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400 Workers Died for World Cup

World Cup chief Hassan Al-Thawadi said that between 400 and 500 migrant workers have died as a result of work done on projects connected to the tournament – a greater figure than Qatari officials have cited previously.

In an interview with Piers Morgan which aired on TalkTV on Monday, Al-Thawadi was asked about the number of fatalities to migrant workers as a result of the work done in the tournament and said: “The estimate is around 400, between 400 and 500.

“I don’t have the exact number, that’s something that’s been discussed. One death is too many, it’s as simple as that.”

In November 2022, a government official said there had been three work-related deaths on World Cup stadiums and 37 non-work-related deaths.

The Guardian had reported last year that 6,500 South Asian migrant workers had died in Qatar since the country was awarded the World Cup in 2010, most of whom were involved in low-wage, dangerous labor, often undertaken in extreme heat. Still, the report did not connect all 6,500 deaths with World Cup infrastructure projects.

A Qatari government official said last month, “The 6,500 figure takes the number of all foreign worker deaths in the country over a 10-year period and attributes it to the World Cup.

“This is not true and neglects all other causes of death including illness, old age and traffic accidents. It also fails to recognize that only 20% of foreign workers in Qatar are employed on construction sites.”

According to Amnesty International, migrant workers account for 90% of Qatar’s total workforce.

Since Qatar was awarded the World Cup in 2010, many migrant workers have faced delayed or unpaid wages, forced labor, long hours in hot weather, employer intimidation, and an inability to leave their jobs because of the country’s sponsorship system, human rights organizations have found.

Morgan questioned if the health and safety standards were good enough at the beginning of the project, to which Al-Thawadi responded: “I think overall the need for labor reform itself dictates that, yes, improvements have to happen.”

Ahead of the World Cup, which began earlier this month and concludes on December 18, Qatar erected seven new stadiums, built new hotels, and expanded the country’s airport, rail networks, and highways.

A New Name for Monkeypox

The World Health Organization, responding to complaints that the word monkeypox conjures up racist tropes and stigmatizes patients, is recommending that the name of the disease be changed to mpox. Both names are to be used for a year until the name monkeypox is phased out.

The recommendation, issued on Monday, follows outbreaks that began about six months ago in Europe and the United States, prompting widespread fears that the pathogen could spread widely.

The virus had quietly circulated in rural parts of Central Africa and West Africa for decades.

“WHO will adopt the term mpox in its communications, and encourages others to follow these recommendations, to minimize any ongoing negative impact of the current name and from adoption of the new name,” the health organization said in a statement.

Monkeypox was always a bit of a misnomer, because monkeys have almost nothing to do with the disease and its

14 transmission. (Rats are the most likely animal reservoir for the virus.) The name was inspired by a colony of The Jewish Home | DECEMBER 1, 2022 caged lab monkeys in Denmark, where the virus was first identified by researchers more than a half-century ago. Since 2015, the WHO has promoted new criteria for naming infectious diseases. According to the recommendations, names should aim to reduce unnecessary negative impact on travel, tourism, or animal welfare, and “avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.” Critics said monkeypox reinforced ugly Western stereotypes about Africa as a reservoir of pestilence and pathogens. Some critics said it also played into racist stereotypes, deeply rooted in American culture, that compare Black people to primates. “Names matter, and so does scientific accuracy, especially for pathogens and epidemics that we are trying to control,” Tulio de Oliveira, a bioinformatician at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, said last summer as researchers campaigned for the WHO to adopt a new name. The word monkeypox will not disappear entirely. It will remain searchable in the International Classification of Dis-

S. Korea: Truckers Can’t Strike

On Tuesday, the government of South Korea issued an order for thousands of truck drivers who have been on strike to return to work. The truckers had walked out last week due to freight fare issues; the government says that the strike is damaging an already hurting economy.

But the order may not solve the issue. Despite facing the threat of delicensing or even prison terms, the strike’s organizers said they would defy the order and accused President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government of suppressing their labor rights and ignoring what they described as worsening work conditions and financial strain caused by rising fuel costs and interest rates.

The order was approved in a Cabinet meeting called by Yoon and targeted the drivers of cement trucks among a broader group of truckers participating in the walkout. It marked the first time a South Korean government has exercised controversial powers under a law revised in 2004 to force truckers back to their jobs.

A failure to comply without “justifiable reason” is punishable by up to three years in jail or a maximum fine of 30 million won ($22,400). Critics have denounced the law as unconstitutional, saying it doesn’t clearly define what qualifies as acceptable conditions for a strike.

