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24 July 2020
Friday Black Humor
France announced this morning that it will “transfer 10 million Euros to the Palestinian Authority to support water, health, and other civilian activities.”
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Let’s translate the announcement: France will “give 10 million Euros to the PLO to support Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies, provoke incitement against Israelis, and pay the salaries of terrorists who murder or try to murder Israelis.”
Everyone in the world knows after almost 30 years of Palestinian corruption that money donated to the Palestinians goes straight to PLO bank accounts in Switzerland and terrorists’ bank accounts in Ramallah.
Sad But True Quote Of The Day
“The Ministry of Health has no management strategy and no managers; all work is being done by volunteer organizations. The health system itself is on the verge of collapse. At the end of the first wave of Corona, hospital administrators said that they could handle 4,000 critically ill patients on ventilators. Now they say they can only handle 800. The doctors and nurses working in the intensive care units are completely overwhelmed.”
Gabriel Barbash, the man who was supposed to have been the new Corona czar.
It turns out that the man reason Barbash did not get the job is because Netanyahu and Edelstein refused to relinquish authority over the Health Ministry to him.
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
As of 8 am this morning (Friday): There are 57,453 confirmed cases—an increase of 1,368 since this time yesterday
24,044 of these confirmed cases have recovered—an increase of 734
301 are in critical condition—an increase of 28
82 of the most critically ill are on ventilators—an increase of 3
442 have died–an increase of 12
There are 33,409 active cases.
Most telling in the above statistics is the dramatic increase in critically ill patients (the number has passed 300 for the first time) and the fact that the death toll has reached double digits.
**As noted in the quote above, hospitals are overwhelmed. It was reported yesterday that Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem now has a 178% occupancy rate in the corona ward, and the Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) has a a 118% occupancy rate in its Corona ward. Other hospital Corona wards are also at 100% or higher.
If you can believe this, hospitals are beginning to send elderly (read 85+ years of age) “moderately ill” Corona patients home to free up hospital beds.
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**Here are the Corona hotspots in the last 3 days (the number is the number of newly confirmed cases in that locale): Jerusalem 701, Bnei Brak 383, Beit Shemesh 186,Tel Aviv – Yaffo 165, Beitar Illit 134, Petah Tikva 130, Modi’in Illit 124, and Ashdod 123.
To show how unreliable the Health these numbers are as a measure of how many new people are actually getting Corona, look again at our city of Ashdod. You see 123 newly confirmed cases. But guess what? The Ashdod Corona testing center has been closed for the last 4 days. Were all 123 new cases confirmed on Sunday? Or at Assuta Hospital in the city when people showed up at the emergency room?
**Some other fascinating statistics: take a look at the startlingly high % of positive tests in various locations. In other words, what % of people tested in the last three days tested positive: Beitar Illit 24.1%, Elad 23.7%, Beit Shemesh 20.9%, Modi’in Illit 19.7%, Bnei Brak 18.8%, Ein Mahel 15.5%, Kalenswa 15.0%,Kfar Manda 14.8%, Yafia 13.8%, Beit She’an 13.0%, Kiryat Malachi 12.9%, Nazareth 12.4%, Jerusalem 11.6%, and on and on.
By the way, an acceptable rate is supposed to be less than 2%. The above numbers are extremely worrisome.
Erasing women . . .
One of the most disgusting trends in Israel in the past month has been the attempt by some to erase or cover-up women’s faces from posters, placards, billboards, advertisements on buses and elsewhere.
Here in Ashdod, a person was finally arresting for “defacing” some 10 signs around the city with paint.
Yesterday we saw the same phenomenon outside Sha’are Zedek Hospital on a billboard thanking nurses for the efforts during the current pandemic:
An abhorrent trend in Israel.
Another night of protests in Jerusalem . . .
A snapshot of the crowd.
Unfortunately, the protests ramped up last night in front of PM Netanyahu’s residence. By the end of the night, 55 “activists” had been arrested.
More troublesome was that fights broke out at various bars between left and right wing protesters as well as scuffles in other venues.
We can expect huge demonstrations in Jerusalem this weekend in an increasingly volatile situation.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Case of the Iranian Passenger Plane
We awakened here in Israel this morning to news reports that Israeli jets had intercepted an Iranian passenger plane over Syria and forced it to crash land at Beirut Airport. Further, it was being reported that the Iranians said that 4 passengers on the plane were wounded and one had died. Even more was the report that the Iranians were rushing the incident to the United Nations for consideration.
So what really happened?
A regularly scheduled Mahan Airlines flight from Tehran to Beirut was indeed intercepted over Syria, but not by Israeli jets. The interceptor was an F15 US jet which “intercepted” the plane because it flew into a 55 km no fly zone over the American military base at Al-Tanf, Syria.
The American plane never came closer than 1000 meters to the Iranian aircraft; however, the Iranian pilot suddenly veered his plane and rapidly decreased altitude. If you would like to see how this looked on radar (and don’t mind looking at a few ads) click here: Iranian plane.
Whether anyone on board suffered more than a bump on the head is unknown. The Iranians have flooded social media with photos of supposedly injured passengers which may or may not be fake.
One final point: with American warplanes, Russian warplanes, Syrian warplanes, and Turkish warplanes all flying in the skies over Syria, what in the world is a domestic passenger plane doing in Syrian skies?
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.