Shlomo Karhi
@shlomo_karhi · Israeli government & coalition
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Shlomo Karhi is Israel's Communications Minister and a Likud minister.
I received complaints about the prime minister for not leaving us requests for Rosh Hashanah night…
Translated from HebrewIf it were a deputy treasurer in Neve Hamtzitzim, as Amit defined it, he would lay down the keys and go home in disgrace. But the one who appointed himself president refuses to act according to the standards he himself preaches, continues to cling to the horns of the altar, and to destroy the remnants of public trust in the Supreme Court. Nothing lasts forever!
Translated from HebrewNow it's official: Eisenkot's vote accepts Yair Golan!
Translated from HebrewMount Hebron Regional Council with my friends, council head Eliram Azulai and his team, Communications Staff Officer Dudu Cohen and his team, and representatives of the IBC company and Lanir. The map on the screen shows the progress of the deployment work by IBC. Inspiring figures and pace. After the holidays, God willing, we will flip “the switch” for a competitive wholesale market in the area. The land of our ancestors is being connected at a dizzying pace, with dozens of new communities, dozens of cellular masts, and dozens of kilometers of fiber-optic cables. The last work meeting of the Hebrew year תשפ״ו on the subject, with sweet fruits for the coming year, may it be a good one, God willing.
Translated from HebrewAfter the legal counsel tried to prevent the appointment of Yehuda Eliyahu as director general of the Israel Land Authority, Haim Katz is now cooperating with Gil Limon to avoid extending his term as acting director in three months, thereby paving the way for an appointment convenient to the deep state. Haim Katz may be guaranteed a spot on the Likud list, but no one guaranteed him five ministries, and certainly not the Housing Ministry. It is better for the State of Israel, the Negev, and the Galilee to have a Housing Ministry without a minister than a housing minister who joins forces with Gil Limon and the deep state against the policy of the national camp. Officials must not be allowed to harm the prime minister’s policy!
Translated from HebrewYehuda Eliyahu is the right man in the right place. We must not allow extraneous considerations to harm the struggle to save the Negev and Galilee. Yehuda - your success is our success!
Translated from HebrewThe master of Eisenkot and Lieberman
Translated from HebrewOn the first day of the month of Elul, when Moses ascended to heaven to atone for the sin of the golden calf, I had the privilege of taking part in the ceremony marking the return to Ganim, and removing the disgrace of the expulsion. It was almost possible to hear the earth whispering to us Gods, blessed be He, answer to Moses on Yom Kippur after 40 days. We established dozens of new communities in the Negev, the Galilee, and Judea and Samaria, including advanced communications infrastructure. With Gods help, we will continue for many more pleasant and good years of reconnecting with the land of our ancestral heritage
Translated from HebrewI congratulate the new members whom Prime Minister Netanyahu chose for the Likud slate. Likud will enter the 26th Knesset with a magnificent slate, representing the broad and impressive mosaic of the national camp. A slate of action, values, security, and faith in the justice of our path. As one man, we have just approved this at the secretariat meeting and given the prime minister our absolute backing on the way to victory, with God's help! Welcome and good luck, friends! Talik Gvili Yaakov Bardugo Elisha Medan David Peter Eli Goldschmidt Itzik Buncel Amir Avivi and Keren Asaig
Translated from HebrewThe High Court of Justice (Bagatz) continues to trample the law, undermine the people's decision, and arrogate to itself powers that were never granted to it. The Knesset must convene immediately, even during the recess, and make clear: The court has no authority to strike down the Knesset's laws at will or take the government's powers into its own hands. In the next term, God willing, we will complete the fundamental reform of the judicial system, restore the balance between the branches, and return power to the people and their elected representatives. Democracy is government by the people, not government by the judges.
Translated from Hebrew“Your hand will reach all your enemies; your right hand will reach those who hate you… The Lord in His anger will devour them, and fire will consume them” — The fire consumed them all: Sinwar, Deif, Nasrallah, Khamenei, and many other wicked ones. There were others, “whose mouths spoke falsehood and whose right hand was a lying hand,” who wanted to surrender. But Netanyahu, in the courageous spirit of a Jewish leader, did not surrender!
Translated from HebrewThe best finance minister of the Muslim Brotherhood…
Translated from HebrewNothing short of amazing. Netanyahu is striving for victory on one side, while everyone else on the other side is in a mindset of capitulation and weakness. Is there really anyone who would want these guys, together with Golan and Abbas, to be responsible for our security?
Translated from HebrewI see the left’s tantrum against me. It’s amazing how there are people for whom Yair Golan is a “savior” who came down to save the people of Israel at the beginning of the war. Yair Golan is one of the leaders of the refusal to serve that dismantled the IDF and led directly to 7.10. This thug called IDF soldiers “baby killers as a hobby,” continued threatening refusal to serve even in the middle of the war, and had it not been for the criminal attorney general, he should have been in detention. I will continue to tell the truth without fear! “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who make darkness light and light darkness, who make bitter sweet and sweet bitter.”
