3:26 PM Update from Katyusha attacks: Direct hit on Amirim School in Kiryat Yam (Haifa area). Total number of wounded in Haifa area climbs to 19.
3:25 PM Worrying News. General Udi Adam: We still don't know if a soldier is missing in action from yesterday's battle [near Avivim]
3:23 PM IDF calls up 5000 additional reservists via "Tzav 8" emergency call up orders. 15 wounded in Haifa in 4 rocekt strikes. The 2 seriously wounded are now classified as moderately wounded.
1:55 PMKatyusha Rockets strike all over Israel's Northern Region. Located rocket strikes in Haifa, Krayot, Rosh Pina, Akko, Tiverya, Nahariya and Kiryat Shmona. Direct hit on building in Haifa with 6 wounded; two in serious condition.
12:00 PM Taking a break for a bit...off to take pictures around Central Israel. Israel is at it's patriotic best.
11:46 AM Remember the chase for the suicide bomber on Wedneday around Kfar Sava and Hod HaSharon (near the mall) which I blogged about? Here's a picture of the would be bomber. Great work by Israel's police, Shabak and IDF for catching this guy before self-exploding, and possibly causing a catastrophic attack.
11:45 AM Reports of many hundreds of IDF soldiers operating in South Lebanon. Hizbolla rocket, aimed at Israel, misses..and hits a UN outpost in South Lebanon.
11:19 AM Gaza evacuees leave tent encampment (from YNET)
After 11 months of living in a tent encampment in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, residents of the evacuated Gaza Strip settlement of Elei Sinai on Thursday evening began disassembling their tents and held a farewell ceremony before moving to yet another temporary housing in Ashkelon.
According to the original plan, Elei Sinai evacuees were meant to settle in Kibbutz Palmahim, but after several months of struggle they were no accepted by the majority in Palmahim, and the Disengagement Authority is now looking into other options for them.
11:03 AM Channel 10- TV reports that hundreds of IDF soldiers are now operating in South Lebanon. Names of 3 IDF soldiers killed last night near Avivim cleared for publication: Major Benjamin Hillman, 27, of Raanana; Staff Sergeant Rafan-el Muskal, 21, of Mazkeret Batya; and Staff Sergeant Nadav Balua, 21, of Carmiel.
10:41 AM As I reported last night before going to sleep, 2 IAF Apache helicopters collided in mid-air, and crashed down near Ramot Naftali near Kiryat Shmona (hat-tip to KP who first alerted me to it as I was about to sign off...)
Just released for publication -- the officer killed in the collision (not 2 killed as previsouly reported) was a pilot. Three other soliders were wounded as a result of the collision -- one of them is in serious condition. They are being treated at the RAMBAM hospital in Haifa. (Read the whole story if you wish on YNET here)
Read here from wikipedia for some info about the Apache Attack Helicoper.
Cost per helicopter is about $56.25 million dollars (per wikipedia). So if we count the 2 of these that crashed last night, and the IAF F16i which crashed after takeoff the other day at a cost of $34 million, we arrive at the total cost of crashed IAF warships at $146.9 MILLION DOLLARS. Think about that when you buy Israel bonds...(maybe buy an extra one for the kids, grandchildren, pets...)
10:36 AM Good morning world. Updates coming shortly...
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael
14 comments:
Boker tov! Here's hoping for a quiet, boring, nothing-to-report, erev Shabbat.
laylah tov for me, and a shabbat shalom for you!
Shabbat is coming!
Get ready at http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/mediaplayer/default.asp?aid=265792
and
http://dwnmedia.a7.org/a7radio/shows/mona.mp3
Shabbat Shalom!
Stay safe!
And have a great Shabbos!
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shabbat shalom. with the key being shalom.
thanks again for the updates Jameel. I definitely feel much more "comfortable" being properly informed, not just hearing what the american media wants us to hear.
Wish as all a quiet Shabbat.
No War Button
So we have the American, with a strange blog name, and a blogroll in Ivrit, staying at the Muqata, with an Israeli who used to be American, with an English blogroll, and an Arabic header.
Normal.
Have a great Shabbos! :)
you will have an awesome shabus, and no steg the towel is not hat'mona
The photograph of the would-be bomber in custody made my morning. Especially appreciated the serene expressions on the guys escorting him--calm as local cops pulling a drunk out of a street fight.
A good and quiet Shabbos, everyone.
Jameel--good shabbos and stay safe. Can't believe you're letting a dangerous character like Steg into your home ;-)
So what are these 'Israel bonds' and can we 'furriners' buy them?
Shabbat Shalom from Australia.
I wish you and yours a speedy victory. As the last few years (9/11, Bali 1 and 2) have shown, Israel's enemies are our enemies too.
For a reasonably thoughtful Aussie view, look at this article;
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19867852-601,00.html
I'm quite disgusted at the Sydney Morning Herald's coverage, it and the ABC are showing some leftwing bias (ie anti-Israel). Sad to say the left in the Anglosphere are often so.
Israel does have a lot of support - I think a good majority in the west. Those that don't just haven't thought things through in my view. This is becoming just different theatres of the same global war, Shades of WW2 and the Cold War there.
Excellent effort on your blog (which I found via 'IsreallyCool').
Ezzie:
Hey... who you calling "normal"? :-P
Amshinover:
Unfortunately we ate out during the day, so there was no need for the towel... the *specially-made* Shabbos towel that said שבת on it in big decorated letters, no less!
PsychoToddler:
"Dangerous character"? Oh there are some pictures from this weekend i definitely need to show you now ;-)
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