I assume you are referring to the story from yesterday of orchards along the Alon Road. They aren't taking the land. They were clearing line of sight across those fields following years of terrorist attacks against drivers along those roads. The orchards were used as cover for people throwing Molotov cocktails and heavy stones at motorists. I haven't done heavy research on this but a quick search found me news articles that as of May 2022, over 200 terrorist incidents had been recorded on this road, including throwing stones, Molotov cocktails and throwing burning tires that endanger passengers. More on reddit.com

I’d be curious to see if this tests for Mizrahi Jews though. A lot of “Israeli” Jews are just Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews that moved to Israel. More on reddit.com

Canning recipes tend to make more than the stated amount if everything is mashed together and cooked down but less than the stated amount if everything is chopped up and lightly cooked. Counterintuitive, but there you have it. Lots of cool details on recent religious history from the Professor Archive YouTube channel. (I got behind over the holidays.) To wit: Most (but not all) Christian denominations in America are undergoing a schism so vast it could be called a reformation; however the point of contention is NOT over theology but over appropriate practices. Those leaving have for the most part not lost their faith in their religious ministry but they have completely lost their trust in their religious ministers -- a far more devastating loss. More moderate and all-purpose denominations like the Methodists and the Lutherans have tried to mediate between their liberal and conservative wings through compromise, but as with the American Civil War, efforts to compromise have ultimately led to a more catastrophic break-up in the long run. Megachurches and the "seeker sensitive" model have completely crashed and burned from their total lack of substance. More conservative evangelical churches like the Southern Baptists which long relied on information restriction in small Southern towns have been defeated by the smartphone, and their loss of youth attendees in small towns can be plotted on a map with the arrival of reliable WiFi in their communities. Currently 80% of young people reared in Southern Baptist churches no longer identify as Christians by age 30, and with their restriction over information broken the SBC is losing members, influence, and power in the South at a rate never before seen in human history save once -- the break-up of the Soviet Union. Since Trump's first election in 2016 the rate of people leaving conservative churches has caught up with the rate of people leaving liberal churches, and after the 2020 pandemic it exceeds the rate of people leaving liberal churches, which are actually starting to see a turnaround. Yes, there are many fancier variations you can do with the basic knitted hat pattern you are trying to learn. No, you currently do not possess the skill and experience to pull them off. More on reddit.com

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