Thursday
Yom Chamishee
6 Adar 5785
March 6 2025
The Photos of the Day:
Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir Takes Command
Zamir being given the extra “general” star on his epaulets by his wife, PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz:
Zamir praying at the Kotel with his two sons:
The message Zamir placed at the Kotel:
Paraphrased, it reads “For from Zion will come forth Torah.”
Gen. Zamir hit the ground running naming these two appointments yesterday:
Major General Yaniv Asor will be appointed commander of the Southern Command. Brigadier General Itzik Cohen will be appointed head of the Operations Division. More appointments will come today.
He then issued this statement to the IDF: “From here on, our faces are set in one direction: victory and defeat of the enemy. This is our mission. This is our destiny. Our actions will show the way.”
UPDATE 9:00 AM ISRAEL TIME
May Her Memory Be For A Blessing
Yaheli Gur, a 17-year-old high school student from Horesh, died yesterday of wounds she received in the gruesome car-ramming attack at the Karkur Junction near Pardes Hanna a week ago. In that attack, a Palestinian terrorist slammed into a crowded bus stop wounding 13 including Yaheli.
On a respirator, Yaheli fought valiantly for six days at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera. In a message to her family, Mayor Yitzhak Keshet said: “All of Horesh mourns with you in this unbearable hour.”
The terrorist who was from the village of Silat al-Harithiya in northern Samaria and was in Israel illegally was eventually stopped 4 kilometers away from the attack at the entrance to the Gan Shmuel shopping center where he was eliminated.
As regular readers of OneIsrael know, car-ramming attacks are the norm in Judea and Samaria where anyone standing beside the road or at a bus stop is at risk.
And not only in Judea and Samaria: yesterday another terrorist ran over Israeli pedestrians at Beit Shemesh. One Israeli was wounded; the terrorist escaped.
On the Hostage Front
As you know 59 hostages are held by Hamas. The IDF has determined that 35 are dead and 24 are alive; however Shin Bet believes that only 22 are still alive, and other government sources have indicated that the number is 21.
Among the 59 are 5 who have American citizenship; only one of them, 21-year-old Eden Alexander, is still alive.
The hostage news of yesterday was that for the first time the Trump Administration in the form of envoy Adam Boehler is negotiating directly with Hamas for the return of the 5. The talks have been going on in Doha Qatar for the past two weeks.
When this negotiation was revealed yesterday, the initial Israeli reaction was that “any negotiation which will result in the release of hostages is good.” This was later amended to “we have let the Americans know how we feel.”
Obviously, the families of the 59 were outraged by the revelation in that American hostages are apparently being given priority over everyone else.
By late afternoon, the Trump Administration said that not only is the hostage release being negotiated but also a complete end to the war.
President Trump issued this statement this morning:
On the Ground in the North
From the IDF Spokesperson:
“A number of suspects were identified who loaded weapons onto vehicles in the Naqoura area in southern Lebanon. An Air Force aircraft, under the direction of forces on the ground, attacked one of the vehicles to eliminate the threat.“
Remember Leftist Peacenik Yuval Avraham?
This past week Avraham was on the stage in Hollywood accepting the Oscar for the documentary “No Other Land”. In his speech he fraudulently criticized Israel for a laundry list of tired human rights violations. He came across as simply a person seeking peace.
Yesterday, videos and photos emerged of Avraham provoking IDF soldiers in a distinctly non-peaceful way:
Is anyone surprised?
Here We Go Again
Anyone who has followed events in Israel over the last few years knows that Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has regularly abused her power as “Legal Advisor” to undermine numerous government initiatives.
Yesterday, Justice Minister Yariv Levin announced that he has begun the process to impeach her–a process that could take years and an effort that almost surely will be denied by the Israel Supreme Court.
The question we have here at OneIsrael is simply “Why now”. Anti-government groups that have been in some disarray suddenly have found their feet again and will resume massive demonstrations in the street to “protect” Baharav-Miara.
And so it goes in Israel this morning . . . so far . . .
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.