4 Tammuz 5780
26 June 2020
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
8 am Friday:
22,400 confirmed cases—an increase of 356 since this time yesterday
16,007 recovered—an increase of 67
47 in serious condition—an increase of 1
29 on ventilators—an increase of 1
309 have died–an increase of 1
The major Corona “hotspots” are Tiberias, Elad, Bat Yam, Ashdod, the Arara, Bnei Brak, Beitar Illit, Lod, Or Yehuda and Hura.
113 soldiers in the IDF are confirmed positive. 4,461 soldiers are now in self-quarantine.
Palestinian terror . . .
An unconfirmed number of Hamas terrorists are injured or dead after a major tunnel collapse in northern Gaza.
Good news . . .
The Imperial Hotel on the left and the Petra Hotel on the next block. This is just inside the Jaffa Gate in the Old City.
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Ateret Cohanim has won yet another judicial decision which confirms that the Greek Patriarchate indeed sold them the Petra and Imperial Hotels in the old city of Jerusalem.
This case has dragged on for years, but now will come the final step in the process–an appeal by the Patriarchate to the Israel Supreme Court.
As we all know by now, the wonderful Ateret Cohanim is in this for the long run. Their redeeming of Jewish properties in the old city and in eastern Jerusalem often takes a decade or more.
TODAY’S BLOG
A Bad Night For Iran
Significant events took place in Iraq and Iran last night.
In Iraq, 13 senior Hezbollah commanders belonging to the Iranian-proxy group Ketaib Hezbollah were captured by Iraqi and U.S. Special Forces in a raid south of Baghdad. At least one of the commanders was Iranian. Also, numerous missiles were taken in the raid.
Ketaib Hezbollah has been responsible for multiple attacks on bases housing U.S. military personnel. Most notably, it was the sieging of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad by Ketaib Hezbollah that led to U.S. drone strike that eliminated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.
At roughly the same time, in Iran, major explosions lit up the night sky 30 miles southeast of Tehran at the major Revolutionary Guard military complex at Parchin:
One of the blasts last night at Parchin–as seen by someone in Tehran.
As you may remember, Parchin is one of the homes of the Iranian nuclear weapons program and the center of its munitions industry. It is also the home of a ballistic missile testing site.
What (or who) caused the blast is unknown though the Iranians are claiming that the blasts were merely caused by the explosion of a gas tank at the complex.
Whether the attack against Iranian proxy Ketaib Hezbollah in Iraq and what happened at Parchin are connected is anyone’s guess, but all in all it was a bad night for Iran.
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.