27 Adar II 5779
3 April 2019
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
A major stabbing attack was thwarted this morning near Elon Moreh when a Palestinian terrorist attempted to open the passenger side door of a young Israeli girl in a car at Hawara and stab her. At that point, the girl’s father–who is a member of the Elon Moreh security team–shot the terrorist dead.
Meanwhile, Palestinian terrorists carried out Molotov and “rock” attacks at numerous other locations such as Na’aleh, Abud, Yishil, at curve 160 between Kiryat Arba and Hevron, Kaft Aqeb, Azzun, Nabi Elias, Hizma, Adam, Dir Nizam, Ma’ale Levona, Beit El, Psagot, Jilazon, Karmei Tzur, Halhul, Neve Tzuf, and along Road 564.
On the Gaza border:
An agreement between Hamas and Israel appears imminent. Among other things, the agreement will apparently call for “a prisoner exchange.” Of course, Hamas is not really holding any Israeli “prisoners”–just the body parts of two soldiers killed in 2014, and two mentally unstable Israeli-Arabs who entered Gaza voluntarily.
In return for these body parts and two mentally challenged people, Israel will apparently release numerous terrorists.
Unbelievable, but entirely predictable.
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Who knows what other concessions Israel will make to Hamas?
TODAY’S BLOG
Down To The Wire: The Latest Polls
It is now less than a week until the election on Tuesday, April 9th.
As usual, the notoriously unreliable Israeli polls are all over the place with some showing that the Blue and White party of Gantz and Yapid will emerge on top, but others suggesting that the advantage belongs to Likud.
What remains interesting is the showing of the smaller parties on the Israeli right–all of which look like they may get enough votes to have representatives in the Knesset (remember that the threshold for representation is receiving 3.25% of the vote total).
Of course, this continued good showing by these small parties has both bad and good implications for Netanyahu. On the negative side, it appears that unlike what happened in 2015, Netanyahu is failing in his effort to woo voters on the right to his Likud party. On the positive side, it appears that a right-wing government appears to be in the works again.
However, the fly in the ointment is the possibility that Gantz and Lapid will receive the most votes and will therefore be given first shot at forming a government. Whether they will be able to persuade some parties on the right to join them will just depend in large measure on what plums those parties are offered.
The best we can hope for is that Likud and Netanyahu emerge on top so that the above scenario does not happen.
By the way, the final polls will soon be out–Israel does not permit polling up until the election.
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.