9 Nissan 5779
14 April 2019
The News On the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists throwing “rocks” and Molotovs attacked Israeli motorists at Tekoa, north of Ofra, near the Ma’ale Shomron Junction, in Turmus’aya, on the Nabi Elias Bypass Road, at various points on Route 60, Luban a-Sharqiya, ‘Urif, Givat Ronen, Kochav Hashahar, near the Tapuach Junction, and near Migdalot among other places.
At least two Israelis were wounded in the above attacks–badly enough that they had to be hospitalized.
The above information was taken from reports on the ground made to rotter and hakolhayehudi.
The election results keep coming in . . .
As we have been reporting since the election, the final count will not be available until Wednesday. Moreover, we have shown how substantial irregularities definitely affect the United Torah Judaism Party and possibly affect the New Right Party.
This morning comes news that United Torah Judaism has probably gained a seat and will have 8 seats. This seat comes at the expense of Likud which will now drop down to 35 seats.
The situation with the New Right Party is far more problematical. Whereas United Torah Judaism was able to identify polling places which are places where only Ashkenazi ultra-orthodox vote, no such ability exists for the New Right.
The best the New Right can hope for is that votes for the New Right which were manually reported at polling places were somehow “mis-entered” into the Election Commission computer. According to New Right co-head Naftali Bennett this morning, 200 such “mis-enterings” have so far been found. This still leaves the New Right some 1200 votes short of making the 3.25% threshold of 139,899 votes.
If there is any good news for New Right, it is that those 200 votes were found in the first 400 polling reports that have been reviewed. There are still 10,600 more to be checked. As you can see, if only 1 mistake is found in 1200 of these, New Right could get into the Knesset. However, many of the polling places are in Bedouin, Druze, and other Israeli-Arab locations at which the New Right would not have been expected to receive many votes, if any.
Your humble servant still believes that the likelihood of the Election Commission changing the results to put New Right in is small at best.
By the way, there are numerous reports that the New Right’s other head, Ayelet Shaked, is being heavily wooed by Likud and may become a Likudnik after the election results are certified and Passover is over.
Meanwhile, President Rivlin begins discussions . . .
President Rivlin began the process of inviting Party heads to his residence to ask them if who they would recommend form a coalition. Not surprisingly, the Likud, Shas, and United Torah Judaism parties (51 total seats) recommended Netanyahu, while the Blue and White party recommended itself (35 seats). The Israeli-Arab Party Hadash-Ta’al (6) recommended no one.
Late word is that Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party (5) has also recommended Netanyahu, but has immediately threatened that it intends to fight United Torah Judaism and Shas tooth and nail over such issues as the draft–and will leave the yet to be formed new coalition government if the Party does not get its way.
The “left’ continues its attacks . . .
The head of the New Israel Fund, Daniel Sokatch, published an article in the ultra-left wing newspaper Ha’aretz yesterday in which he called on American Jews to consider abandoning Israel as it currently exists:
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“Israel [has] ceased to be a democracy . . . It is time for Israel’s real friends–all those who want to see Israel realize its founding vision both as a Jewish homeland and as a democratic state – including the leaders of the American Jewish community–to say in a loud and clear voice, that Israel . . . that regularly disarms and controls another, will lose the support of the Jewish community, the United States, democratic countries, and the free world.”
With friends like the New Israel Fund, who needs enemies?
TODAY’S BLOG:
Judea and Samaria By The Numbers: What Does Annexation Mean?
Regular readers of israelstreet know that your humble servant has long advocated annexing Area C of Judea and Samaria. Now that PM Netanyahu has aroused the wrath of “leftists” everywhere by saying that he might support a gradual process of annexing all of the Jewish communities in Area C, perhaps it is a good time to revisit exactly what we are talking about.
Several days ago, the Yesha Council issued a publication which included these numbers:
*There are 448,672 Jews living in Judea and Samaria. All of them live in Area C. Obviously, this number does not include Jews who live in eastern Jerusalem. These 448,672 Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria constitute approximately 5% of the total population of Israel.
*327,000 of the above people live in communities close to the Green Line; 122,000 live in “deep” communities relatively far from the Green Line.
*One third (about 144,000) of the community members in Area C of Judea and Samaria are ultra-Orthodox. Their two largest cities are Modi’in Illit with 74,279 citizens and Beitar Illit with about 60,000 residents.
*The population of the communities in Judea and Samaria is younger than that of the rest of Israel. 45% of the population is under the age of 17, whereas in the rest of Israel that number is 27%.
*Since 1967, 242 communities and fledgling communities have been established throughout Judea and Samaria. 132 of these have been established with governmental approval; 110–mostly tiny, isolated, fledgling communities–were established without government approval; however, these 110 have been supported by various government ministries.
*In total, Area C is 61.9% of the entire area of Judea and Samaria. However, the 132 official communities, also known as “built up areas”, are situated on only 1.52% of Area C. The same communities have jurisdiction over another 7.9% of Area C (vacant land for planning and future construction).
*Between 2009-2018 (during PM Netanyahu’s recent tenure), there have only been 18,324 new houses built in Area C–about 1800 per year.
Once again, your humble servant urges the government to annex Area C (not just the Jewish communities), and to annex it now!
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