Last Friday in Israel. I’ll tell you, I won’t miss the whole “can’t get anywhere or do anything cause it’s friday afternoon or saturday” thing.
Information I received from a friend in the Jewish Agency:
Since the operation began on Saturday (through Thursday night):
- a total of 524 rockets landed in Israel,
- 4 Israeli citizen were killed,
- 68 injured, and
- 400 people suffered from trauma.
- 15 Iranian-made Katyusha rockets landed in Beer Sheva (population 185,000) – 6th largest city in Israel
- 10 in Katyushas in Ashdod (pop. 203,000) – 5th largest city in Israel
- 23 in Ashkelon (pop. 120,000) (this includes 7 fired today)
- Today (Friday): 90 truckloads, mainly of medicine and medical supplies, entered Gaza for a total of nearly 500(!) truckloads this week!
- Relief agencies are not asking for anymore food to be brought in because… their warehouses in Gaza are full!
- Today: 30 rockets were launched towards Israel; 3 citizens were injured in Ashkelon
If you get a chance, also check out this editorial by Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post.
Some things to look forward to: tomorrow I’ll post my final “Things that Make me Feel Sorry for English as a Second Language Students,” which is always mentally stimulating I’m sure. And on Sunday, keep your eyes peeled for “The Israel Retrospective: 10 Talmudic Sermons,” which will be very Jewy and indubitably fascinating. Really though.
I did all my laundry today and packed some. Cleaned the apartment a bit. I’m planning on hitting up the kitchen, bathroom, and toilet room Tomorrow and Sunday, I’m trying to leave this place clean and footprint-less. Then on Monday afternoon, I’m going out to Holon to give Hadas’ mom a little gift and say peace out.
Aright homies, I’m going to sleep. Much love from the sovereign state of Israel, which does, indeed, exist.
