Yom Chamishee
Thursday
12 Sivan 5783
June 1 2023
The News on the Israeli Street
The war in Judea and Samaria.
IED, Molotov, and “rock” attacks:
Note the “rock” which came through and shattered the driver’s side window in this attack on Road 60 at Luban al-Sharqiya. The female driver miraculously escaped serious injury–the “rock” somehow missed her body and hit her in the hand.
Another murderous attack took place near the T-Junction in Gush Etzion:
The blurred out bloody head of the 60-year-old man wounded at the T-Junction–and the “rock” that hit him.
Palestinian terrorists also attacked Israelis on a bus between Hizma and Adam.
Palestinian terrorists attacked other motorists on Road 458 near Al Muayyir, Karmi Tzur, after the Efrat south Junction, and at numerous other locations.
Palestinian arsonists set fires at Gilad Farm.
TODAY’S BLOG
What Does Every Israeli Know? August 9, 2001–May 30, 2023
Bloody carnage outside the Sbarro pizza restaurant on August 9, 2001. 15 people were blown to pieces including 7 children. One of the dead was a pregnant American woman.
Your humble servant does not think that non-Israelis can imagine what it is like to live in a country where we go from funeral to funeral—each one seemingly more tragic than the last.
We are constantly exposed to heartbreaking graveside scenes with sobbing eulogies being spoken over the dead. Mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters all bewail the tragedy that has befallen them. It is literally like being repeatedly stabbed in the heart.
Yesterday and today we were stabbed repeatedly.
You may remember the horrific suicide bombing that occurred at the Sbarro Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem back in 2001. Not only were 15 people literally blown to pieces, but more than 150 others in and around the restaurant were wounded by the nails and shrapnel the terrorist packed into the bomb.
Chana Tova Nachemberg was sitting in the restaurant that afternoon with her daughter 2-year-old daughter Sarah. Amazingly, Sarah was untouched by the blast.
Chana was horrifically wounded but did not die.
Until last night.
After more than 22 years in a coma–being kept alive by a respirator, Chana Nachemberg died last night at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
In the intervening years, Sarah has eloquently described the trauma she has gone through in the years since her mother has been in a vegetative state. Growing up in Modi’in with her father and family, Sarah has become a spokeswoman for OneFamily–a group that helps families overcome terror together. In the past few years she has married and now has a child of her own.
Terrorist Ahlam Al-Tamimi who helped plan the attack and drove the bomber to the restaurant was eventually captured and sentenced to multiple life sentences in Israeli prison. However, she was disgustingly released in the Gilad Shalit exchange in 2011 and lives under the protection of Jordanian King Abdullah–even becoming a television celebrity with her own show on Jordanian Hamas TV.
This is the same King Abdullah whose son’s marriage Jill Biden is attending this week–the same King Abdullah that Jill Biden said in an interview this week that she counts among she and her husband’s closest friends.
On top of the news of Chana Nachemberg’s death, all of Israel was transfixed by the tragic scenes at the grave of Meir Tamari who was barbarically gunned down by Palestinian terrorists two days ago.
The sight of his wife Tal sitting beside the grave with her 1-year-old child on her back and her 3-year-old helping put dirt on her father’s grave was almost too much to bear.
We were all traumatized as the 3-year-old asked: “Why is my father sleeping here?”
Tal caressing her husband before he was taken to the grave.
At the gravesite:
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And:
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To be an Israeli is to know that there is no end to Palestinian terror.
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.