Yom Reva’ee, Wednesday
8 Tevet 5781
December 23, 2020
The Tragic Photo of the Day
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of the beloved Esther Horgan yesterday.
Politicians made the usual speeches of about how her murderer would be tracked down and punished and, and, and . . . But as of this moment, police have placed a gag order on the investigation.
The tragic fact is that another shining “light” has been put out in Israel by a barbaric murderer.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists using “rocks” and Molotovs attacked Israelis near Beit Anun north of Kiryat Arba, at Al-Aruv in Gush Etzion (an Israeli was wounded), at the small Yakir Junction (an Israeli was wounded in the head), between Adam and Hizma, near Rachelim, at Kiryat Arba, beside Huwara, on the Hevron Road and at least a dozen other places.
Palestinian terrorists attacked buses: south of Ofra with three Molotovs, at Wadi Haramiya near the British Police Junction, at Hizma, at Efrat, at Tekoa, near the Halhul Junction on Mt. Hevron, and on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near Beit Omer.
The daily Corona (Covid-19) update . . .
Here are the numbers over the last 24 hours (from 8 am yesterday until 8 am today:
382,487 Israelis have been confirmed with the virus since the pandemic began last March.
There are 4,228 newly confirmed cases.
499 are in critical condition—an increase of 36
116 of the most critically ill are on ventilators—an increase of 1
3,136 have died–an increase of 25
There are currently 28,165 active Corona cases in Israel.
Now we have more than 4000 in a day as the virus surges. Again, as we have written before, Israelis appear to have thrown caution to the wind as vaccinations progress.
As of this morning, 71,876 people have received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
A follow-up to yesterday’s report about the car crash in Samaria . . .
Ahuvya Sandak. May his memory be for a blessing.
19-year-old Ahuvya Sandak was killed yesterday when a car he was traveling in crashed beside the road near Rimonim.
What we knew yesterday is that the car was being chased by a police car because the young men in that car had allegedly thrown a rock at a car with Palestinian license plates when the cars passed each other on the road.
We also reported that the police tried to physically stop Knesset member Bezalel Smotrich from reaching the scene of the crash, and we asked “What do the police have to hide?”
This morning, it became abundantly clear what they had to hide.
First, the car supposedly hit by a rock was a PLO car. At this time there is no evidence that a rock was actually thrown.
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Second, the car with the boys in it was being chased by undercover police in an unmarked car.
Third, the undercover police car intentionally and repeatedly bumped the boys’ car until it ran off the road and crashed. Photos that showed the boys’ overturned car along with the damage done to the front of the undercover car caused by the “bumping” were immediately taken down yesterday because of a gag order.
Fourth, when the crash occurred, the detectives ran to handcuff the occupants of the car and left the Ahuvya upside down–and dying– in the car.
This morning, the Sandak family has demanded that the police immediately file murder charges against the three detectives.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Hollow Coalition Government Ends With A Whimper
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
What can you say? Corona is surging across the country, and violence is surging across Judea, Samaria, southern Israel, and Jerusalem, and our politicians do nothing except huff and puff at each other like hollow men with straw for brains.
It is an absolute disgrace.
Despite what your humble servant thought would happen, the Knesset dissolved last night at 7 minutes before midnight–signaling an eventual end to the utterly dysfunctional Coalition government that we have had, and yet another election on March 23.
As we have reported, the ostensible reason the Knesset dissolved was the inability of the Coalition to pass a budget. But the real reason, as we all know by now, is Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to maintain his chokehold on power.
Interestingly, the government was finally brought down when renegade members of both Likud and Kahol Lavan decided to vote again a last gasp “early election prevention bill”.
So where does this leave us?
Here is a snap poll that was taken by Channel 12 news this morning about who Israelis would vote for if the election were held today:
* Likud – led by Netanyahu – 28 seats
* New Hope: Unity for Israel – led by Gideon Saar – 20 seats
* Yamina – led by Naftali Bennett – 15 seats
* Yesh Atid/TLM – led by Yair Lapid – 13 seats
* The Joint Arab List – 11 seats
* Shas (Sephardic Orthodox) – 8 seats
* United Torah Judaism (Askenazi Orthodox) – 7 seats
* Kahol Lavan – led by Benny Gantz – 6 seats
* Yisrael Beiteinu – led by Avigdor Lieberman– 6 seats
* Meretz -led by Nitzan Horowitz – 6 seats
All of these numbers will change over the coming months as Israel engages in one of its bitterest campaigns ever.
But the immediate takeaway is that for the first time, Netanyahu faces extremely strong opposition on right (New Hope and Yamina), and that Benny Gantz is about to be consigned to the wastebasket of history (already there is talk of he and his cohort Gabi Ashkenazi resigning from politics).
Expect–even as his trials begin–for Netanyahu to wage war against Gideon Sa’ar (Sa’ar is running neck and neck with Netanyahu in terms of Prime Minister preference) and Naftali Bennett. It has always been Netanyahu’s method of operation to try to grab votes from the “right”.
But to sum up what happened last night–again to quote T.S. Eliot: the government “ended not with a bang, but with a whimper.”
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.