Yom Shabbat
Saturday
2 Elul 5783
August 19 2023
As per our tradition here at OneIsrael, there is no blog today but instead a few photographs for your consideration:
Photo 1:
This photo evoked a storm of protest three days ago. 5 girls were not allowed on a private bus until they “covered up” by order of the bus driver. Women’s groups and the anti-government movement howled in protest. The original photo of the extremely scantily clad girls waiting to get on the bus has vanished into the cybersphere.
Photo 2:
Mailboxes in an apartment building in Haifa. A U.S. based Christian missionary group, Jews for Jesus, has sent out 4 million mailers urging conversion to Christianity from Haifa down to Beersheva. In your humble servant’s opinion, this is appalling.
Photo 3:
Sunset at the Nahariya promenade last night.
Photo 4:
Anti-government anarchists on the new light rail train in Tel Aviv yesterday. Note how they handcuffed themselves to the poles in the car and had videos and photos made to send out to their cohorts on social media.
Photo 5:
What could be sweeter than celebrating the murder of Jewish Israelis? This sickening photo comes from Palestinian social media after the barbaric murders of the father and son in Hawara this afternoon.
There is no Shabbat Shalom in Israel today following the murders in Hawara.
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.