Yom Shleeshee
Tuesday
5 Kislev 5782
November 9 2021
The Outrageous Quote of the Day
From Our Left-Wing Concession Government . . .
“The welfare services have to take their children and send them to foster homes in Israel.”
Mossi Raz, of the Coalition member Meretz Party and former Secretary General of Peace Now and Director of Ir Shalem.
Who is the “their” that Raz refers to? The children of Jewish community members in Area C of Judea and Samaria.
Where is the “in Israel” that Raz refers to? The Israel that is to the west of the 1948 Armistice Lines–the Israel that does not include any of Judea and Samaria, a critical part of our ancestral homeland.
Raz believes that our soldiers should immediately be pulled out of Judea and Samaria and that all of the communities should be evacuated and razed.
In response, Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionist Party said this: “Now, Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked’s senior partner calls on the welfare services to take Israeli children from their parents and send them to foster families in 1948 Israel. Bennett and his partners have placed crazy leftists on the fringes and their delusional positions into the center of decision-making and leadership in the State of Israel.
The Video of the Day
Click here to watch a demonstration against the government at the Strings Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem. Three of the signs read: “Bennett is not my prime minister!”, “Bennett is dangerous for Israel!”, “Bennett, where is your Zionism?”
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 48 hours . . .
IDF soldiers captured Palestinian terrorists belonging to the al-Harita cell in the Jenin area last night including a recently released prisoner.
An IDF soldier was wounded in the face by a “rock” thrown by a Palestinian terrorist near Qalqilya.
Palestinian terrorists using “rocks” and Molotovs attacked Israeli motorists on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road south of the Karmi Tzur Junction, between Ma’aleh Shomron and Azzun, south of the T Junction, on the Gush Etzion-Jerusalem Road near the Al-Khader Junction, and near Beit Omer among other places.
Palestinian terrorists attacked buses at the Jericho Bypass (one passenger was wounded) and south of the Meitarim Junction.
The Corona rules of entry change yet again . . .
It is hard to keep up with the inconsistencies emanating from the Health Ministry.
Just days after establishing new rules for tourists entering the country, new rules were issued yesterday. Now, incoming tourists no longer need to have received a booster shot even if they were double vaccinated more than six months ago.
Dr. Asher Salmon, Head of Health Ministry’s Department of International Relations, blathered this nonsense: “We are not comfortable with the decision, but we understand there are individuals who want to come and visit Israel and cannot because they don’t have access to the boosters.”
Just unbelievable. What if tourists are coming from some place like Papua New Guinea and don’t have access to any vaccine? Can they come into the country too?
By the way, individual tourists are still not allowed–they must come in groups ranging in size from 5 to 40 people.
Unless that changes this afternoon.
Our Concession Coalition Government begins to crank out legislation and guidelines . . .
What’s on the docket for this week?
*A new prime minister term limits law that will limit prime ministers to 2 terms in office.
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*A new law to prevent anyone who is indicted from forming a government.
What’s on the menu for the near future?
*Alternate prime minister, Foreign Minister, and former boxer and news broadcaster Yair Lapid has set January as the deadline for reaching a deal for egalitarian prayer at the Kotel. Lapid says that it is important to do so in order to improve relations with Diaspora Jews (aka Jews of the Reform Movement).
This of course is the goal of Bennett and Lapid, an Israel not so much for Israelis but for Reform and secular Jews around the world.
Is it any surprise that senior officials of the government are meeting today in Jerusalem with representatives of the reprehensible J Street?
Skyrocketing prices lead to . . .
More Israelis in deeper debt.
As you may not know, most Israelis use their bank debit card as a credit card leading to virtually everyone here having what is called an “overdraft.” The overdraft is the amount that a person has in essence borrowed, and it can accumulate monthly with interest if unpaid.
In August, the average overdraft was 11,216 shekels (about $3,505).
In October, the average overdraft was 14,176 shekels ($4,514 taking into account the decline in the value of the dollar). What’s more, 32.4% of all Israeli households were deeply in the red.
Of course, prices have dramatically risen as of November 1; who knows what the numbers will be at the end of the month?
TODAY’S BLOG
Welcome To the Swamp
We have written many times over the last few months how our “new” government which Naftali Bennett is fond of saying is embued with “moral clarity” has been anything but.
During times when we were under Corona lockdown, we nevertheless have seen PM Bennett, FM Lapid, and a whole host of other official gallivanting around the world accompanied by large entourages.
For example at the recent global environmental meeting in Glasgow, it was remarkable to see how Bennett not only went himself, but also carried along 39 other people–making Israel the 2nd country in the world in attendance in terms of representatives.
Did we really need 40 people there?
Of course not.
FM Lapid (the head of the Yesh Atid Party) has taken this all one step further. After spending the last few years lambasting PM Netanyahu and his cohorts for alleged corruption in appointments, Lapid has been busy appointing his relatives to plum positions.
For example, it was only about 10 days ago that Lapid maneuvered his sister-in-law Keren Ilail, a Yesh Atid Party activist, into a position on the Board of the Jewish National Fund as Deputy Chairwoman.
Similarly, Lapid’s cousin Sarit Hendenkopf was recently appointed Director General of the Holocaust Remembrance Department in Israel and the Diaspora of the World Zionist Organization. Hendenkopf is another Yesh Atid Party activist.
Neither of these appointments was made transparently, but Ilail’s appointment generated a storm of protest as soon as it became public. This morning she resigned her position with the JNF, but not without Lapid writing a post about his “beloved” sister-in-law and how she only wanted to volunteer to help Israel.
Actually, she was not merely volunteering; she was going to be paid a hefty salary.
In any case, the Israeli political swamp is murkier than ever with corruption and nepotism dictating who gets what jobs.
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.