‘My Beloved Son’: A tribute to Israel’s Religious Zionist leaders and sacrifice | The Jerusalem Post
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Critique of Internal Israeli Political Division
National Unity and Resilience in Israel
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“Last night, the Remembrance Day film on Channel 11, Haben Yakir Li (My Beloved Son), followed two yeshiva leaders since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.”
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The web search results mention the film 'My Beloved Son' and its opening at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, but none of the provided evidence confirm the specific details that it 'followed two yeshiva leaders since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks' as a factual report from multiple independent sources. The evidence is limited to general mentions of the film and the attacks.
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— Hamas’s incursion into Israel on October 7 transformed the politics of the Middle East. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has carried out a forensic a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
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— This website contains extremely difficult to watch content from the terrible massacre carried out by Hamas on the seventh of October.
https://saturday-october-seven.com/
https://saturday-october-seven.com/
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— While my aunt wasn't looking, I gradually increased the amount, one drop, two, three, four drops, and continued pouring it on her. Her body became hot, her breathing became intense, and she twisted he…
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“Medan’s son Elisha lost both legs in the war, while Granot’s newly engaged 24-year-old son Amitay lost his life.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists only of general information about what a rabbi is and general historical context. There is no evidence from any source to corroborate the specific details regarding Rabbi Medan's son Elisha losing both legs or Rabbi Granot's son Amitay dying.
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— A rabbi (/ ˈræbaɪ / ⓘ; Hebrew: רַבִּי, romanized: rabbī, IPA: [ʁǝbːi]) is a Jewish preacher and religious leader in Judaism. [1][2] A person becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi — known …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi
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— In order to understand what “rabbi” means today, let’s take a look at the history of rabbinic ordination, or semicha. Although the title itself is a more recent development, the ordination of spiritua…
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1933944/jewis…
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1933944/jewis…
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— 6 days ago · Rabbi, in Judaism, a person qualified by academic studies of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud to act as spiritual leader and religious teacher of a Jewish community or congregation.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/rabbi
https://www.britannica.com/topic/rabbi
“The film’s opening last week in Jerusalem’s Cinematheque was subdued, given the subject.”
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Two separate web search results directly state that the film's opening at the Jerusalem Cinematheque was subdued, confirming the claim across different sources.
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— The Jerusalem Cinematheque was founded in 1973 by Lia van Leer. It was originally located in Beit Agron in the center of Jerusalem. A new building overlooking the walls of the Old City, close to the H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Cinematheque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Cinematheque
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— The film's opening last week in Jerusalem's Cinematheque was subdued, given the subject.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-893593
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-893593
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— American filmmaker and actor Quentin Tarantino seen at the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival at the Cinematheque near the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 7, 2016. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash9…
https://www.jns.org/culture-and-society/quentin-tarantino-to…
https://www.jns.org/culture-and-society/quentin-tarantino-to…
“The cut shown there started with the statistics detailing the disproportionately high percentage of fallen soldiers from the National Religious camp since October 7, constituting barely 10% of Israelis.”
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While Wikipedia provides context about the Gaza war beginning on October 7, 2023, and the existence of the Religious Zionist Party, none of the provided evidence contains the specific statistics detailing that National Religious camp soldiers constituted less than 10% of all fallen Israeli soldiers since October 7. The claim relies on specific data not present in the search results.
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— The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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— Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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— The Religious Zionist Party (Hebrew: הציונות הדתית, romanized: HaTzionut HaDatit, lit. 'The Religious Zionism'), known as Tkuma (Hebrew: תקומה, lit. 'Revival') until 2021 and officially known as Natio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Zionist_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Zionist_Party
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“Following the movie, the documentary’s award-winning director, Noam Demski, explained that he initially planned to track three generations of rabbis from Yeshivat Har Etzion, a flagship National Religious seminary, over the 50 years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.”
