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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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Many Jerusalem Residents at Risk of Losing Arnona Discounts

Jerusalem Municipality officials relate that many residents are unaware of an important rule: anyone who received an income-based discount on their Arnona (local property tax) must pay all outstanding balances by December 31, 2025. If the balance is not paid by that date, the discount will be forfeited and the resident becomes liable for the full Arnona amount for the year.

Arnona is a local property tax charged annually to all property owners in Jerusalem. Residents who meet certain income criteria are eligible for discounts, which can provide significant financial relief.

Chaim V'Chessed has learned that many Jerusalem residents who are eligible for these discounts have not yet paid their 2025 bills, and a significant portion of these are English-speaking residents. Officials stress that it is imperative for those who have not yet paid to settle their bills promptly to avoid losing the financial relief they are entitled to.

https://chaimvchessed.com/upda...

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.

'A millennium-long monopoly': How biblical Israel imported a steady flow of African ivory

Analysis of 1,500 artifacts shows imports from Nubia between 1600-600 BCE, a trade network that endured from Canaanite times to the era of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah

https://www.timesofisrael.com/...

By Rossella Tercatin

An assemblage of ivory plaques from the First Temple period (1200-586 BCE) was unearthed during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University at the Givati Parking Lot in the City of David in Jerusalem, in a discovery announced on September 5, 2022.

(Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority, Gil Mezuman/City of David)

Ivory from sub-Saharan Africa was imported to the Land of Israel between 1600- 600 BCE, overcoming geopolitical changes in both arenas, a new study analyzing over 1,500 artifacts and fragments excavated at 46 sites in the region has shown.

"It was a very eventful millennium, but one thing remained constant, and that was the exchange of ivory, always [imported] from Africa," said Dr. Harel Shochat from the University of Haifa, the lead author of the paper published in the November 2025 issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science.

According to Shochat, the study's results are a testament to the existence of a southbound network of trade and exchanges consistent with some biblical narratives from the period, including the fabled story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon in Jerusalem, bringing opulent gifts. Sheba is considered by most scholars to correspond to modern-day Yemen.

Buried in France in 1840, a U.S. president's daughter comes back home

Barbara VornDick was researching the fifth U.S. president's daughter. It turned into a years-long odyssey that cast her into the roles of sleuth, genealogist and more.

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