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Itamar News Updates Jan 29th 2016
This week the winter really made us aware of its presence. It was marked by heavy rains, winds, and below freezing temperatures. Enjoy the rare picture of the snowy Hermon mountains located in the Golan Heights as viewed from Itamar! This week we also celebrated the holiday of Tu Bishvat. There is nothing that brings…
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Itamar News Updates Jan 15 2016
With the recent authorization of our city plan by the Israeli government, Itamar has begun a very important project – the building of a nursery for our children. This is great news since our community is growing every day and is in desperate need of a permanent nursery. The Israeli government has supplied most of…
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Itamar News Updates Nov 20th 2015
Itamar was blessed this week with some very special visitors that came to our town despite the difficult security situation. It was our greatest pleasure to host again our dear friends Rico and Yolanda Cortez together with their tour group from USA. Rico and Yolanda are very dedicated friends of our community and have been…
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Leah’s Blog Nov 20th 2015
Leah’s Blog – November 20, 2015 I pulled out our living room windows today. I was right in the middle of the frenzy of this day, like any other Friday – pots simmering on the stove, trays of hot things getting too crispy in the oven, not all the groceries even all put away yet.…
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Itamar News Updates Oct 23 2015
Itamar blesses the recent decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to authorize our city plan. Our community was founded back on Independence Day of 1984. The lesson from this is that important things take time and patience but never give up. This announcement comes out on the portion of Lech Lecha where Abraham and Sarah…
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Leah’s Blog – Joseph Is in Flames Again
I woke up this morning to an acrid smell of smoke and fire. The shootings and screams are a nightly occurance- you hear them as the wind blows their echoes but you also learn to screen it out as you learn to screen out tumah. The smoke too is not uncommon- it’s what they love…
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Leah’s blog October 2nd 2015 – They Kill We Build
They Kill- We Build Sukkot 2015 Again, almost on the yartzeit of our Rabbi, HaRav Binyamin Herling HY”D who was killed on Har Eval on Hoshana Raba after the Tomb of Yosef HaTzaddik was desecrated destroyed and burnt 15 years ago- new beautiful souls were taken last night, murdered in front of the eyes of…
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Announcement of Mourning and Shock
With great pain, sorrow, and shock we mourn the brutal murder of Itamar’s high school graduate Eitam and his wife Na’amah Henkin HYD. They were ambushed right outside Itamar in eyesight to Yeshivat chitzim, the high school where Eitam studied for four years. This precious couple were the perfect example of what it is to…
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Holiday Blessings From Itamar
As we are about to begin the holiday of Succoth, a time where family and friends join together to celebrate and rejoice, I want to take this opportunity to send you blessings from Itamar in the heartland of Israel situated in the very place where the history of Israel began with Abraham’s setting up tent…