2 QUAKES SHAKE ISRAEL YESTERDAY 4 QUAKES LAST WEEK CONCERNS ARISE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Abbas: Reports are wrong — peace talks not at a dead end

Israelis have no reason to fear Hamas opposition to possible agreement, Palestinian Authority president tells German TV station

By Raphael Ahren October 20, 2013, 10:19 am 15-The Times of Israel

Notwithstanding recent Israeli media reports, the Middle East peace talks are not at an impasse, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday.“The negotiations are difficult, but they haven’t reached a dead end. They are still in the initial stage and we have enough time to further deal with the main issues that turn out to be difficult,” Abbas told German Deutsche Welle television. “Such things are being claimed, but we have not gotten into a dead end.”In the interview, Abbas stopped short of saying that continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank destroys the peace process, as some Palestinians officials have suggested. “But we do say: the settlement policy must not be continued. The incursions into the Palestinian territories must not be continued. The encroachments of the settlers must not go on. The attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque must not go on. All this hinders the peace process and obstructs the way to solutions,” Abbas said. “All this is true. But we carry on nevertheless.”The Palestinian leader, speaking in Arabic, said he couldn’t reveal any details of the current state of the negotiations but intimated that the pre-1967 lines are the basis for talks regarding future borders. “I can name the titles of the issues that are negotiated. For example borders, the border between us and Israel. And that is the border of 1967.”Asked by the interviewer whether Israel isn’t justified in being wary of signing an agreement with the PA, given that the Palestinians are divided into conflicted camps, Abbas said that he was speaking for the entire Palestinian people. “Is there an opposition? Yes. Is it strong? Yes. Does [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu have an opposition? Yes. Is it strong? Perhaps. There is no state on earth that doesn’t have an opposition. Is there any state that doesn’t sign a treaty out of fear of the opposition? And when this state signs a treaty, should the other state not sign this treaty out of fear of this opposition?”If the Palestinians were to sign a peace treaty with Israel, they would be willing to give guarantees, Abbas added. In addition, both parties agree that any future peace agreement would have to be “legitimized” by a referendum. “So why these fears? There’s no reason for them.”At a meeting with Labor Party MKs in Ramallah two weeks ago, Abbas spoke in favor of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, but stressed that the Islamists would have to accept “all our positions” on the negotiations with Israel, including a two-state solution and nonviolent resistance. If they did that, he said, “we’ll immediately hold elections.”

ISRAELIS DON'T USE EVER THINK OF VOTING IN A JERUSALEM MAYOR THAT WANTS USE OFF THE MOUNT AND NEVER PRAYING ON IT.GOD SAYS IT YOUR TEMPLE MOUNT ISRAEL-NOT THE ARABS.SO YOU ISRAELIS AND JEWS BETTER OPEN YOUR EYES AND EARS TO GOD INSTEAD OF MAN.AND VOTE A JERUSALEM MAYOR IN THAT WILL ALLOW THE THIRD TEMPLE TO BE REBUILT ON THE MOUNT BY THE DOME OF THE SPIRITS.AND WILL ALLOW JEWS TO PRAY ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.IF ANYONE WHO IS ON THE MAYORAL VOTE DOES NOT ALLOW THESE 2 HAPPENING DON'T USE DARE VOTE FOR HIM.

Hareidi Mayoral Candidate Promises to Keep Jews Off Temple Mount

Hareidi J'lem mayoral candidate Haim Epstein appeals to Arabs by promising to prevent Jews from praying on Judaism's holiest site.-By David Lev and Ari Soffer-First Publish: 10/21/2013, 4:01 PM-iISRAELNATIONALNEWS

The Bnai Torah pamphlet (Photo credit: Temple Institute)

