Latest updates for Tuesday, November 20, 2012

8:25 PM A female driver was shot near the Husan bypass near Beitar Ilit in a drive-by shooting. Medical forces are treating her on site, but she is in serious condition. The woman is from Tzur Hadassah.

8:00 PM Permitted for release: Reserve soldier killed by mortar fire in Eshkol region.

7:51 PM Netivot and S’de Negev now under rocket fire.

7:45PM A total of 8 rockets were fired at Be’er Sheva. 3 were shot down by the Iron Dome system.

7:33 PM  Four rockets fall in Be’er Sheva. Sirens in Be’er Tuvia, Ashkelon, Kiryat Melachi. One rocket falls in built up area, no injuries.

7:32 PM Senior Israeli sources deny that there is any agreement on a cease fire.

7:30 PM: 2 Al-Aqsa TV journalists were killed in Gaza air strike. (Ma’an)

6:34 PM: The family that was trapped under their building in Rishon were in a bomb shelter. 2 lightly injured.

6:14 PM: Several victims of panic attacks, and a few feared trapped under a collapsed building in Rishon L’Tzion that was hit by a rocket.

6:12 PM: Sirens in Rishon L’Tzion. Earlier, one man was seriously injured from a rocket that fell on a home in Ashkelon and 7 were hospitalized with light injuries after 7 rockets fell on two different locations in Ashdod.

4:58 PM: 6 Arabs accused of spying for Israel executed today.

4:50 PM: After distributing warning leaflets to Gazans to leave the neighborhood north and south of Gaza City, the IDF has launched a massive attack on Hamas assets. Several Arabs are reported dead. In the last 2 hours, the IAF has demolished 30 smuggling tunnels, eliminated 3 launch teams and hit 3 seniors terrorists and 2 weapons carrying vehicles.

3:35 PM: Iron Dome intercepted 3 rockets over Ashdod.

3:34 PM: 5 hurt lightly from rocket in Eshkol.

2:42 PM: IDF heavy artillery is bombarding Gaza, targeting the launch sites that have been attacking Israeli population centers since early morning.

2:31 PM: Arab killed in new IAF air strike on Gaza City.

2:36 PM: 1 critically injured from 3 mortar shells in an Eshkol kibbutz.

2:32 PM: The Armor officer who was injured from mortar fire died in Be’er Sheva hospital.

2:24 PM: Israel police say rocket fired at Jerusalem landed in open area, no injuries reported.

2:19 PM: 2 Rockets hit a Christian Arab village in Gush Etzion, two injured. Correction: No rocket fell in Efrat.

2:02 PM: Direct hit at a home in RC Eshkol. Several injuries reported. EMT on its way.

1:53 PM: Palestinians report launch team killed in Gaza.

1:48 PM: Direct hit at a factory in RC Sdot Negev. No one hurt.

13:37 PM: Young Arab injured during clashes with IDF forces at Huwwara checkpoint near Shchem (Ma’an).

13:25 PM: Clashes between IDF forces and Arabs during Hebron funeral of Arab who was shot and killed after attacking Israeli soldiers on Monday.

12:32 PM: Hamas fired rockets at a Gaza crossing today, limiting the amount of goods entering. Only 24 out of a scheduled 120 trucks entered the city. Crossing is now closed.

12:31 PM: Rocket falls in a backyard in Sderot.

12:09 PM: The man injured in RC Eshkol was an Armor officer in his 40s. A shrapnel hit his chest. He was removed to the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva.

11:24 AM:  A volley of rockets fall on Regional Council Eshkol outside the Gaza Strip.

10:39 AM: 2 interceptions over Ashdod.

10:24 AM: Iron Dome intercepted 2 rockets over Be’er Sheva.

10:16 AM: A man was seriously injured from a Gaza rocket at the Regional Council Eshkol. He is being sedated and recusitated and will be flown to Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva.

8:58 AM: Iron Dome intercepted 2 rockets over Ashdod

8:57 AM: A volley of 16 rockets hit Be’er Sheva. severe damage to a bus and a home.

7:57 AM: Sirens in Beer Sheva. 2 rocket were intercepted over the city.

6:55 AM: Overnight, the IDF continued to attack about 100 terrorist targets, including underground launchers, terror tunnels and weapons stores, inflicting great damage on these assets. More attacks on buildings belonging to several senior offiocers of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, which served as command centers. Additionally, a north Gaza bank used to transfer terrorist funds was attacked. About 10 tunnels serving as shelters for Hamas seniors were attacked. Israel’s Navy fired at targets on the shoreline of the central Gaza Strip, hitting its targets accurately, following months of Intelligence gathering and analysis. Also, during the night artillery shots were fired at suspected points in the Gaza Strip.

