Yom Shnee
Monday
25 Tammuz 5781
July 5 2021
TODAY’S BLOG:
11+ Numbers In Israel’s News Today
0.7%: The positive Corona test rate yesterday according to the Health Ministry. The percentage keeps rising–and is inching ever closer to the 1% mark which will bring about a a return to numerous Covid restrictions. 343 new cases were verified yesterday; 68 are in serious to critical condition; 2,597 people in the country have active cases–virtually all new cases are people with the Indian Delta mutation. New research at Hebrew University may show that the Pfizer vaccine only offers about 70% protection against the Delta mutation.
27: The number of “rock” and Molotov attacks reported by residents on the ground in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem yesterday. In one incident, Palestinian terrorists wounded the driver of a car near the Mt. of Olives near Gat Shemanim:
The “rock” that hit the driver in the head.
6: The number of fires set so far by Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria today.
Note this blackened area near Esh Kodesh in Samaria with smoke rising from several spots this morning.
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2.5 years: This was the sentence handed down yesterday in the case of Jasmine Jaber who was convicted in a Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court of aiding Hezbollah. Israel should put people like Jaber in a prison and throw away the key. 30 months from now she will be back on the street perpetrating terror against Israelis.
14: The number of guns that were intercepted by Israeli border police as terrorists tried to infiltrate Israel from Jordan–the same Jordan that we just idiotically agreed to give more water to from the Kineret (Sea of Galilee).
Confiscated along the Jordanian border yesterday.
17-14: The first legislative test of the new Coalition went down in flames this morning losing by a vote of 17-14 to advance an extension of the so-called Family Unification Law which seeks to prohibit Palestinians who marry Israelis from becoming Israeli citizens.
45: Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of the July 4, 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe to rescue passengers on the hijacked plane–and sadly, the 45th anniversary of the death of Lt. Col Yonatan Netanyahu.
80 million years old: This is the age of shark teeth just found at an archaeological site in Jerusalem dated to 700 BCE. How the shark teeth got there is anyone’s guess, but the same teeth have been found in archaeological sites in the Negev. By the way, the shark teeth came from the squalidorax shark, a species that became extinct about 60 million years ago.
1st place: The Israeli Youth Acrobatic team came in first place in the 11-17 age group world competition held in Geneva this past week and featuring entries from 25 countries. Congratulations to Eran, Liran, Moshe and Liad. You can watch a video of part of their performance here.
100,000: The estimated number of illegal Bedouin “buildings” in the Negev.
3.5 million: This is the number of cars on the congested roads here in Israel. In 1967, there were 1,050,000 cars being driven here.
And so it goes in Israel today . . .
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.