Yom Shabbat
Saturday
30 Av 5782
August 27 2022
As regular readers of OneIsrael know, we do not publish a blog on Shabbat but instead photos and videos for you to peruse.
As you may not know, Nebi Samuel is located north of Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood in Area C–an area that is supposed to be under Israeli military control.
An Israeli F-35.
Israel will receive 3 more F 35s in two weeks bringing to 33 the total number of operational F 35s in the IAF. As you may have seen, Saudi news outlets reported this week that Israeli F 35s entered Iranian airspace this week.
“Defense” Minister Gantz and U.S. National Security Advisor Sullivan after their meeting yesterday. What does their body language tell you?
This was another fruitless meeting in which Israel expressed its concerns about the impending nuclear agreement with Iran. Gantz appears to be inexplicably beaming; Sullivan less so with an expression that says “We hear you, but we are signing anyway–stop bothering us.”
The black areas are the areas destroyed in the Israeli attack on Iranian assets two nights ago.
If you look closely, you can still see smoke rising from the area.
On the left Bezalel Smotrich, head of the National Religious Zionism party, and Itamar Ben Gvir on the right, head of Otzma Yehudi.
After hours of negotiations yesterday, mediated by former PM Netanyahu, these two leaders of the “right” decided to join forces for the November election. For Smotrich, it was a matter of survival–recent polls show him not breaking the 3.25% threshold, while the same polls show Ben Gvir growing stronger.
The amazing moment when Maccabi Haifa shocked and thrilled Israel by beating Red Star Belgrade 5-4!
With the victory, Maccabi Haifa advances to the next round of the UEFA Champions League. Unfortunately, the team has been placed in the same group with three powerhouses: Paris Saint Germain, Benfica (Portugal), and Juventus (Italy). This is the first time an Israeli team has advanced this far in more than a decade.
And finally a Shabbat Shalom from the soldiers in the IDF Dev Ops developer course from their new building in the Negev:
Shabbat Shalom!
You can click here to hear their Shabbat Shalom message from Beersheva.
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.