Day 540 Swords of Iron – “What Color is a Jew?”

Chaim starts out by saying that the IDF is hard at work keeping Israel safe and trying for a quiet weekend, which he says Israel needs in order to recuperate. At the same time, he notes that in Gaza, leaflets were distributed advising the residents to move away from areas that were about to be attacked. There have even been instances when an individual who wasn’t moving out of a building that was about to be struck was called and convinced to leave just before the strike came and destroyed that building. Chaim says this is an example of how the IDF is serious and its warnings should be taken seriously.

In this context, Chaim also mentions the ongoing security sweeps in Judea and Samaria, and the 40th anniversary of a large airlift of Jews from Ethiopia, who were brought to Israel in what became known to history as Operation Moses.

Chaim says that many people are surprised to hear that there at black Jews, but there are, and there are actually many hundreds more still needing to be rescued from Ethiopia. Many of them are coming to the Aliyah Return Center and Chaim asks his viewers to pray for this.

He also introduces Avigdor Kahalani, a Jewish man who is of Yemenite heritage and so has very dark skin, and the scene cuts to him speaking about the strength of Israeli soldiers coming not from their weapons and equipment but from their morale and their knowledge about who and what they’re fighting for. Chaim says this is an example of how Jews come in all colors and they all come together in Israel to form an invincible nation and army. In this context, he quotes 

Zechariah 9:13; For I have bent Judah, My bow, fitted the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man.”