UPDATES
9 pm Israel time, Thursday, May 28 2015
**An IDF unit amazingly avoided being wounded last night when members were attacked in Jenin by Palestinian terrorists throwing a hail of Molotov cocktails.
**11 separate Palestinian terrorist attacks took place between 8:00 am this morning and 2:00 pm. Many of the attacks were arson with the Palestinians starting large fires in Gush Etzion and Anata. “Rock” assaults happened in Fawwar and Yitzhar.
**Israeli security forces reported finding today “the one missile” that the IDF said exploded in Israel yesterday. Instead of being in Gan Yavne as first believed, the missile actually struck just down the road in Be’er Tuvia. Of course, no one is talking about the other 3 missiles that exploded in and around Ashdod.
**The absurd attempt by the Palestinian soccer association to have Israel thrown out of FIFA seems to be going down the drain. Not only have about half of FIFA’s board now had arrest warrants issued for them for corruption, fraud, money laundering, and racketeering, but also the president of UEFA came out today and said that the Palestinian effort was “groundless.”
**Another Iranian general has been assassinated by sniper fire in Syria, and its proxy Hezbollah has suffered more setbacks fighting IS in Iraq in the last 24 hours. And yes, you read that correctly: Hezbollah is now losing fighters in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Three dynamic women who have now assumed positions of power in the new government have wasted no time in making their mark.
Miri Regev, Israel Minister of Culture and Sport
Miri Regev, Israel’s new Culture and Sports Minister, found herself at the center of a controversy this morning surrounding the opening of the annual Israel festival in Jerusalem a few hours ago.
Because the festival is funded by the Culture and Sports Ministry, Regev was asked to make some introductory remarks–as were President Rivlin and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.
In other words, nothing out of the ordinary.
Until famed Israeli rock musician and ultra-leftist Shalom Hanoch intially announced today that he would not play on a stage on which Regev speaks. It seems that Hanoch has no problem with Rivlin and Barkat, but he cannot “tolerate” Regev.
One thing that Hanoch and many other Israeli artists are perturbed about is Regev’s expressed intention the day after taking over the Ministry of Culture and Sport to move the Ministry headquarters from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. To put it a different way, Regev wants to base the Ministry in Israel’s capital–not in its “secular” capital.
But the other thing that bothers the Israeli self-described “artistic community” is simply the fact that Regev is on the other side politically–and is always true to her conservative principles.
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What was the outcome? Regev let it be known loudly and clearly today that she was going to speak at the event–and questioned why Hanoch should have a voice at all in who should speak . . . (she spoke, and Hanoch played on stage after all).
Ayelet Shaked, Israel Minister of Justice
As for Ayelet Shaked, she has also hit the ground running.
And being true to her constituency out in Judea and Samaria, she is immediately pushing for a new law increasing the punishment for throwing “rocks” to a maximum of 20 years.
For a crime that has often resulted in the deaths and wounding of Israeli motorists and pedestrians, the new punishment would indeed fit the crime–and might actually discourage “rock” throwers.
This is just the first of what promises to be numerous Shaked efforts to attack the problems of the Israeli judiciary and penal code.
Tzipi Hotovely, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel
Finally, we come to Tzipi Hotovely who has now taken her position as the Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel. Given the fact that there is no actual Foreign Minister, this position has more power for the moment than it would normally.
Here’s what she had to say the other day when she entered her new job:
“It’s time to tell the world that we are right and not just smart… We must go back to the basic truth of our right to this land. Our land. It’s all ours. We didn’t come here to apologize for that.”
Fasten your seat belts! Here come Regev, Shaked, and Hotovely–it’s about time that we had leaders like these.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.