Yitzhak Navon Dies: An Israel President Quiz (8:00 pm UPDATES)


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26 Cheshvan 5776

Sunday, November 8 2015

UPDATES 8:00 pm

8:00 pm: Border Guard shot in the head in Anun two days ago near death. He needs your prayers now.

7:29 pm: Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fire missiles at Sha’ar Hanegev region of southern Israel. No further information at this time.

UPDATES 3:00 pm

2:53 pm: Palestinian terrorist with knife captured at checkpoint in Hebron.

1:35 pm: Palestinian stabbing attack. Terrorist stabs 45-year-old Israeli man in Nebi Elias on Route 55. Victim stabbed in stomach, but was able to get into his car and drive to IDF checkpoint. Man in “serious condition.” Terrorist escaped.

UPDATES 12:00 pm

11:11 am: Palestinian stabbing attack. Female Palestinian terrorist stabs Israeli security guard at the entrance to Beitar Illit. Security guard in “fair” condition. Terrorist shot and killed.

UPDATES 10:00 am

***Palestinian terror attacks.

So far this morning:

The site of the carnage at the Tapuach Junction a few minutes ago.

The site of the carnage at the Tapuach Junction a few minutes ago.

–at 9:52 am–eight minutes ago–there was a horrific “bulldozer” attack at the Tapuach Junction. 4 young Israelis were rammed into (including a pregnant woman) and wounded by a Palestinian terrorist in a car as they stood at a bus stop. Two are in “grave condition”. The terrorist was shot and killed by Border Guards.

–at 8:46 am, Border Guards captured a Palestinian terrorist at Mishor Givat Adumim following a gunfight.

–at 8:39 am, 4 knife-armed terrorists from Hebron captured in Kfar Manda, an Israeli-Arab town in the Galilee. The terrorists had in their possession an IDF computer. How they got it is anyone’s guess.

–at 7:30 am, an Israeli man was wounded by “rocks” thrown at his car on the Hussan bypass road.

Yesterday: more than 40 Palestinian terror attacks occurred.

The most egregious: at 9:20 pm, an Israeli woman was wounded at Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem; at 8:32 pm, Palestinian terrorists opened fire on an IDF patrol in Hebron; and at 10:15 am, an IDF soldier was shot and seriously wounded in Kiryat Arba beside Hebron.

Molotov firebombs and “rocks” were thrown at Israelis in such places as Ras al-Amud, Wadi Dura, Halhul, Kiryat Arba, Hebron, Issawiya, and Abu Tor.

***Medical updates:

The soldier who was shot in the head by a sniper at Anun two days ago remains in critical condition as does the 80-year-old woman who was repeatedly stabbed in Rishon LeZion. 

The two Israeli teenagers shot by a sniper or snipers in Hebron two days ago have had their conditions upgraded from “critical” to “serious and stable.”

***It is now fewer than 2 weeks until Jonathan Pollard will be released . . .

Whether it will come on Friday, November 20 or Saturday, November 21 is anyone’s guess, but the Obama Administration is letting it be known that no one should expect anything more than his release.

According to one of Obama’s most stridently anti-Israel advisors, Ben Rhodes, Pollard will not be allowed to leave the country for a period of five years (translated: “He cannot go Israel”) and he will not be able to give interviews to the press.

Let’s all hope that once Pollard is finally free from prison, a way will be found to get him here to Israel.

***The Reform Jewish Movement in the United States continues its drive to separate American Jews from Israel. 

In one of his most blatant anti-Israel pronouncements yet, “Rabbi” Rick Jacobs, the leader of the Reform Movement declared yesterday: “Asking Jews around the world only to wave the flag of Israel and to support even the most misguided policies of its leaders drives a wedge between the Jewish soul and the Jewish state.”

So let’s get this straight. The people here in Israel, the people here on the front lines against terrorism from all sides, the people here who engage in democracy on a grand scale–we Israelis are misguided and have no soul. 

This was followed by one of the most presumptuous statements your humble servant has ever heard: “Our North American Reform Jewish community can be an enormous source of spiritual, moral, and strategic help to the Jewish state.”

So let’s get this straight. The North American Reform Jewish community which does not have enough spiritual, moral, and strategic wherewithal to hold itself together in the face of rapidly increasing assimilation, and which has become a “catch-all” for anyone and everybody except for those who follow Jewish Torah and law exactly, can be a spiritual and moral help to the Jewish state?

And a strategic help? Where has the reform movement been in the last few years? In large part, undermining Israel on Iran and taking the J Street approach to delegitimization of this country.

As if these comments were not funny enough, Jacobs made them at a convention center in Orlando, Florida, the home of Disneyland. A former dancer, Jacobs actually had ballet dancers performing on stage beside him during a part of his hour long speech. 

TODAY’S BLOG:

Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth president (1978-1983), died yesterday at age 94. He was not very well known outside of Israel, a fact that makes your humble servant think that a small “presidential quiz” is in order today.

What follows are 17 difficult questions. If you can answer more than half of these correctly, consider yourself an expert on Israeli affairs. The answers to the questions will be published in tonight’s update. Good luck!

