Yom Chamishee
Thursday
24 Tammuz 5783
July 13 2023
The Quote of the Day
“You will continue to shout, we will continue to legislate.”
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir responding calmly to screaming anarchists who verbally assaulted him and his wife Ayala at a restaurant near Jerusalem last night.
In an unprecedented move, many of the restaurant’s patrons who support the government got up and formed a barrier between the anarchists and Ben Gvir.
The News on the Israeli Street
The war in Judea and Samaria.
Elements of the IDF, Border Police, and Shin Bet captured 16 wanted terrorists overnight. In Bir Zeit and Bitunia, terrorists detonated IEDs, threw Molotovs, and dropped concrete blocks off of roofs at our security personnel.
Shooting attacks:
Palestinian terrorists fired on MGB and IDF forces in Turmosayya. An IDF soldier was wounded and evacuated to a nearby hospital.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israeli security forces in Jenin.
Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF forces in Balata.
Palestinian terrorists attacked our troops in Shechem.
IED, Molotov, and “rock” attacks:
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis at Nahaliel (Israeli boy struck in the head and evacuated to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem), near Shechem, in the vicinity of Luban al-Sharqiya, throughout Gush Etzion in such places at Al Abuv, and in more than a dozen other locations.
Cleon hits today . . .
An extreme heat wave which will certainly bring blackouts all over Israel as air conditioners are turned on full blast is hitting this afternoon.
Temperatures may hit as high as 120 F in the Eilat area–and along the coast the temperatures will be between 95 and 110 F.
By the way the heat wave first struck Greece where it was named Cleon after an Athenian General who was killed in 422 BCE in battle with the Spartans.
TODAY’S BLOG
The Israel Supreme Court Strikes Again
Wrap your mind around this.
In 2016, the Knesset passed a law that took away the social welfare benefits of foreign workers who had overstayed their visa and were in the country illegally.
The basic idea was to encourage the foreign workers to go home as they should when their visa expired.
But guess what?
Yesterday the Supreme Court outrageously rejected the law saying that “it is disproportionate to the crime” and “violated constitutional property law.”
So now, we Israeli taxpayers are required to pay benefits to workers who are in the country illegally.
Amazing.
Obviously, the ruling will simply encourage workers to stay. Why should they get a visa extension? They might as well stay and live off the country’s dole.
Even worse and in a larger sense, the decision will not only cause more foreign workers to seek employment here, but also their presence will dramatically change the demographics of the country.
What kind of court could make such a ruling?
Only the most extreme leftist “progressive” court.
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.