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2025-08-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Major roads closed across Israel as hostage families, protesters take to the streets
[IsraelTimes] Major roads are blocked across Israel as protesters take to the streets to demand the release of the hostages and an end to the war in Gaza.

Route 2, also known as the Coastal Highway, is closed to traffic around Yakum Junction, north of Tel Aviv, after protesters light a fire in the middle of the road.

Sections of Route 1 and Route 443, both of which connect Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, are also closed to traffic.

Route 40 is closed to traffic around the Na’an Junction on the outskirts of Rehovot. Protesters there are joined by Yotam Cohen, the brother of hostage soldier Nimrod Cohen.

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Protesters for the hostages blocked Ayalon South lanes this morning at the start of a day of protest and solidarity, demanding an end to the war and the return of all hostages.
For the live broadcast I conducted from the blockade:
https://youtube.com/live/bAuhzzD_XcY?si=tnLxm7IpcXuh9ZOc
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Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-26 2025-08-26 02:03|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1829 views ]  Top
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1 Jews for H*tler.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-26 02:20||   2025-08-26 02:20|| Front Page Top

2 Have they forgotten WHY there are hostages?
Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-26 09:05||   2025-08-26 09:05|| Front Page Top

3 back in the 13th century, a famous Rabbi, Meir of Rothenburg, a.k.a. the Maharam was taken prisoner and imprisoned by the authorities in a fortress in Alcase. The governor of the fortress let it be known that the Rabbi would be released for a large ransom. The Rabbi wrote a treatise forbidding paying the ransom as it would create an incentive to kidnap more Jews. The Rabbi died in prison but before doing so wrote another treatise forbidding excessive ransom for his body. After a number of years his body was ransomed for a modest ransom. His grave is in Worms. The man who ransomed the Rabbi is buried next to him.
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-08-26 11:43||   2025-08-26 11:43|| Front Page Top

4 I've visited both graves in Worms. Btw at the corner of Galgengasse and Judengasse in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, there is a private museum that presents the history of the medieval Jewish community and Rabbi Meir ben Baruch.

And a little correction: The ransom for the body was not "modest". It was not until 1307 that Meir's body could be redeemed by the Frankfurt merchant Alexander ben Salomon Wimpfen, who sacrificed his entire fortune to pay more than 20,000 pounds of silver. He himself transported the body to Worms, where, in accordance with Meir's wishes, it was buried in the Jewish cemetery, Heiliger Sand, on September 8, 1307. Alexander ben Salomon Wimpfen, who died in the same year, 1307, was buried next to him.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-08-26 12:12||   2025-08-26 12:12|| Front Page Top

5 O Hebrews' M-s-, send me an ode!
Sing of activists' bodies in roads
On 10/7 or 8,
When it wasn't too late
To cause gridlock round Gazans' abodes!
[Both Sides Now]
Posted by Snolung Jones9598 2025-08-26 15:34||   2025-08-26 15:34|| Front Page Top

6 Flamethrower or flail tanks will clean that right up.
Posted by Silentbrick 2025-08-26 18:24||   2025-08-26 18:24|| Front Page Top

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