UPDATES
8:00 am Israel time, Sunday, August 9 2015
**The daily Palestinian terror report . . .
Terrorists threw Molotov cocktails at Border Guards in Issawiya last night; not far away, in A-Ram, Israeli motorists were attacked by masked terrorists–traumatizing people and smashing windows; near Ma’aleh Adumim, Palestinian terrorists smashed the front windshield of an Egged bus with “rocks”. The list goes on and on.
Meanwhile in Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Maan reports that 4 Palestinians were killed in a job related accident–a munitions factory exploded.
**The self-flagellation continues . . .
For the last week, Israelis have been unable to pick up a newspaper or turn on a television show or listen to a radio program without being bombarded with the topic of “Jewish terrorism”–all because one lone lunatic tragically killed a girl in the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade and because an as yet unknown lunatic or lunatics set a Palestinian home on fire in Duma resulting in the tragic deaths of a young child and his father.
“Oh woe is us” bewails every broadcaster and columnist. “Oh what are we to do” cries every media type. “Oh, this is the end of Israel democracy” screams headline after headline.
What pathetic left-wing hooey.
Israeli democracy is stronger than ever, and Israelis are more humane than ever–despite the neverending Palestinian terror assaults and attacks on Israeli citizens. The perpetrators of the above crimes should be locked away for life, and Israel media should get a life.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The drive down is always educational and rewarding.
This year we passed the large new SodaStream plant just north of Beersheva–a plant whose move from Ma’aleh Adumim was forced by the BDS morons. The move meant that more than 1000 Palestinians lost their jobs, and that more than 1000 Bedouins and other Israeli Arabs have found one.
From there, we traveled on down Highway 40 skirting the boom city of Beersheva whose skyline has exploded with new apartment buildings and houses.
If you haven’t been to Beersheva recently, you won’t recognize it.
South of Beersheva, the landscape is covered with “Bedouin sprawl”–illegal permanent encampments that that are constructed largely of corrugated metal.
There are thousands of Bedouins “settlements” like this one in every direction.
The question is what to do about these illegal encampments which are built on private or government land. So far there have been many ideas–but no action.
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We passed by where the gigantic new IDF headquarters is almost finished just south of Beersheva as the IDF closes down its famous Kirya complex in downtown Tel Aviv. Again, the move is a tremendous boon to southern Israel. As we saw, numerous high-tech companies are now setting up shop in and around Beersheva.
We continued bisecting the Negev and stopped as always in Mitzpe Ramon for something cold to drink before we started the steep zigzag road down the cliff into the Ramon Makhtesh–the largest makhtesh in the world.
All along the way, we faced crazy Israeli drivers who seemed hell-bent on getting to Eilat before everyone else–-drivers zooming along at 150+kph and passing on blind curves uphill and downhill.
But we made it to Eilat alive–and as always our first stop was Chof Al-Mog (Coral Beach) where we watched the dust storms on the Jordanian side of the Red Sea and absorbed the beautiful red colors that paint the craggy windswept mountains all around.
A view of Chof Al-Mog.
Yesterday, we decided to laze around the pool since the forecast was for extreme heat. Just how extreme we had no idea.
At about 10:30 am, when we first jumped into the pool, the temperature was 37 C. Ok, that’s hot, but being from Ashdod and the central valley of California 37 C (98.6) is not a big deal.
But almost immediately, literally by the second, the temperature began to rise. After 5 minutes it had reached 38 C, after 15 more, the temperature was 39 C. Again, this was hot, but this was not our first rodeo in Eilat where we almost always see temperatures in the 42 (108) to 44 (112) range.
But it just kept going up.
40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46–by the time that the temperature hit 47 C, everyone in the water–which was almost everyone–was transfixed by the thermometer hanging over the pool. By noon, the temperature was 48 C; by 12:30 pm it was 49, by 12:45 pm it was 50, by 1 pm it was 51–and believe me, people were finding shade wherever they could or fleeing into the Sheba hotel.
But the temperature kept rising. It finally reached its highest point at 1:20 pm when the temperature hit 51.8 C in the sunshine.
Let’s try to put this number in perspective.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the hottest temperature ever officially recorded–in the history of the world— was 56.7 C (134 F) at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California on July 10, 1913. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Israel was 54 C at Tirat Tzvi on June 21, 1942.
Again, the temperature here yesterday was 51.8 C (125.24 F).
It was so hot that . . .
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.