The Disgraceful Lack and Withholding of Electricity

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Yom Chamishee

Thursday

18 Shevat 5782

January 20, 2022

The News on the Israeli Street

The daily Corona update . . .

There is no new data from the Health Ministry at this hour.

**Israel has now surged to the top of the dubious list of countries with daily confirmations of Corona per capita. Israel is followed by Slovenia, Slovakia, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

**The situation at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv can best be described as chaotic at best. It was reported last night that 40 people who had active cases of Corona attempted to board a flight and were caught by the police. In addition, “dozens” of foreigners with fake vaccination certificates were caught as they went through Israel’s airport Covid check and were immediately deported.

**Corona led to the closure of more than 70,000 small and medium sized businesses in Israel last year.

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours and . . .

Another attempted murder in Samaria.

There have been numerous “rock” and Molotov attacks at such locations as on Road 55 at Maale Shomron, between Adam and Hizma, east of Eviatar, near Mevo Dotan, and between Einav and Avnei Hefetz.

It was revealed last night that in 2021 the PLO paid more than 800,000,000 shekels ($254 million) to terrorists who are imprisoned because of having killed or having tried to kill Israelis.

By law this amount of money is supposed to be offset from any tax money that Israel collects for the PLO; however, PM Bennett and “Defense” Minister Gantz refuse to follow the law.

The decline of the IDF . . .

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According to the publication Global Firepower, these are the top 18 armies in the world in order:

1. United States, 2. Russia, 3. China, 4. India, 5. Japan, 6. South Korea, 7. France, 8. United Kingdom, 9. Pakistan, 10. Brazil, 11. Turkey, 12. Egypt, 13. Italy, 14. Iran, 15. Indonesia, 16. Germany, 17. Australia, 18. Israel

And people really think that Israel is going to attack Iran?

The value of the dollar . . .

For the last two days, the Bank of Israel has been buying dollars in order to stem the drop of the greenback against the shekel.

This morning the dollar rose to 3.135 shekels–a 3% increase since Monday.

TODAY’S BLOG

The Disgraceful Lack and Withholding of Electricity

Snow in Tzfat (Safed) last night.

Heavy snowfall impacted much of northern and central Israel last night with temperatures in many areas at 0 degrees C or lower. It was the coldest night of the year.

The all-time power usage record was broken with 14,735 megawatts consumed by customers trying to keep warm (the previous record was 13,182 megwatts in the winter of 2020).

However, numerous Israelis were without power: many of the young Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria which the government refuses to attach to the country’s electrical grid, the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem, two entire communities in the Binyamin area, and numerous residences in which customers were not up-to-date on utility payments.

So many people were in the latter category, that the Israel High Court of Justice issued an emergency ruling last night ordering their electricity turned back on with the opinion that having electricity is “a right”, and that the Israel Electric Company must figure out a different way to collect overdue payments.

The lack of electricity—and even withholding of electricity—is a disgrace.