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Remembering Saleh Mohammadi, 19 years old, killed by the Islamic regime

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Tonight is Lag Ba’Omer—the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the mystic behind the Zohar. But what are we really celebrating? History, mystery, or something deeper about the hidden layers of Torah?

A Divine Voice emerged and said to them (Rashbi and R' Elazar): Emerge from your cave - Shabbat 33b

@LiquidFaerie @TheMossadIL 🫂

@TheMossadIL I follow @IlanBlock because he’s the best at filling my feed with colour.

Let's get Zionists to follow other Zionists! Fill in the blanks. I follow @ _______ because they are the best at _________.

@ariwaxman In my drafts for later

5 years since we lost our friend Donny Morris z”l in the Meron disaster. No words. In our hearts forever. תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים

@burdmanorama Which one?

@IlanBlock Hiiiii I own a piece!

I’m grateful to 50-60 accounts that are still liking my art If you see this, you are prob one of them

@MyNameIsAviJ 🔥

BREAKING: Iran-Israel tensions escalate sharply; fires and smoke reported throughout Israel tonight.

@bold_counsel @SacksDisa The general pattern since this place became x is every "improvement" to the algorithm- has made me less and less visible

@SacksDisa @IlanBlock Same here I used to see you almost every day (sometimes more than once a day)

@MummyisT 🫂

Love this 🥰🥰🥰

@EliLebowicz @thememegemach it’s sufficiently different than yours so no reply

When the rabbi didn’t daven in the minyan but still comes in to give a speech

@AmYisraelChai_X The hard brushes and the blue Twitter logo Apparent that it’s old

@IlanBlock Yes I know. This year it’s May 16 (Iyar 29). Did you just make this painting now, or was it done in years prior?

Today is the Yahrzeit, the Jewish anniversary of a person’s passing, of Israel’s most famous spy, Eli Cohen.

@LanC_02 its the best wan

@IlanBlock Looooove!!! He's my favourite character! 🤩 #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

Obi-Wan, May the 4th

@AmYisraelChai_X Oh i meant I was too early.

@IlanBlock You’re right. I saw someone post such and went according to them; but should have looked it up myself. 29, Iyar is the Yartzeit. Thanks for your comment, and nice painting.

Lag BaOmer 5785

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Protecting our civilians in a galaxy not so far away 💫

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I almost forgot…

@jarvis_best Everything is a meme

Yeah no I’m pretty online but I don’t understand how Tina Fey going to a ballgame with her kids became a meme.

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On This Day — May 4, 1981: Menachem Begin publicly eviscerated the Chancellor of West Germany for demanding Israel accept a PLO terrorist state on the “Auschwitz borders.” Prime Minister Begin was speaking at a packed political rally during Israel’s election campaign when he unleashed a furious, deeply personal rebuke at Helmut Schmidt. Schmidt had just returned from a lavish state visit to Saudi Arabia. While negotiating major arms deals, he told German television that Germany had a “moral commitment” to the Palestinians and that Israel must be pressured to accept a Palestinian state — one that would be run by the same PLO whose charter explicitly called for Israel’s destruction and that was then in the middle of a global terror campaign against Jews. Begin, whose parents, brother, and sister-in-law had been murdered by the Nazis, responded with raw pain and defiance: “He advises me? The German Chancellor? He knows about our security and I don’t? I was elected by the people to protect them. That is my holy duty … This hostility came from some of the nation responsible for the murder of one third of our people — six million. After all this, he will tell us to establish a Palestinian state? Which means to risk the lives of 3½ million Jews in Israel? I don’t regret a single word.” This was not the strong, prosperous Israel of 2026. This was 1981 Israel: a tiny, isolated country with just 3.5 million Jews, still reeling from three existential wars, crippled by hyperinflation and crushing defense costs, with only one fragile peace treaty (with Egypt). The PLO was actively murdering Israelis and Jews worldwide — Munich, Entebbe, the Coastal Road massacre, embassy shootings, synagogue bombings. West Germany, by contrast, was a booming Cold War economic power that had quietly abandoned serious denazification in the 1950s so it could rearm against the Soviets. Former Nazis had been released early from prison and reintegrated into government, the judiciary, and business. A German chancellor lecturing the Jewish state on morality while pushing the indefensible 1949 armistice lines (what Abba Eban called the “Auschwitz borders”) felt to Begin like existential recklessness at best, dressed up as diplomacy. The German government reacted with official “astonishment.” Begin never apologized. He never needed to. Watch the clip. The fury in his voice still hits like a hammer.

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Harrison Ford has described his Jewish identity as shaped by his mother, Dorothy Nidelman an Ashkenazic Jewish actress whose parents were from Belarus. And playfully reminded Adam Sandler he’s more than“a quarter Jewish too.”

Han Solo, May the 4th