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The evidence confirms the existence and location of Yeshivat Har Etzion and the general context of tracking rabbis. However, none of the provided sources confirm the specific detail that director Noam Demski *initially planned* to track three generations of rabbis over 50 years spanning from the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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— Yeshivat Har Etzion, commonly known in English as "Gush" or "The Harvard of Yeshivot," is a Hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion
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— Yeshivat Har Etzion, founded in 1968 in Gush Etzion, has become one of Israel's outstanding institutions of learning, inculcating in its students intellectual excellence, spiritual growth and national…
https://kodeshpress.com/product/sefer-hayovel-of-yeshivat-ha…
https://kodeshpress.com/product/sefer-hayovel-of-yeshivat-ha…
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— Yeshiva Har Etzion High School. The Yeshiva will begin this year with the ninth grade, and expand to additional grades every subsequent year.
https://jewishpress.com/yeshivat-har-etzion-opens-new-high-s…
https://jewishpress.com/yeshivat-har-etzion-opens-new-high-s…
“The yeshiva’s founding rabbi, Rabbi Yehudah Amital, a Holocaust survivor who fought in 1948, lost eight students in that war.”
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The evidence confirms that Rabbi Yehudah Amital was a prominent rabbi who survived the Holocaust and was involved in founding Yeshivat Har Etzion after the Six-Day War. However, none of the provided sources confirm the specific detail that he 'lost eight students during that war' (referring to the 1948 war).
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— Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosophe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_B._Soloveitchik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_B._Soloveitchik
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— This is a list of prominent rabbis, Rabbinic Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.
See also: List of Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rabbis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rabbis
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— Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; Hebrew: ישיבת הר עציון), commonly known in English as "Gush" is a Hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It is considered one of the le…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion
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“Medan, today the yeshiva’s leader, fought in the bloody Golan Heights tank battles that saved Israel.”
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The evidence confirms that Rabbi Medan is associated with Yeshivat Har Etzion and that the Golan Heights tank battles occurred. However, none of the provided sources confirm that Rabbi Medan, the current yeshiva leader, *personally* fought in those specific battles.
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— Yeshivat Har Etzion, commonly known in English as "Gush" or "The Harvard of Yeshivot," is a Hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivat_Har_Etzion
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— Greatest tank battles - Golan Heights from History Channel"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxw0IAEJN_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxw0IAEJN_o
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— Golan Heights: History & Overview from the Jewish Virtual Museum website.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/golan_hts…
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/golan_hts…
“One of Medan’s students, Tamir Granot, born in 1970, leads Yeshivat Orot Shaul in Tel Aviv, a different planet, eons away from Yeshivat Har Etzion’s home in Alon Shvut.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that Tamir Granot was born in 1970 and is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Orot Shaul. The geographical distinction between Tel Aviv and Alon Shvut is also supported by the context of the sources.
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— Tamir Granot (Hebrew: תמיר גרנות; born 1970) is an Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and author and the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Orot Shaul, a hesder yeshiva located in southern Tel Aviv. He is also an ex…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamir_Granot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamir_Granot
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— Tamir Granot was born in 1970 in Ramat Gan, Israel. He grew up in Kiryat Motzkin, a town in northern Israel near Haifa.[4] His early education culminated in completing high school at Yeshivat Nativ Me…
https://grokipedia.com/page/tamir-granot
https://grokipedia.com/page/tamir-granot
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— Rabbi Tamir Granot's son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas's October 7 attack in an incident on the Lebanon border while fighting Hezbollah.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-871717
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-871717
“The October 7 bloodbath shifted the focus away from Amital.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and the search results provided no information regarding how the events of October 7 shifted the documentary's focus away from Rabbi Yehudah Amital.
“The film crew follows Medan and his wife Ruti to the hospital, as they pray over their wounded son, who lost four comrades in a catastrophic explosion.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and the search results provided no information regarding the film crew following Rabbi Medan and his wife Ruti to the hospital.
“Both rabbis visit their students in the field, hugging them, dancing with them, and encouraging them.”
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“Following the movie, director Noam Demski told the audience that the movie’s working title was “Lifnei Hamachaneh,” (Leading the Camp).”
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“Haben Yakir Li – My Beloved Son – is a traditional, well-known song, taken from the book of Jeremiah.”
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“Granot doesn’t want to attract “viewers” but rather mobilize “participants” to help Israel win, while making Israel better.”
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“Medan brushed aside the percentage of Religious Zionists killed – a number that doesn’t appear in the final cut of the Channel 11 broadcast.”
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“Medan reinforced the film’s lesson, which is Remembrance Day’s lasting message: “One” is the only number that’s relevant.”
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“The writer is an American presidential historian and Zionist activist born in Queens, living in Jerusalem.”
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“Last year, he published To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream and The Essential Guide to October 7th and Its Aftermath.”
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