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25 July 2020
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
As of 8 am this morning (Saturday): There are 59,475 confirmed cases—an increase of 2,022 since this time yesterday
26,797 of these confirmed cases have recovered—an increase of 2,753
308 are in critical condition—an increase of 7
84 of the most critically ill are on ventilators—an increase of 2
448 have died–an increase of 6
There are 32,678 active cases.
The striking statistic above is the number of people who have recovered–an increase of 2,753. Given the fact that the average number of people per day who have been classified as “recovered” has been between 300 and 700, how can we explain the sudden surge? One almost has to think that there is something amiss in the Health Ministry’s data reporting.
*An interesting fact: in the last three non-Corona years (2017, 2018, 2019), approximately 125 Israelis died each day from all causes such as disease, accidents, and terror. This means that if we take the last 3 months (90 days), approximately 11,250 Israelis have probably died. Since non-Corona “disease deaths” have actually decreased during the Corona period, it is not likely that Corona-deaths would add much if anything to the “125 each day” total.
Of course, what we are seeing each day is only “the number of Israelis who died of Corona yesterday”–the actual number of Israelis who died yesterday is much higher.
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TODAY’S BLOG
What Happened On The Syrian Border Yesterday?
Note the proximity of Israel, Syria, and Lebanon. Also note the location of Majdal Shams (under ISRAEL).
As you may not know, all of northern Israel is on alert with checkpoints at road junctions in close proximity to the Lebanese border. Israel anticipates that Hezbollah will retaliate in the near future for the Hezbollah commander who was killed in the Israeli airstrike outside of Damascus four days ago.
Apparently, this anticipation is not connected to what happened yesterday–though given the geographical closeness of Syria, Israel, and Lebanon, it is not beyond the range of possibility that what happened was somehow connected.
The sequence of events yesterday:
Early Friday, at least one Syrian anti-aircraft missile apparently aimed an Israeli aircraft missed the aircraft and exploded right on the border with Syria near Majdal Shams (see above map). Even though the blast itself was in Syria, shrapnel from the blast hit a security building in Israel as well as a passing Israeli civilian vehicle.
Later, yesterday evening, IDF combat helicopters attacked Syrian army targets including observation posts and intelligence gathering facilities in the vicinity. However, other reports suggest that what were hit were Hezbollah units embedded in Syrian Army positions.
Whatever the case, northern Israel remains on high alert.
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.