Eliezer Shenvald

The writer, a rabbi and retired IDF colonel is the rosh yeshiva of the Meir Harel Hesder Yeshiva of Modi’in-Ofakim.
‘THE PROGRESS Judaism has made in the young Israeli state is unprecedented in all of Jewish history. By virtue of this, Israel has become a world cultural center that attracts visitors from all the world – not only Jewish ones – who come to see and learn.’

Our young and mature state

On Independence Day, we should note that the rapid rebirth of Israel has no parallel in human history.

APRIL 25, 2017
Young people wave Israeli flags during the Jerusalem Day march on June 5

Passover then and now – Making the impossible possible

APRIL 6, 2017
A packed house for the Purim megila reading in 2016 at the Tel Aviv International Synagogue

Purim – Rejoicing the holocaust that was averted

It is the wondrous, miraculous story of a holocaust which was nipped in the bud.

MARCH 6, 2017

Remembering the Holocaust – passing the torch

The Holocaust was the lowest moral depth that the human race has ever sunk to.

JANUARY 29, 2017
A man sits on the railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living t

Hanukka: The time to strengthen the mutual support between Israel and the Diaspora

Hanukka is the perfect time to reinforce the mutual responsibility between Israel and the Diaspora. Let us find the ways to strengthen it, before it is too late.

DECEMBER 31, 2016
The Hanukka menorah at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

The war that could have been prevented

From the beginning it was clear that Hitler’s goal was to conquer the world.

MAY 6, 2015
Planet Earth