Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Cleared for publication: Southern Command intelligence officer ignored Hamas attack & Where was the IDF's intel chief the night before the massacre? & Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging with those we have lost & Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city & 8 forgotten songs from the 70s that make every Boomer feel 12 again


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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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Where was the IDF's intel chief the night before the massacre?

A timeline submitted to the Turgeman Committee shows that repeated warnings and urgent updates accumulated hours before the October 7th Massacre, while Intelligence Directorate Chief Aharon Haliva was largely unreachable and slow to respond.

https://www.israelnationalnews...

The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.

Southern Command intelligence officer ignored Hamas attack

Lt. Col. Ariel Levovsky, who served as the Southern Command intelligence officer during the October 7th massacre, has been revealed as having known of the Hamas plan - and ignoring it.

https://www.israelnationalnews...

The IDF military censor permitted publication this morning (Wednesday) that the intelligence officer of the Southern Command during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 was Lt. Col. Ariel Levovsky.

Until now his name was banned from publication due to his status as an intelligence officer, but after his release from the IDF the restriction was lifted.

Lt. Col. Levovsky served as the Southern Command intelligence officer in the period before the attack. He was among the officers who were exposed to the 'Wall of Jericho' plan, the Hamas codename for a large invasion of Israel. He was among the decision-makers who regarded the information as an exercise or a move that did not constitute a threat.

Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city

During the Roman period, much of what is now Hungary formed the province of Pannonia

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging

An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

Researchers found that speaking multiple languages may be associated with a reduced risk of accelerated cognitive aging. Their study, published on November 10 in the journal Nature Aging, indicates that encouraging multilingualism could be a beneficial public health strategy.

While some previous studies have indicated that speaking multiple languages can help guard memory and attention, the overall takeaway has been fairly inconclusive because of small sample sizes, inadequate ways of measuring aging and other factors. By analyzing survey data from more than 86,000 healthy individuals ages 51 to 90 in 27 countries across Europe, the team behind the recent paper avoided some of these pitfalls.