Yom Reva’ee
Wednesday
14 Cheshvan 5783
November 9 2022
Videos of the Day
Video 1.
Note that the young Gazan is holding a 20 shekel note in his hand.
Click here to see a 1 minute, 28 second tik tok video of “how good life is in Gaza” as told by the exuberant young man in the photo above who goes around sampling food. Even though the video is in Arabic, you can easily understand the point. During the video, the young man says that you can eat well on 20 shekels a day.
Video 2.
What a surprise for the young man and his family!
The Photo of the Day
An Canaanite ivory comb unearthed at an archaeological site at Lachlish dated to about 1700 BCE. What do you think is written on it?
The writing is the first sentence of Canaanite ever discovered.
It reads: “May this ivory tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
The News on the Israeli Street
The war in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem in the last 24 hours . . .
Shooting attacks:
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on our troops in Shechem. One terrorist was killed; no Israelis were wounded.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire from a passing car at IDF soldiers near Pekin.
Molotov, IED, and “rock” attacks:
Palestinian terrorists attacking with Molotovs, IEDs, and “rocks” attempted to murder Israeli men, women, and children on the Hosan Bypass between Al-Khader and Beitar, in Hawara north of Einbus Square, at Luban a-Sharqiya, near Turmusay’ya, in the vicinity of Hizma, and along the Gush Etzion-Hevron highway among some two dozen locations.
Palestinian terrorists attacked two school buses near Zubidat. Two children were wounded.
The disability “permit” canard . . .
A highly prized disability card and marking on parking places in Israel these days.
As we have often written here, Israel simply has too many cars and not enough parking places. Virtually every parking lot and public garage a battleground as to who will get a parking spot.
What’s the solution? A fraudulent disabled parking permit.
Already, the disabled themselves as well as their children and spouses, and grandchildren can receive such a permit; 471,000 permits have been issued–most of them legitimately. However, yesterday, the Israel National Insurance Institute agreed to expand those who are able to get a disabled parking card to “the spouses of the grandchildren, and nephews and cousins” of the disabled.
It is estimated that by 2024, more than 1 million cars will have “disabled” permits–one out of every 8 cars in Israel.
The new fight will be over disabled parking places.
A demographic shift . . .
Up until yesterday, Nazareth was always the largest Arab city in Israel with a population made up predominantly of Arab-Christians.
As of yesterday, Rahat (near Beersheva) is now the holder of that title. As you may not know, Rahat is an Arab-Muslim Bedouin city.
This shift is not surprising given the fact that the Israeli Bedouin have one of the highest birthrates in the world.
TODAY’S BLOG:
“A Monstrous Insult”
Tonight, the Goethe Institute in Beit Asia in Tel Aviv is holding an event on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
However, the event which features German speakers is entitled: “Understanding the pain of the other side: the Holocaust, the Nakba, and the German Culture of Memory.”
Can you even begin to imagine that such an event comparing the Holocaust with the Nakba is being held here in Israel—not to mention the fact that the event will apparently be an implicit apologia for and rationalization of the Nazi policy of murder.
As Rabbi Avraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said yesterday: “It is disgraceful that any German would talk about the Holocaust and the Nakba in the same breath . . . to link the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in any way to the “Final Solution” of Nazi Germany which murdered 6 million innocent Jews, including 1.5 million Jewish children is a monstrous insult to the memory of the Holocaust, to the state of Israel, to the survivors of the Holocaust, and to historical truth.”
Outrageous events like this one are another reason the “right” has returned to governmental power here in Israel.
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.