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12 Tishrei 5783
October 7 2022
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The Friday Corona Update
78 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 2,758 tested).
The positive test rate was 2.83%; the coefficient of infection was 0.9%.
82 Israelis are seriously ill; 27 are critically ill—27 of these are on ventilators.
11,710 have died–12 since last Friday.
As you can see, almost no one is getting tested.
As we wrote last week, all numbers are now trending in the right direction: a dramatic drop in the positive test rate and coefficient of infection as well as the number seriously and critically ill. Most importantly, the number of daily dead has stabilized at fewer than 2 per day.
The Friday Poll from the Maariv newspaper (compared to last week)
32 (+1): Likud (Netanyahu)
23 (-1): Yesh Atid (Lapid)
14 (+1): Otzma (Ben Gvir)+National Zionism+ Noam
12 (-1): Kahol Levan/New Hope–renamed “State Camp (Gantz/Saar/Eizenkot)
8 (unchanged): Shas (Sephardic Orthodox)
7 (unchanged): United Torah Judaism (Ashkenazi Orthodox)
6 (unchanged): Yisrael Beiteinu (Liberman)
5 (unchanged) : Labor (Michaeli)
5 (unchanged): Meretz (Gal-On)
4 (unchanged): Hadash Tal and the Joint Arab List
4 (unchanged): Ra’am Islamic Party (Abbas)
The summary: this poll gives the Netanyahu bloc 61 seats whereas the Lapid block comes in at 59 if one includes the Joint Arab List.
It is 25 days until the election. The numbers are remarkably stable.
The News on the Israeli Street
The Maritime “Agreement” with Lebanon . . .
Fortunately, the “Agreement” has encountered rough waters with Israel refusing the newest Lebanese requests, and the American negotiator set to hold a press conference in the coming hours.
At the same time, the IDF has gone on high alert expecting possible attacks from Hezbollah.
The War in Judea and Samaria: Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists using Molotovs, IEDs, and “rocks” tried to murder Israelis on the Halhol Bypass, at the northern entrance to Oja, near the Ma’ale Amos Junction, between Ariel and the Gitti Avishar Junction, on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road, Hizma, on the Hosan Bypass between Beitar and Al Khader, south of Ofra, between the T-Junction in Gush Etzion and Efrat, Umm Salmona, Beit El, Singil, and Hawara among many other locations.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF soldiers near Tulkarem and at the Nabi Saleh pillbox.
Palestinian terrorists attempted to burn the Tzur Vineyards.
Thank you to Rescue without Borders SSF for the above reportage.
These are the Palestinians . . .
It is always a source of bewilderment to your humble servant how self-described “progressive” groups in the West–particularly LGBT***–support the Palestinians.
Yesterday, Hamdi Abu Marakhia (25), a gay Palestinian who fled to Israel two years ago after his sexual identity became known, was abducted by other Palestinians and taken to Hevron.
Once there he was brutally murdered and dismembered and his body parts were left lying on the side of the road in the Al-Mahwar neighborhood.
Today, a video of the dismembered body still on the side of the road has gone viral in Palestinian and Jordanian social media. All of the comments can be summarized as “He got what he deserved because he was gay.”
TODAY’S BLOG
“It is time. Ben Gvir.”
We are coming down to crunch time for the coming election.
Driving down to Jerusalem yesterday for the birth of our newest grandchildren (twin girls), both sides of the road were festooned with campaign signs. There were a few for Lapid and Netanyahu, but by far, the most dominant ones were:
It reads: “It is time. Ben Gvir.”
Itamar Ben Gvir posters are on the sides of the road, on telephone polls, on taxis, on buildings and just about everywhere. His supporters have been very energetic in spreading his campaign material.
At the moment, the polls seem to show that Gvir’s hard work is paying off.
As a result, there is now an avalanche of leftists both here in Israel and in the United States that is condemning his candidacy and trying to persuade former PM Netanyahu not to let him in a coalition he might form.
Yesterday, Gvir was scheduled to speak at a conference organized by his Otzma Party at the request of kibbutz members at Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar. The conference was canceled at the last minute by the Kibbutz Committee in order to stop Ben Gvir from speaking.
But true to form, Ben Gvir showed up anyway to the applause of hundreds of kibbutzniks–and the heckling of about a dozen demonstrators.
He had this to say: “We organized a conference here at the request of dozens of kibbutz members, who wanted to hear us, and this caused the kibbutz committee to try to take down our conference and shut us up. Freedom of speech is also our freedom. It won’t work for you to try to shut our mouths – you won’t silence us.”
He continued, addressing the hecklers:
“You know that we will protect the IDF soldiers, give immunity to our soldiers and change the opening fire instructions. You know that we will win because it really is time for us to return and be the owners of this land.”
Amen to that–and on that happy prospect, we wish you:
SHABBAT SHALOM!
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.