Translated from Hebrew“And it shall be, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse… and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice.” In the Torah there are two passages of rebuke: Parashat Bechukotai and Parashat Ki Tavo, which we read last Sabbath. The first concerns the first exile, the Babylonian exile, and the second the long exile that followed it, whose end we await soon. Both describe a difficult course of destruction and exile. But there is a fundamental difference between them: an end was set for the first exile, until the land would enjoy its Sabbaths—seventy years. Whereas in the second rebuke no predetermined end appears. Ramban explains that this difference is not accidental. The second exile has no end dependent solely on the passage of time; its end also depends on us, on our deeds and our repentance. And this is what we read in our portion: “and you return to the LORD your God,” and then “the LORD your God will bring back your captivity and have compassion on you.” Repentance preceded the creation of the world because it is a foundation without which the world cannot exist. A world that contains free choice must also allow for error, and a world that contains error must allow for repair. Without repentance, every fall is an end. With repentance, every fall can be a beginning. Therefore, the final repair of the world, in complete redemption, also depends on repentance. We are in the midst of the Days of Mercy and Forgiveness, during which the multitudes of the House of Israel return to God with all their hearts. But in recent years, a particularly moving phenomenon has been expanding: Jews who seem very far from the world of Torah and commandments, especially young people, are filling the selichot gatherings by the thousands throughout the country. Some people are even bothered by this. In one studio they have already reported with concern on the influx of young people to selichot in “liberal neighborhoods,” and moreover—God have mercy—on separation between men and women… But whoever sees this as a threat is missing the greater point. Repentance is not the property of one sector. It belongs to every Jew. It is not merely another commandment on the list of commandments, but a foundation of life itself. We are all human beings; we all make mistakes and sometimes fall. The knowledge that it is always possible to return, repair, rise anew and choose differently is what gives a person hope and faith in a better future. And this is what the Jewish heart connects to. There is nothing higher than repentance: “Great is repentance, for it reaches the Throne of Glory,” but there is also nothing closer to a person, as it is said in our portion: “For this matter is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to do it.” We are privileged to live in the midst of an astonishing process of redemption. The people of Israel have returned to their land, are building it, fighting for it and giving their lives for it. But returning to the land is not the end of the process. Alongside it, a return to our identity, our roots, the Torah and our Father in Heaven is also awakening and growing. And precisely our younger generation, after all that we have endured and are still enduring, feels deep in its heart the significance of this hour and the power of this era. We were privileged to see the people of Israel return to their land, and now we are seeing more and more the people of Israel return to themselves as well. And when this return is complete, the redemption will also be complete. This is not merely a wish and not merely a hope. It is an explicit promise. As Maimonides summed it up in the Laws of Repentance: “The Torah has already promised that at the end of their exile Israel will repent, and immediately they will be redeemed.” We have returned to the land, we are returning to God, and with God’s help we will soon merit the fulfillment of the vision of the prophets in this week’s haftarah, which concludes Isaiah’s Seven Consolations: “I will rejoice exceedingly in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for He has clothed me in garments of salvation…” Have a peaceful and blessed Sabbath.
Translated from HebrewIsrael's enemies want Netanyahu to fall - Don't let them win!
Translated from HebrewAnother Knesset law is annulled. Just like that, nonchalantly. Only three judges, and there is even a dissenting opinion among them. This is not a bug. It is a feature. But this time the Knesset must restore its lost honor. On the Knesset’s table lies a duly signed request by 25 MKs to convene a special session during the recess and adopt a historic decision against the High Court’s overstepping its bounds. The Knesset must be convened immediately and freedom’s horn must be sounded to free it from the High Court’s yoke. The Knesset will establish for the first time: the High Court has no authority to strike down or freeze Knesset laws. This is not about right and left. There is one question here: who is sovereign – the people or the judges? The “supreme ruler” will not voluntarily relinquish the power it has taken for itself. We will return it to the people. We are starting now! Attached are the duly signed request and the Knesset Rules of Procedure.
Translated from HebrewFor some of you this may be earth-shattering news… but for most of us this is as clear as the midday sun. It is either the right or Hamastan.
Translated from HebrewA frustrated bunch of liars. The facts are simple: On the morning of Simchat Torah, when the rocket attack and infiltration began, we were at our home in the Gaza Envelope. As a member of the standby squad, I immediately asked our local security coordinator for a weapon so I could go out and fight the terrorists. The answer was incomprehensible: There were no weapons. The IDF took the weapons from the standby squad last year. Now they are trying to rewrite history and claim that that morning I was driving around the Gaza Envelope in an armored vehicle with security guards, and supposedly chose not to go out to evacuate and save people. An absolute lie. The armored vehicle was not with me at all that morning. The armored vehicle was sent to me in the afternoon to pick me up on the way to the government meeting. The vehicle was not mine, was not at my disposal, and I had no authority whatsoever to tell the security guards where to drive or to enter combat zones with me. I am not a former general with operational connections and people on the ground who call him and relay locations to him in real time. I wish I had had the ability and the right that day to go out and save Jews from the inferno. If Yair Golan saved people that day, good for him, and good for his share. Anyone who saved even one life on that accursed day deserves recognition. But heroism on one day does not grant immunity from criticism of what a person says and does before and after it. And certainly it must not be used to invent lies about others. So yes, I will continue to criticize Yair Golan, the darling of the far left: the man who seeks to shut down channels and silence voices, the one who supported the refusal-to-serve protest that severely harmed Israel’s resilience and deterrence, and the one who called our heroic fighters “baby killers as a hobby.” Praise Golan as much as you like. Argue with me as much as you like. Ask questions or bury your heads in the sand—it is your choice. But do not turn October 7 into a political cudgel, and do not rewrite that terrible morning to create a political blood libel.
