Yossie Harel to be buried at Sdot Yam

Yossi Harel, Commander of 'Illegal' Pre-State Aliyah, Dies at 90

Yossi Harel, who commanded four ships bringing Jews to Israel illegally, died at the age of 90 in Tel Aviv Saturday

by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) Yossi Harel, who commanded four ships bringing Jews to Israel illegally, died at the age of 90 in Tel Aviv Saturday.

Harel assisted 24,000 Jews in reaching Israel aboard four ships, including the famed SS Exodus, between 1945 and 1948. Great Britain, which controlled the region at the time, banned Jewish immigration due to Arab pressure. The other three ships were called Knesset Yisrael (Gathering of Israel), Atzma'ut (Independence) and Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of the Exiles).

The Exodus was made famous by a film of the same name.

Born in 1919, Harel was the sixth generation in his family born in Jerusalem. At the age of 15 he joined the pre-state Hagana defense force. By the age of 28 he oversaw the clandestine immigration operations bringing Jews, many of them survivors of the Holocaust, to the Holy Land.

Later on, Harel oversaw the IDF’s Unit 131, an intelligence unit that ran a spy ring in Egypt until the so-called Lavon Affair of 1954.

Harel will be buried at the Ceasaria-area kibbutz, Sdot Yam, at 5 PM Monday.

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Sdot Yam: What a great place to live and be buried! I was blessed to serve as a volunteer at Kibbutz Sdot Yam and studied Hebrew in an ulpan there for three months. What memories.

Kol hakavod to Yossi Harel - may he rest in peace.

Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam

Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Israel

Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Sept. '89

Sdot Yam - Getting ready for our trip

Kibbutz Sdot Yam & Bolshoi Ballet

Getting ready to move again

End of Ulpan at Sdot Yam

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King Solomon and Jews

Solomon, even in his folly, was wiser than Jews today who prefer to remain in their self-imposed exile.

King Solomon flirted with foreigners but too many Jews today have been seduced by the wiles of assimilation to remain foreign to the Land of Israel, alienated from the God of Israel, and distant from the Torah.

Jews, won't you please remember your roots and return to Zion? "Next Year in Jerusalem" can become a reality, not just a mindless mantra, a hypocritical prayer. The Jewish Homeland awaits you.

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Blow Up the Mosques or An Expired Visa?

Blow Up the Mosques or An Expired Visa?

Once again, an attempt to spread DISinformation (on a popular forum) about my unjust deportation from Israel, only provides me with another opportunity to clearly state my case and continue to highlight the plight of the Temple Mount suffering under a Nazi-Muslim occupation:

"You had only been in Israel for 9 months... and you're telling me it had already EXPIRED?!?!?!"

IF you knew anything about Israel, and those who do can vouch for this FACT, one usually receives a visa for three months, after which time such visa must be renewed. Mine was renewed time and again, but they don't permit you to renew it after a year's stay in the Holy Land. You have to leave the country for awhile, even if just to Egypt or Cyprus.

Since the Israeli government office of the office of the interior, misrad hapanim, was working on my application for resident alien or temporary residence (since I'm not Jewish according to halacha, they rarely grant citizenship to non-Jews) status, they give you a piece of paper, a strip of paper with the date on it and an official stamp which authorizes your continued stay in the country. The two ladies I frequently met concerning my case were Anat and Yochi.

When the Israeli authorities detained me, as reported on the front page of The Jerusalem Post, they took that piece of paper and never returned it, knowing they had predetermined to deport me to try and silence my outspoken articles (all legal and aboveground), read in Jerusalem and throughout all Israel, from Dan to Beersheva, against the illegal Muslim religious discrimination against Jews and Christians daily, illegally forbidding Christians and Jews their religious rights to pray and worship upon the Temple Mount that is destined to host the House of Prayer for All Peoples.

Such an unjust deportation from the Holy Land I love only "encouraged" me to "cry aloud and spare not" and further expose their complicity with the Nazi-Muslim occupation of Judaism's holiest site.

When I attempted to return the same year of my unjust deportation I was detained at the airport and refused entry. In 1997 I petitioned Senator Mike DeWine to inquire about a visa for me and he received an initial reply from Itzhak Oren, Minister for Congressional Affairs, March 7, 1997, that read, in part:

"It is our understanding that Mr. Ben-Ariel will not be granted a tourist visa at this time...The Ministry of the Interior...has made the decision not to grant the visa and does not offer any information behind their decision."

That was in regard to the requested visa, NOT to my former unjust deportation! Note the difference. Consequent correspondence informed Senator DeWine that I would not be "eligible for a tourist visa until 2005." That's why I again petitioned Senators DeWine and Voinovich to help me to obtain my visa, especially since Israel is the custodian of Christian holy sites and allegedly guarantees "freedom of access" to make holy pilgrimage to them in their 1967 Law for the Protection of the Holy Places. Such guaranteed "freedom of access" is impossible unless one is granted freedom of entry into the Holy Land.

Regarding my unjust deportation, that political prostitute, former Consul General in Jerusalem, Edward Abington, Jr., wrote the Honorable Marcy Kaptur, my Congressional representative, June 28, 1996:

"On June 6, 1996 the Consulate General in Jerusalem received your letter of May 6, 1996 about the deportation of David Ben-Ariel.

On April 2, 1996, we responded to an earlier query of yours about Mr. Ben-Ariel. In that letter we noted that Mr. Ben-Ariel was held at the Jerusalem jail from January 4, 1996 until February 1, 1996, when he was deported by the Israeli government for overstaying his permission to stay in Israel. Consular staff visited him twice while he was in jail. He reported no mistreatment while in jail..." (emphasis mine).

My strong response to his incompetence, to his pro-Nazi-Muslim and anti-Jewish and anti-Christian stance, has been made very public, since my letter to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is available for all to see and read: Why Edward Abington, Jr. Must Be Investigated!

The United States State Department, Senators DeWine and Voinovich, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and the Israeli authorities among many others, know I was never deported from Israel for anything other than "an expired visa." Which is just another lie, since it was not expired as I had that special piece of paper from the Ministry of the Interior, but they used that lame excuse to cover themselves since the plain truth was, as Gershon Salomon, chairman of the Temple Mount Faithful stated, "this is a clear cut case of politico-religious discrimination."

May Israel right the wrong and lift the ban against my entry to the Promised Land of Israel, the Holy Land to Christians and Jews, as recorded in our sacred writings.

Edward Abington, Jr.'s letter page 1

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Mankind hides from God

Mankind hides from God

Mankind hides from God. Mankind can't handle God's awesome presence and freaks out and hide themselves from Him whenever He does touch base with us.

Genesis 3:8
And they [Adam and Eve] heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Exodus 20
18 Now all the people [of Israel fresh out of Egypt] witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain [Mt. Sinai] smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. 19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”

Revelation 6
14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

God has chosen to offer mankind His revelation, recorded in the Book of Books, the Holy Bible, and folks are still hiding their eyes from what it says, fearful of necessary change and growing pains, or just plain proud and stubborn, content to stay put in their traditional darkness rather than walk in the celestial light.

Mankind hopes for contact with Extraterrestrials, with a Higher Life Form, an Advanced Civilization, and yet rejects the message the Gods (Elohim) have given us - in print and in Person. Nothing new under the sun.


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