A hareidi mayoral candidate in Jerusalem is launching a controversial campaign, appealing to Muslim voters by promising to prevent Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, saying he will work against the “the aggressive attacks of settlers” against the current status quo, which prevents Jews from praying at the holiest site in Judaism.As current Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and his challenger Moshe Leon have in recent days raised the tone of their campaign to convince voters that they - and not their rival - is the worthier candidate to lead the city for the next five years; Haim Epstein, representative of the Bnai Torah party and not well-known outside hareidi circles, has been seeking support among some very non-hareidi voters – the Arabs living in neighborhoods of eastern Jerusalem.In return for their votes, Epstein is promising Arabs that he and his Bnai Torah party will oppose any Israeli efforts to seek rights for Jews pray on the Temple Mount.
In recent days, pamphlets with Bnai Torah's imprimatur have appeared in Arab neighborhoods, laying out the party's case for Arab votes."Jerusalem is a city of peace, the city in which everyone lives in peace and security, and everyone's rights are equal. Our party aspires to a culture of religious tolerance, justice and freedom, in deed and morality.“The party is strongly against the use of violence on the background of divisiveness, and attacks against places that are holy to Islam, Christianity and Judaism,” the pamphlet said. “We will strongly oppose the aggressive attacks of settlers on the rule of the Mosque, and together we aim to change the status of the Mugrabi Gate.“The party approves and supports freedom of faiths and access to the holy places and places of worship. We will fight against prejudice, and create real opportunities to deal with unemployment,” it added.Bnei Torah represents the “Lithuanian” segment of the Degel Hatorah party, which generally represents Israel's mainstream yeshiva community. In recent years, Degel has run in most elections with Agudath Israel, which generally represents the hassidic community. The parties are split in the current mayoral election, with some Agudah leaders supporting Barkat, and others supporting Leon. Bnai Torah's main rabbinical support comes from Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, dean of Jerusalem's Ma'alot Hatorah yeshiva and considered a leader in the yeshiva community.Commenting on Epstein's appeal to Arabs, Rabbi Chaim Richman, international director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, said that “Israeli politics, long known for cynical manipulation, has reached an all time low, when a 'religious' party is prepared to participate in the wholesale sellout of the Jewish people's one and only holy place, where all of Israel are commanded to be seen by G-d, the place regarding which the G-d of Israel Himself commands 'the place which I shall choose' and 'the place which I shall show you,' whose sanctity is eternal,” said Richman, quoting Biblical sources discussing the holiness of the Temple site for Jews.The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site and the location of the two Holy Temples of Jerusalem, the latter of which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
Despite that fact, pressure from Muslim religious authorities - including threats of violence - mean Jewish visitors face severe restrictions upon ascending the Mount, including a blanket ban on praying or on performing any other form of worship, as well as restrictions on the size of groups which can ascend. Those who violate the restrictions face arrest and a prolonged ban from ascending altogether.Numerous court rulings have stipulated that Jews must be permitted to pray on the Temple Mount as a basic human right to freedom of worship. Nevertheless, the Israeli police force has repeatedly ignored the rulings, citing unspecified "security concerns" as a pretext to continue enforcing the ban.Police sometimes close the Mount to Jews altogether in response to Muslim riots – for days or weeks at a time – despite evidence that such violence is usually planned in advance for the specific purpose of forcing Jews out. Prominent Israeli MKs, such as Moshe Feiglin and Zeev Elkin, have been forced to leave the Temple Mount due to anti-Semitic violence on the Temple Mount.The idea of a Jewish party opposing Jewish visitation rights to the holiest site in Judaism may seem odd, but it stems from a dispute among religious scholars concerning the proper way to show reverence to the site.In addition to Islamist opposition to the Jewish presence there, there is a debate within Jewish legal (halachic) circles concerning how best to fulfill the Torah command to "revere" the site.
Certain rabbinical schools of thought - particularly, though not exclusively, within the hareidi world - oppose Jewish visits to the Mount, out of a fear that visitors could accidentally violate the strict rules of spiritual purity which apply to the site according to Jewish law. Other rabbis disagree, and rule that proper reverence at Judaism's holiest site can only be shown via ascending in purity to worship.Additionally, many Jewish leaders warn that handing control over the Mount to the Waqf Islamic trust has led to the wholesale destruction of Jewish antiquities, in a familiar attempt by Islamists to destroy the non-Muslim heritage of the site, upon which there is presently an Islamic complex.This campaign by Bnei Torah appears to be an attempt by the party to find "common ground" with Islamists in an attempt to kill two birds with one stone - win votes and enforce their own interpretation of Jewish law on the site. The party's head, Rabbi Auerbach  is of the camp which opposes Jewish ascents to the Temple Mount.But joining forces with Muslim extremists will be seen as a step to far, even by many within his own school of thought.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

