We are at War...but Just around the corner...

Just emerged from the mamad (refuge) even if the "end of the emergency" is yet to arrive. Life under bombardment is not easy, less for old people like me, but our enemies have to be defeated. I'm reading British news and it is not the same country I know and love. The Parlament has been asked to investigate Zionist conspiracies. One hundred years late. Iran attacked the Sunni Gulf emirates and closed the Hormuz. The price of oil almost doubled. Apparently, the Americans did not expect this development.

Projectiles by target country

Unlike June 2025, when the war was almost exclusively Iran-versus-Israel, the 2026 conflict has turned the entire Gulf into a warzone. Iran has been distributing fire across 13 countries, overwhelming regional air defenses and forcing every Gulf state into the conflict. Critically, the data now confirms that the UAE has absorbed far more total projectiles than Israel, with 1,468 projectiles versus 392. The INSS Israel assessment confirmed that Iran launched 2.5 times more missiles and 20 times more drones at Gulf states than at Israel.

Country	Missiles	Drones	Total	% of Total	Interception Rate
Israel	285	107	392	12.8%	90% Ballistic Missiles, 90% Drones
UAE	214	1,254	1,468	48%	92% Ballistic Missiles, 93% Drones
Kuwait	178	384	562	18.4%	97% Ballistic Missiles, 95% Drones
Bahrain	84	147	231	7.6%	88% Ballistic Missiles, 82% Drones
Qatar	104	39	143	4.7%	97% Ballistic Missiles, 62% Drones
Jordan	60	59	119	3.9%	100% Ballistic Missiles, 100% Drones
Saudi Arabia	28	45	73	2.4%	98% Ballistic Missiles, 93% Drones
Iraq	20	40	60	2%	70% Ballistic Missiles,65% Drones
Oman	2	4	6	0.2%	50% Ballistic Missiles, 50% Drones

Azerbaijan	0	3	3	0.1%	N/A
Turkey (NATO)	1	0	1	<0.1%	100%
Cyprus/UK (Akrotiri)	0	1	1	<0.1%	N/A

Israel has absorbed just 12.8% of all projectiles, while the UAE has received 48%. 

That's Why

L'image d'Evyatar David, squelettique, sommé de creuser sa tombe par ses tortionnaires à Gaza, a fait le tour du monde. Même Greta Thunberg l'a diffusée, pensant à tort qu'il s'agissait d'un prisonnier palestinien. Soit. L'essentiel demeure: Evyatar est de retour, vivant.

The Inquisition torture chambers were like this. We shall never allow it again. 

Agenesis

 Tooth agenesis involving one tooth occurs in up to 10% of Americans, but the severe form affecting multiple teeth — as seen in Graham's family — occurs in less than 0.5% of people.

This rarity likely stems from the mutation's location: a critical site in the KDF-1 gene that evolution has left virtually untouched. In addition to studying the gene in humans, the team looked at 421 animal species and discovered that no more than 10 species had evolved a different gene variant at this site.

More War

 Israel is attacking Iran's leadership and at the same time, it is starting a military campaign against Lebanon's Hizballah. This is not a short war; it is a prolonged conflict sucking in the whole Middle East and even Europe. No doubt, it is a most audacious enterprise to start this chain of events, but Bibi feels we have no choice. As for me personally, it is running to the hardened room when the phone starts talking spontaneously and tells me that I have one and half minutes to get protected. Then I hear the explosions and go back to what I was doing. I have finished today the Pizza project in the airport, and I have many other projects. the remarkable people in Israel are extremely optimistic and keep starting new businesses no matter what. Pic. a 100-story building project in Tel Aviv.

Euphoria in TASE

The successful attack on the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is causing large upward movements on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Globes says it is euphoria.  The Tel Aviv 35 Index is up 3.67% at 4,279.74 points - a new record. The Tel Aviv 125 index is up 3.85% at 4,231.79 points, also a new record. Trading volumes are very high. The All-Bond Index is up 0.33% at 423.50 points. Insurance stocks are particularly strong with Clal, Harel and Menorah Mivtachim all more than 9% higher although energy stocks are down. Bank and defense stocks are also showing strong gains.

On the foreign exchange market, in late morning inter-bank trading, the shekel-dollar rate is 1.93% lower than Friday, at NIS 3.072/$ that is the shekel is very strong. Iran has effectively closed the Hormuz and oil and gas prices are expected to rise strongly. The war will cause pain to Europe and the Gulf emirates. 

My Granduncle Moyshe asked my mother about names of the family in Vac. He was giving the dead's names to the new generation and had run out of names. In a modest way, I have remade some of my Jaszbereny Grandfather Gyula's prosperity. I am optimist.   

Persian Presents

Pic.: A missile from Iran. The alarm called to go to the hardened room - at least 5 times this night. The phone starts to make noises and then the announcement - you have few minutes to move yourself into a protected place. Then the municipal siren and then the muted explosion in the sky of a neutralized Iranian missile or drone. Your sleep has been ruined and you are a tired zombie for the next 24 hours. Unable to work. 

For us and the USA, this is a war with no casualties. What surprises me? That Iran is focusing its missiles on Dubai, a small, liberal Arab statelet, which is not attacking it. On the other hand, Israel's long-term worry about Iran's nuclear weapons, has been solved for some years. Bibi's courageous leadership did it.

Trump: "A vicious group of very hard terrible people"

 Israel launched a pre-emptive attack against the Iranian regime. At 8 AM here the phone ringed sending me to the hardened room at home. From yesterday evening I have high BP and could not sleep till 4 AM. I am not feeling at my best. The youngest of my sons-in-law were called to the Army. Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, announced his country’s strikes in a statement, adding that the country would be under a state of emergency. Anticipating potential Iranian retaliation, the Israeli government announced that schools, workplaces, and the country’s international airspace would close. Purim festivities have been stopped, and we are told the war will take some time. 

The Department of Defense is calling these strikes “Operation Epic Fury.”