The Day After
The relief at the respite was, and still is, intermingled with a deep sense of trepidation over the future. How long will this frail peace continue?
The relief at the respite was, and still is, intermingled with a deep sense of trepidation over the future. How long will this frail peace continue? No one knows.
The day following the Ceasefire, buses were packed with refugees returning to their homes in the north. Everyone was exhausted after a month of being the object of tzedaka! The highways were crowded with Israelis flocking to the north, to (finally) enjoy their annual summer vacation.
The relief at the respite was, and still is, intermingled with a deep sense of trepidation over the future. How long will this frail peace continue? No one knows.
The Arabs are fighting a "holy war" based on a very strong faith that God has commanded them to bring the "light of Islam" to the world (sic). We must counter their faith with our faith — through strengthening our own emuna!
Hopefully, this will be Breslovworld's last "Update" article. The war is, at least for now, over, and we are trying to get on with our lives. For many people, however, the families of those who were killed and those Israelis who were injured, life will never be the same.
Since the beginning of hostilities leading to the war, 43 Israeli civilians and 119 IDF soldiers have been killed:
August 23, 2006 – Staff Sergeant Alex Assaf, 21, of Carmiel, a Givati Brigade soldier was killed after IDF forces walked into a minefield in southern Lebanon Wednesday morning.
August 19, 2006 – Lieutenant Colonel Emanuel Moreno, 35, of Moshav Tlamim, was killed and two wounded Friday night in an operation near Baalbek to prevent the smuggling of arms from Iran and Syria to Hizbullah.
St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjoun, 21, of Yehud, was killed when a terrorist opened fire near the Bekaot checkpoint in the Jordan Valley.
August 13, 2006 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 25 were injured in different incidents Sunday night in southern Lebanon.
The soldiers killed are:
Lt.(res.) Eliel Ben-Yehuda, 24, of Kfar Tavor.
Lt.(res.) Tzur Zarhi, 27, of Moshav Nahalal.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Guy Hasson, 24, of Moshav Naama.
St.-Sgt.(res.) Yaniv Shainbrum, 24, of Mei Ami.
St.-Sgt.(res.) David Amar, 24, of Kiryat Shmona.
St.-Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amitai Yaron, 44, of Zichron Yaakov.
St.-Sgt. Peter Ochotzky, 23, of Lod.
St.-Sgt.(res.) Elad Shlomo Ram, 31, of Haifa.
St.-Sgt. Evgeny Timofeev, 20, of Rishon Lezion.
August 13, 2006 – Mahadi Hiyat, 60, an Israeli Arab from a village near Shlomi, was killed in a direct hit on a home by a Katyusha rocket.
August 12, 2006 – 24 IDF soldiers were killed and another 13 seriously wounded in heavy clashes Saturday with Hizbollah forces in south Lebanon, after Israel dramatically expanded its ground operation in the area.
The soldiers killed are:
Capt. Shai Bernstein, 24, of Beersheva.
St.-Sgt. Tzahi Krips, 20, of Kibbutz Hama'apil.
St.-Sgt. Itai Steinberger, 21, of Karmei Yosef.
Sgt. Yosef Abitbol, 19, of Gan Ner.
Sgt. Yonatan Ankonina, 21, of Netanya.
Sgt. Yaniv Tamerson, 21, of Tzipori.
Cpl. Ya'ar Ben Giat, 19, of Nahsholim.
Cpl. Tomer Amar, 19, of Julis.
St.-Sgt. Amsa (Ami) Meshulami, 20, of Ofra.
Sgt. Yoan Zarbiv, 22, of Tel Aviv.
Capt. Benaya Rein, 27, of Karnei Shomron.
St.-Sgt. Adam Goren, 21, of Kibbutz Ma'abarot.
Sgt. Alexander Bonimovitch, 19, of Netanya.
St.-Sgt. Oz Zemah, 20, of Maccabim-Reut.
Sgt. Haran Lev, 20, of Kibbutz Ma'ayan Barukh.
Sgt. Dan Breuer, 19, of Beit Hillel.
Cpl. Yigal Nissan, 19, of Ma'ale Adumim.
St.-Sgt. Ido Grabovsky, 20, of Rosh Ha'ayin.
St.-Sgt. Uri Grossman, 20, of Mevaseret Zion.
Five aircrew members were killed, after their helicopter was shot down by Hizbullah.
