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5 August 2019
The News On The Israeli Street
From Judea and Samaria:
Guns confiscated from Palestinian terrorists near Tulkarm yesterday.
*As noted above, there was an attempted penetration of terrorists out of the Tulkarm area yesterday–but the three terrorists armed with these three guns were captured.
*Palestinian terrorists carried out a Molotov attack on an IDF post beside Kfar El-Aruv.
*More than a dozen Palestinian terrorists were capture yesterday after attacking Border Guards with “rocks” at Kfar El Jib.
*Three more Palestinian terrorists were captured after attacking homes in Ma’ale Olive with Molotovs.
*Palestinian terrorists threw IEDs at an IDF post on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road.
*Palestinian terrorists assaulted Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks” in Beit Horon, at Tekoa, and at numerous other places.
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New immigrants to Israel? . . .
According to the Jewish Agency, 11,882 immigrants made aliya to Israel between January 1 and June 30 this year–a 42% increase.
Or did they?
Most of the new immigrants (7,894) came from Russia, but it turns out that many of them are working a scam called the “Passport Rise”.
A new law passed in Israel two years ago directs the Ministry of the Interior to immediately issue new arrivals a passport–without waiting for any evidence that they have actually begun to reside here.
As a result, the Russians come here, receive an Israeli passport, and immediately return home to Russia.
The scam is similar to what happened in the 1990s when many Russian “immigrants” came to Israel, grabbed all the benefits they could, then moved on to Canada or the U.S.–where they received more benefits.
Talk talk and more useless talk:
As you may not know, this week’s government cabinet meeting was held in Eilat. Netanyahu wanted the meeting to be there because Eilat traditionally votes heavily for Likud.
More than this, tourism is suffering in the city because of the fiasco with the new Ramon airport which is located 20 minutes out of town–and the fiasco with Arkia Airlines whose main hub at Sde Dov in Tel Aviv has been permanently closed forcing domestic passengers to Eilat to fight through the always crowded Ben Gurion Airport.
In any case, here were the basic points of the meeting:
*The government will supposedly spend 500 million shekels to upgrade transport infrastructure, set up tourist centers, make the coastal strip–where the naval base is now–public.
*Netanyahu supported the idea of a casino in Eilat but it was stridently opposed by the ultra-orthodox and dropped.
*The tourism minister supported the idea of building 4 new large hotels in Eilat–even though most of the hotels are now half empty.
*Netanyahu promised that the rail passenger line to Eilat would be completed (it hasn’t started yet–and is at least 5 years down the road).
*Visitors to Eilat will continue to not have to pay the Israeli 18% VAT tax.
Talk, talk, and talk. Just useless campaign chatter. And do you want to know the photo that Israelis will remember about this cabinet meeting:
King Bibi had his own personal chair driven from Jersusalem to Eilat in a pick-up truck.
TODAY’S BLOG
Can You Guess What It Is?
These photos were made in the Gulf of Eilat down on the Red Sea yesterday. What in the world do you think you are looking at? (Photos courtesy of Dive Village Eilat.)
Your humble servant will give you four choices:
A. A plastic balloon discarded from an incoming ship to the port
B. A previously undiscovered sea worm
C. An underwater jellyfish
D. A transparent, headless, sea cucumber
So which one do you think it is?
Well . . .
This was a trick question. The answer is none of the above.
It is actually a swirl of eggs from a female Diamond Squid. As you can see, this remarkable blue and purple colored glowing swirl is over a meter long.
In case you have never seen one of these remarkable squids before, here’s a photo of one:
Just to think that these squid were swimming around your humble servant as he was snorkeling last week in Eilat!
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.