

"My Hareli. When they came to call you on Simchat Torah, right after you took your underwear and socks, you hugged me and told me to be strong - and ever since I've been trying to live up to that. To be strong for the children, to be the commander's wife. But now I can't be strong. I need you to send me strength." This is what Elia, the wife of Major (res.) Harel Birrenstock, said at noon (Thursday), above his grave on Mount Herzl - with their children by her side.

After a month and a half without fatalities in Lebanon, yesterday two more families received the hardest news of all. Major Birrenstock and combat medic Maj. (res.) Tamir Vaknin were killed by an explosive device in the village of Majdal Zun in IDF-controlled territory in southern Lebanon. Birrenstock, 34, from Menokhd, left behind a wife, four children, parents, brothers and sisters. Vaknin, 33, from Eilat, left behind parents and his two brothers. Four other reserve soldiers were wounded along with them, all from Battalion 2855 of the 55th Paratroopers Brigade.

"I promise you that the children will grow up in a happy home with dances and songs by Eden Ben Zaken and Rafi Biton in the background," she said to her at the funeral. "I promise you, Harel, I will be strong for them. And I want to ask all of you - remember the smile of this Star, that after a minute everyone loves him and becomes his friend within five minutes." 

According to her, "In our country we would say about Harel that he enjoyed being full of himself ;). Therefore, I want to remember him as a man who loved life and as a man of joy... because it is impossible to look at him and not smile."

Yonath, Harel's mother, paid tribute to him: "You turned me into a mother and a grandmother, and Elia stood by your side the whole way. How can you understand that a person with such energy lies silent? How do you say goodbye to a child? I will never see you again and never hug you tightly. Lord of the universe - maybe enough?! How difficult it is in the good land. Look how much your children love you. We will rise and become stronger just like Harel would have wanted, but I want to cry a little longer."

Shlomo, Harel's father, eulogized him: "I love you so much, I'm so proud of the path you took. I can even say that I envied you. You managed to stretch all the boundaries a little more and a little more. In so many areas. You made us a very happy father and mother. 

"Birrenstock is a top brand. This brand works on you like crazy. When I was young, I felt uncomfortable with this complicated name that people get wrong. You didn't care. You always knew how to get along and get out of difficult situations. I promise you, Harel, that no one can beat the Birrenstock family and that there will always be joy and happiness in our home - Am Yisrael Chai."

The bereaved brother, Matan, said: "You led a company of fighters. You were a man of people and missions. Every mission was carried out with five fingers, without shortcuts. Thank you Harel for 27 years of being my big brother, for what you were to me, for teaching me what friendship is."

"I will not forget our time. This is a tragedy that should not have happened, certainly not to a family like ours. Beloved mother and father, be proud of your Harel. To Elia, how much he loved you. We are here with you, you are our heart."

Sister Atar said at the ceremony: "You were the big and impressive brother that everyone looked up to with admiration. You were the heroic brother. You broke boundaries - you ran four marathons. When you were worried about the company's morale, you drove us crazy. You turned worlds upside down, brought flags and logos to show the fighters that you really cared. I was blessed to have you as my eldest brother. I don't want to stop talking, because it means that all of this really happened, but apparently this is really the end."

מרגש עד דמעות: בנותיו של רס"ן הראל

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 בירנשטוק בן 34, נהרג בלבנון לפני חודש בדיוק בקרב על הגנת תושבי הצפון ועם ישראל כולו. הוא היה מ"פ נערץ, אחרי סביבי מילואים רבים בכל המסגרות. מנהיג כריזמטי שהבין את גודל השעה במלחמה על הבית. הראל חי חיים מלאים המקסימים מקצועיות ביסודיות כמפקד, המהנדס האלביט וכאיש משפחה למופת. בעל אליה לארבע ילדים מדהימים וצעירים. 

ביתו אורי שרה לו מתוך געגוע עמוק לאבא שהיה.

המשפחה יצא הקמפיין על מנת להעניק בסיס אותן יציב תומך להמשך הדרך אליה והילדים.

אשתו של הראל ספדה כשילדיהם לצידה: "הם יגדלו בבית שמח, עם ריקודים ושירים"

"תזכרו את הראל עם החיוך שלו", ביקשה רעייתו של רס"ן (במיל') הראל בירנשטוק בהלווייתו בהר הרצל, ואימו ספדה: "אנחנו נקום ונתחזק בדיוק כמו שהראל היה רוצה, אבל אני רוצה עוד קצת לבכות"." אביו אמר: "מבטיח לך הראלי - שאף אחד לא יכול על משפחת בירנשטוק"

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