Scott Gross, CFA

Born in the USA, growing in Israel. Investor & Exec. Direrctor of CFA Society Israel.

[(((Coca Camhi))) @CocaCamhi]

Hola, soy palestino. 🇵🇸
Y como la honestidad es poco común en mi política, permítanme confesar algunas cosas.

1947. La ONU me ofreció un estado. Junto a Israel. Fronteras, independencia, reconocimiento. Dije que no. Mis líderes prometieron que la guerra "arrojaría a los judíos al mar". En cambio, lo perdí todo y lo llamaron catástrofe. No porque no me ofrecieran un estado, sino porque lo rechacé.

1948–2025. Los estados árabes podrían haberme integrado, dado derechos, pasaportes, dignidad. En cambio, me encerraron en campos de refugiados durante generaciones, para que siguiera siendo un arma contra Israel. Construyeron palacios para ellos y cárceles para mí. Me usaron como propaganda, no como personas.

1967. Tras otra guerra perdida, podría haber construido un estado en Cisjordania y Gaza. En cambio, insistí en "ni paz, ni reconocimiento, ni negociaciones". Tres noes. Cincuenta años después, sigo sin Estado. Resulta que el rechazo no paga el alquiler.

Oslo, década de 1990. Israel dijo: «Intentémoslo». Me dio autonomía. Armas para la policía. Miles de millones en ayuda. ¿Qué hicieron mis líderes? Robaron el dinero, armaron milicias y lanzaron una intifada. Atentados suicidas en lugar de escuelas. Cohetes en lugar de fábricas.

Gaza, 2005. Israel se fue por completo. Sin colonos, sin soldados. Tuve la oportunidad de convertir Gaza en un Singapur mediterráneo. Voté por Hamás. La convirtieron en Mogadiscio junto al mar. ¿Miles de millones en ayuda? Túneles, cohetes y palacios para sus líderes, mientras mi gente come comida enlatada en la oscuridad.

¿Democracia? No he tenido elecciones en casi 20 años. Hamás mata a los disidentes en Gaza. Fatah los encarcela en Cisjordania. Mis líderes cancelan elecciones porque están demasiado ocupados luchando por el poder.

Religión. En lugar de construir un futuro, pongo a clérigos en televisión enseñando a los niños a odiar a los judíos. Glorifico a los "mártires" que hacen estallar autobuses. Crío a mis hijos con canciones de sangre y fuego en lugar de libros y ciencia. Cambio la esperanza por la guerra santa.

Mundo árabe. Los regímenes árabes me llaman "hermano". Pero pregúntenles cuántos palestinos pueden vivir libremente en Líbano, Siria, Egipto o Kuwait. Me excluyen, pero celebran mi muerte, porque mi muerte es su excusa.

Absurdo. Sigo diciendo que quiero "construir un estado". E irónicamente, justo al lado está Israel: el vecino que construyó una democracia próspera, una potencia tecnológica, granjas en el desierto, ciudades de polvo. Sin petróleo, sin riqueza infinita, solo coraje. Podría haber aprendido, copiado, colaborado. En cambio, elegí la envidia y la rabia.

Obsesión antijudía. Podría haber aceptado a los judíos como vecinos. Podría haber dicho: "Dos naciones, dos estados". En cambio, repito: "Del río al mar". En lugar de exhibir el honor, la hospitalidad y la rica cultura árabe, mostré solo la cultura de la espada: la ira, el extremismo y la sangre. En lugar de gritar salaam (paz) a los israelíes, grité muerte a los judíos. Y luego finjo sorprenderme cuando los israelíes no confían en mí, cuando están enojados, decepcionados y convencidos de que no quiero coexistencia en absoluto.

Responsabilidad. Culpo a Israel de todo. Siempre. ¿Mis líderes roban miles de millones? Culpa de Israel. ¿Hamás dispara cohetes desde hospitales? Culpa de Israel. ¿Glorifico la muerte más que la vida? Culpa de Israel. La responsabilidad no es mi fuerte.

