Yom Shnee
Monday
8 Shevat 5782
January 10, 2022
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
There is virtually no news in Israel these days except for Covid-19 and more specifically the Omicron variant.
Yesterday another 32,488 Israelis were diagnosed as positive bringing to 133,928 the number of active cases in the country. More than 1.5 million Israelis have been infected since the onset of Corona. All of these numbers are changing by the minute.
222 Israelis are now categorized in serious condition, and another 58 in critical condition on ventilators. Both numbers are beginning to rise rapidly.
As is the number of daily dead which is now up to 10 per day: the total number since the pandemic began is 8,269.
Israel may have been the model nation showing the world how to best counter Corona earlier this year, but no longer.
Testing has almost completely broken down. The MDA system–the primary testing testing operation–was down all day yesterday. Home testing kits are sold out. The antigen tests have proven completely unreliable. According to PM Bennett, the government is now expecting between 2-4 million Israelis to become infected (half the country) in the next month.
In the last hour, the government has produced yet another set of restrictions for malls and shopping complexes which are utterly unable to be enforced. These restrictions called “tight purple” specify how many customers can occupy how many square meters of space in a store.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
These attacks were reported to Rescue Without Borders SSF/Rescue Judea and Samaria:
Palestinian terrorists attacked with “rocks” and Molotovs on Road 55 near the Azzun Junction, on Road 465 near Deir Nizam, between Migdalim and Tapuach near Aqraba, in the vicinity of Hizma, in Huwara north of Einbus Square, on the Jerusalem Tunnel Road toward Gush Etzion, and in a myriad of other places.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli buses between Hizma and Adam and also at Tekoa.
See Today’s Blog below for further details about another attack.
Food prices rise and . . . so does food theft . . .
We have often written on OneIsrael about the outrageous cost of everything in Israel from cottage cheese to cars. You may remember that just more than a week ago, prices went up again on a wide variety of products.
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Already that price increase is having a dramatic impact.
In the last ten days, food theft has increased by 250%. What are the main targets? Pasta and baby food.
Some supermarkets report that as many as ten customers a day are being caught trying to steal food.
TODAY’S BLOG:
“We live here and will continue to live here. It is our home.”
All regular readers of OneIsrael know that we chronicle the daily Palestinian “rock” and Molotov terror attacks targeting Jewish community members in Judea and Samaria. As we have reported, the last month has seen yet another increase in those attacks.
One such attack took place last Thursday.
Hila Lem was driving her car in Judea on her way home to the community of Elazar. In her words as told to YNet news:
“I was driving home from Tekoa to Elazar, a way I do many times, around midnight. Suddenly a stone flew towards me, penetrated the windshield and hit my forehead. Miraculously I continued to drive and called my father who called MDA and the security forces. Ten minutes later, I arrived in Efrat at the same time the IDF arrived. The MDA paramedics evacuated me to a hospital and they stitched me up there.”
The “stone” that Hila described was actually a concrete block weighing 4 kilograms. This is what happened when it “penetrated her windshield”:
Imagine driving in darkness and suddenly a 4 kg concrete block shatters the windshield in front of you.
When Hila says she “miraculously” continued to drive, you now see what she meant.
Not only because of the condition of the car, but also because of Hila’s physical condition which she benignly describes as being a “hit on the forehead”:
Take a close look at huge contusion on her forehead and even the cut beside her eye.
“[It was a] miracle that it ended how it did. . . . I had a terrible fear. . . It just does not make sense that this is what I will feel when I live in Israel, and I am afraid to travel from one community to another within Gush Etzion . . . “
Hila’s friend Tam Zamir who was at the hospital looking after Hila added this:
“The terrorists feel confident to stand on the side of the road and throw blocks and scare and kill . . . We feel the security forces are chained, they can not really do anything to stop that . . . Nevertheless, we live here and we will continue to life here. It is our home.”
What happened to Hila is what happens everyday out in Judea and Samaria–especially now that the IDF has once again stopped allowing our soldiers to protect our citizens, and especially because elements of our governments now look at our Jewish community members as “despicable” and “not human beings.”
To Hila Lem and her brave fellow community members, we want you to know that OneIsrael stands with you!
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.