Yom Shnee
Monday
14 Sivan 5782
June 13 2022
The Photo of the Day
Aviv Kochavi giving a tallit to a boy being bar mitzvahed.
This photo was taken last Thursday as part of a bar and bat mitzvah ceremony for young people at the Western Wall organized by the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization. The event was led by Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and the Chief Military Rabbi, Brig, Gen. Eyal Krim.
Kolakevod to all those involved!
Another Photo from the IDF Today
New soldiers of the IDF’s Border Infantry and Combat Unit being sworn in yesterday. Note their weapons in front of them, and their families seated in grandstands in the far background.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks” at Ofra (Israeli wounded by glass shards in the eyes), on Road 446 near Shukba, north of Shiloh, on the Jerusalem-Gush Etzion Tunnel Road near the southern tunnel, and at numerous other locations.
The daily Corona update . . .
3,325 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 11.092 tested) bringing to 27,693 the number of active patients in the country.
The positive test rate was 29.98%; the coefficient of infection rose to 1.44%.
102 Israelis are seriously ill; 23 are critically ill—21 of these are on ventilators.
10,882 have died, 11 in the last 24 hours.
TODAY’S BLOG
Why Are The LGBTQ Community And “Human Rights” Activists Silent?
Click here to watch a video of Arab/Palestinian residents of Yaffo tearing down Pride flags.
Isn’t it amazing how the gay community around the world rallies to the cause of the Arabs/Palestinians? Tel Aviv was still festooned with Pride flags from the huge march in support of the LGBTQ community this past Friday, and here we have Arabs/Palestinians in Yaffo angrily ripping down the flags.
The video you watched has gone viral, yet there is no outcry.
Why?
Of course, the ripping down of the flags is not surprising as every major Palestinian group from the PLO to Hamas considers homosexuality a crime punishing and even killing those gays whom they discover.
And yet the LGBTQ world as well as “human rights activists” say nothing.
Why?
I leave it to you, dear reader, to provide the answer.
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.