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Their daughter Lianne comes from the UK; she had a Teddy Bear from the age of 10, and years later married Eli Sharabi from Israel. Her parents continue to reside in the UK.

On Oct 7, Lianne lived with her husband Eli in Kibbutz Be’eri with their two teenage girls Noiya and Yahel. Eli left home to go out and fight, and was taken as POW by Hamas, and now that he’s been released yesterday on Day 491 of his captivity, now he learns that his wife Lianne and their teenage daughters were murdered while hiding in the safe room on Oct. 7.

Some months after Oct 7, Eli’s inlaws, his wife’s parents, traveled from the UK to visit the destroyed home in Be’eri and found that exact same Teddy Bear that their daughter had kept since she was only 10. They knew their daughter and grandchildren were dead, while Eli in captivity did not know. As Lianne’s mother and father watched for Eli’s release yesterday,

“…she clutched a teddy bear to her chest.  It was a reminder of everything the family has suffered since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing their daughter, Lianne Sharabi, and teenage granddaughters, Noiya and Yahel, while taking son-in-law Eli Sharabi hostage. Eli’s brother Yossi was also taken hostage and later killed…”

Yesterday during Shabbat, Hamas traded three emaciated Israeli male civilian POWs, Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, and Eli Sharabi, in return for hundreds of Arabic killers convicted of serious crimes in a court of law.  Clearly, the Israelis had treated the Arab convicts properly during their legal imprisonment, while Gazans starved these three innocent civilians so they looked like Shoah (Holocaust) survivors.

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Sources: 
Jerusalem Post, 9 Feb 2025 pg 1.
Times of Israel:  https://www.timesofisrael.com/teddy-bear-helps-hostages-family-come-to-terms-with-grief-amid-joy-over-his-release/

Yarden Bibas returned from Gaza, but his wife Shiri and two sons, four-year-old son Ariel and baby Kfir (ages as of Oct 7) are still unaccounted for in Gaza.

This is a case where he left Shir and the kids at home to go out and fight the terrorists, was taken Prisoner of War (POW), and separately his wife and children were also taken as POWs. 

While in prison, Gazans taunted him by saying his wife and children were dead.

Videos posted by the Gazans have shown him taken POW with blood streaming down his face, and his frantic wife being taken hostage with their boys in her arms wrapped in a blanket. 

Former MK/Kibbutz Be’eri resident Haim Jelin phrased it well, describing the impossible horror facing Yarden, who is “…returning not to the warm embrace of his nuclear family, but to a reality so awful that…’the soul cannot absorb it.'”

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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-yarden-bibas-is-released-relief-dread-and-evidence-that-hamas-is-reviving/

Biden Administration: “We only held up one shipment of heavy bombs.”

Israel: The Biden Administration was already in the middle of reaching agreements with Israel on how those bombs could be used at the time of the halt. 

Also: other necessary weapons were held up too. 

And yet, the Biden Administration stuck to their story that no weapon shipments were halted. 

So then why was Trump able to lift the hold on the 24,000 assault rifles to Israel, if no hold had been in place when he took office? 

Was it not the Biden/Harris US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who issued the directive to halt those rifles? 

(See 1st link)
1st link:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-administration-may-lift-hold-on-delivery-of-assault-rifles-to-israel-nyt/

2nd link (the Biden narrative):

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/blinken-only-one-weapons-shipment-to-israel-withheld-everything-else-moving-normally/

Trump & Vance revoked the ban on assault rifles for Israel, while Biden & Harris pretended nothing was delayed other than the heavy bombs – which also should not have been halted.

All this begs the question: How insane is it that the Biden & Harris administration appeared to make it difficult for Israel to defend herself?  

Israel needs rifles to defend against this (below): Biden & Harris blocked the rifle shipment. 

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So let me get this right: Hamas executes its members if they suspect they might be homosexual. And then Hamas rapes male POWs from Israel. None of the Hamas members see the irony there?!

“Brutal Violence: Secret hamas docs reveal torture, execution of gay terrorists–while some male Oct. 7 Israeli victims were raped in captivity.”

Meanwhile Hamas scoffs at the idea that the USA will rule Gaza:

Hamas official: Trump’s comments on taking over Gaza are ‘ridiculous and absurd’ and ‘capable of igniting the region’

OK, yeah, we heard that threat before. They said Trump would “ignite the region” if he moved the USA Embassy into Jerusalem.  Empty threats as usual – however – caution must be taken “trust but verify.”

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Source:   https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/world-news/secret-hamas-documents-reveal-torture-execution-of-gay-terrorists/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-official-trumps-comments-on-taking-over-gaza-are-ridiculous-and-absurd/

“The simple fact is that had the Arab states accepted the UN partition plan of November 1947, there would have been a Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel, and not a single Palestinian Arab would have become a refugee…”

“On March 8, 1948, the Arab Higher Committee ordered most Arabs in parts of Jerusalem to leave their homes. The order stated that ‘any opposition to this order is an obstacle to the holy war and will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts.’”

“Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave and our appeal to the United Nations to resolve on their return.” – Khaled al-Azm, Syrian Prime Minister, 1948.

Full article:

Jerusalem Post, 3 Feb 2025 pg 9.

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Source: Jerusalem Post, 3 Feb 2025 pg 9.

In Northern Samaria last night, three terrorists were stopped while involved in terrorism.  One of them had been released by Israel in a deal in November 2023, only 50 days into the war:

Source: Times of Israel, 2 Feb 2025.  
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-targeted-3-west-bank-terror-cells-in-strikes-last-night-including-freed-prisoner/

Thank YAH, no civilians were injured, as the IDF returned fire towards the Arab militants:

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Hamas cares so much about their global reputation that they increase nutrition and care for their POWs in the final weeks leading up to their release. Also: A new/used trashbin to spruce up a friend’s home; and, a good message appears “randomly” on my ereader.

And this is the wire mesh trashcan, rust scraped, and repainted, ready to deliver to a friend:

And this is a new screensaver loaded onto my antique e-ink ereader:

I’ve used this ereader since around 2009 or so, and since it’s still physically functioning, I think with a few refreshes and updates it can still continue to work.  It runs slow but it does have lots of Bible translations installed so that’s cool.

But if I get another ereader, I’m for sure copying this screensaver over!

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Source: Jerusalem Post, 27 Jan 2025 pg 1.

https://x.com/jtodorg/status/1882432159371444398

Lately, each day has news of new towns with rocket sirens just installed, and now being tested by the IDF’s Home Front Command. See below:

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Source: Times of Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-to-test-sirens-today-in-hazeva-and-snir/