Maj. Sami Ben-Naim, 39, of Rehovot.
Maj.(res) Nissan Shalev, 36, of Kibbutz Evron.
Capt. Daniel Gomez, 25, of Nehalim.
Warr.Ofc.(res.) Ron Mashiach, 33, of Gedera.
Sgt.-Maj. Keren Tendler, 26, of Rehovot.
August 11, 2006 – Sergeant Major Yechezkel Aharon, 32, of Kfar Yedidia, was killed in exchanges of fire with Hizbullah terrorists in the south Lebanese village of Rashef.
August 10, 2006 – IDF reservist Sgt.-Maj. Alon Samoocha, 35, of Hod Hasharon was killed when a missile struck his tank in the el-Khiam area in south Lebanon.
Maj.(res.) Nimrod Hillel, 32, of Rosh Ha'ayin was killed when anti-tank rockets hit a tank and a bulldozer in the village of Labouna.
Angelo Frammartino, a 24 year old Italian citizen who had come to Israel for a visit at the beginning of August, was stabbed to death near Jerusalem's Old City by an Arab assailant.
Mariam Asadi, 26, and her son Fathi Ahmed Assadi, 5, were killed in a direct hit by a Katyusha rocket on their home in the Israeli Arab village of Dir el-Asad.
August 9, 2006 – 15 reserve soldiers were killed and 40 wounded in four different incidents in south Lebanon:
A paratrooper was killed and 10 wounded by friendly fire from an IDF tank in the village of A-Taibeh in the eastern sector of south Lebanon.
Nine paratroopers were killed and 11 wounded by anti-tank missiles fired on a house in the village of Debel, in the central sector.
Four reservists from an armored brigade were killed when their tank was hit by an anti-tank missile, in Ayta al-Shaab.
An infantryman was killed by a mortar near Marjayoun.
The soldiers killed are:
Capt.(res.) Gilad Stukelman, 26, of Moshav Tamrat. Capt.(res.) Yoni Smucher, 30, of Bet Nehemiah.Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Igor Kovalik, 26, of Upper Nazareth. Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Noam
Goldman, 27, of Tel Aviv.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) David Shmidov, 25, of Jerusalem.
St.-Sgt.(res.) Nir Cohen, 22, of Maccabim.
St.-Sgt.(res.) Ben (Binyamin) Sela, 24, of Kornit.
Maj. Natan Yahav, 36, of Kiryat Ono.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Asher Reuven Novik, 36, of Kanaf.
St.-Sgt. Adi Salim, 22, of Beit Hashmonai.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Elad Dan, 25, of Kibbutz Eilot.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Gilad Zusman, 26, of Eli.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Idan Kobi, 26, of Eilat.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Naor Kalo, 25, of Kibbutz Maagan Michael.
Sgt. 1st Class Nimrod Segev, 28, of Ramat Gan
August 8, 2006 – Captain (res.) Gilad Balhasan, 28, of Carmiel, and Staff Sergeant Yasmou Yalau, 26 of Or-Yehuda were killed and two others were injured, during fire exchanges with Hizbullah gunmen in the area of southern Lebanese village of Labouna.
Two paratroopers were killed in Bint Jbeil: St.-Sgt. Oren Lifschitz, 21, of Kibbutz Gazit, and St.-Sgt. Moran Cohen, 21, of Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov.
August 7, 2006 – Paratrooper St.-Sgt. Moshe (Malko) Ambao, 22, of Lod was killed in fighting in Bint Jbeil.
Maj.(res.) Yotam Lotan, 33, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita and St.-Sgt.(res.) Noam Meirson, 23, of Jerusalem from the armored corps were killed by an anti-tank missile that struck the tank's turret.
St.-Sgt. Philip Mosko, 21, of Maale Adumim, who served as a paramedic in the Paratrooper Brigade, was killed during exchanges of fire between IDF soldiers and Hizbullah in the village of Dibel, near Bint Jbeil.
August 6, 2006 – Three people were killed and dozens wounded Sunday evening when rockets struck at seven residential locations in Haifa. Some were trapped in an apartment building that collapsed.
Dr. Tamara Lucca, 84, of Haifa, died of a heart attack on hearing the rockets fall near her home.
The victims are:
Hana Hamam, 62, of Haifa.
Labiba Mazawi, 67, of Haifa.
Roni Rubinsky, 30, of Kiryat Motzkin.
