Yom Shishee
Friday
15 Av 5782
August 12 2022
The Friday Poll (from Maariv newspaper)
33: Likud (Netanyahu)
25: Yesh Atid (Lapid)
10: Kahol Levan/New Hope (Gantz/Saar)
10: National Zionism/Otzma Yehudi (Smotrich/Ben Gvir)
9: Shas (Sephardic Orthodox)
7: United Torah Judaism (Ashkenazi Orthodox)
7: Labor
6: Joint Arab List
5: Yisrael Beiteinu (Liberman)
4: Ra’am Islamic Party (Abbas)
4: Zionist Spirit (Shaked)
0: Meretz
Netanyahu bloc: 59 + 4 Zionist Spirit= 63
Lapid bloc: 51
Not affiliated: 6 (Joint Arab List)
A very interesting post-Gaza war phenomenon: PM Lapid’s Yesh Atid party appears to have picked up seats at the expense of “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party–so that even though Yesh Atid would gain seats, it would still be no closer to forming a Coalition government.
In a bizarre twist this morning, it is reported that Benny Gantz is ready to give up being “Defense” Minister if former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot will join his Blue and White Party.
The Friday Corona Update
1,975 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 15,530 tested).
The positive test rate was 12.72%; the coefficient of infection was 0.74%.
253 Israelis are seriously ill; 92 are critically ill—70 of these are on ventilators.
11,483 have died–53 since last Friday.
Almost the same news as last week: very few are getting tested; the positive test rate remains in double digits; and the coefficient of infection incrementally drops.
Unfortunately and most importantly, we are still averaging 7+ Israelis dying each day.
The News on the Israeli Street
Horror on the streets and roads . . .
12 Israelis have been killed in 8 different traffic accidents in the last 3 days and more than 50 have been injured.
The scene of the bus accident in Jerusalem last night. Apparently, the brakes failed on the bus, and it plowed into people at the bus stop.
A horrific runaway bus accident in Jerusalem last night at a bus stop on Shamgar Street in Jerusalem’s Romena neighborhood killed 30-year-0ld Shoshana Glostein who was 8 months pregnant and her daughters, 3-year-old Chaya, and 7-year-old Hana.
Two days ago, another Egged bus killed a 70-year-old pedestrian on Jeremiah Street in Jerusalem.
This morning two Egged bus drivers (40, 50) who were taking empty buses down to Ofakim on Road 4 stopped at the scene of an accident to help take the victims of that accident out of their vehicles. They were run over and killed when they walked across the highway.
Two motorcycles crashed into each other in the north–and one motorcyclist was killed.
Yet another fatal accident occurred on Road 57 near the Nitzani Oz Junction this morning:
The driver did not survive.
We have often written here at OneIsrael about the out of control carnage on the roads in Israel, but the fact is that no one does anything to address it.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Security inspectors at the Rihan Crossing near Jenin intercepted smugglers attempting to take 2000 rounds of 5.56 rifle bullets into Judea and Samaria:
As perhaps you can see, these boxes of bullets had been stolen from an IDF base.
Palestinian terrorists using Molotovs, IEDs, and “rocks” attacked Israelis on Road 55 at the Nabi Elias roundabout, on Highway 60 south of Givat Assaf, at the Zif Junction in Mt. Hevron, on the road connecting Hevron and Kiryat Arba near Curve 160, at Qilax, Beit Haji, on Road 55 at Ponduk (near Kedumim), and at a dozen other locations.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire an an IDF pillbox southwest of Hevron at the Avraham Hassano Junction.
Israeli police seized the following weapons from a terrorist’s home in Hevron: 2 M16s, 2 pistols, boxes of ammunition, and an anti-tank missile:
The weapons were found by a police dog in a hole under the house.
The potential for terror increases . . .
For the first time since 2006 (when it was stopped because of Palestinian terror emanating from Gaza), Israel under the direction of “Defense” Minister Gantz proudly issued the first of 20,000 employment licenses to a resident of Gaza.
20,000 potential terrorists being ushered into the country by our idiotic government.
What is more, these potential terrorists are being put into the Israel social system so that they will have health and pension benefits.
Just unbelievable.
TODAY’S BLOG
Zili
Zili, one of the leaders of his Yamam counter-terrorism unit.
In the midst of all the terror and carnage today, we end with a story of a hero.
Zili.
Zili was a 9-year-old Belgian Malinois.
He was the veteran of hundreds of Yamam operations over the years and singlehandedly captured numerous terrorists.
On Tuesday, he led the way in the operation to capture Ibrahim Nabulsi. When the house in which the terrorist hid was surrounded, Zili went in and was tragically shot and killed by the terrorists–all of whom were killed shortly thereafter.
Afterwards, police chief Kobi Shabtai eulogized Zili: “This morning he saved the lives of the fighters; he was a true four-legged warrior.”
Today, Herzliya’s new dog beach was named Zili in honor of his service.
At the ceremony, Commander Amir Cohen, said: “A significant part of our corps’ heritage are the men and women who fell in operational activities and, of course, the dogs and animals that fight alongside the Border Guards at any time and at any point in the country. I congratulate and thank in my name and in the name of the army . . . the important commemoration of Zili who was killed in a complex operational activity of the Israeli Defense Forces. . .”
Zili is gone but not forgotten.
He was a true hero.
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.