Parashat Vaielech
In this parashah Moses bids farewell to the people, saying to them: “Today I am one hundred and twenty years old; I can neither come
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Parashat Nitzavim
In this parashah God says: “This precept which I command you today is not difficult for you, nor is it far off. It is not
Parashat Ki Tavo
One of the verses of this parashah says: “God will put you at the head and not at the tail, you will always be above
Parashat Ki Tetze
This parashah begins: “When you go out to war against your enemies, and God delivers them into your hands and you take them prisoner, if
Parashat Shoftim
This parashah begins by saying: Judges and officers you shall place in all your gates. The Kabbalist R. Chaim Vital explains that each person has
Parashat Re’eh
And God made every tree sprout out of the earth, and the Tree of Life in the middle of the garden and the Tree of
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
