והגבלן ישוםAnd the Gavlan will be desolate
R' Dov Bar Leib, in a post from almost 20 years ago, believes that the Gavlan refers to the Hizballah-infested town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon.
Reports coming out of news sites, like Kikar and an Arabic-language site show the destruction of the center of town by Tzahal.
Wikipedia, in the entry for April 14th, writes:
The town center was visibly in ruins from satellite images.
Here's the before-and-after picture from Kikar:
The battle continues, but just saying...

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ReplyDeleteInteresting. Having only gone over, but not really learned the similar sugiya in TB Sanhedrin 97a, I never thought about HaGavlan. But of the other elements of דור שבן דוד בא בו, I have heard plenty of theories on what they could mean.
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