Yom Shabbat
Saturday
4 Adar 5783
February 25 2023
Special Notice
As regular readers know, there is no blog on OneIsrael on Shabbat unless circumstances warrant. Instead, we offer a few photos for your perusal.
Photo 1. The Tel Aviv Marathon yesterday:
Excellent weather + flat course= thousands of runners and major traffic jams! (Photo Avshalom Shoshoni).
Photo 2. The Cabinet approves the budget:
The final vote on the budget yesterday–the first two year budget in years.
Photo 3. Finally, a real poll:
“Direct Polls” is the only poll that correctly predicted the actual result last November. According to its poll yesterday, if an election were held tomorrow, the result would be exactly the same: 64 for the government, 56 for the Opposition.
Photo 4. Solidarity with Sderot:
Your humble servant took this photo last Friday down in the forest beside Sderot. Tens of thousands of Israelis came to the area to show solidarity with the city and to picnic among the lushly gorgeous fields of red poppies.
Photo 5. A photo looking toward Gaza from the highest point in Sderot:
The view from Givat Kobi which contains a memorial to soldiers and civilians killed in attacks. Notice the berm (to protect from snipers).
Photo 6. Another photo from Givat Kobi: just how close is Gaza?
1 kilometer. Several days after we left, Sderot was struck again by missiles. But the city is amazingly resilient: the residents all say that they would not live anywhere else because of the camaraderie–and there is a huge building boom going on!
Photo 7. Shabbat Shalom!
Two new artillery officers wishing you a Shabbat Shalom!
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.