Yom Shnee
Monday
4 Kislev 5782
November 8 2021
The Photo of the Day
Look closely at the this photo of IDF soldiers running along the Tel Aviv promenade this morning.
The group running along the promenade are from Daniel Brigade of the Southern District of the Home Front Command. If you look very closely, you will see a tall man just right of center who is running with an artificial leg.
That man is Eitan Hermon who was wounded in the Second Lebanon War.
He recently won a world championship in long distance running for amputees.
The News on the Israeli Street
Israel attacks targets in Syria again . . .
Hezbollah and Iranian targets were attacked from two directions this evening–from the Mediterranean and from the direction of Jordan. Apparently, the main targets were shipments of drones from Iran.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Three missiles were fired from Gaza at southern Israel and was intercepted by the Iron Dome. The IDF has refused to give any details.
Two infiltrators identified as Palestinian were captured today after they had breached the Jordanian border.
Two IDF soldiers were wounded today by Palestinian terrorists in Ein Bidan. They both had to be hospitalized.
Palestinian agricultural terrorism continues in northern Israel. The following is a photo of a haybarn that was burned last night in Kibbutz Afikim:
Farms are a favorite target of Palestinian terrorists.
Hamas issues a new declaration . . .
Hamas, the same terror organization that Israel is facilitating blackmail payments to and construction materials by the truckload to, issued a new statement yesterday of its strategic goals:
1. The liberation of all Palestinian land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River–in other words the elimination of Israel.
2. The return of all Palestinian refugees to their homes who left in 1948.
3. The military capture of Jerusalem.
4. The establishment of a Palestinian state with full sovereignty over the land of Palestine and its capital Jerusalem.
5. The restoration of the Islamic identity of Palestinian society.
Can someone please explain to your humble servant why our government is bending over backwards to help Hamas?
Disturbing statistics about assimilation in Israel . . .
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Much is written about the assimilation of Jews in the West particularly in the United States. However, it turns out that assimilation is an increasing problem in Israel. By “assimilation”, we mean the phenomenon of Jews marrying non-Jews and having non-Jewish children.
Excluding Israeli-Arab couples, there are 1.3 million married couples in Israel.
According to statistics from the Interior Ministry yesterday:
110,000 of these couples in Israel involve one spouse who is not Jewish.
Some statistics from the Central Bureau of Statistics yesterday which are different and more detailed:
85,000 married Israeli couples involve one spouse who is not Jewish.
52,000 of the 85,000 involve a Jewish man married to a non-Jewish woman.
33,000 of the 85,000 involve a Jewish woman who is married to a non-Jewish man.
Of course, from a halachic standpoint, of most concern are Israeli men marrying non-Jewish women because their children will not be Jewish.
TODAY’S BLOG
18 Hours Of Air Activity Here In Ashdod
We all know the cliche that there is never a dull moment in Israel, but having said that your humble servant thought he would give you a timeline of what we saw in the skies over our house in the last 24 hours.
Herewith:
6:30 pm–7:30 pm last night: We often sit out on our back patio during this time; though these days it becomes dark around 5 pm. Every night, we count satellites and last night spotted 3. Ashdod is on the coast, and apparently a number of countries have satellites with continual orbits running south to north over the coast.
8:20 pm: Taking the garbage out, I was startled to see a low-flying drone streaking south over our house. The drone was small, not like the usual large, slow drones that we often hear all night as they fly their circular routes from the Ashdod area to Gaza and back.
11:45 pm: Just before hitting the sack, we had a 4-plane squadron of what sounded like F-15s or F16s buzz over our house heading north to who knows where.
1:00 am: It was the usual movement of helicopters apparently flying back and forth from the Palmahim base to an undisclosed base near Gaza. What made this unusual were the sounds of very heavy cargo-type helicopters.
6:00 am: We awakened to the usual small coastal spotter plane flying south along the beach.
7:45 am: Another squadron of planes–this time a group of 8 (from a nearby base I won’t divulge) went low over the house. So low that it was easy to make out the missiles of their wings.
9:00 am: I am doing some painting on our house this week. Working on the back of the house, I looked up at exactly 9:00 only to see a cluster of balloons with a detonator from Gaza flying northward.
11:15 am: Moving around to the front of the house for more painting, some sort of missile streaked high overhead. I have no idea what missile it was or where it was going–except that it was flying high and headed down the coast and then apparently out over the Mediterranean.
I could go on with more helicopters, more F-16s, and more . . . but you get the picture. There is never a quiet moment in the skies over Israel.
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.