Yom Shnee
Monday
8 Shvat 5783
January 30 2023
Photos of the Night
A bystander’s photo of the moment Israeli drones struck a ballistic missile warehouse in Isfahan, Iran two nights ago.
There has been much back and forth between the U.S. and Israel in the last 24 hours as to who carried out the strike, but it is now believed that Israeli drones did the job.
Another Israeli strike–this one last night on the Syria-Iraq border in the Abukhamal area.
The target was a 25 truck convoy taking weapons to pro-Iranian militias in Syria. According to reports, 6 trucks were destroyed.
The News on the Israeli Street
On the Syrian border:
Two armed terrorists crossed the border into Israel and approached the fence in the southern Golan Heights. They were intercepted by an IDF force that killed one and captured the other.
The war in Judea and Samaria:
The IDF has put our forces on the highest alert possible after receiving intel that indicates impending terror attacks in Judea and Samaria from terrorist groups in Jenin and Shechem.
Three additional battalions, the 101st Paratrooper Battalion, the 17th Battalion from the Infantry Vocational School, and the Paratrooper Patrol Battalion, have been deployed to the area.
Update: at 11:00 am, residents of central Israeli cities from Tel Aviv to Rehovot were warned not to go outside because of a terror threat.
IED, Molotov, and “rock” attacks:
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis between Ivy Ha Nahal and the Ma’ale Junction, in the Hosan Bypass near Beitar, on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near Beit Omer, between Al Khader and the Beitar Junction, at Singil northeast of Ramallah, near the south Ma’ale Lavona Junction, and at numerous other locations.
Run-over attack:
A Palestinian terrorist ran over an IDF soldier in Hevron early this morning and refused commands to stop. He was shot and killed by our soldiers. The soldier who was attacked is in moderate condition.
The judicial reform–economic collapse farce . . .
It is simply unconscionable that leftist politicians and leftists in general are urging high-tech and other companies to move out of Israel because the country will supposedly no longer be democratic.
Journalists in particular are perpetrating this fraud.
A case in point was the reportage yesterday that the Logic Wiz company is pulling up stakes and leaving the country. According to the journalist who reported this information, Logic Wiz’s founder Udi Trogman says that his company has opened an American bank account so that its revenues will go there.
What scale of loss would this be for Israel (Trogman says they are not leaving Israel yet)? How many people does Logic Wiz employ?
3.
Yes, three employees. And at the moment, the start-up does not have any major revenues to speak of.
A larger company Papaya Global has also announced its departure. It’s CEO, leftist leader Einat Gaz, says that the non-democratic environment in Israel is not compatible with the company’s values.
However, after this announcement was made, it became evident that Papaya has no intention of moving any employees out of the country.
TODAY’S BLOG
One More Word About The Tel Aviv Demonstration Saturday Night
Your humble servant is still aghast that the Israeli Left refused to postpone its anti-government demonstration on Saturday despite the massacre in Jerusalem.
For Today’s Blog, we are reprinting a Facebook post by Ithamar Gordel which circulated widely yesterday.
Addressed to the demonstration organizers and demonstrators, it echoes the same repulsion that many of us feel:
. . . I’ll tell you straight up. Since yesterday you disgust me.On Friday evening, Shabbat evening, a terrorist Ben Awla, shot and killed innocent people who did nothing to him. The blood on the stone floors of northern Jerusalem is still moist and has not yet been absorbed. The dead have not been brought for burial. Some of the victims’ families have not yet been notified. One of the dead is a Ukrainian citizen whose family is not in Israel. A terrible disaster has happened that seems like it does not concern you. It belongs to some sector that is not part of your people.You could have announced the rejection of the demonstrations at Kaplan and Garden intersection in Tel Aviv and expressed solidarity with the dead and their families, your people! But no, you had to demonstrate!. . . Your leadership announced that the protests will continue as usual despite everything!Think about what division and what weakness it transmits to our enemies, when people are killed in a terrorist attack and some don’t care.It only broadcasts that it is necessary [for terrorists] to “hit us more” in order to cause more losses . . .Other people need to get excited about what matters to you from pride parades, or some Palestinian artists’ exhibition at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa–but you just don’t care about the killing of “others.”It’s just none of your business. I’ve seen the photos . . . Raise Palestinian flags, and call for the “evil government” to go away . . .You are not against the reform, you are against the government (it was elected by the majority and you are the minority, a large minority but a minority, so what can you do [except demonstrate]?. . . You have proved [that the murders of] religious, ultra-orthodox, “miserable lives that live in Jerusalem” [as your leaders have called them] don’t move you.You have lost your moral compass and lost all humanity.Disgusting. For real.
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.