Twelve IDF reserve soldiers were killed at noon on Sunday and 12 wounded – three of them seriously – in a direct hit by a Katyusha rocket near Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, north of Kiryat Shmona, as they were preparing to enter Lebanon.
The soldiers killed are:
Captain Eliyahu Elkariaf, 34, of Moshav Granot.
Warrant Officer Yosef Karkash, 41, of Afula.
Warr.Ofc. Shmuel Halfon, 41, of Bat Yam.
St.-Sgt.Maj. Daniel Ben-David, 38, of Moshav Ahituv.
St.-Sgt.Maj. Shlomo Buchris, 36, of Moshav Sde Yitzchak.
Sgt.-Maj. Ziv Balali, 28, of Kfar Sava.
Sgt.-Maj. Marian Berkowitz, 31, of Ashdod.
Sgt.-Maj. Ro’i Yaish, 27, of Herzliya.
St.-Sgt. Yehuda Greenfeld, 27, of Maale Michmas.
St.-Sgt. Shaul Shai Michlowitz, 21, of Netanya.
Sgt. Gregory Aharonov, 34, of Or Akiva.
St.-Sgt. Mordechai Butbul, 28, from Shlomi.
August 5, 2006 – Sgt. Or Shahar , 20, of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, was killed by a mortar shell near the village of Nabi al-Awadi in the eastern sector of south Lebanon.
Cpl.(res.) Kiril Kashdan, 26, of Haifa was killed when an anti-tank missile hit a building in the soutm Lebanese village of Aita a-Sha'ab.
Frida Kellner, 87, of Kiryat Ata died of a heart attack while taking cover in a bomb shelter during the rocket strikes on the Haifa suburbs.
Fadiya Juma'a, 60, and her daughters Sultana, 31, and Samira, 33, were killed in the courtyard of their home in the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe near the border between Israel and Lebanon.
August 4, 2006 – St.-Sgt. Daniel Shiran, 20, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Omri Chaim Almakayes-Yaakobovitch, 20, of Ramla, from the Golani brigade,were killed overnight by an anti-tank missile in the southern Lebanese village of Markhava.
Capt.(res.) Igor Rothstein, 34, of Moshav Poriah Neve-Ovad, a doctor who volunteered for reserve duty, was killed.
August 4, 2006 – Manal Azzam, 27-year-old mother of two, was killed in the Arab Druze village of Maghar in the Galilee.
Baha Karim, 36, and Muhammed Subhi Manar, 23, were killed in the Israeli Arab town of Majdal Krum.
August 3, 2006 – Eight people were killed and dozens wounded in a massive rocket barrage on northern towns Thursday afternoon.
Five were killed in Acco when a rocket hit near a home while residents stood on a balcony. Three others were killed in rocket attacks near Ma'alot.
The victims are:
Shimon Zribi, 44, and his daughter, Mazal, 15, of Acco.
Albert Ben Abu, 41, of Acco.
Ariyeh Tamam, 51, of Acco.
Tiran Tamam, 39, , of Acco.
Sanati Sanati, 21 of Tarshiha.
Amir Naeem, 18 of Tarshiha.
Muhammed Fahur, 17 of Tarshiha.
Four IDF soldiers were killed and one is severely wounded this afternoon, from an anti-tank missile strike to the tank they were operating in, in the village of Rajmin in southern Lebanon.
The soldiers killed are:
Sgt. Itamar Tzur, 19, of Be'er Tuvia.
Sgt. Andrei Brudner, 18, of Rishon Lezion.
Cpl. Yonatan Sharabi, 19, of Petah Tikva.
Sgt. Alon Feintuch, 19, of Kiryat Yam.
August 2, 2006 – Sgt. Adi Cohen, 18, of Chadera was killed Wednesday in a harsh battle in the village of Aita al-Shaab in the western region of southern Lebanon.
David Martin Lelchook, 52, of Kibbutz Sa'ar, north of Nahariya, was killed by a Katyusha rocket while riding his bike in the kibbutz.
August 1, 2006 – Three IDF soldiers were killed in heavy exchanges of fire with Hezbollah fighters in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta a-Shab, near Zarit, on Tuesday. Twenty-five soldiers were also lightly wounded.
The soldiers killed are:
Lt. Ilan Gabai, 21, of Kiryat Tivon.
St.-Sgt. Yonatan Einhorn, 22, of Moshav Gizmo.
