Yom Rishon
Sunday
8 Nisan 5781
March 21, 2021
The Long Overdue Event of the Day
How absurd is it that Israel allows a parade of PLO leaders to traipse in and out of Israel all the time in order to trash Israel in international venues?
The most recent was PLO FM Riyad al-Maliki who just went to The Hague to urge the International Criminal Court to speed up the prosecution of Israelis for war crimes.
When al-Maliki returned yesterday via Jordan and the Allenby Crossing, he expected to waltz right through. That didn’t happen.
He was detained and shocked to discover that Israel’s Security Services (the GSS) has revoked his VIP certificate.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
2 knife-armed Palestinian terrorists were captured by IDF troops as they attempted to infiltrate into Israel from Gaza.
The daily Corona (Covid-19) update . . .
Please note that these numbers encompass from 8 pm Saturday to 8 pm Sunday:
827,428 Israelis have been confirmed with the virus since the pandemic began last March.
There are 819 newly confirmed cases.
561 are in critical condition—an increase of 4
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199 of the most critically ill are on ventilators—a decrease of 3
6,085 have died–an increase of 12
There are currently 18,309 active Corona cases.
5,158,059 Israelis have been vaccinated at least once; more than 80% of these have been vaccinated twice. The coefficient of infection dropped again today to 0.62.
A long way back . . .
According to Israel Hayom, there were around 4000 cafes and points of sale for coffee in Israel generating sales of some 7 billion shekels before the epidemic began last March
Today, there is half the number of coffee spots and half the revenue being produced.
Given Israelis love a coffee, we can expect that the coffee scene will return to normal in the coming years, but it will be a long way back.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Final Poll of Polls
The average of all the final polls.
As regular readers can see, not much has changed since we first reported the result of a pre-election poll about a month ago except for the rather unexpected drop of New Hope and expected drop of Yamina (which never receives more than around 8 seats in elections).
Interestingly but not surprisingly, however, almost every party is reporting that its internal polling suggests that it will win more seats than you see above. For example, Likud’s internal polling suggests that it will will win 34-35 seats. On the other end of the spectrum, Meretz believes it will win 5-6 seats.
In tomorrow’s blog, your humble servant will make his predictions as to the outcome of Tuesday’s election.
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.