Yom Reva’ee
Wednesday
20 Elul 5783
September 6 2023
The Quote of the Day
There was something Arafat-esque and Abbas-esque about the events of last night.
First, we had PM Netanyahu basically caving into the Opposition by giving them everything they asked for including: freezing the judicial reform for 18 months, further weakening the “Reasonableness Law”, and making no changes to the Judicial Selection Committee. To this, Netanyahu urged Opposition leaders, particularly Benny Gantz to come to the table to negotiate.
Only to be met by this outrageous rejection from Gantz: “Netanyahu is being held hostage by extremist elements in his government.”
Say what? Being held hostage? Netanyahu’s caving in came at the expense of his being harshly (and correctly) criticized by the more conservative members of his Coalition.
Do you remember when Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat the keys to Israel back in 2000–even offering to build him a private road to the Temple Mount where Arafat could have his own office? Or Ehud Olmert offering Mahmoud Abbas 96% of Judea and Samara and 4% of Israel–and proposing to internationalize Jerusalem?
Just like Gantz, Arafat and Abbas flatly rejected the offers.
Gantz, Lapid, and the rest of the Opposition will accept nothing less than the overthrow of the Netanyahu government.
The News on the Israeli Street
The war in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
Shooting attacks:
A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at Border Police at the Argaman Junction in the Jordan Valley yesterday afternoon. The Border Police returned fire, pursued the terrorist, and killed him. One Border Policeman was wounded.
Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF troops at Kfar Anta.
Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF troops at Al Amri.
Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF troops at Al Khader.
Palestinian terrorists are currently (8:30 am Israel time) engaged in a firefight with IDF soldiers at Nur Al-Shams in Tulkarm.
“Rock”, Molotov, IED attacks:
Palestinian terrorists tried to kill Israelis between Tapuach and Ariel, on the Chutsa Yehuda Road (near Tarkomiyya), at Ujah, near the Ma’ale Levona Junction, Beit Omer, Al Aruv, Beit Furik (Israeli wounded),in the area of Luban al-Sharqiya, and at numerous other locations.
Palestinian terrorist exploded grenades at the Gaza Border Fence. Click here to see a short video filmed by the terrorists.
A new community goes up . . .
80 families are moving in to Givaot Eden this week, a planned mixed community of othodox and secular.
“Givaot Eden” in the Mate Yehuda area, a new community complete with 270 houses, public buildings, kindergartens, a synagogue, playgrounds, green spaces and more, is opening this week on a hilltop near Jerusalem.
Israelis sink deeper into debt . . .
Despite the fact that average salaries in Israel rose by 6% last month, Israelis spent all of that and more on credit card purchases.
In fact, August broke all records of credit card spending. Israelis ran up 42.266 billion shekels in purchases.
In the September lead up to the high holy days, you can expect that the August numbers will be quickly eclipsed.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Kolakevod To Papua New Guinea!
An Amazing Statement Of Support For Israel!
Papua New Guinea opens its new embassy in Jerusalem–James Marape PM of New Guinea left, PM Netanyahu right.
PM Marape made this dramatic statement at the ceremony:
“We are opening the embassy here because of our shared heritage, acknowledging the creator God, the Yahweh God of Israel, the Yahweh God of Isaac and Abraham.
You have been the great custodian of the moral values that were passed for humanity.”
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.