Yoon said the truckers’ strike is threatening to “devastate the foundation of our industries,” citing delays in deliveries of materials such as cement and steel to construction sites and factories. He accused the strikers of illicit activities such as disrupting the work of colleagues who have refused to participate in the strike. For now, it is unclear whether the order will extend to truckers in other industries.

Thousands of members of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union have been striking since last Thursday, in their second nationwide walkout since June, calling for the government to make permanent a minimum freight rate system that is to expire at the end of 2022.

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, nearly 8,000 truckers participated in the strike on Monday, and container traffic at ports was at 21% of normal levels as of 10 a.m. The strike slowed shipments and deliveries of cement, steel, and refined oil products.

Mexican Pres. Marches in the Capital

dermine democracy, Mexico’s president on Sunday marched through the capital accompanied by massive crowds in a display of popular support for his mandate.

In an early taste of the 2024 presidential election, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s supporters, some traveling hundreds of miles by bus to the capital, came with Mexican flags, marching bands and even president-shaped stuffed toys as they filled the heart of the capital, chanting, “It’s an honor to be with Obrador.”

Mexico’s political opposition and some members of civil society spoke out against the march, calling it a show of force by a leader they cast as a budding authoritarian who uses state resources — including welfare programs — to maintain his popularity.

The president has denied those accusations, but the sway López Obrador maintains over many Mexicans was on full display Sunday.

Some said they were there to show support for a president who had benefited them economically through welfare programs, although they were less aware of López Obrador’s more specific policy goals — including the contentious electoral changes he hopes to get ratified.

The overhaul would give the president more control over Mexico’s electoral systems, but while Mexico’s Congress began discussing the proposal this month, López Obrador does not have enough votes for it to be adopted.

Opposition members worry he will try to push the changes through by other means before year’s end. López Obrador has used presidential decrees to adopt some of his more contentious policies recently.

Sunday’s march was a bid by him to show popular support for his overall mandate and for his bid to overhaul the electoral system and increase his power over the body that oversees voting, the National Electoral Institute.

It came two weeks after a march to insulate the institute from the changes drew tens of thousands of supporters.

When López Obrador addressed the crowd Sunday, his speech focused on the welfare programs his government has introduced while mostly skirting the rising violence and worsening security situation that has afflicted the country since he took office in 2018. Some four years into his term. the president maintains an approval rating that hovers around 60%, making him one of the world’s more popular leaders. (© The New York Times)

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Each to His Own

Often we need to wait for our wishes to be fulfilled in various areas of our lives. But waiting to hug a child of one’s own can be one of the most difficult challenges. Those who are waiting to have a child will do whatever they can. Along with the copious prayers and hot tears, as well as the segulos, both known and less known, they will travel far and wide to seek the berachos and supplications of tzaddikim. After all, “the tzaddik decrees, and Hakadosh

Baruch Hu fulfills his decree.”

The line to see Rav Chaim moved slowly, as each petitioner came and poured out what was in his heart. Nachman waited patiently at the end of the long line. It was not the first time he had to employ his patience. For many long years, he had been wishing to have a child, and now he had come to consult with Rav Chaim and seek his berachah.

The line progressed leisurely, and Nachman began a quiet conversation with the person standing in front of him. It was a pleasant conversation, and Nachman ended up telling his story and confiding in the other the reason he was there.

During the exchange, Nachman noticed that the other man’s expression grew sad. Every once in a while, he’d wipe away a tear. Nachman realized that his pain was the other man’s pain. He, too, was waiting to embrace a healthy child of his own.

Suddenly they heard the gabbai calling the other man’s name. His turn had come to enter Rav Chaim’s room. He quickly wiped away another tear and went in. The other man spoke with Rav Chaim for several minutes. Nachman didn’t know what Rav Chaim had said to him inside the room, but when he left, he seemed stronger and more hopeful than when he had entered. Before Nachman went into the room, the other man managed to whisper to Nachman that Rav Chaim had recommended that he write a sefer as a segulah for having children. Now it was Nachman’s turn. He stood in front of Rav Chaim, expecting to hear the same answer that the other man had heard. He was surprised when he heard Rav Chaim’s advice to him: “Maaser.” That was it. No additional explanations.

Nachman returned home and told his wife what Rav

Chaim had said.

“What could be the problem with our maaser? We purchase all our fruits and vegetables from a store that separates maaser from its produce.” This is a requirement for produce grown in Eretz Yisrael.

“Go to your rav,” Nachman’s wife advised. “Maybe he’ll know what Rav Chaim meant.”

When the rav heard what Nachman had to say, he said, “Do you purchase your fruits and vegetables from So-andso? That store doesn’t have a hechsher, and if you buy your produce from there, you’re obligated to take maaser.”