06:25 AM: IDF  says Five rockets fired at Israel since midnight. Iron Dome intercepted two of the five.

06:18 AM: Airstrikes targeting Khan Younis. (Ma’an)

06:14 AM: A Ma’an reporter says Israeli aircraft bombing east of Khan Younis. (Ma’an)

06:04 AM: Update: The area targeted in Sheikh Zayed city (03:31) is confirmed to be a security site. (Ma’an)

05:30 AM: A house is severely damaged after airstrikes in Beit Lahiya, but there are no reports of injuries. (Ma’an)

05:10 AM: More explosions reported. (Ma’an)

04:25 AM: Explosion reported in Beit Lahiya. (Ma’an)

04:06 AM: Explosion reported in Gaza City. (Ma’an)

3:00 AM: The Cabinet of 9 meeting over the continued operation has ended, no information released. Israeli officials refused Tuesday to disclose details of the talks underway with Egypt, and stressed that the IDF continues to prepare for a ground operation as long as the fire from Gaza continues.

Palestinians pray next to the bodies of members of the al-Dalou
family during a funeral in Gaza City Nov. 19, 2012. Nine members
of the family, including four children, were killed in an airstrike
on their house, medics said. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Two missiles launched since midnight (total 104 since the operation began Wednesday afternoon.

Three terrorists were killed in Khan Yunis that were firing rockets towards the Eshkol region.

28 Israelis were treated for shell shock.

1 person lightly wounded from broken glass, in Be’er Sheva.

UN Security Council discusses situation between Israel and Gaza, but reached no conclusions.

At 4:38 AM, Israel targeted the Palestinian Parliament building in Gaza.

13 dead in Gaza, and over 90 wounded.

President Obama discusses situation with Egyptian president Morsi, telling him it is Israel’s right to defend itself.

Last rocket attacks for at 6:51 AM in the Eshkol region. No injuries reported.

Radio Darom (South) reports that 3 people in Sderot were injured from shrapnel from a rocket launch. The injuries are listed as light to moderate.

A 4th person has been injured, but no details are available yet.

At least 10 rockets were launched at Sderot between 7:55 AM and 8:15 AM on Sunday morning.

Click here for the longer list of rocket launches from Gaza.

We lost count as to the number of rockets and mortars that hit Southern Israel overnight (Sunday night-Monday morning).

The sirens went off at: 2:06 AM, 2:14 AM, 2:25 AM, 2:35 AM. 2:44 AM, 3:42 AM and 5:40 AM.

The Eshkol region was hit, Ashkelon beach area was hit.

At out count, we estimate at least a dozen rockets were launched from Gaza at Israel.

The IDF has not yet responded to this particular barrage, but did hit Gazan terror targets including a rocket launch site earlier in the evening in response to Saturday’s attacks from Gaza.

It’s not an easy translation, the Mishna’s notion of “gishmei bracha.” Midrash Rabah (Vayikra 35:10) suggests that the blessing of “I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit” (Lev. 26:4) is fully realized when those rains come down at night.

During the days of King Herod, who endeavored to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, it would only rain at night, and come morning the clouds would disperse, the sun would come out and the workmen would go out to do their labor knowing their actions are favored by their Father in Heaven.

A slightly different view suggests the verse is fully realized when it rains on Shabbat nights (meaning Friday nights). The midrash relates that in the days of Shimon Ben Shatach and his sister, Queen Shlomtzion, the rain would come down only on Shabbat nights, until the wheat grains became the size of kidneys and the rye the size of olive pits and the lentils the size of gold dinars. The sages then harvested and preserved those huge yields for the coming generations, so they would realize how much good they can receive if only they didn’t sin.

It rained early this morning throughout Israel. We received our share in Netanya. Strong, hard, rain, which went on for about an hour and then stopped just before 7 AM, so we could go to shul.

Shabbat Shalom.

British police reported that the shots fired in front of Manchester’s Yeshivat Shaarei Torah around 2 AM last night. were aimed at the yeshiva and did not happen by accident. The yeshiva is located in the mostly Jewish neighborhood of Broughton Park.

According a report in the Jewish Chronicleת אwo 17 year old boys from Broughton have been arrested  on suspicion of possessing, and discharging a firearm at the Yeshiva in Upper Park Road, in Manchester.

The incident is not being treated as a hate crime or anti-Semitic.

According a report in the Jewish Chronicle, two cars were driving erratically around the yeshiva, which is the largest yeshiva in Manchester, with prominent Hebrew writing on its street side, and then a flash from a gunshot was seen and a shot heard.