Translated from HebrewIf Yitzhak Amit establishes a “state” commission of inquiry, do you think anyone will try to find out how Golan knew on the night before the massacre about the greatest failure since the Yom Kippur War, and within an hour and a half already knew to define the “Sukkot War”? I don’t know what happened there, but it is clear that there are major question marks that must be investigated in a national commission of inquiry.
Translated from HebrewThese elections are not between the right and the left. They are between the right that goes out to vote and the right that stays home or gambles on parties that will not pass the electoral threshold. Also: “Bennetting” with Boaz Golan. @BoazGolan
Translated from HebrewEizenkot left the government in the middle of the war because we did not agree to surrender to the enemy. Now he wants to form a government with Yair Golan, Mansour Abbas and Ahmad Tibi. Everything we achieved in the war, in security, in settlement and in governance, they are willing to throw in the trash for the sake of the only glue that binds them together: ״Just not Bibi״. We are fighting to win. They are fighting only to bring Netanyahu down.
Translated from HebrewWhat Lieberman wants you to forget…
Translated from HebrewI approved today the transfer of control of HOT mobile from the Altice Group to the buyers' group led by Delek Retail and the Keystone Fund. The approval was granted after professional and comprehensive work at the Ministry of Communications, which examined, among other things, the financial strength of the buyers' group, the transaction's positive impact on competition, and the commitment to invest in advanced communications infrastructure. The transaction is bringing a new spirit to Israel's cellular market. Our policy is clear: more investment, more competition, more innovation, and a stronger, better communications market for the Israeli public. We will continue removing barriers, encouraging investment, and opening the market to competition, for the benefit of Israel's citizens.
Translated from Hebrew“And you shall take from the first of every fruit of the ground that you bring from your land … and say to him: I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.” “And you shall say to him” — that you are not ungrateful (Rashi). The commandment of the first fruits is one of the priestly gifts, but it has an important purpose in its own right: gratitude and recognition of the good. The commandment is not only for the recipient, but mainly for the one who brings it. To pause for a moment, look at what one has received, and say thank you. The Torah teaches us another thing: To truly recognize the good, we cannot look only at the point in time where we are standing. We must look at the entire journey, where we came from and where we have arrived. Therefore, the one bringing the first fruits is not satisfied with saying thank you for the fruit in his hand. He goes back to the beginning: “An Aramean sought to destroy my father, and he went down to Egypt … the Egyptians did evil to us and afflicted us.” Only after remembering the enslavement and hardship does he arrive at the great thanksgiving: “And He gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” In this world there is no perfection, and there is always more to add and repair. Whoever looks only at the moment will always find shortcomings. But whoever raises his gaze a little and sees the entire process understands how much kindness the Holy One, blessed be He, has bestowed upon him and how much there is to be thankful for. Naturally, an election period causes people to look mainly for what is not good. Some try to convince us that our situation is bad, especially those who were not partners in the outgoing government’s successes. The intense desire to replace the government can turn every achievement into a loss and every success into a failure. But recognizing the good requires reflection. Not everything is perfect. There is still much to repair, and there are long processes that still need to be completed. But we must remember where we began, where we have arrived, and above all, in what direction we are going. When we look at the whole picture, we understand, thank God, how much stronger we have become. From “An Aramean sought to destroy my father,” from the terrible massacre on the Sabbath of “Simchat Torah,” on the day when our enemies sought to destroy us, until today. We rose from the devastation, fought back with force, struck our enemies, and changed the face of the Middle East. The State of Israel today is stronger, its enemies are more battered and deterred, and it stands with greater strength against those seeking to destroy it. Above all, we have leadership that knows where it wants to lead, is not deterred by the long road, and knows well what still needs to be repaired. Our coming to the land, too, did not happen in a single moment. It was preceded by a long exile, and after the exodus from Egypt there were another forty years in the wilderness. The road was difficult, marked by crises and falls, and anyone who looked only at one moment in the wilderness would have missed the progress toward the goal: a land flowing with milk and honey. So it is today as well. If we look for what is missing, we will always find it. But with a sober and mature view of the road we have traveled, we can see that in just a few years we brought about changes that once seemed impossible. We have not yet reached rest and security, but we are on the right path, and we must not stop halfway. We are on the sixth Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths of comfort from Isaiah. Here the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself comforts the people of Israel and describes the light breaking through the darkness and the process of redemption of which we are privileged to be a part: “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples, but the LORD shall shine upon you and His glory shall be seen over you.” To reflect, recognize the good, give thanks for what we have achieved, and continue with all our strength toward what still remains to be completed. Shabbat shalom and blessed.
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