Since the war began on October 7, Simchat Torah, a lot of industries in Israel have been negatively impacted due to the lockout of Palestinian workers. Among the hardest hit industries is the construction industry. Almost all construction workers were Arabs, especially Palestinian Arabs with work permits.

just had to repair a puncture in a car tire. local tire shops are open and working but very slow. No Arab workers, who usually do the actual work and quickly. Owners are doing it themselves now, rolling up their sleeves and getting to work probably the way they did when they first went into business, so it is also much slower, with lines of cars waiting to be serviced... 

Today in a construction site in Neve Shamir - RBS Hei a fight broke out between a couple different construction crews. I have no idea what they were fighting about. Not really important. 

People should be upset, unless you believe the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria do not deserve Israeli rights, at the Likud and Bibi, Smotritch and Ben Gvir and Hatzionut Hadatit, Shas and UTJ... Not for not supporting the government proposal but for voting against the needs of the settlers for the purpose of bringing the Likud back to power. This was the type of vote that should not have been partisan and should have been supported by right wing opposition parties. But the Likud already said explicitly more than once that they dont care about helping anyone right now - not women who need protection from rapists, not settlers, not anybody - their efforts are only to get back to power. People should be upset that they put their own interests before the interests of the country - especially on issues that they have always supported..

Remember the Lebanese fellow, Eliyahu Hawil, posing as a Jew who married a Syrian lady from NY until it was discovered he is not Jewish and that just blew everything up? Well, we thought the story was behind us but now it is all blown up once again.

Last night at 3am Israeli forces evicted a family from their home in the Shimon Hatzaddik, aka Sheikh Jarrah, neighborhood of Jerusalem. 

I somehow missed this story until today, and I am having a hard time finding good and reliable information about it.

It is not every day you see such honor bestowed upon a Jewish and/or Israeli leader by Arabs/Muslims, let alone Arab heads of state...

And I love the swords...

 

This is rich!

By now you surely must have heard about the story in New York of a Lebanese Muslim posing as a Jew having learned in a Chabad yeshiva and even marrying a frum woman in New York until his identity was discovered.

Translation:

Just two weeks ago Israel suffered a horrific tragedy when 45 people were crushed to death at a religious festival in Meron on Lag B'Omer. It is hard to call anything a bright point in such a horrific incident but one of the bright points was when the Arabs from a nearby town called Tamra provided water and food to Meron survivors. They set up stations offering free food and drink to thousands of evacuees as they were trying to make their way off the Meron mountain in the chaos.

I honestly do not get what all this sudden violence, rioting, and rockets from Gaza is all about. I do not understand if they are connected or just a confluence of events with bad timing. Obviously, occupation and all that, but it was relatively quiet for a fairly significant amount of time and suddenly it exploded into a conflagration the likes of which we have not seen in a really long time.

the imagery is shocking.

The attempts to form a coalition until now all seemed to rely heavily on the Arab party named Raam, led by MK Mansour Abbas.

A lot of people are surprised, even shocked, even horrified, by what Rav Chaim Kanievsky was recently quoted as having said. 

Switzerland voted today to officially ban facial coverings. While not mentioning Islam, the referendum was clearly targeting Muslims and showing Switzerland as not an optimal place for Muslims to move to. The referendum passed by a tiny majority - tiny but a majority nonetheless.

The irony is so thick it can be cut with a knife.

It did not take long but a Member of Knesset from the United Arab List successfully brought down the Israeli government!

Well, sort of.

MK Sami Abu Shahada (UAL) has officially caught the Corona Virus.

After Abu Shahada tested positive he informed the powers that be, when trying to figure out with whom he has come into contact, that he has participated recently in many events, such as protests, condolence calls, meetings, family events, and his work in the Knesset which includes participation in Knesset committee meetings. Abu Shahada says he has been in contact with thousands of people recently.

"Thousands of people" (in a very short period of time) sounds like delusions of grandeur to me, but better safe than sorry.

While the authorities try to figure out who else needs to go into quarantine and where he really has been and with whom he has actually come into contact, all Knesset Committee meetings are being canceled, along with lots of other Knesset activities (though not all).
source: Walla News

It was not all that difficult but the UAL brought down the government!

More seriously, refuah shleima to MK Abu Shahada.