Yom Shleeshee
Tuesday
10 Tevet 5782
December 14 2021
The Photo of the Day
One of the beautiful grottos at Rosh Hanikra–at the northwest tip of Israel–where your humble servant was yesterday.
The Israeli Sweet of the Day
How about these for a delicious snack this morning? Dates stuffed with cream and topped with an almond? (Photo: Jamie Geller).
The News on the Israeli Street
A follow-up to yesterday’s blog . . .
The subject of yesterday’s blog was the absurdity of thinking that the U.S. or Israel will initiate a war with Iran. As part of that, I wrote that “the Biden Administration would also not support or supply Israel with the means of making a strike on Iran.”
Later yesterday came news that the United States has flatly rejected an Israeli request to expedite the delivery of KC-46 refueling aircraft. These aircraft have a range of more than 11,000 km and can stay in the air for more than 11 hours, and would be essential for any Israeli strike on Iran.
A U.S. KC-46 refueling an F-16.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks” at Luban A-Sharqiya, Tapuach, Ariel, Beit El, and Migdalim.
Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli car in the Binyamin region; 4 members of the family inside were wounded and are currently at Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital.
Palestinian terrorists wounded a policeman in a bulldozer attack near Tzofim Square in the direction of Qalqilya.
What is the U.S. interested in? . . .
Israel’s Minister of Internal Security, Omer Bar Lev met with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Noland yesterday. According to Bar Lev, the topics Noland was most interested in were “settler violence and strengthening the PLO” and what Israel can do to “reduce tensions in the area.”
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Not a word about incessant Palestinian terror, not a word about PLO incitement against Israel, not a word about what the Palestinians can do to reduce tensions: the Biden Administration is putting the entire onus on Israel.
Speaking of Palestinian terror . . .
Because of recent terror attacks in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked signed orders yesterday prohibiting Hamas senior operatives from traveling to Turkey where they have their headquarters.
Here at OneIsrael we find it amazing that such action has not been taken before now. Israel knows that the orders for Hamas terror emanate from Turkey and still we have permitted their senior terrorist leaders to fly back and forth?
Not only Palestinian violence . . .
There was a massive outbreak of Israeli-Arab violence during the Hamas missile attacks in May.
According to a police report yesterday: 322 police officers were wounded; 297 police cars were badly damaged; and 3,095 rioters were arrested.
But . . . there have only been 338 indictments among those 3,095.
TODAY’S BLOG
Never Again: The Tenth of Tevet
You may have missed the date above, but today is the 10th of Tevet. It is a day on which many in Israel fast.
As to why, Arutz Sheva gives the following explanation today:
“On Asarah B’Tevet in the year 3336, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, laid siege to Jerusalem, marking the beginning of the events that led to the destruction of the First Temple, the exile of the People of Israel from their land and soon after, the last vestiges of self rule for those who remained.”
What happened is told in the Book of Kings, Chapter 25 (here rephrased by Arutz Sheva):
“So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
Then the city wall was broken through… They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon. On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon…set fire to the Temple of the Lord…carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.”
So, the 10th of Tevet is a day of intense sadness, one of 4 fast days which remember different disasters that befell our eternal capital.
It is a day to remind ourselves of the importance of never letting it happen again.
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.