First-Sgt. Michael Levine, 21, of Jerusalem.
July 27, 2006 – The burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 60, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 26, 2006 – Nine IDF soldiers killed Wednesday and 27 others were injured in the hardest day of fighting in southern Lebanon since the war began two weeks ago. Five of the injured soldiers are in serious condition.
Eight of the IDF dead, five soldiers and three officers, were from the Golani Brigade; they were killed in fighting in the town of Bint Jbail. The ninth soldier, a paratrooper, was killed wednesday evening after being hit by an anti-tank missile during a battle in Maroun Ras.
Eight soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed in battle in Bint Jbeil:
Maj. Roi Klein, 31, of Eli.
Lt. Amichai Merchavia, 24, of Eli.
Lt. Alexander Shwartzman, 23, of Acco.
Sgt. Shimon Adega, 21, of Kiryat Gat.
St.-Sgt. Edan Cohen, 21, of Jaffa.
St.-Sgt. Shimon Dahan, 20, of Ashdod.
Cpl. Ohad Klausner, 20, of Bet Horon.
Cpl. Assaf Namar, 26, of Kiryat Yam.
Paratrooper Lt. Yiftach Shreirer, 21, of Haifa was killed by an anti-tank missile near Maroun al-Ras.
July 25, 2006 – Doua Abbas, 15, of Maghar was killed while watching TV when a rocket struck her home, located near the village mosque.
David Mazen, 75, of Bat Galim, Haifa, suffered a heart attack during a Katyusha strike, and collapsed and died while trying to reach a bomb shelter.
July 24, 2006 – St.-Sgt. Kobi Smileg, 20, of Rechovot died after his tank rode over a large explosive device. A battalion commander was also wounded in the attack.
A few hours later, another tank was hit – this time by an anti-tank missile – killing 2nd Lt. Lotan Slavin, 21, of Hatzeva.
Colonel Tzvi Luft, 42, from kibbutz Hugla and First Lieutenant Tom Farkash, 23, from Caesarea, were killed when an Israel Air Force Apache helicopter crashed Monday afternoon in the Upper Galilee.
July 23, 2006 – Shimon Glickblich, 60, of Haifa, was killed after he was hit by shrapnel while driving his car on a major city street.
July 20, 2006 – Five IDF soldiers were killed and six others were wounded in heavy clashes with Hezbollah just inside south Lebanon, close to Moshav Avivim, on Thursday.
The soldiers killed are:
Major Benjamin Hillman, 27, from Raanana.
Staff Sergeant Refanael Muskal, 21, from Mazkeret Batya.
Staff Sergeant Nadav Baeloha, 21, from Carmiel.
Staff Sergeant Liran Sa'adia, 21, of Kiryat Shmona.
Staff Sergeant Yonatan Vlasyuk, 21, of Kibbutz Lahav.
A pilot, Major Ran Yehoshua Kochva, 37, of Beit Chanania, was killed and three others were injured late Thursday night when two IDF Apache helicopters collided in northern Israel, near Kiryat Shmona.
July 19, 2006 – St.-Sgt. Yonatan Hadasi, 21, from Kibbutz Merchavia and Staff Sergeant Yotam Gilboa, 21, from Maoz Chaim, from an elite unit were killed and five were wounded as IDF ground forces engaged in a heavy exchange of fire with Hizbullah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the northern border near Moshav Avivim.
Two brothers, Rabia Abed Taluzi, 3, and, were killed Wednesday afternoon when a Katyusha barrage hit the town of Nazareth. The two siblings were killed by a direct hit from a rocket while playing on the street.
July 18, 2006 – Andrei Zelinsky, 37, a resident of Nahariya was killed on Tuesday afternoon as Hezbollah guerillas launched a second barrage of Katyusha rockets at towns and cities in the north of the country.
July 17, 2006 – St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and five IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist activity. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2006 – Eight people were killed Sunday morning as rockets fired by Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon struck the northern port city of Haifa. The eight were killed when a rocket hit a storage room at the train station.
The victims are:
Shmuel Ben Shimon, 41, of Yokneam Illit.
Asael Damti, 39, of Kiryat Yam.
Nissim Elharar, 43, of Kiryat Ata.
David Feldman, 28, of Kiryat Yam.
Rafi Hazan, 30, of Haifa.
Dennis Lapidos, 24, of Kiryat Yam.
Reuven Levy, 46, of Kiryat Ata.