Of course, the couple started buying their groceries from another store, and the miracle happened. Within a year, they had a son. A Way of Life 221

The tallis Rav Chaim used when he served as a sandak was the same tallis he received from his father, who himself used the tallis when serving as a sandak.

In the King’s Chamber

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ha! You’re the bachur from

‘isho mishum chetzyo’!” or “Are you are the avreich from ‘Rabbi Chiya kamaisa’?” This was how Rav Chaim identified people — not by appearance or name, but according to the sugya they had discussed. One avreich relates that he had gone to see Rav Chaim numerous times when he was a bachur to discuss the sugya he was learning. Only once he reminded Rav Chaim of the sugya they had discussed the last time he was there did Rav Chaim remember who he was.

“When I was a child, I once lost my sweater,” one of Rav Chaim’s children related, “and I asked my father to help me write a sign asking anyone who found it to return it to me.” Rav Chaim, whose language was the language of the Gemara, wrote the following: “Hai man d’ishkach gelima d’omra d’mikrei ‘sveder’ b’la’az, yeisei l’gabei didi.” Anyone who finds a lost garment — called ‘sweater’ in a foreign language — should contact me.” And he added his name and address. Each and every minute, Rav Chaim stood like a servant before his Master, ready to obey his Creator’s will, happy and eager not to lose out on a single mitzvah, whether bein adam laMakom or bein adam lachaveiro.Every paragraph of the Shulchan Aruch, every minhag cited there or in the Mishnah Berurah, were for Rav Chaim a clear ruling from which one must not deviate. In other places, there may be lengthy mussar speeches and much talk about fear of sin and trembling before judgment. In Rav Chaim’s company, there was simply no such thing as missing out on a mitzvah. For who would be so foolish as to not wish to perform mitzvos? It was exciting and inspiring to watch Rav Chaim at an advanced age, hurrying with a young man’s energy to fulfill a mitzvah the moment it could be performed. He davened Shacharis at sunrise each morning, davened Minchah Gedolah at the start of the afternoon, and Maariv 40 minutes after sunset (which is the time the stars come out, according to the approach of the Chazon Ish). He hastened to have the Shabbos meals as soon as possible: the morning seudah after vasikin and shalosh seudos after Minchah Gedolah. He even had the custom of having melaveh malkah immediately after Shabbos ended, without delay.Rav Chaim would recite Kiddush Levanah following Maariv, three days after Rosh Chodesh. And so on for every Yom Tov: lulav, Chanukah lights, reading the Megillah, etc. Every mitzvah was carried out with great love as soon as it could be done, at the first possible moment. “The way to honor a mitzvah is to perform it as soon as its time comes,” Rav Chaim would say — and he was scrupulous to adhere to this policy at all costs. On these pages, we will encounter amazing stories about his non-stop devotion. A devotion without pause for sickness. A pure devotion to the One Who spoke and brought the world into being. A life whose every breath declared: For I am Your servant (Tehillim 116:16).

Serve Hashem with awe that you may rejoice when there is trembling (Tehillim 2:11)

Powerful Quotes on Bitachon from Our Gedolim — With Beautiful Photos!

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SECURE

A Jew with emunah must feel calm and secure at all times, knowing that he is in the warm, loving embrace of his Creator. The Rosh Yeshivah of Mir, RABBI CHAIM SHMULEVITZ (1902-1979), illustrated this with the metaphor of a baby who is nestled in his mother’s arms as she travels from place to place. If the baby could communicate and you asked him, “Where are you?” he would not answer the name of the city he is in, but simply, “I am in my mother’s arms.” Such should be the feeling of a Jew. Regardless of what transpires throughout life’s often winding, rocky road, he should feel no fear or turbulence, for he is snugly held in Hashem’s arms. “A JEW OF FAITH SHOULD CONSTANTLY FEEL LIKE A

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A member of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was assassinated in Isfahan on Monday.

Reza Dastani was killed on his way to work. For now, his assailants have not been arrested.

The assassination comes just days after IRGC Col. Davoud Jafari was killed in a roadside bombing near Damascus that Iran has blamed on Israel.

The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency reported that Jafari served as an advisor for the IRGC Aerospace Force in Syria and was among one of the Iranian officials responsible for the seizure of two U.S. Navy command boats carrying 10 U.S. personnel in the Persian Gulf in January 2016.

Jafari was involved in the deployment of Iranian air defense systems in Syria and Lebanon, a program led by IRGC Brig.-Gen. Fereydoun Mohammadi Saghaei.