Soy palestino.
Podría haber construido una nación, muchas veces. Elegí el rechazo, la corrupción y la guerra sin fin. Podría haber vivido en paz con Israel, pero elegí vivir a la sombra de su destrucción.

Así que sí, soy una víctima. Pero con demasiada frecuencia, soy víctima de mis propios líderes, de mis propias decisiones y de mi propia negativa a abandonar el odio.

Y esa, querido lector, es la tragedia que nadie quiere admitir.

[Documenting Israel @DocumentIsrael]

Crazy footage from inside Soroka hospital from October 7th 2023

At 58 seconds you will see my friend's son Eitan Halley who survived in the bomb shelter that Aner Schapira was murdered in & which Hirsch Goldberg was kidnapped from.

Original documentary: https://t.co/8cqqK3S2Dn

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

First Fauda, now this.

Starting tomorrow, more than 80 MILLION Americans will have the opportunity to watch The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue on Paramount Plus.

The film tells the extraordinary story of retired Israeli General Noam Tibon, who on October 7, 2023, took his gun, got in a car, and went to rescue his son, my dear friend and brother @amirtibon, his daughter-in-law and two young granddaughters as Gaza's terr0rists invaded Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

In all the pain and loss of October 7th, there are also many heroes who did everything to save others, let us help share their stories.

[matan gilor @matangilorblog]

להלן 5 מקבלי השכר הגבוה בהתאחדות לכדורגל בשנת 2025 לפי הדוח המילולי (עלות מעסיק+שווי למס):
5. שלומי ברזל - 627,247 ש"ח.
4. סמנכ"ל (לא מצוין איזה) - 646,170 ש"ח.
3. גיא לוזון - 674,240 ש"ח.
2. בוני גינצבורג - 714,027 ש"ח.
1. רן בן שמעון - 2,251,347 ש"ח.

[Richard Millett @RichMillett]

Arab Israeli equalises for Israel and gets sent off. Unbelievable.

[Scott Gross, CFA @ScottGross89]

Truly one of the dumbest red cards I’ve seen. It feels like a very Israeli moment: passion and spontaneity, but no thought for what happens next. Those qualities can serve us well elsewhere. In football, when the team needs discipline, they cost us dearly time and again

[Sports Rabbi @thesportsrabbi]

GOAL! Sayed Abu Farchi with a header to draw Israel even at 1-1 with Austria but then picks up a 2nd yellow card for his celebration and is sent off with a red card leaving the Blue & White with 10-men in the 55th minute.

[התאחדות אוהדי הכדורגל בישראל @IFFA_media]

בלי אוהדים אין כדורגל.

במשך שנים התייחסו לאוהדים ולאוהדות כאל הרוב השקוף:
כשצריך לשלם מחירים מוגזמים על כרטיסים ועמלות, אנחנו הלקוחות הכי טובים; אבל כשמגיע הזמן לקבל החלטות על החיים שלנו בתוך היציע – אנחנו מטרד, ארנק מהלך, או לוגיסטיקה שמפריעה למשחק.

את המשחק הזה הגיע הזמן לשנות.

לראשונה בהיסטוריה של ישראל, נציגי עמותות וקבוצות האוהדים משאירים את צבעי החולצות והיריבות הספורטיבית על כר הדשא, ומתאחדים מחוצה לו כחזית אחת.

אנחנו מגיעים כדי לשנות את הפרדיגמה.
לתור בכניסה אין צבע.
לשירותים מלוכלכים אין סמל.
למחיר של בקבוק מים אין זהות.
וגם לא לשעת משחק שמרחיקה ילדים ומשפחות, לפגיעה בפרטיות או לענישה של אלפים בגלל מעשים של יחידים.
אלה לא הבעיות של קבוצה אחת. אלה החיים של כולנו ביציע.

על הדשא נמשיך להיות יריבים.
מחוץ למגרש יש לנו הרבה מה לשנות.

אנחנו הלב של הכדורגל הישראלי.
יוצאים לדרך. יחד.

