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2 December 2019
Funny Story Of The Day
All of Israel was abuzz with excitement yesterday when it was reported that Walmart had posted ads for cashiers, pharmacists, and food service managers on LinkedIn in Jerusalem.
Walmart was finally coming to Israel!
PM Netanyahu was praised for starting the ball rolling when he talked to Walmart management back in February in Davos, Switzerland. At that time, the two had discussed opening Walmart branches in Israel.
And on and on the story reverberated, until . . .
Walmart issued a statement that it was all just a mistake. The job recruitment was not supposed to be for “Jerusalem, Israel” but for “Salem, Illinois.”
Alas.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria in the last 24 hours . . .
Negohot, Road 465 near Neve Tzuf, the Gush Etzion Spring, Deir Abu Mash’al, Umm Safa, Azzun, Kfar Beit, Psagot, near Beit El, beside Karmi Tzur, Migdalot, Mevo Dotan, Beit Anun, Tekoa, Luban A-Sharqiya: these were 15 locations where Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks.” Some Israelis were wounded in the above attacks, and many were traumatized and treated by MADA.
The above information is taken from reports on the ground as relayed to Rescue Without Borders, Rescue Judea and Samaria, rotter, and hakolhayehudi.
The wheels of sovereignty move slowly . . .
PM Netanyahu let it be known last night that it is his plan to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley “in about six months.”
In your humble servant’s opinion, this time frame is absurd. Who knows what can happen between now and then: PM Netanyahu may well not be PM, the U.S. could change its mind, any one of a hundred things could change the current dynamic.
Why not introduce a bill in the Knesset today, do all three readings of the bill tomorrow, and by Thursday have sovereignty?
Bennett’s announcement about Hevron . . .
In an astonishingly wonderful announcement yesterday, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett ordered the COGAT commander in the Hevron area to inform all parties that planning is beginning on transforming a dilapidated marketplace area there into a new Jewish neighborhood.
The neighborhood would double the number of Jews living in Hevron from about 800 to 1600 and would create more territorial integrity between the Avraham Aveinu neighborhood and the Cave of the Patriarchs. It would be an historic milestone for the Jewish community.
Your humble servant has been to this area many times and can tell you that the announcement must be taken with a large grain of salt. There will be numerous court challenges over the next half decade at a minimum.
The final numbers for Black Friday . . .
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915,000,000 shekels ($261 million dollars) is what Israelis spent three days ago on Black Friday–a 15% increase in expenditures over last year. There were 4.57 million credit card transactions with an average sale of 200.68 shekels ($57) per purchase.
All of this is remarkable given the fact that stores did not really open until 9 am on Friday morning and closed at about 4:30 pm when Shabbat began.
TODAY’S BLOG:
What Really Happened To The Rimmel Family?
The Rimmels’ mangled car. Note how the back of the car was obliterated–and note the car seat on the road in the lower right of the photo.
The news yesterday was horrific.
The Rimmel family from Neve Tzuf was stopped at a traffic light at the Givat Zeev Junction on Road 443 in Samaria. Their car was behind two other cars.
Suddenly, they were plowed into from behind by another car traveling at a tremendously high speed.
The mother Tzipi Rimmel and her three week old daughter Noam Rachel were killed instantly. The father Ephraim and 10-year-old son Iti Yakov were critically injured.
Tzipi and her newborn baby Noam.
The Israeli news ran with this story–as if it were an accident. All day long we heard about how many people have been killed on the roads this year (more than 300), and ways that the tragedy could have been averted.
However, by last night, many were beginning to wonder if this was an accident at all.
Given the fact that the driver of the car that plowed into the Rimmels was an 18-year-old from eastern Jerusalem who self-identifies as a Palestinian, and given the fact that he has been tied to various offenses in the past, many are now wondering if this was not a terrorist murder.
And so, we finally received notice from the Israeli police last night that the accident is now being investigated as a “possible homicide.”
Yesterday at the funeral, the Rimmels were lauded for their kindness and friendliness. A statement from the community of Neve Tzuf read: “The catastrophe is unimaginable. This is a family full of kindness and good deeds.” Tzipi was also praised for her work as an English teacher.
Shortly thereafter, Tzipi and Noam Rachel were buried together.
Your prayers are needed for Ephraim and Iti Rimmel.
Addendum: The driver of the car that struck the Rimmels is currently hospitalized and has yet to be questioned.
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.