Reply To: Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef and the IDF (Israeli Army)

“In 1948, after the Arabs attacked the newly declared Jewish state
and soldiers were falling on the battlefield, several Roshei Yeshivah
taunted Reb Shraga Feivel [Mendlowitz] for having
recited the blessing [HaTov VeHaMeitiv].

Reb Shraga Feivel turned to Rabbi Aharon Kotler,
who agreed with him that the U. N. resolution was indeed worthy of the blessing.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga
Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America
(chapter 26, page 331, footnote 3, heard from Rabbi Nesanel Quinn)
by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001,
based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965