Shlomi Mansura, 35, of Nahariya.
July 14, 2005 – Four sailors were killed as a result of an unprecedented missile attack on an IDF gunboat off the coast of Lebanon.
The soldiers killed are:
Staff Sgt. Tal Amgar, 21, of Ashdod.
Cpl. Shai Atias, 19, of Rishon Lezion.
Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitz, 21, of Haifa.
First Sgt. Dov Steinshuss, 37, of Karmiel.
Yehudit Itzkowitz, 58, from Meron and her seven-year-old grandson Omer Pashov, from Nahariya, were killed when a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah slammed into a home in Moshav Meron on Friday evening.
July 13, 2006 – Monica Seidman (Lehrer), 40, was killed and 29 were wounded – one seriously – when four Hizbullah-fired Katyusha rockets landed in central Nahariya on Thursday morning. She was killed while sitting on her fifth-floor balcony Thursday morning. A rocket hit a floor above, cut through the ceiling and killed her.
Nitzan Roseban, 33, was seriously injured by a Katyusha rocket attack in Safed, has died of his wounds in Ziv hospital in the city.
July 12, 2006 – Eight IDF soldiers were killed Wednesday in a Hizbullah attack on IDF forces patrolling the Lebanese border.
Three of the soldiers who were killed were riding in a Hummer jeep when it was attacked, while two other soldiers in the same jeep were kidnapped.
IDF ground troops were sent into Lebanon to search for the abducted men.
The other four soldiers died when the tank in which they were riding drove over an explosive device. The force of the blast ripped the tank apart, and IDF forces were searching for the remains.
Nineteen-year old Sgt. Nimrod Cohen of Mitzpeh Shalem was killed during efforts to retrieve the bodies of the tank crew members.
The soldiers killed are:
Killed in IDF patrol jeeps:
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eyal Benin, 22, of Beersheba.
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit Shean.
Sgt.-Maj. Wassim Nazal, 26, of Yanuah.
Tank crew hit by mine in Lebanon:
St.-Sgt. Alexei Kushnirski, 21, of Nes Ziona.
St.-Sgt. Yaniv Bar-on, 20, of Maccabim.
Sgt. Gadi Mosayev, 20, of Akko.
Sgt. Shlomi Yirmiyahu, 20, of Rishon Lezion.
Killed trying to retrieve tank crew:
Sgt. Nimrod Cohen, 19, of Mitzpe Shalem.
July 6, 2006 – Staff Sergeant Yehuda Bassel, 21, of Moshav Yinon, was killed by a sniper’s bullet on Thursday in an area south of the former Jewish settlement of Dugit in Gush Katif. Yehuda was critically injured with a gunshot wound in the head during a firefight but could not be immediately evacuated due to the fierce battle between IDF forces and terrorists. He was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheba and died of his wounds shortly after.
June 25, 2006 – Security officials report that Eliyahu Asheri, 18, from Itamar, was murdered Sunday night, June 25, shortly after he was seized by Palestinian kidnappers at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem.
Lieutenant Chanan Barak, 20, from Arad, and Staff Sergeant Pavel Slutzker, 20, from Dimona, were killed and Corporal Gilad Shalit, 19, from Mitzpe Hila, was kidnapped when Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups attacked an IDF post within Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip border, in the pre-dawn hours Sunday.
May the Almighty comfort their families and loved ones, and may He revenge their martyred blood.
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PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF MISSING SOLDIERS:
Gilad Ben Aviva Shalit, 19, from Mitzpeh Hila;
Ehud Ben Malka Goldwasser, 31, from Nahariya;
Eldad Ben Tova Regev, 26, from Kiryat Motzkin;
Leading rabbis have suggested that we recite the following prayers daily. In the merit of our prayers and our deeds, may we soon see the obliteration of evil in our world and the arrival of the true redeemer, quickly, in our days.
