Yom Shnee
Monday
19 Cheshvan 5783
November 14 2022
The Photos of the Day
Netanyahu receiving the mandate to form a government from President Herzog yesterday.
As you can see, Netanyahu looks much happier than Herzog–who was less than gracious in his speech referring to the Netanyahu trials that continue.
3 new F35i’s were added to the IAF yesterday.
The three planes will join the Golden Eagle Squadron based at the Nabatim AFB in the south.
The News on the Israeli Street
The war in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem.
Shooting attack.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on our troops in Hevron. One terrorist was wounded.
Ramming attack.
Palestinian terrorists tried to run over IDF soldiers at Beituniya. The soldiers fired at the oncoming car and stopped it.
Stabbing attack.
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed an Israeli at the Ra’anana Junction. There is no word on the victim’s condition. The terrorist was killed by an IDF soldier.
Attacks with IEDs, Molotovs, and “rocks”.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near Al Aruv, between Ta’anim and Avni Hefetz, on Road 55 near Al Funduq, at Beit Aryeh, in the vicinity of Zubeidat, between Susya and Avigail in the area of Mt. Hevron, near Marda between Ariel and Tapuach, and at many other places.
Up up and away . . .
Prices continue rising especially in the aftermath of the election during which companies held prices down to favor the Lapid government. Tnuva, Israel’s main source of dairy products, announced this morning that prices of salty cheeses, yellow cheeses, butter, milk drinks, and yogurt will increase by 4.7% this month.
TODAY’S BLOG
The Miracle in Istanbul Yesterday
You have undoubtedly heard of the terror attack carried out by a woman on a busy street in Istanbul yesterday. Six people were killed and more than 50 were wounded when a bomb which she had placed along the street exploded.
This is a photo taken by a security camera just before the explosion. You see the terrorist circled with the bomb on her back.
What you possibly do not know is that the two women walking beside her were sisters: Natalie and Or Suissa from here in Ashdod. In the photo to the right, they are still wearing the clothes they were wearing in the security camera photo.
The miracle was that just seconds before the bomb was detonated, the Suissa sisters stopped at a store to shop.
If they had not stopped, they would have been killed.
Sometimes, one gets the feeling that people are more than just lucky–it seems that they are being watched over.
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.