[Uri Levy @Levyninho]

יום מעניין שעשוי להתגלות כחשוב מאוד בכדורגל הישראלי: הוקמה התאחדות אוהדי הכדורגל בישראל שתפעל לקידום זכויות האוהדים ולשיפור חווית האוהד במגרש

11 עמותות וארגוני אוהדים ברחבי הארץ, במטרה לייצר ייצוג משותף מול מקבלי ההחלטות בכדורגל הישראלי.

אלימות שוטרים, אבטחה, תורים, פירוטכניקה, מחירי מזנונים ועוד - כעת יש כתובת

[Ayzaa @Ayzacoder]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[David Wurmser @Wurmserscribit]

So what’s your alternative?

Blow off Trump and the American conservatives and put Israel’s faith in the hands of the Democratic Party, the majority of which just voted to try to impose a complete arms embargo on Israel, and which placed in Israel a painful embargo only six months after October 7?

The problem began with Oslo. Israel was told to take a risk for peace. It gambled its security and almost its life for the delusion, and it legitimized a “national” movement whose very essence was the negation of Israel.

And yet, when the bill came due on the inevitable charge, all those who told Israel to take risks for peace either disappeared or had nothing more creative to say to Israel other than take even more risks for peace. Europe in particular turned dangerously hostile.

None stood by Israel unconditionally as promised. It was a betrayal not only of Israel in general , but of Israel’s peace camp in particular .

Add to this the complete silence, or frankly even cowered embrace, on the left and Democratic Party in policing its own left-anchored explosion of antisemitism.

So don’t wonder now why Israelis voted in the right in Israel almost uninterrupted for two decades, why they don’t take seriously the unsolicited advice from those who just weren’t there when Israel needed them most to stand up, for them, and why Israel’s peace camp is a shrinking minority.

And don’t wonder why those who were voted into office seek the friendship of whoever is more supportive of Israel right now; they haven’t the luxury to indulge the moral agony of the progressive camp of American Jews trying to square their Jewishness with their antithetical progressive secular religion.

Honestly, the only ones who have stepped up to the plate to remind us of Israel’s sacrifices and the PLOs persistence rejection of Israel’s existence in those critical years was Bill Clinton lately, and Denis Ross has at least tried to be somewhat honest.

If there were still a strong centrist soul to the Democratic Party that stands firmly against antisemitism, supports Israel in its just struggle to survive, and actually stands with Israel as they had promised, then maybe there might be a basis of return to careful bipartisanship.

But until then, Israeli leaders have to work with what they have.

[Eric Nathan @BarstoolNate]

This is it. Must watch video. Ovi’s impact is beyond just what he did on the rink. Prepare to cry.

[Avi Avidan @avavidan]

https://t.co/v45OMYlyKz

[KFC @KFCBarstool]

Tim Tebow was cannon fodder for sports analysts for like a decade and then he quietly went and became the best dude ever

[David Lange @Israellycool]

The Israeli reality show Race for a Million (the Israeli version of Amazing Race) has provided an extraordinary moment.
A contestant named Omri, who lost his left leg in the war, encountered a task for the first time that he was unable to perform due to his condition. Another team, who had already completed the task and could have gone forward and guaranteed advancing to the next stage, decided to help. The male member of the team replaced Omri and performed the task again with Omri's teammate Itay.
THIS is Israel and these are Israelis as I know them. אין כמו ישראל

[Lucythegreat @lucythegreat123]

I have been to Israel several times in my life, but this is my first trip since October 7th. I found myself as an observer more on this trip more than I have in the past. I’m an American, so I view everything through that lens. The thing I have noticed is that Israel is living a true American ideal, but in their own unique way. It is a democracy, it is capitalist, the people are religious, they believe in G-d and live it. Getting married young is common and they have big beautiful families, with the highest birthrate in developed nations. Israelis value education, children, and there are playgrounds everywhere. Israelis are patriotic, they serve in the military, and they love their country, but definitely disagree on how things should be politically. Yet, there are flags everywhere. People dress respectfully and modestly. Yet, there is a freedom where you can still live here and not be any of those things. No place is perfect, you can see why Waze was invented here, because the traffic sucks and you will get ripped off at the shuk, but go anyway because the food is so good and fresh. These are just my observations, I could be wrong, but there does seem to be a joy. I mean seriously how upset can you be when there are kids everywhere, and you get to walk by your second wedding car parade in the middle of the day on a Thursday.

