Thursday, October 29 2015
4:00 pm UPDATE
3:22 pm: Palestinian terrorist stabs woman in Eilat. Terrorist wounds Israeli near Golani Brigade office, and escapes. Large manhunt underway. No further info on woman at this time.
2:56 pm: Reports from the hospital are that Nirit Zamora, the woman stabbed in the back yesterday, missed being paralyzed by less than half a centimeter. The knife blade penetrated her spinal column but did not sever her spinal cord.
1:00 pm UPDATE
12:04 pm: Palestinian terrorist attempts stabbing attack at Beit Hadassah in Hebron. No Israelis wounded. The terrorist was shot and killed.
9:00 am UPDATES
***Palestinian terror attacks today:
8:06 am: Israeli Border Guard stabbed in the face by Palestinian terrorist beside Kiryat Arba next to Hebron. The terrorist has been shot and killed.
***Palestinian terror attacks yesterday:
There were two stabbings and an attempted strangulation.
*At 4:08 pm, Nirit Zamora–mother of 8 from Beit Haggai–was gruesomely stabbed in the back just outside the Rami Levy Supermarket near the Gush Etzion Junction. When MADA paramedics arrived on the scene, they discovered that the knife was lodged in her spinal cord, and she was rushed to Sha’are Zedek Health facility in Jerusalem with the knife still in her back.
During the early evening, doctors performed a long and complicated surgery to remove the knife. By midnight Nirit was able to talk–but it is not known at this hour whether she will ever be able to walk again.
The terrorist, who had been brought to the scene by an Arab taxi from Hebron, was unfortunately captured and not killed.
*At 3:30 pm, a Palestinian terrorist attempted to stab a soldier near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The soldier was not wounded, and the terrorist was shot and killed.
*In another terrorist attack in the morning, a 35-year-old woman in Hod Hasharon was attacked by a Palestinian terrorist who attacked her in her car in an underground garage near the schools of her daughters.
As she got into her car and started it, the terrorist who was hiding in the back seat shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, grabbed her from behind and began to strangle her. She then took out a knife and attempted to stab the terrorist, but he wrestled it away from her and tried to stab her in the head. Luckily, he only stabbed the seat cushion. She was then able to escape. The terrorist also escaped.
In addition to these brutal assaults, Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with “rocks” on a bus near Beit Ummar, in vehicles near Peduel and Al-Fawwar, in their homes at Beit Hadassah, and as they were walking in Kiryat Arba and Har Bracha.
Meanwhile, Israeli security personnel were attacked all day long with “rocks”, Molotovs, and IEDs at Ras al Amud, on the Gaza border, at Beit Fajar, in Tulkarm, in Abu Dis, at the Pharmacy Checkpoint in Hebron, and at Tubas in Samaria.
Numerous Israelis were wounded in the above attacks–both physically and traumatically.
***The good news of the morning . . .
Soldier “Gilad”: viciously stabbed in the neck and nearly dead a few days ago, he’s now able to smile and hold up his fingers in a V for OK (picture 0404).
The 13 year old boy who was stabbed and critically wounded in Pisgat Ze’ev two weeks ago has been released from the hospital.
The 20 year old soldier who was critically wounded in the “bulldozer” attack has been upgraded to “fair condition.”
Three-year-old Tahel Sofer, who was badly burned in a Molotov attack on her family’s car has been upgraded from “critical” to “fair” condition.
Female IDF soldier Dakla Magdish, who was gravely wounded in the neck and chest at Kikar Adam last week, has been upgraded to “moderate condition.”
The gravely wounded police officer stabbed at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem has been upgraded to “serious” condition. He is no longer anesthetized.
***In an outrageous declaration yesterday, Amnesty International . . .
. . . accused Israeli security personnel of “murder” in the case of Palestinian terrorist Mohammed Yousef Al-Atrash (an appropriate last name) who was shot and killed while attempting to stab a soldier two days ago.
Amnesty claimed that the security forces “shot him for no reason” and that the knife used in the stabbing was “planted at the scene.”
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Amnesty bases its declaration on an unnamed Palestinian “eyewitness”. Apparently, it forgot to look at Atrash’s Facebook page and the picture of a bloody knife he posted on it before he went out to try to kill an Israeli soldier.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Believe it or not with all of the Palestinian terrorism that took place yesterday, the main story on the Israeli street was the weather.
Again, Israel was deluged with wind and rain–that often approached hurricane and even tornado force with trees uprooted, power lines down, and streets and roads massively flooded. Two of the hardest hit cities have been Ra’anana and Kfar Saba:
Near downtown Ra’anana: a lake.
How would you like to get on this bus in Kfar Saba?
This bus was going nowhere.
Of course, the biggest impact of the storms so far has been the number of households without electricity. Some places have been without power for almost 72 hours.
Here is a radar shot from the Israel Meteorological Service at 10:20 pm last night that showed what was about to hit Israel around midnight:
Ashdod, where your humble servant lives, was pummeled shortly after this picture was taken.
Given all of this rain, it may seem like a strange piece of information to give you today, but it was announced yesterday that the price of water here in Israel is continuing to drop significantly. In fact, it has decreased by 20% in the last three years.
According to Alexander Kushnir, the Director the Israel Water Authority, there are two main reasons–and neither has to do with rain:
1. Replacing and improving “pipe infrastructure” which has greatly reduced water loss.
2. Significant reductions in the price of desalinated water mainly because of a 16% reduction in the price of electricity during the last year (electricity is used in great quantities to desalinate).
In a country in which the cost of living is sky-high, the drop in electricity and water prices is a welcome relief to all Israelis.
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.