Psalms – Chapter 130
1. A song of ascents. From the depths I have called You, O Lord.
2. O Lord, hearken to my voice; may Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
3. O God, if You keep [a record of] iniquities, O Lord, who will stand?
3. O God, if You keep [a record of] iniquities, O Lord, who will stand?
4. For forgiveness is with You, in order that You be feared.
5. I hoped, O Lord; yea, my soul hoped, and I wait for His word.
6. My soul is to the Lord among those who await the morning, those who await the morning.
7. Israel, hope to the Lord, for kindness is with the Lord and much redemption is with Him.
8. And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.
5. I hoped, O Lord; yea, my soul hoped, and I wait for His word.
6. My soul is to the Lord among those who await the morning, those who await the morning.
7. Israel, hope to the Lord, for kindness is with the Lord and much redemption is with Him.
8. And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.
Psalms – Chapter 83
1. A psalm, a song of Asaph.
2. O God, have no silence, do not be silent and do not be still, O God.
3. For behold, Your enemies stir, and those who hate You raise their heads.
4. Against Your people they plot cunningly, and they take counsel against Your protected ones.
5. They said, "Come, let us destroy them from [being] a nation, and the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
6. For they have taken counsel with one accord; against You they form a pact.
7. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites.
8. Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
9. Also Assyria joined them; they were the arm of the children of Lot forever.
10. Do to them as [to] Midian; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin in the brook Kishon.
11. They were destroyed in En-Dor; they were [as] dung on the ground.
12. Make them, their nobles, as Oreb and as Zeeb, and as Zebah and as Zalmuna all their princes,
13. Who said, "Let us inherit for ourselves the dwellings of God."
14. My God, make them like thistles, like stubble before the wind.
15. As a fire that burns in a forest and as a flame that burns mountains.
16. So will You pursue them with Your tempest, and with Your whirlwind You will terrify them.
17. Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek Your countenance, O Lord.
18. Let them be ashamed and terrified forever; let them be disgraced and perish.
19. Let them know that You — Your name alone is the Lord, Most High over all the earth.
2. O God, have no silence, do not be silent and do not be still, O God.
3. For behold, Your enemies stir, and those who hate You raise their heads.
4. Against Your people they plot cunningly, and they take counsel against Your protected ones.
5. They said, "Come, let us destroy them from [being] a nation, and the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
6. For they have taken counsel with one accord; against You they form a pact.
7. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites.
8. Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
9. Also Assyria joined them; they were the arm of the children of Lot forever.
10. Do to them as [to] Midian; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin in the brook Kishon.
11. They were destroyed in En-Dor; they were [as] dung on the ground.
12. Make them, their nobles, as Oreb and as Zeeb, and as Zebah and as Zalmuna all their princes,
13. Who said, "Let us inherit for ourselves the dwellings of God."
14. My God, make them like thistles, like stubble before the wind.
15. As a fire that burns in a forest and as a flame that burns mountains.
16. So will You pursue them with Your tempest, and with Your whirlwind You will terrify them.
17. Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek Your countenance, O Lord.
18. Let them be ashamed and terrified forever; let them be disgraced and perish.
19. Let them know that You — Your name alone is the Lord, Most High over all the earth.
Psalms – Chapter 142
1. A maskil of David, when he was in the cave, a prayer.
2. [With] my voice, I cry out to the Lord; [with] my voice, I supplicate the Lord.
3. I pour out before Him my speech; my distress I recite before Him.
4. When my spirit enwraps itself upon me, and You know my path. In whichever way I go, they have hidden a snare for me.
5. Looking to the right, I see that no one recognizes me; escape is lost from me; no one seeks my soul.
6. I cried out to You, O Lord; I said, "You are my refuge, my lot in the land of the living."
7. Hearken to my cry for I have become very low; save me from my pursuers for they have overpowered me.
8. Take my soul out of confinement to give thanks to Your name; because of me the righteous will crown You, because You will recompense me.
2. [With] my voice, I cry out to the Lord; [with] my voice, I supplicate the Lord.
3. I pour out before Him my speech; my distress I recite before Him.
4. When my spirit enwraps itself upon me, and You know my path. In whichever way I go, they have hidden a snare for me.
5. Looking to the right, I see that no one recognizes me; escape is lost from me; no one seeks my soul.
6. I cried out to You, O Lord; I said, "You are my refuge, my lot in the land of the living."
7. Hearken to my cry for I have become very low; save me from my pursuers for they have overpowered me.
8. Take my soul out of confinement to give thanks to Your name; because of me the righteous will crown You, because You will recompense me.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under our soldiers' sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Now let us respond: Amen. (Text courtesy of OU)
Our brothers, the entire family of Israel, who are delivered into distress and captivity, whether they are on sea or dry land — may the Omnipresent One have mercy on them and remove them from distress to relief, from darkness to light, from subjugation to redemption, now, speedily, and soon — and let us say: Amen.
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