The assassination also comes two years after the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Iran: U.S. Should be Expelled from World Cup

A representative of Iran’s soccer federation on Sunday called for the United States to be expelled from soccer’s World Cup over social media posts that the federation claimed had “disrespected” Iran’s flag.

The United States Soccer Federation drew Iran’s ire by including a doctored Iran flag in two posts on its official social media accounts Saturday. A spokesperson for U.S. Soccer said the decision to use an Iranian flag stripped of the country’s official emblem and two lines of Islamic script in posts on Twitter and Instagram was intentional and meant to show support for the women of Iran — a nod to protests that have roiled Iran at home and followed its team to the World Cup in Qatar.

Iran condemned the decision to use an incorrect flag, which it said violated the statutes of FIFA, world soccer’s global governing body.

“Respecting a nation’s flag is an accepted international practice that all other nations must emulate,” Safia Allah Faghanpour, a legal adviser to Iran’s soccer federation, said in comments reported by a semiofficial state news agency in Iran. “The action conducted in relation to the Iranian flag is unethical and against international law.”

The adviser’s comments were reported by Tasnim News, whose own social media profile includes an image of an American flag in flames.

The United States and Iran met in a crucial game on Tuesday that was won by the U.S. 1-0.

Iran cited a specific FIFA regulation that it said called for penalties for anyone “who offends the dignity or integrity of a country, a person or group of people through contemptuous, discriminatory or derogatory words or actions (by any means whatsoever).”

FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and it is unlikely to intervene during the tournament.

The U.S. Soccer spokesperson, who requested anonymity to discuss internal discussions, said the American federation had not been contacted by FIFA about the social media posts. But it said it had deleted the two posts after a series of internal discussions Sunday and would use Iran’s official flag moving forward. (© The New York Times)

Meet Kim JongUn’s Daughter

She is around nine years old, but she may end up ruling North Korea.

This week, dictator Kim Jong-Un made a public appearance with his daughter as they walked past a group of North Korean soldiers.

This is the second time that Ju-ae has been seen in public.

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Family is Just Around the Corner

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Family is Just Around the Corner

According to Reuters, Kim said in remarks during the visit with his daughter that his goal is to “possess the world’s most powerful strategic force, the absolute force unprecedented in the century.”

Kim first revealed his daughter earlier this month, when he oversaw the launch of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released photos of the leader, who it says watched the launch with his “beloved daughter” and wife Ri Sol Ju.

As the Associated Press notes, KCNA’s description of Kim’s daughter has evolved in recent weeks, from “beloved” on November 19, to “most beloved” or “precious” child on Sunday.

Analysts are surmising that Ju-ae may succeed her father as Supreme Leader.

While Kim’s family and personal life has long been shrouded in secrecy, NPR reports that he and his wife have three children, born in 2010, 2013 and 2017.

Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang of Sejong Institute in South Korea told NPR earlier this month that “the children of Kim Jong-un would have the status of a prince or princess, like in a dynasty” under the current system in North Korea.

Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, echoed those thoughts to CBS News, saying that the recent photographs of Kim’s daughter” support the idea that this is the start of her being positioned as a potential successor.”

Militant Siege in Mogadishu

A protracted assault by al-Shabab militants on a Mogadishu hotel in Somalia frequented by government ministers ended with at least nine civilians dead, including one police officer, Somali police said on Monday — the latest bloody attack by the militants in the center of the capital.

The six attackers were also killed, but the 22-hour siege, which took place a few streets away from the president’s office in downtown Mogadishu, offered fresh evidence that the militants can strike Somalia’s political elite even in places where they are most closely guarded.

The assault began Sunday evening when six fighters from al-Shabab, an extremist militant group that swears allegiance to al-Qaida, stormed the Villa Rosa hotel after evening prayers. At least one assailant detonated a suicide vest while others opened fire with guns on the guests, witnesses said.

At least three government ministers were present, including the internal security minister, Mohamed Ahmed Sheik Ali, who was injured after he leaped from a window to escape the assault, according to local news reports.

Somali troops from a CIA-trained paramilitary unit known as Gaashaan and a Turkish-trained unit known as Haramad led efforts to flush the militants from the besieged hotel, an effort that continued into Monday, when bursts of gunfire and the sounds of explosions rang out across the city.

The siege ended after the six attackers had been killed, a police spokesperson, Sadik Duudishe, told reporters, adding that the security forces had rescued at least 60 people, including the country’s fisheries minister.

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in posts on social media Monday, posting updates through the day to stress that the assault was continuing.

The militants have escalated their bombing campaign in Mogadishu in recent months, in response to a military offensive by Somali forces and pro-government militias in rural areas previously dominated by the militants in central Somalia. Hotels popular with government officials are frequently targeted. (© The New York Times)