Yom Shnee
Monday
23 Tevet 5782
December 27 2021
Two Otherworldly Photos Of the Day
A photo your humble servant took at sunset yesterday here in Ashdod:
Every sunset here is striking, none more so than this one with the sun making an indentation in the Mediterranean as it began to dip below the horizon.
Just down the beach this morning, this was the explosive sunrise in Ashkelon:
An interesting phenomenon here is how we often see a “super sun” which appears closer and much larger than usual.
An Excellent Photo/Video from the Temple Mount This Morning
Rabbi Dov Lior in front of the Kipat HaSela (aka Dome of the Rock)–under which is the holiest place in Judaism.
Rabbi Lior is the former rabbi of Kiryat Arba beside Hevron and is one of the oldest arbitrators in the religious community. He takes his students from Beit Orot Kollel to the Mount once a month where he leads a mincha and teaches a Torah lesson. Click here for a short video of his walk.
The Israeli Food of the Day
It’s another cold day here in Israel, and it’s a fair assumption that many Israelis are thinking about a nice warm soup for lunch or dinner. How about this Moroccan “entra” soup:
This will warm your “insides” for sure (photo: Shiran Shai, Walla).
All you need are diced carrots, potatoes, celery, egg noodles, chicken, turmeric, a spoonful of rose water to which you add salt and pepper to taste– and voila!
The News on the Israeli Street
An Update From Chomesh (also spelled “Homesh”) . . .
It appears now despite a news blackout that not all of the Chomesh yeshiva/compound was destroyed two days ago nor were all of the brave souls there forced out.
As of this morning, a building housing part of the yeshiva still stands and several families with children remain. The IDF and Civil Administration are trying to force the men, women, and children out by denying them the services of a water tanker, but they are surviving on bottled water brought in on foot.
The group that is still there is asking for donations at this site. At the time of this blog, 690,000 shekels have already been raised.
In addition, not all of the Jewish community members from around Samaria who came to the end-of-shiva service for Yehuda Dimentman left. An untold number of them are still there.
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There is no doubt that the IDF will soon move in to finish the hideous job ordered by the Biden Administration, but for the moment, the Chomesh yeshiva partially survives.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
All reports below are from Rescue Without Borders SSF/Rescue Judea and Samaria. There were at least 30 Palestinian attacks yesterday including:
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli motorists with “rocks” and Molotovs between Kiryat Arba and Hevron, Luban a-Sharqiya, Shtuba, on Road 55 between Karnei Shomron and Azzun, Maayan Krayot, on Road 458 near El Muayyir, on the Gush Etzion Road to Jerusalem near Al Khader, at the Marda Junction, Tekoa, the Ma’ale Levona Junction, Curve 160 Hevron and at a dozen other locations.
Palestinian terrorists attacked IDF soldiers and vehicles on the Gilad axis, Beit Hadassah in Hevron, and the pillbox at Halhul Bridge.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli buses west of Anata, at Hizma, between Yakir and Revava, and at Einbus.
Palestinian terrorists attempted to burn down the Beit El security fence.
TODAY’S BLOG
The Crazy Israeli World of Corona
We have previously commented on the utter Corona hysteria which has gripped the government here–a hysteria which has resulted in virtually all countries in the world being marked “red”, followed by a near closure of Ben Gurion Airport, followed by restrictions on schools and malls.
The main person fomenting the hysteria and pushing the regulations is PM Naftali Bennett whose own family violated government recommendations and went on a trip to the Maldives several weeks ago. Now that they have returned, at least one of Bennett’s daughters has now tested positive for Corona sending Bennett himself into isolation.
Today by the way is the day that the mall restrictions go into effect. How crazy are they?
You must show your green pass and wear a mask to enter a mall. However, only 1 person per 15 meters will be allowed in, and once in, only 1 person per 15 meters will be allowed into a particular store in a mall. How this is ever going to be enforced is unknown since mall operators and store owners have already said they will not comply.
Once inside the mall, a person cannot eat at a “shared food complex” or a restaurant/cafe–although takeaway is permitted. Takeaway to where? Who knows . . . perhaps you can sit on the floor and eat or eat while going in and out of stores at which time you will be constantly removing your mask to put the food in your mouth.
However, some stores in malls are exempt from regulations such as pharmacies and supermarkets. And since almost every mall in Israel has at least one pharmacy and a supermarket (some supermarkets have pharmacies also), are people just going to be able to crowd in willy nilly to shop? Not to mention the fact that most supermarkets in Israel have food counters where you can have a coffee and eat a sandwich or something else.
Back to the “sky closure.” An official in the Health Ministry commented yesterday that the “skies will be reopened in about a week”. Why? Because she said that now that Omicron has spread throughout Israel, it makes no sense to mark other countries “red”.
Of course, Omicron had already spread throughout Israel before the skies were closed down.
Finally, the number of seriously and critically ill here remains stable–as does the number of deaths per day (fewer than 2). No one has died of the Omicron variant in Israel, and it does not appear that anyone is even hospitalized with it–though we do not know this for a fact because the Health Ministry is refusing to release any numbers concerning Omicron and hospitalization.
And so it goes in the crazy Israeli world of Corona this morning . . .
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.