[Scott Gross, CFA @ScottGross89]

@realajedelman Amazing work, will donate. Can you explain why you’re paying the entirety of costs? I’m surprised that you get zero funding from the government

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The most powerful video you will see today.

Israeli Matan Angrest was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for two years of torture, abuse, and starvation.

Yesterday, as a free man, he finally returned as a fan to Maccabi Haifa, his favorite football team.

He was welcomed as a hero.

[Isaac Choua @ChouaIsaac]

It’s absolutely wild to think about how many times Jews within the Persian Empire were forced to convert to Islam.

I often think about Kitāb-i Anusī (The Book of a Forced Convert) by Bābāī ben Luṭf, the first known Judeo-Persian chronicle. It recounts the periodic persecutions of Iranian Jews of the Ṣafavid era (1501–1736).

I vividly remember learning about it over 10 years ago and being struck by the idea of living a life so defined by repeated forced conversions that you felt compelled to document it. And not just document it! it’s written in rhymed couplets in the masnavī form, spanning 5,115 verses.

For anyone doubting its authenticity, Kitāb-i Anusī is corroborated by references to external events that align with royal Iranian chronicles and other sources.

Of course, the pain of forced conversion didn’t start with this book, nor did it end when it was written. Jewish communities across Iran repeatedly faced upheavals. For example, Mashhad’s Jewish population became a center of forced conversion in 1839 during the infamous Allāhdād (lit. "God’s Justice"). A hostile mob stormed Mashhad’s Jewish quarter, known as the ʿīdgāh, looted homes, destroyed Tora scrolls, abducted young girls, and killed dozens.

Under the threat of annihilation, the community outwardly converted to Islam, beginning over a century of dual existence as Jadīd-i Islām (“New Converts to Islam”). While practicing Islam in public, they maintained their Jewish identity in secret, with underground synagogues and hidden rituals.

What’s fascinating is the resilience of these communities. Mashhad’s Jews managed to preserve their identity even under intense scrutiny. The anusim (forced converts) had to creatively navigate challenges like Shabbath observance, kosher laws, and secret education, all while appearing to adhere to Islam.

In Mashhad, by the mid-20th century, the community cautiously began to practice Judaism openly during the Pahlavi era. After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, many Mashhadi Jews emigrated to Israel or the United States, where they remain tightly knit, their cultural and religious practices deeply informed by this history.

Understanding these histories gave me a deeper appreciation for my Mashadi Persian friends and their community. Their resilience and unique cultural practices suddenly made so much more sense.

It's heartbreaking to recognize the overwhelming traumas we all carry from such histories.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

On Tucker and Megyn...

Something hit me last night outside of their obvious descent into conspiracy riddled madness and endless chase for every last click.

Both of them came from mainstream media and are still relatively new to the online world. This isn’t the place they wanted to be, rather it’s the place they were banished to.

They come from the cutthroat mainstream world which only cares about views and egos. So their behavior in this ecosystem is just replicating that. They love the feuds, the quest for ratings, the little lies, the backstabbing, because that’s all they knew from their previous lives.

The online word was built by people who forged trusted audiences over long periods of time. Not people who were just given a flashy set, smacked with a lot of makeup and sat behind high contrast lighting and a shiny desk.

Trust and authenticity is the key in this world, but that’s not the world they come from.

Tucker was going down this path for awhile, and Megyn saw clicks and attention so dove in. As their ship sinks, they’re gripping onto each other like Rose and Jack at the end of Titanic.

Their former mainstream colleagues have lost respect for them, and they’ve chosen to spit in the faces of the new media people who they think they’re better than.

As they float in the icy waters of conspiracy and clicks, it’s important to note they never wanted to be in this space to begin with. They genuinely think they’re better than everyone else in the game because of their names, but that doesn’t fly in the online world.

On cable news you can lie to your audience over and over, and they’ll just keep tuning in because it’s all they know.

In the online world people will wisen up and find better choices.

They have chosen each other.

We’ll see how that works out for them…