Yom Chamishee
Thursday
6 Av 5781
July 15 2021
The News on the Israeli Street
On the Corona front . . .
***756 newly diagnosed cases yesterday; 5,220 active cases in the country; 6,441 Israelis dead from Corona.
The number of newly diagnosed and active cases shows no signs of diminishing. On average, 2 Israelis are now dying each day of Covid-19.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 . . .
**A joint operation of the IDF, GSS and Border Police in and around the Palestinian settlement of Turmus’aya resulted in the capture of “dozens of Hamas terrorists” according to the IDF spokesman. It should be added that this is another case of Israeli security forces working with the PLO to eliminate threats to the leadership of PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
**A knife-armed Palestinian terrorist attempted to infiltrate Yitzhar (in Samaria) yesterday morning. He attempted to attack a unit of IDF soldiers but was shot.
As you can see if you look closely, the terrorist was shot in the leg and the foot.
Several months ago, the same terrorist attacked other Israelis but was found incompetent to stand trial and was ridiculously released.
Politics trumps security again . . .
If you can believe this and why not since we are in a tit for tat children’s game in the Knesset, the new Coalition voted against a proposed law that would deny residency and citizenship to convicted Palestinian terrorists.
Yes, you read that correctly.
This was payback for the other day when the opposition voted against the Family Reunification Law that would have prohibited the Palestinian spouses of Israeli-Arabs from becoming citizens.
Your humble servant doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The animus that infects our political system is simply appalling.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Amazing Archaeological Discoveries From
The First and Second Temple Periods!
An artist’s rendering of the City of David as it was approximately 3000 years ago. Note the First Temple toward the top of the drawing, and the walls encompassing the city. The eastern wall is the one to your right looking at the drawing.
Archaeologists working in the City of David have revealed a major discovery, one that ties together two other discoveries back in the 1960s.
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At that time, archaeologists uncovered two separate walls at some distance apart. The excavators thought that they had found pieces of the eastern wall that protected Jerusalem. Other archaeologists dismissed the idea saying that there was no proof at all the walls were ever connected.
Yesterday, that argument was laid to rest. The newly discovered and excavated section is the central piece that ties all three sections together.
For its time, the wall was massive and withstood continuous assaults for at least 3 centuries before Nebuchadnezzar’s troops finally breached it.
This is the wall that withstood all invaders until Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers finally broke through after a siege in 586 BCE and proceeded to destroy the First Temple on the 9th of the month of Av. In fact, evidence of that attack were also found all around this piece of the wall in the form of burned buildings and Babylonian arrowheads.
Fast forward about 550 years to the time of the Second Temple.
Another team of archaeologists have just made known their discovery of two large halls under the Kotel area (Western Wall):
Isn’t amazing how a grand hall like this survived numerous earthquakes over the years that destroyed buildings on the surface?
Another perspective:
Note the walkways that have already been built in anticipation of visitors to the underground site.
Both of these sites are striking and demonstrate mightily the eternal Jewish connection to our eternal capital of Jerusalem.
And, as all of the above photos show, the discoveries will soon be open to the public. Your humble servant can hardly wait to go!
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.