A few students went outside to ask the driver to stop honking his horn in the middle of the night. While they were talking, another car arrived and its driver fired a few gunshots.

According to some witnesses only one gunshot was heard.

Police closed down the area.

The website Chadrei Chareidim noted that two weeks ago local police arrested a Muslim who was planning to hit Jewish institutions in Manchester, including Shaarei Torah.

Across

1. 1982 Spielberg film + an athletic magazine

5. Oct. or Sept.

8. Hitter, e.g.

14. Many a website link pgs.

15. Is plurally

16. Iran___

17. Where you might find that special someone

19. Month after an emperor

20. Olympics chant, maybe

21. Recipe amt.

22. Bursts in

23. New(ish) shidduch option

26. Is that an ___ ___ a moose?

27. Ilya Kovalchuk’s org.

28. One to respect

31. Keanu’s most famous role

33. Shocking fish

35. Was

36. Many a point for Roddick

39. Where singles go to become doubles

41. Yitzchak’s replacement

42. City southeast of Tel Aviv

43. ___ ___ just me?

44. Syrup, perhaps

47. One from Mongolia

49. Rav Isaac Luria, informally

51. Famous Ross

55. Where you might find The One

58. Like Peter Parker

60. 2nd or 3rd

61. Nickname for those with Rav Yosef’s first name (and first name is 2 words)

62. Moving quickly, like a horse

63. Spouse seekers site

65. Rebelled

66. Middle-East letters

67. Palindromic magazine

68. Not as much

69. NFLers dance after them

70. Money letters?

Down

1. Give off

2. Relating to the eyelid or to a foot bone

3. Screech

4. Marx follower

5. Chinese archipelago

6. Mining tool

7. Not him

8. Taxon for mites

9. Identity and Ultimatum

10. Relating to nails or claws

11. Not as sharp

12. ___while

13. Squeelers

18. Pack

22. Small land mass

24. Letters before atan to form a name

25. Locale for “Fiddler on the Roof”

29. Time

30. “Stand” band

32. AM drinks

34. The in Nice

36. In the in Nice

37. Calc. function

38. Builders

40. Log

43. Like Yom Kippur davening, for some

45. Copywriters, e.g.

46. Comp. image

48. Sound recordings

50. Tisha B’Av ___ ___ ___ day

52. ___ ___wood ending

53. Innies, e.g.

54. ___ ___ ___ it (in my opinion)

56. Pusher

57. Growings on some houses

58. A Young Israel

59. Smoking item

63. Stick (out)

64. Abbr. before X or Y

Across

1. 1982 Spielberg film + an athletic magazine

5. Oct. or Sept.

8. Hitter, e.g.

14. Many a website link pgs.

15. Is plurally

16. Iran___

17. Where you might find that special someone

19. Month after an emperor

20. Olympics chant, maybe

21. Recipe amt.

22. Bursts in

23. New(ish) shidduch option

26. Is that an ___ ___ a moose?

27. Ilya Kovalchuk’s org.

28. One to respect

31. Keanu’s most famous role

33. Shocking fish

35. Was

36. Many a point for Roddick

39. Where singles go to become doubles

41. Yitzchak’s replacement

42. City southeast of Tel Aviv

43. ___ ___ just me?

44. Syrup, perhaps

47. One from Mongolia

49. Rav Isaac Luria, informally

51. Famous Ross

55. Where you might find The One

58. Like Peter Parker

60. 2nd or 3rd

61. Nickname for those with Rav Yosef’s first name (and first name is 2 words)

62. Moving quickly, like a horse

63. Spouse seekers site

65. Rebelled

66. Middle-East letters

67. Palindromic magazine

68. Not as much

69. NFLers dance after them

70. Money letters?

Down

1. Give off

2. Relating to the eyelid or to a foot bone

3. Screech

4. Marx follower

5. Chinese archipelago

6. Mining tool

7. Not him

8. Taxon for mites

9. Identity and Ultimatum

10. Relating to nails or claws

11. Not as sharp

12. ___while

13. Squeelers

18. Pack

22. Small land mass

24. Letters before atan to form a name

25. Locale for “Fiddler on the Roof”

29. Time

30. “Stand” band

32. AM drinks

34. The in Nice

36. In the in Nice

37. Calc. function

38. Builders

40. Log

43. Like Yom Kippur davening, for some

45. Copywriters, e.g.

46. Comp. image

48. Sound recordings

50. Tisha B’Av ___ ___ ___ day

52. ___ ___wood ending

53. Innies, e.g.

54. ___ ___ ___ it (in my opinion)

56. Pusher

57. Growings on some houses

58. A Young Israel

59. Smoking item

63. Stick (out)

64. Abbr. before X or Y