Yom Shishee
Friday
8 Av 5782
August 5 2022
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 10:30 pm
Nahal Oz, Karmia, Yad Mordechai, south Ashkelon, Netiv HaAsara, Zikim, Gush Dan: a few of the places that have been hit in the last 30 minutes.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 10:00 pm
More than 50 more missiles have been fired at southern Israel in the last half hour. At this moment, we can hear explosions to the south of us between Ashdod and Ashkelon. Two Israelis have been wounded, one in Ashdod and one in Ashkelon. There is no word on the severity of their wounds.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 9:30 pm
Islamic Jihad began firing missiles at southern Israel right on schedule at 9:00 pm. Their missiles are on automatically timed hydraulic launchers.
In the past 30 minutes more than 50 missiles have been fired at Sderot, Ashdod, Yavne, Rishon, Ashkelon and other locations. Your humble servant has been up on the roof of our house here in Ashdod watching Iron Dome interceptors being fired at the incoming missiles.
So far, the only direct hit that we know of has been in Ashkelon. We know of no one wounded so far.
Click here to see Iron Dome interceptions in the last 20 minutes.
Click here to see IDF strikes on manned terrorist observation towers earlier in the day.
BREAKING NEWS
No, Israel is not paralyzed after all.
Shockingly, the IDF awakened at 4:15 pm and Israel carried out the targeted assassination in Gaza of Islamic Jihad terrorist Tayseer al-Jabari.
Jabari was the commander of Islamic Jihad military forces in Gaza.
15 more terrorists were killed in the attack.
Click here to see a short video of the strike.
All of Israel within 40 km of Gaza (including here in Ashdod) is on highest alert, as Islamic Jihad is certain to retaliate.
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Photos of the Day
Blessing Afripa, World Youth Champion (under 20-years old) in the 200 meters, with a time of 19.96 seconds. His time last night was also an all-time Israeli record.
Kolakevod to Blessing!
Some of the large group of families from Sderot camped out at the Nir Am Junction last night in protest of what is happening to them on the Gaza Border.
The residents of southern Israel have once again been thrown under the bus.
Can you believe this?
Instead of preparing to defend communities along the border, the IDF has been busy setting up “escape routes” in the event of a Palestinian attack
Last night, a “secret evacuation route” was set up for the residents of Kerem Shalom and Nahal Oz.
The News on the Israeli Street
The Friday poll (Channel 13)
People were asked “If the election were today, which party would you vote for?”
 Netanyahu Bloc (62): Likud 35, Rel. Zionism 12, Shas 8, Torah Judaism 7Lapid Block (52): Yesh Atid 21, Blue/White–New Hope 12, Labor 6, Yisrael Beiteinu 5, Meretz 4, Raam 4Joint Arab List 6Does not pass threshold: The Zionist Spirit |
The Friday weekly Corona update . . .
2,979 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 18,557 tested) bringing to 38,956 the number of active patients in the country.
The positive test rate was 16.05%; the coefficient of infection was 0.78%.
278 Israelis are seriously ill; 109 are critically ill—92 of these are on ventilators.
11,430 have died–31 reported since yesterday.
No one cares anymore about Corona despite the high daily mortality rate.
TODAY’S BLOG
“Why do we need to shoot missiles? They are paralyzed.”
On a day that saw UN officials running to the family of Islamic Jihad terrorist Al-Saadi to let them know that he is healthy, and Egyptian mediators conveying ever more concessions to Islamic Jihad, and, and, and . . . we had a senior Islamic Jihadist in Gaza chuckling and saying: “Why do we need to shoot missiles? They are paralyzed.”
Well it certainly appeared that way until a few minutes ago. We now suddenly have reports as of 4:15 pm Israel time, of possible IDF attacks on Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza.
Whether these reports are true or not will become clearer in the coming hours.
Shabbat Shalom From Israel!
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.