The Israel President Quiz:

To date, there have been 10 Presidents of Israel: (in order, beginning from February 17, 1949) Chaim Weizmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Zalman Shazar, Ephraim Katzir, Yitzhak Navon, Chaim Herzog, Ezer Weizman, Moshe Katsav, Shimon Peres, and currently Reuven Rivlin.

1.  Which President belonged to no political party when he was elected President?

2.  Which President was elected the most times–and–served the longest?

3.  Which President served the fewest number of years?

4. Which President was the first president born in the 20th century?

5. Which two Presidents died in office?

6. Which two Presidents resigned from office?

7.  Which President was forced to take a leave of absence because of alleged sexual offenses–and never returned to office?

8. What President was featured on the 100 New Shekel currency note?

9. What President was featured on the 200 New Shekel currency note?

10. Which President wrote two successful musicals and a modern historical novel?

11. Which Israeli president was a biophysicist who studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Columbia University, and Harvard University?

12. Which Israeli president was a poet and author who received the Bialik Prize for Literature?

13. Which President was the first president to have been born in Jerusalem?

14. Which Israeli president commanded the Israel Air Force and directed the attacks against the Egyptian air bases in 1967 which wiped out the Egyptian air force on the first day of the Six-Day War?

15. Which Israeli president received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry,  lectured in chemistry at the University of Geneva, is known as the “father of bacterial fermentation”, invented acetone (critical to the Allied World War I effort), founded the world famous science institute that bears his name in Rehovot and was instrumental in establishing the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was good friends with Albert Einstein, was president of the Zionist Organization, and is given credit for convincing the U.S. to recognize the new state of Israel?

16. Which Israeli president was born in Belfast, Ireland, fought in the Haganah in the 1930s, in the British Army in World War II, and retired from the IDF with the rank of Major-General in 1962 (and in 1986-1987 personally helped your humble servant with his aliya to Israel)?

17. Yesterday, Yitzhak Navon died at age 94. What other Israeli presidents were 80 years old or older at death?

  1.  Which President belonged to no political party at the time he was elected? Chaim Weizmann
  2.  Which President was elected the most times–and–served the longest? Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 3 times (from December 16 1952 until April 23 1963)
  3.  Which President served the shortest number of years? Chaim Weizmann (February 17 1949 until November 9 1952)
  4. Which President was the first president born in the 20th century? Ephraim Katzir (1916)
  5. Which two Presidents died in office? Chaim Weizmann (November 9, 1952), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (April 23, 1963)
  6. Which two Presidents resigned from office? Ezer Weizman (July 13, 2000 because of alleged financial improprieties before he became President–(charges were never proven in court)– and Moshe Katsav—see number 7.
  7.  Which President was forced to take a leave of absence because of alleged sexual offenses–and never returned to office? Moshe Katsav who is currently serving time in prison in Israel. Between January 25, 2007 when Katsav took the leave of absence and July 15, 2007 when Shimon Peres was chosen, Israel had two acting presidents: Dalia Itzik, and Majalli Wahabi (a Druze).
  8. What President was first featured on the 100 New Shekel currency note? Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
  9. What President was first featured on the 200 New Shekel currency note? Zalman Shazar
  10. Which President wrote two successful musicals and a modern historical novel? Yitzhak Navon Navon wrote two musicals based on Sephardic folklore: Romancero Sefardi(1968) and Bustan Sefardi(“Sephardic Garden” 1970), which were successfully performed at Habimah, Israel’s national theater in Tel Aviv. He is also the author of The Six Days and the Seven Gates (1979), a modern legend of the reunification of Jerusalem. Navon was fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, English, Yiddish, Ladino, and Spanish.
  11. Which Israeli president was a biophysicist who studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Columbia University, and Harvard University? Ephraim Katzir
  12. Which Israeli president was a poet and author who received the Bialik Prize for Literature? Zalman Shazar. He also authored a message that was sent to the moon with Apollo 11 reading: “From the President of Israel in Jerusalem with hope for ‘abundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth’ (Psalms 72,7).”*
  13. Which President was the first president to have been born in Jerusalem? Yitzhak Navon. His father’s family came to Jerusalem in 1670, his mother’s in 1742.
  14. Which Israeli president commanded the Israel Air Force and directed the attacks against the Egyptian air bases in 1967 which wiped out the Egyptian air force on the first day of the Six-Day War? Ezer Weizman
  15. Which Israeli president received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry,  lectured in chemistry at the University of Geneva, is known as the “father of bacterial fermentation”, invented acetone (critical to the Allied World War I effort), founded the world famous science institute that bears his name in Rehovot and was instrumental in establishing the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was good friends with Albert Einstein, was president of the Zionist Organization, and is given credit for convincing the U.S. to recognize the new state of Israel? Chaim Weizmann
  16. Which Israeli president was born in Belfast, Ireland, fought in the Haganah in the 1930s, in the British Army in World War II, and retired from the IDF with the rank of Major-General in 1962 (and in 1986-1987 personally helped your humble servant with his aliya to Israel)? Chaim Herzog
  17. Yesterday, Yitzhak Navon died at age 94. What other Israeli presidents were 80 years old or older at death?  Ephraim Katzir (93), Zalman Shazar (84), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (80), Ezer Weizman (80). Former President Shimon Peres is currently 91 or 92 years old (there is some dispute about his birthdate).

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