Yom Shishee
Friday
29 Av 5782
August 26 2022
The Photo of the Day
In support of our combat soldiers, yesterday was “Warrior Day” at Cinema City locations in Israel. This photo is of Maj. Hanan Bovni and his family (photo: IDF).
The cinematic day was sponsored by the Center for the Fighting Family in the IDF’s Personnel Division.
Kolakevod and thank you to our soldiers!
The Friday Poll: from the Maariv newspaper
(compared to the Maariv poll last week)
31 (-1): Likud (Netanyahu)
23 (-2): Yesh Atid (Lapid)
13 (+1): Kahol Levan/New Hope–renamed “State Camp (Gantz/Saar/Eizenkot)
8 (unchanged): Shas (Sephardic Orthodox)
8 (+1): Otzma (Ben Gvir)
7 (unchanged): United Torah Judaism (Ashkenazi Orthodox)
6 (+1) : Labor
4 (-1) National Zionism (separated from National Zionism this week) (Smotrich)
6 (unchanged): Joint Arab List
5 (unchanged): Yisrael Beiteinu (Liberman)
5 (+1): Meretz (Gal-On)
4 (unchanged): Ra’am Islamic Party (Abbas)
0 (unchanged): Zionist Spirit (Shaked)
Netanyahu bloc: 58 (-1)
Lapid bloc: 56 (+1)
Not affiliated: 5 (Joint Arab List)
The summary: the leftist Lapid bloc has strengthened slightly despite the fact that Lapid’s own party Yesh Atid has dropped; at the same time, the Netanyahu bloc has weakened as Likud continues its incremental drop, yet the “right” remains almost the same because of the rise of Otzma.
Anecdotally: your humble servant asks people that he sees who they are going to vote for–this past week those asked included 3 taxi drivers in Tel Aviv, my barber, and the man at the hardware store. All of them instantly answered “Bibi.”
There are now 67 days until the election.
The Friday Corona Update
1,o38 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 12,957 tested).
The positive test rate was 8.01%; the coefficient of infection was 0.81%.
148 Israelis are seriously ill; 70 are critically ill—54 of these are on ventilators.
11,589 have died–64 since last Friday.
The summary . . . a mixed bag: the positive test rate is under 10%, but the coefficient of infection has risen by 0.10 %. The number of seriously and critically ill has dropped, but the number of weekly dead has risen from 7 to 9 people per day. Nobody in Israel says a word about Corona, and almost no one here wears a mask.
The Photo and Video of the Night
Israeli aircraft struck Iranian weapons storage areas near Mesyyaf Syria overnight:
A screen shot from a video taken by a Syrian observer. The explosions are still rocking the area this morning.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists using IEDs, Molotovs, and “rocks” attacked Israeli buses on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near the north Halhul Junction, beside Al-Aruv, at the Yakir Hektana Junction, between Beit Habarka and Al Aruv, and near Rabbah.
Palestinian terrorists using IEDs, Molotovs, and “rocks” attacked Israeli motorists between the Magdalim and Tapuach Junctions, north of Ofra, near Beit Rima, in the vicinity of Tekoa, and at numerous other places in Gush Etzion and Samaria.
Following up . . . Iran, School Opening, Interest Rates, Netzah Yehuda Soldiers
*David Barnea, the head of Mossad, launched another attack on the U.S. yesterday for being about to sign the Iranian agreement: “The US is about to sign an agreement that it knows is a complete lie. The agreement will postpone the time of breaking into fissile material for a nuclear bomb from one month to two to three months, and will bring hundreds of billions of dollars into Iran that will flow to terrorist organizations.”
*Negotiations between the teachers’ union and Treasury Ministry broke down yesterday leading to the assumption that there will be a strike on September 1.
*A number of Israeli politicians led by Otzma head Itamar Ben Gvir have demanded that the two Netzah Yehuda soldiers who are imprisoned in a military jail because they pushed and kicked two Palestinians who tried to run over them and steal their weapons be released immediately.
*Following the interest rate increases by the Israel Bank, the applications for mortgages dropped 17% last month–the first decrease in several years.
TODAY’S BLOG
“Who Are More Dangerous Than All The Diseases Of The World?”
Regular readers of OneIsrael have often been exposed to your humble servant’s loathing of everything Jordanian. By some Orwellian twist of terminology, the Jordanians have been classified as “moderate” when in fact they are anything but.
The daily anti-Israel vitriol pouring out of Jordan is deafening but no one in the West pays any attention. Neither do any of the Israeli government officials who regularly troop over to Amman to ply King Abdullah with concessions and favors.
But no matter how much we troop over there, the Jordanians continue to excoriate Israel in every international venue. Many of the anti-Israel resolutions in the United Nations against Israel are written in Jordan.
Moreover, Jordan feels free to castigate Israel for anything and everything on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem with the incredible result that Israel kowtows to virtually every Jordanian demand.
And all of this excoriating and castigating does not stop Jordan from brazenly asking for Israel’s water–which we agree to sell to Jordan at bargain basement prices despite our own need for it.
Now the Jordanians have two more gripes to add to their always expanding list.
First is the fact that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked has revoked the visa of Jordanian Sheikh Taraad Al Faiz and thereby banned him from entering Israel because of his venomous anti-Israel incitement against Israel on a recent three-week trip through the Negev, Galilee, Hevron, and Jerusalem.
Even yesterday, in response to the ban, Al Faiz ranted: “It is a huge honor for me that the Israeli Interior Minister published her announcement today about my ban on entry into the Palestinian lands. This is the Arab land of Palestine. I will enter it, Allah willing, when it is liberated. I will enter Palestine when it is freed from the clutches of global Zionism.”
The real question is why Al Faiz was ever allowed into Israel in the first place, but never mind, the Jordanian legislature and government bureaucracy are up in arms today over Shaked’s revocation.
Enter gripe number 2.
The Jordanians are “extremely upset” with the fact that Israel is now allowing Palestinians to fly out of Israel via the Ramon Airport near Eilat.
Why are they so upset?
Because the Palestinians will no longer have to cross the Allenby Bridge and travel to Amman–spending money all along the way–to fly abroad. To hear the Jordanians crying this morning, the move may ruin the Jordanian economy.
Of course, we all know that despite being a predominantly Palestinian country, Jordan doesn’t give a whit about the Palestinians on the other side of the Jordan River.
All the Jordanians care about is money, and being seen as the grand protector of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and promoter of anti-Zionism around the world.
We leave you today with this quote from leading Jordanian academic Ahmad Al-Shahrouri speaking on state-run Jordanian television last year:
“Let me ask you a question: Is it okay for us to talk about the coronavirus because it is ‘hot news’ and forget about the Jews, who are more dangerous than AIDS, coronavirus, cholera, and all the diseases of this world? . . . we should all remember Jihad.”
And so it goes in the neighborhood today. We wish 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.