Yom Reva’ee
Wednesday
4 Tevet 5782
December 8 2021
The Surreal Photo of the Morning
An orange sunrise over the Dead Sea this morning. The white material along the water’s edge and extending out around the piers is salt.
The Food of the Day
As we wrote yesterday, we had so may favorable comments about the photos of souvganiot that we posted during Chanukah, we have decided to continue to indulge our appetite for Israeli food indefinitely–especially our appetite for sweets. Today’s entry:
What in the world? This unbelievably tasty treat is cheese-filled, syrup-covered Druze knafeh with a few pistachios sprinkled on top.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
A female Palestinian terrorist stabbed a 30-year-old female Jewish worshiper in the back at the tomb of Shimon HaTzaddik (beside Sheikh Jarrar) in eastern Jerusalem a few minutes ago. She is currently in critical condition at Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital. The terrorist escaped.
The completion of the Gaza border fence . . .
An Israeli soldier stands guard during the ceremony yesterday. The photo however does not even begin to capture the complexity of “fence” (read below). (Photo/Tsafrir Abayov).
We reported yesterday that a ceremony was held to inaugurate the new fence. Just how large that project was can be read in an article in the Israel Hayom newspaper today:
“Construction of the barrier was a massive industrial undertaking, requiring some 1,200 workers, the removal of 330,000 trucks’ worth of sand, dirt and rocks, two million cubic meters of concrete and enough rebar that if laid out in a single line would reach Australia . . . . The 40-mile (65-kilometer) barrier lies all along the Gaza border and extends out to sea in order to ensure that terror groups in the Strip do not dig underwater tunnels, as they have attempted in the past.”
As for the components of the “fence”, it is made of reinforced concrete wall that is studded with sensors underground to detect tunnels; a 20-foot (six-meter) steel fence above ground; a network of radar arrays and other surveillance sensors; and remote-controlled weaponry. Along its length are several command/observation centers.
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Israel will now begin to build a similar “fence” along the Lebanese border in the north.
TODAY’S BLOG:
A United Israel That Will Keep And Honor Tradition
Last night in an event hardly covered by the Israel media and even less by the international media, thousands of protesters against the government flooded Habima Square in Tel Aviv to voice their concerns.
Among those present were former PM Netanyahu, but the main speakers were Knesset members from the National Zionism and Jewish Power Parties: Eli Cohen, Amir Ohana, Itamar Ben Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich.
Smotrich spoke to and for the protesters:
“We are the Israel that believes in the State of Israel: our IDF, soldiers, commanders, heroism, fighting spirit, and the ability to win. We believe in the whole nation of Israel, in all its shades, in its wisdom, an Israel that must remain one and united. An Israel that believes it has the power to act and change and democratically overthrow this bad government–and to establish a Jewish and Zionist government in its place. An Israel that believes in democracy, in the majority decision, and believes that the legal system must be reformed and Israeli democracy preserved. An Israel that will keep and honor tradition, the Shabbat, and the Kotel–Western Wall.
Two themes of the protest were the alliance that the current government has made with the Islamist Ra’am Party and heavily biased leftist reporting coming from mainline Israeli television channels:
The placard on the left is targeting the leftist Israeli media–especially Channels 12 and 13. On the right, we see a placard with Ra’am head Mansour Abbas with Hamas head Yahya Sinwar.
The festive crowd waved Israeli flags and held banners especially attacking PM Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked for what they see as a complete betrayal of their principles and promises.
Some of the crowd in Tel Aviv last night.
Another view of the large crowd:
The protesters were an interesting mixture of secular and religious.
The mood was civil yet angry–a mood shared by your humble servant. We will end with this photo which sums up the way many of us feel:
The placard reads: “You do not have a mandate to erase a Jewish country!”
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.