THERE WERE 2 QUAKES IN ISRAEL YESTERDAY.BUT THESE WERE NOTHING.IN THE FUTURE THERE WILL BE 2 GIGANTIC QUAKES IN ISRAEL-INCLUDING THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY WILL OCCUR IN ISRAEL AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY TRIBULATION PERIOD.SO NO,CALIFORNIA OR YELLOWSTONE WILL NOT HAVE THE GREATEST QUAKES IN HISTORY.GO BY THE BIBLE-THE ONLY TRUTH.ISRAEL HAS THE GREATEST QUAKE IN HISTORY.

THE REVELATION 11 EARTHQUAKE HAPPENS AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD WERE 7,000 DIE.BUT AT JESUS RETURN AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION-THE GREATEST QUAKE IN HISTORY HAPPENS IN REVELATION 16:18-20.

Bloomberg News

Four Israel Quakes in Past Week Raise Concern Over Major Tremor

By Gwen Ackerman October 21, 2013

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Israeli officials expressed concern that a powerful tremor may follow four minor earthquakes in the past week.“I’m not so worried about the earthquakes that occurred specifically over the past few days. I’m concerned in general about the possibility of a major tremor in Israel,” Avi Shapira, chairman of the inter-ministerial steering committee on earthquake preparedness, said on Army Radio today.Shapira said in the past, several smaller tremors preceded a much larger one, though this wasn’t necessarily always the case. “There is the possibility a large earthquake may be coming,” Shmuel Marco, a geophysicist at Tel Aviv University, said on Army Radio.The Syrian-African fault line runs through Israel, and experts have warned that the country isn’t prepared for a major quake. Buildings erected decades ago are in danger of collapse during a tremor because they weren’t built to meet an earthquake safety code drafted later.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Shapira yesterday before meeting with officials from various government offices to assess readiness, according to an e-mail from his office. Israel has been spending more money on reinforcing buildings against earthquakes and educating the public in recent years.The last major earthquake to strike the region killed more than 300 people when it hit the Dead Sea area in 1927, according to the Geophysical Institute of Israel.“We aren’t raising the alert level,” Dan Ronen, director of the Home Front Defense Ministry, told Army Radio. “But all the different bodies need to see if they are prepared” for a major quake.To contact the reporter on this story: Gwen Ackerman in Jerusalem at gackerman@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

36 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-21 09:16:31 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)36 earthquakes in map area

1. 4.6 4km W of Buenavista, Philippines 2013-10-21 07:43:17 UTC-04:00 20.0 km
2. 4.5 26km WNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-10-21 07:29:33 UTC-04:00  
3. 3.0 3km S of Blackhawk, California 2013-10-21 04:32:56 UTC-04:00 12.3 km
4. 4.7 283km SSW of Maitum, Philippines 2013-10-21 03:09:58 UTC-04:00 491.5 km
5. 3.3 19km W of Willow, Alaska 2013-10-21 03:05:18 UTC-04:00 16.3 km
6. 2.5 78km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-21 01:37:45 UTC-04:00 28.0 km
7. 4.9 77km E of Visokoi Island, 2013-10-21 01:33:56 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
8. 2.8 69km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-21 00:20:58 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
9. 3.1 84km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2013-10-21 00:11:34 UTC-04:00 90.0 km
10. 4.7 122km E of Bitung, Indonesia 2013-10-21 00:09:52 UTC-04:00 44.2 km
11. 3.0 73km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-21 00:05:42 UTC-04:00 11.0 km
12. 5.4 171km S of `Ohonua, Tonga 2013-10-21 00:01:57 UTC-04:00 24.4 km
13. 4.6 49km E of Shizunai, Japan 2013-10-20 23:33:35 UTC-04:00 62.0 km
14. 4.5 Off the west coast of northern Sumatra 2013-10-20 23:08:57 UTC-04:00 14.6 km
15. 5.3 50km NNE of Thang, India 2013-10-20 22:27:19 UTC-04:00 96.8 km
16. 2.8 68km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-20 20:17:56 UTC-04:00 82.0 km
17. 4.3 80km WSW of Abra Pampa, Argentina 2013-10-20 20:12:32 UTC-04:00 251.2 km
18. 4.9 3km E of Sagbayan, Philippines 2013-10-20 19:34:16 UTC-04:00 36.0 km
19. 4.2 211km SW of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2013-10-20 19:12:43 UTC-04:00 365.8 km
20. 2.5 27km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-20 19:11:20 UTC-04:00 49.6 km
21. 5.3 3km NE of Balilihan, Philippines 2013-10-20 19:03:20 UTC-04:00 20.0 km
22. 4.9 66km W of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2013-10-20 18:24:21 UTC-04:00 72.2 km
23. 4.5 28km SE of Arica, Chile 2013-10-20 17:51:32 UTC-04:00 76.6 km
24. 2.7 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-10-20 17:44:40 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
25. 3.7 13km W of Pahala, Hawaii 2013-10-20 17:44:28 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
26. 2.9 65km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-20 16:05:08 UTC-04:00 46.0 km
27. 5.4 113km NNE of Thang, India 2013-10-20 15:45:05 UTC-04:00 75.3 km
28. 4.6 27km S of Inarajan Village, Guam 2013-10-20 15:30:05 UTC-04:00 51.7 km
29. 4.8 25km NNW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-20 15:24:18 UTC-04:00 77.8 k
30. 5.1 55km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-20 14:48:08 UTC-04:00 71.6 km
31. 3.3 100km SW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-20 14:44:27 UTC-04:00 2.0 km
32. 2.6 15km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico 2013-10-20 14:32:58 UTC-04:00 4.0 km
33. 3.4 42km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2013-10-20 13:50:10 UTC-04:00 76.0 km
34. 2.7 32km WNW of Valdez, Alaska 2013-10-20 12:17:17 UTC-04:00 3.6 km
35. 4.2 9km E of San Pedro Amuzgos, Mexico 2013-10-20 09:17:57 UTC-04:00 34.8 km
36. 5.3 98km ENE of Visokoi Island, 2013-10-20 09:16:38 UTC-04:00 10.0 km 

On steady ground

Quakes rattle northern Israel but the real earthshaking news is that the Bank of Israel has a governor, finally

By Yossi Nachemi October 21, 2013, 1:13 pm 0-The times of Israel

One hundred and twelve days. That’s how long the office of governor of the Bank of Israel has sat empty. But no more! Monday’s dailies heap praise on the first woman chosen to lead the Bank of Israel.Dr. Karnit Flug, who has led the Bank of Israel as acting governor since Stanley Fischer stepped down at the end of June, is front and center on all the dailies. Israel Hayom’s front page highlights the significance of her appointment with the headline, “The first female governor.” The road to Flug’s appointment was not easy and the paper recalls the embarrassing failures on the way. Ultimately, the paper reports, what may have tipped the scales in favor of Flug was a phone call from Fischer to Netanyahu recommending her again for the position.In an accompanying op-ed piece, Hezi Sternlicht praises Flug for being down to earth and not an economic superstar (like Larry Summers). “Economic stars did not want to come. Hand on heart, who can blame them. Who wants to come here, learn Hebrew and then get shouted at on the street?” he writes. Instead Flug has already proved to be a good manager of the most important part of the Israeli economy (according to Sternlicht). “The only thing regrettable is that the appointment lingered on and took so much time. This is an opportunity to regulate the process, and maybe create a public or committee appointment process that is transparent in the Knesset.”Over in Haaretz, Amir Oren comes to pretty much the same conclusion. After meandering on about the scandal that derailed Jacob Frenkel’s candidacy, Oren points to the lessons we should learn from the whole debacle. “The functioning of Netanyahu and Lapid teach us how dangerous it is to allow two people to determine the fate of a nation.” It’s no surprise that Oren’s conclusion (like Sternlicht’s) is to make the process more public and (in his words) “more serious.”In Yedioth Ahronoth, Sima Kadmon writes that one positive aspect of Netanyahu relenting on his previous position against Flug and now appointing her shows that he is prepared to reevaluate issues. “We hope that on other issues he will be as open and attentive, including to the repeated recommendations of experts and the public sentiment,” Kadmon writes.“Karnit is not alone” is the theme of a photo array in Yedioth that highlights the key positions that women currently hold in the Israeli economy. Included in the list is the executive director of the Finance Ministry, Yael Endorn, the Finance Ministry’s Accountant General Michal Abadi–Boiangiu, and the heads of Bank Leumi, the First International Bank of Israel, and Bank Discount.Over in Maariv, Yossi Greenstein skips over praising Flug and instead focuses on the problems facing the new governor. Greenstein argues that the first priority should be to reduce poverty in Israel. “In the Western world, Israel tops the list for poverty. 40% of children and one-third of the population are living in poverty or at risk to slip below the poverty line, and the situation is getting worse.” But that’s not all there is on Flug’s plate; according to Greenstein there’s also: lowering the price of consumer goods, currency depreciation, accelerating economic activity, and lowering inflation. As if that’s not enough, Greenstein concludes that she must also lead the Bank of Israel to help the government to increase employment, increase growth and assistance to exporters, and help businesses get through the downturn. Good luck, Dr. Flug!

Land matters

While Sunday’s news of the appointment of the first female governor of the Bank of Israel could be considered an economic earthquake, actual earthquakes rattled northern Israel. Maariv reports that over the past four days four earthquakes have been felt around the Sea of Galilee. Sunday’s largest quake registered 3.6 on the Richter scale and while it didn’t cause any injuries, it did inflict some minor property damage. As the paper points out, there is a history of earthquakes in the region, with the last big one hitting in 1927.

The land in the north may be moving, but back in Jerusalem government ministers are trying to lock down any movement to negotiate over the capital. Haaretz reports that a proposed bill would require the approval of 80 Knesset members before negotiations over Jerusalem could begin. The bill, which is sponsored by Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism), has met resistance from Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who heads negotiations with the Palestinians. Along with Livni, Yair Lapid opposes the bill and perhaps most importantly, Netanyahu is expected to come out against it.National politics landed on the front page of Haaretz, and over in Israel Hayom local politics gets some of that coveted real estate. With municipal elections a day away, the Supreme Court removed indicted Bat Yam mayor Shlomo Lahiani from office due to the seriousness of the indictment against him (bribery, fraud, and breach of trust). The justices scolded the city for allowing Lahiani to remain in office, accusing city officials of making a mockery of the court. But don’t feel too bad for Lahiani; despite his removal from office he is still allowed to run in Tuesday’s elections.

Finally, the Tax Authority has set its sights on Israeli crooner Eyal Golan. Yedioth reports that the singer has been charged with not declaring or paying income tax on NIS 2.6 million (about $736,000). Golan is one of Israel’s biggest stars and the paper reports that he makes about NIS 14 million per year (about $3.9 million). Golan isn’t the only signer to run afoul of the tax man, as singers Moshe Peretz and Kobi Peretz (no relation) are also accused of hiding their earnings from the state.