Yom Shishee
Friday
26 Shevat 5782
January 28 2022
Photos of the Day
Kolakevod to these young women!
Some young women at Kibbutz Revivim who have baked cakes, pastries, and challot to give to the people in the kibbutz who are in Corona quarantine.
Yesterday was International Holocaust Memorial Day. The photo below is of a volunteer from the “For Their Sake” organization providing free medical treatment to two Holocaust survivors in Israel:
Notice the tattoo visible on the lady’s arm in the photo lower right.
It is estimated that 80% of Holocaust survivors in Israel are in need of medical help in this Omicron wave.
The snow has stopped falling, but the “Aphis” storm has not yet gone. Click here to see sleet falling in Yehiam in the western Galilee. About the snow, the totals were significant: 70 cm fell on Mt. Hermon and 25 cm in Jerusalem.
And the snow is still on the ground in places such as Efrat:
Beginning to melt, but not gone.
One final photo from the snow storm. You will recognize the location where this private ambulance was on its way to help someone:
It was all hands on deck to help people during the storm (photo: Rescue Without Borders).
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israeli troops between Elon Moreh and Itamar. No Israelis were wounded; the terrorists escaped.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli motorists with “rocks” and Molotovs at Hizma, Mt. Hevron near Deir Razah, at Al Aruv, at the Al Khader Junction, and on Road 55 near the Azzun Junction among other places.
Palestinian terrorists attacked two young men between Kiryat Arba and Hevron—both were wounded in the head.
Two Palestinian terrorists armed with grenades and knives were captured on Gaza border.
The daily Corona update . . .
Another 57,539 Israelis were verified with Corona yesterday. There are 485,237 active cases in the country.
The positive test rate was 25.56%.
941 Israelis are in very serious condition; 298 are in critical condition on ventilators.
8,599 Israelis have died since the pandemic began–58 yesterday.
Again, the numbers verified and active seem to be going down, but that may be because the weather conditions have not permitted as many people to get tested. When we consider that the positive test rate is an astonishing 25.56% (1 out of every 4 people), we may see the numbers jump in the coming days.
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Most troubling is the fact that 58 people died yesterday. This is a huge jump and hopefully does not presage worse news on the way. At the same time, the number hospitalized in serious and critical condition has begun to rise again.
This morning, Ofir Lasri, a volunteer in the emergency room at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod posted this:
“Another volunteer shift in the emergency room, a cursed and ongoing epidemic, the emergency room is full of patients and the staff here work around the clock often crashing from fatigue. I feel the government is not interested . . . 70 patients are present in the emergency room on 32 beds, the corridors are full, the medical teams are moving from patient to patient, trying to address everyone. I see the doctors’ dedication alongside their helplessness.”
And still our pathetic government is telling everyone that the situation is “under control.”
In more Corona news . . .
The Health Ministry revealed yesterday that the government has purchased 5,000,000 doses of the Novovax vaccine—a vaccine not based on mRNA technology. It will begin to be available to Israelis in late February.
Still more health-related news . . .
In a bizarre twist, our ridiculous Health Minister, Nitzan Horowitz, has approved that Palestinian and Israeli-Arab nursing students at Jenin University in PLO Area A will be able to take their final nursing exams in Israel.
Why is this bizarre?
Jenin University is one of several PLO-run universities which are renowned for their anti-Israel virulence. Israeli-Arabs who self identify as Palestinians often go there–especially because it is much easier for them to get into school there than in Israeli universities.
The idea that Israel will now be embracing these students just another part of this government’s embrace of all things Palestinian.
In the neighborhood . . .
Is Israel dropping the ball in Syria? After years of bombing every bit of Iranian cargo coming into Syria, there have been no attacks since December.
And Iranian planes are landing and unloading their cargo twice a day.
TODAY’S BLOG
There Is No Privacy In Israel
In the past few months, the extent to which Israeli citizens have been spied on by the Israeli police has gradually been coming to the fore.
The revelations began back in the summer when it was revealed that Pegasus software developed by the Israel cybersurveillance firm NSO was being used around the world by various entities to hack into everything from government computers to individual cellphones.
As was noted in a recent analytical piece: “Pegasus is ‘perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed’ and can turn a mobile phone into a ’24-hour surveillance device’ – harvesting messages, passwords, photos, internet searches, and other data and seizing control of the camera and microphone.”
At first, the revelations were primarily focused on entities outside of Israel.
However, an article in the Israeli journal Calcalist last week revealed how the Israel Police have been using Pegasus since 2013 to spy on Israeli citizens–primarily activists on both ends of the political spectrum, municipal officials, and pretty much anyone the police feel like investigating.
From left to right: Former police chief Roni Alsheikh, NSO founder Shalev Hulio, and former police chief Yohanan Danino. Alsheikh and Danino were the police chiefs who apparently first authorized the use of the NSO software.
Apparently, the police have been making requests to a specific court at the rate of some 65,000 per year.
Those requests, in addition to wiretapping requests (3,692 in the year 2000 alone), are almost all approved by the court.
What happens to the information that is being “harvested” by the police?
No one seems to know.
In the face of these revelations, the police say that they are closely monitored, but in fact, there is little evidence that there is any oversight at all.
What is certain however, is that whatever privacy Israeli citizens thought they had is nothing but an illusion–and they must assume that each time they make a telephone call or turn on their computer they are being listened to and recorded.
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.