Yom Reva’ee
Wednesday
29 Av 5783
August 16 2023
TODAY’S BLOG:
Good News, Fraud News, War News
Good news
*Paraguay will open an embassy in Jerusalem in October.
*Inflation increased by only 0.3% in the last quarter; the current yearly rate is 3.3%.
*The unemployment rate dropped to 3.4% in July.
*Israeli airlines will begin to provide direct flights to Sri Lanka and Vietnam in October (without a visa).
Fraud News
Notices that went up in Rehovot yesterday. Among other messages, the signs read “Women walk on this side of the street, men on the other.”
Gender segregation signs were hung all over Rehovot yesterday calling for gender segregation on children’s playgrounds and on sidewalks. Just when the leftist media was condemning orthodox men for putting them up, it was discovered that they were placed there by a group of secular women who wanted to engender hatred against the orthodox.
War News
The war in Judea and Samaria.
*Special forces from the Navy intercepted a vehicle carrying terrorists near Araba in Samaria.
*IDF and Border Police fighters destroyed a warehouse of explosives–including 15 pre-made IEDs in Balata overnight.
Shooting attacks:
Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF soldiers in Alta. Our forces returned fire with shoulder-fired missiles.
Palestinian terrorists fired from a vehicle at a military outpost near Shechem. Our forces returned fire killing two terrorists and seized these weapons from the car:
Weapons and ammo clips taken from the terrorist vehicle yesterday.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israelis at the Hawara Checkpoint.
Palestinian terrorists fired on Israeli security personnel in Tubas.
IED, “rock”, Molotov attacks:
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis at Beit Jala, in the vicinity of Gilead, Akbat Jaber, Luban al-Sharqiya, Marda, Azzun. Hizma, and Al-Abuv to name 8 locations out of some 30 attacks.
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.