Israel violates Sabbatical commandment to protect Land from hostile takeover

This Hebrew year is the Shemittah (Sabbatical) and it is technically forbidden to plant trees. Rabbi Dov Lior and other prominent rabbinic authorities have given permission for the KKL planting to be carried out as it is of dire importance “for the struggle for the Land of Israel, and called on all Knesset members to come to the Negev to make the desert bloom.”

Colel Chabad’s Important Work Highlighted at Gala 

In response, the organization extended its services to not only feeding the elderly but to befriending them as well. “We have scheduled over ten thousand visits of young students to elderly lonely Holocaust survivors.”