Yom Shnee
Monday
17 Av 5781
July 26 2021
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the the last 24 hours . . .
On the Gaza border:
Palestinian terrorists using explosive balloons launched from Gaza started at least a dozen fires in the Eshkol Region.
Fire in the Kissufim Forest. Note all the gray smoke in the background.
Click here to see a short video of the aftermath of a fire in the Kissufim Forest.
In response, the IAF bombed a Hamas military camp (aka empty buildings) in Gaza. While the bombing was taking place, Hamas terrorists fired machine guns at the airplanes which hit buildings along the border.
Later, Hamas and Islamic Jihad declared that they will “escalate” the situation along the border in the next few weeks.
In Judea and Samaria:
Palestinian terrorists attacked a soldiers’ bus with Molotovs near Beit Haggai on Mt. Hevron.
Palestinian terrorists were captured by an IDF patrol at Mevo Dotan following a firefight. One terrorist was shot in the chest.
Palestinian terrorists attacked a bus near Lupin’Aya, a Border Police jeep at Tarkumiya on Road 35, and motorists at the Na’alin Junction, at Alei Zahav Square, on Road 55 beside Alfei Menashe, on Road 458, and between the large Yitzhar Junction and Hatamar Shomron Square among other places.
Palestinian terrorists assaulted an IDF observation post at Khursa near Negohot.
Palestinian terrorists wounded two soldiers near Givat Eviatar.
A different Olympics . . .
While we all have been focused on Tokyo, the International Mathematical Olympiad has been taking place.
In an astonishing achievement, all six members of the Israeli team won medals: 3 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze.
At the end of the competition, Israel ranked 7th out of 107 countries that sent teams.
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TODAY’S BLOG:
The Pressure Cooker That Is Israel
It is one thing that Israel is surrounded by Hezbollah to the north, Iranian proxies and Hezbollah to the northeast, Bedouin terrorists in the Sinai, and a myriad of terror entities in Gaza led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Israelis wake up and go to sleep at night with Iron Dome batteries ready to intercept incoming missiles from all directions, and an IDF on constant alert for infiltrations from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, and Gaza.
If that’s not enough to worry about, constant terrorism is a daily fact of life in Judea and Samaria, and the Israeli-Arab sector is now producing one violent demonstration after another.
Yet all of the above is not really the subject of today’s blog.
A few days ago, your humble servant and his family embarked on a trip from our home in southern Israel up to a moshav just south of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona.
Once upon a time, especially after Highway 6 which runs from north to south in Israel was constructed, this was a trip whose travel time would have taken about 2.5 hours. Today, it normally takes at least 5. Two days ago, it took almost 7.
Why? Because the entire highway from the Nesher Junction (near the intersection of Highways 6 and 1) to the Dalyiat Carmel exit is wall to wall cars and trucks.
So you may ask, why do we go on 6 and not some other highways? Because as bad as it is, 6 is still faster than trying to wade through the massive traffic jams on the coastal road from Ashdod-Rishon Lezion-Tel Aviv-Netanya-and on and on.
Israel is simply a sea of cars.
And people.
Today, up here in the area of Kiryat Shmona where the temperature was 40C this afternoon, every conceivable place–especially those having any connection to water–was packed with thousands of Israelis. Nature reserves are closed unless you have reservations; riversides are lined with families 5 and 6 families-deep; it is an unbelievable crush of people at shopping malls, gas stations, and restaurants.
So aside from the pressure of survival, Israel has become a pressure cooker of cars and people.
And no one seems to have any solution as to how to alleviate the situation. Is it any wonder that Israelis are clamoring to get out of the country–even to countries overrun with Corona?
PS. Virtually no one we saw today was wearing a mask.
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.