{"id":389239,"date":"2026-04-13T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:10:14","slug":"this-independence-day-israel-will-celebrate-a-rabbi-who-razed-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389239\/","title":{"rendered":"This Independence Day, Israel Will Celebrate a Rabbi Who Razed Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">The name of Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, who boasted about destroying homes in Gaza during the war, has turned into a verb: &#8216;To Zarbiv&#8217; \u2013 to flatten like Gaza. His nomination by Netanyahu&#8217;s transportation minister to light an Independence Day torch marks Israel&#8217;s moral collapse<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Transportation Minister Miri Regev&#8217;s selection of Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, who boasted about destroying homes in Gaza during the war, to light a torch at the main state Independence Day ceremony on Jerusalem&#8217;s Mount Herzl, is further evidence of Israel&#8217;s internal collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name of Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, who boasted about destroying homes in Gaza during the war, has turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,1901,85,46,185379,12580,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-389239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-genocide","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-independence-day","13":"tag-israel-war-crimes","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}