Garry Bregman
wander-about.bsky.social
Garry Bregman
@wander-about.bsky.social
Librarian, Wanderer, Traveler, Friend, Father
“I am President of Israel.. Only after the process is concluded by the Ministry of Justice, will I examine the request in accordance with the law, the good of the state, and his conscience — and without any influence from external or internal pressures of any kind..” So there!!
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Black-Jewish relations, makes the case for strengthened ties between the two communities.”Two streams run beneath the floorboards of Western culture: antisemitism, our civilization’s oldest hatred & antiblack racism. Whenever people search for a scapegoat..” they find us 2.
February 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM
🇮🇱Arab Israeli activist Somaya Bashir is running in the Democrats Party primaries to champion Arab community issues & Arab–Jewish partnership.
👍🏽A psychologist & activist from Jatt, she founded the NGO “We Have No Other Land” & has led roles in Women Wage Peace & Moshe Radman’s “Anchor for the Future”
February 10, 2026 at 1:13 PM
🇮🇱 Yoav Gallant called Netanyahu “a liar,” accusing him of inventing a narrative about Oct 7 to evade responsibility.
🗣️ He said Netanyahu turned ministers against Israel’s security chiefs during the war.
🤥 “We have a liar for prime minister..
February 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM
🇮🇱❄️ 9 Olympians & 1 Paralympian. 10 athletes. 5 winter sports. Far from Israel’s climate & sporting roots, they arrive with “realistic goals, quiet confidence & a deep responsibility”
⛸️ Figure skating 🎿 Alpine skiing 🛷 Bobsleigh 🎿 Cross-country 💀 Skeleton (headfirst 130 km/h)
💨 Respect & good luck!
February 7, 2026 at 6:27 AM
🇿🇲🇮🇱 Zambia’s ambassador Wesley Mahuba Hazemba: “Israelis see a human being, not color—rare elsewhere. God has blessed this land & its people.” Zambia cites Genesis 12: God blesses those who bless Israel..
January 19, 2026 at 10:45 AM
📰”Israel has failed in Gaza. It has no solution for that strip of land or the people who live there. Every alternative — including the one Trump dictates — carries great risks. Yet perhaps it is time to give others a chance..
📝Nahum Barnea
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 AM
😡😤🤯Rabbi Says the Stupidest Thing: Former chief rabbi, Rishon LeZion Yitzhak Yosef, “I have a grandson, a yeshiva student, who received a draft order. He tore it up & threw it in the toilet, just like I told him..
January 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Trump attacked the wrong country!
🔥Can we hope that Iran is next?
January 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Pants on Fire: PM Netanyahu dismissed settler violence as the actions of “about 70 youths, “mostly teenagers from broken homes.. claiming they don’t even live in the West Bank. In reality, the numbers are likely in the hundreds, many from settlements, often organized..
January 1, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY):
🇺🇸🗣️”it's incumbent on all of us to express our thoughts & prayers to those who have suffered this unconscionable, unthinkable, unspeakable tragedy.. we have a responsibility to combat antisemitism wherever it's found.. to bury antisemitism in the ground never to rise again..
December 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🕎President Herzog: “At these very moments, our sisters & brothers in Sydney, have been attacked by vile terrorists in a very cruel attack on Jews who went to light the first candle of Chanukah.
🗣️”Our hearts go out to them. The heart of the entire nation of Israel misses a beat at this very moment..
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Enough.. The Bank of Israel blasts the Likud׳s Haredi draft exemption.. The Bank of Israel finally says what everyone knows: the Haredi exemption is bankrupting the country. The Bank warns the fight over Haredi service is also about Israel’s “future economic & social sustainability..
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Previous Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar calls for the gov’t to establish a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding the 7 Oct 2023, Hamas-led invasion & massacre.. to ensure that it does not happen again is through a state commission of inquiry..
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
😡😤🤯Defense Minister Katz & the Likud government now want combat soldiers to serve an additional 4-6 months.. because they know that the Hardedi draft exemption will continue.. and those scheduled to complete their service during 2026 may have to delay their discharge from the IDF..
December 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🇮🇱IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir:
🗣️”The IDF has taken responsibility & investigated itself, but the event is not the military’s alone, it would be wrong to direct the entire spotlight only at the IDF..
🗣️”Needed is professional, external & objective commission as was done after Yom Kippur War.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🇮🇱Likud MK Edelstein:
🗣️“The bill is so terrible that it will be difficult for members of the coalition to really explain to themselves & to Likud voters how come they support it..
🗣️”This is legislation that pretends to be about the draft.. it is legislation for preserving the status of Yeshiva boys..
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🇮🇱The proposed law “enables dodging & endangers the future of the state.. “
‎🗣️״Exactly 51 years ago, I began my basic training. Since then, all four of my sons have served in the IDF in significant roles. Five decades have passed & the burden still falls on the shoulders of relatively few."
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Rav Lober, son killed fighting in Gaza, said “the enlistment bill doesn’t set quotas or goals. A real bill needs to be like the law against tax fraud, with personal & institutional sanctions. We need to financially penalize draft dodgers & reward people who enlist; that’s what will lead to a change
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🇮🇱IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir with a message that feels aimed at the government:
🗣️”What Israel needs now is courageous, purposeful, transformative leadership- leadership that recognizes failure, dares to change, inspires, uplifts & looks truth in the eye instead of evading it..
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Twelve years is a long time to wait for a son, to wait for a soldier to come home.
Twelve years of waiting, hoping & sorrow.
So much love, so much loss, so much time.. maybe now😔
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🇮🇱Peace Dividends, Yuval Noah Harari: After Hamas’ Oct 7 attack, Israel’s survival relied on peace.
🇪🇬Egypt (1979),🇯🇴Jordan (1994),🇦🇪Gulf states (2020) kept their treaties.
“Hamas hoped for an Arab onslaught-but it failed. The peace held. After yrs of war, that should inspire another chance for peace..
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Marc Schulman: Jewish Settler Violence, West Bank:
🫒”There has been a sharp rise in attacks by settlers against Palestinians. This kind of violence intensifies during olive harvest & again, the police appear to be doing little to curb it. This is a disturbing reality that corrodes Israel from within
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Shoshke Engelmayer, Storyteller & Artist 🚁🎗️🕊️
Today it happens-היום זה קורה
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“I'm already dead.. 💔I’m truly sorry. I can’t bear this pain any longer. I’m burning inside & I can’t contain it anymore. Never in my life have I felt such pain & suffering- deep, burning, eating me from within..
😢His partner was murder & his mother, also took her own life. All due to Hamas terror..
October 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM