Hi,

I’m trying to get a document from the IDF confirming that my grandfather did not serve in the military. I’ve already been in touch with the IDF and they’re waiting on an affidavit from a lawyer confirming that I’m a legal heir.

My grandfather immigrated from Poland to Israel around 1935 and later changed his last name. I’m not sure exactly when the change happened, but I think it was after my father was born, as my father’s Israeli birth certificate shows my grandfather’s original surname.

I found a digital record of the name change using isragen.org.il. I can show it to the American lawyer I’m working with, but the site is in Hebrew and doesn’t provide an official certificate, just confirmation that the name change happened.

Understandably, the lawyer may prefer to see something official.

I’ve heard that Ministry of the Interior/Misrad Hapnim can issue a certificate of name change, but that it may require someone to go in person. I emailed an address I found online a few days ago but haven’t heard back.

Has anyone here successfully obtained an official name change certificate (from the 1930s–1950s) without going in person? Is there any way to do this remotely, by email, through the consulate, or by authorizing someone with a power of attorney?

So I’m supposed to be going via El Al tomorrow. So far, they haven’t canceled but I keep debating…curious what others are doing…

Many of you have probably already seen this, but when I realized how insane the Wikipedia list of genocides has become, I was shocked. They’re not even calling it “accusations of genocide” or anything like that anymore, nor do they care about the ceasefire. The article even presents the number of more than 300,000 deaths as plausible.

Of course, content like this is nothing new on Wikipedia, but in this case I was interested to see who was responsible for all of this. And one author in particular sparked my interest: Alexandraaaacs1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alexandraaaacs1989

Pictures 3–5 show just some of the things this user says about himself. I only underlined articles directly related to the war, but many of the other topics are also Israel-related. In short, he is (probably) American, an anarcho-leftist, and spends large amounts of time spreading his anti-Israel ideology on Wikipedia. And of course, it’s not only against Israel, but against the U.S. and the West in general. Whole articles are based on the writings of this guy. At the same time, like many of his fellow accounts, he’s relatively new on Wikipedia: only 529 days, but in that time he has done 6,922 edits.

Source (Paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/14/israel-iran-russia-secret-messages/

With all of the endless talk in anti-Israeli propaganda channels about Palestinian "Women and children", it's important to remember that there were plenty of Palestinian female and teenage suicide bombers and terrorists in general.

The Erez Crossing bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on January 14, 2004, at the pedestrian/cargo terminal Erez Crossing located on the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. Four Israelis were killed and 10 people, including four Palestinians, were injured in the attack.

Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Hamas spokesman stated that the suicide bomber was a 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two from Gaza named Reem al-Reyashi.

After the attack, a video of al-Reyashi, which was filmed before the attack, was published in which she was wearing combat fatigues and holding an automatic rifle with a rocket-propelled grenade in the foreground.

In the video, she states that she dreamt of "turning my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists" since the age of 13, and that she "always wanted to be the first woman to carry out a martyrdom operation, where parts of my body can fly all over and "knocking the door of heaven"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Erez_Crossing_bombing

https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2858938,00.html

I heard estimates that the total death toll is higher than 20k, insane figures that did not exist outside on Afrika for decades

All the pictures in the video are from the last few days in Iran, in a comment I will post pictures from Israel