Tishrei 5, 5777
October 7, 2016
Special Notice: The israelstreet series on Judenburg will resume on Sunday.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours
Israelis have been attacked in more than 35 locations ranging from a missile strike near Kibbutz Re’im near the Gaza border to “rock” and Molotov attacks at Atarot, Biddu, Makel, Maoi’ir, Rahelim, Qalandiya, Psagot, Beitin, Silwan, Beit El, Abu Dis, Anatot, Mt. Hevron, Issawiya, Qabatiya, Hevron, Sebastia, Al Khader, Beit Ummar, Hizma, the Hussan bypass road, Silwad, and Joseph’s Tomb.
About the missile strikes in the last two weeks
What is particularly worrisome about the strikes on Sderot is their precision. Gone are the days of random Qassams fired at open spaces. The last 3 missiles have hit within a very confined area suggesting that terrorist targeting has vastly improved.
What is particularly worrisome about our response is that we have no response. The thought that Defense Lieberman was going to be tougher than his predecessor Moshe Ya’alon has quickly vanished. In response to terrorist missile fire, the IAF continues to blow up vacant buildings, sand dunes, and empty fields. There is no Israeli deterrent whatsoever.
The stupid comment of the day
Shelly Yachimovich, Labor Representative in the Knesset and former head of the Labor Party:
“The Justice Minister [Ayelet Shaked] shows her deep-seated contempt for the state and its institutions. . . She considers the moral foundations and all types of normative life here to be corrupt, rotten, and unnecessary.”
Yachimovich was responding to an article in HaShiloach magazine that Shaked wrote this past weekend in which Shaked stated that Israel can strengthen its democracy by becoming more Jewish. Shaked brilliantly argued that Jewishness and democracy support and strengthen each other.
What’s more, Shaked had the audacity to state that she is appointing judges who agree with her ideology and moral values–just like Tzipi Livni and others did before her.
If there was ever a statement that showed why the Labor movement has fallen out of favor with the public here and demonstrates the great divide between the right and left in Israel, Yachimovich’s statement was it.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Jewish Population of Judea and Samaria: New Statistics
A small part of the rapidly growing ultra-orthodox city of Modi’in Illit.
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday that as of the end of 2015, there were 385,900 Jews living in 126 Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. This does not include the Jews living in eastern Jerusalem within the municipal boundaries of the city.
385,900.
48% of these 385,900 citizens live in the five largest cities of Judea and Samaria:
Modi’in Illit (64,179), Beitar Illit (49,343), Ma’aleh Adumim (37,525), Ariel (18,717), and Givat Ze’ev (16,123). Givat Ze’ev is still not recognized as a city, but it is growing faster than Ariel and Ma’aleh Adumim because these two cities are suffering under government-imposed construction freezes.
Communities 6-10 in terms of population are: Oranit (8,495), Efrat (8,301), Alfei Menashe (7,638), Kochav Ya’akov (7,313), and Kiryat Arba (7,108).
To restate in a different way: 52% of the 385,900 (200,668 people) live in the other 116 Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
The growth rate within the Jewish communities is 4.1% which is double that of communities not in Judea and Samaria. However, the number represents a significant birthrate decline from a peak 5.3% in 2009.
Nevertheless, one stunning figure is that 78% of the new 15,200 new residents of Judea and Samaria last year were born in Judea and Samaria. At first glance, this may seem an odd item to report, but this “natural growth” dramatically exceeds the 43% fifteen years ago. Back then, most new citizens to Judea and Samaria were ones who had relocated from other parts of Israel.
The amazing thing about all of this is that the international community seems to think that all of these 385,900 will one day be forced to get up and move out of Judea and Samaria, and that another 400,000 Jews living in eastern Jerusalem will be forced along with them.
Ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.
That is what the Obama White House, the European Union, and the United Nations advocate everyday.
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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.