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November 13, 2025

The 51st

If my mother has looked up from the book she is likely reading in her heavenly rest, she must be smiling this week. For years she said that Israel should start a war against the United States and surrender very quickly. The terms of the peace agreement would dictate it becomes the 51st state and from that point on most of Israel's problems would be solved.

Enter one Donald Trump and the need to launch an offensive has been diminished. Israelis are now limited in their movements near the US headquarters in Kiryat Gat. Trump's speech at the Knesset was as comfortable (for him) as the State of the Union. All things Gaza are managed by the US with Israel having little to say even when Israeli troops remain in control of some of the territory. Bibi has already been fitted with a ball and chain at his last White House visit. Just when I asked myself what next, kind Donald the 47th has this week asked to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his crimes.

Back in the '80s Leonard Cohen wrote first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. A terrorist song as he unapologetically explained it. It played in my head as I realized this makes a trifecta of control grabs of the executive, legislative and now judicial branches of Israeli government.

Such has been the conduct of this current Israeli government that I find myself wondering if this may be a good thing. (I believe Bibi and his current government have betrayed Israel On October 7th and since.) But is this the solution? The answer is NO!

More on Trump's latest "give a dog a bone" act of describing Bibi as a “formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister” in Times of Israel's "Trump writes to Herzog asking him to pardon Netanyahu amid ‘unjustified’ trial." Call me a romantic, but I'd like the trial to go on and for Israel, despite its worst government, to continue to keep control of its own government. I hope that when new elections take place (by law in the next 349 days) that government will be gone. The people of Israel deserve that.

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On June 16, 2022, at our annual meeting, we hosted Ana Sazonov, executive director at the Jewish Federation of Columbia, SC. Ana recently returned from two weeks of volunteer work at the Ukraine border with Poland and shared her experience with us. We had many questions after and she answered all of them.