Hundreds of Hizballah terrorists trapped in Ali al-Taher underground base

ZAHAL has trapped hundreds of terrorists in a large underground tunnel complex housing a command center and strategic weapons depots, known as the Imad‑4 facility. Iran is desperately pressing Trump to stop ZAHAL and to let them escape. They announced that the Hormuz Strait is closed, and they don't care if the world economy goes to hell. If it does, blame the Jews. 

WELCOME TO MY CITY

 

Ben Yehuda Street.

Looking to the sky

It is official: We are expecting Iranian rockets in the next hour. That was half an hour ago. 

Deported to Bangui, CAR

The USA is deporting illegal immigrants to African countries. Among those deported Thursday to Bangui were people from Iran, Jordan, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia, and Afghanistan.

Pic from "What to do in Bangui".

On Musk's juggernaut

Paul Krugman, a sagacious observer, came out against Elon Musk's "juggernaut". He has arguments. 

 "The immense human Ponzi scheme that is Elon Musk will eventually collapse. But traditional Ponzi schemes only exploit investors who choose to participate. This time much of the money propping up Musk’s scam will come from ordinary Americans who have in effect been forced to buy in. Approximately 52% of mutual fund assets are now invested in index or index-based funds, and over 50% of American households are invested in mutual funds. Thanks to the collusion between Musk and Wall Street, enabled by the perception that the Trump administration has Musk’s back, many if not most of these small investors will be dragged, willy-nilly, into fueling the Musk juggernaut."

BTW,   Juggernaut is the rendering in English of Jagannath, a deity in the Hindu tradition. The first European description of this festival is found in a thirteenth-century account by the Franciscan friar Odoric of Pordenone, who describes Hindus offering themselves in a religious sacrifice, jumping under the wheels of these huge chariots, and being crushed to death. Pic: A Jaganath cart in the Ulsoor temple complex in Bangalore, India, around 1870.

Answer quickly

 When determining whom to hire, employers care about how quickly they receive replies from the job seekers and service providers they contact. Across transaction data from a large real-world marketplace (N = ∼11.66 million) and experiments (three main studies (total n = 3,603) and five supplemental studies (total n = 5,039)), we show that providers benefit from responding to employers’ messages quickly. First, we document substantial real-world consequences of reply speed in Fiverr marketplace transaction data (Study 1), finding a strong negative relationship between the length of delay in replying to a service request and the likelihood of securing a contract. Even delays of just 5–10 minutes dramatically reduce providers’ likelihood of being hired.

Gulf Countries in War

The German press notes the disappointment of the Gulf countries, which suffered heavy losses in the war. The Europeans are deeply resentful of America. Always were. 

Satellite image of a Saudi oil facility in Abqaiq damaged by an Iranian attack on April 8. “Although our governments publicly condemned the war, the Gulf was attacked with around 7,000 missiles and drones.” (Photo: European Union / Copernicus Sentinel-2 / REUTERS)

Live long and Prosper

 For an 80-year-old in Israel today, the remaining life expectancy from the latest mortality tables is about 9.2 years for men and 10.4 years for women - so the average 80-year-old man reaches roughly 89, and a woman about 90. Put another way, total life expectancy at age 80 in Israel is about 89.9 years, well above the figure calculated from birth, precisely because you've already survived all the earlier mortality risks.

Rising Power

Russia, China, and North Korea leaders are meeting in Peking. These are disciplined people, the wives standing firm in the background.  Impressive. North Korea is selling weapons and prospering. 

NBA

 

New York won the NBA championship. 

Hawara

Hawara is an Arab village in Northern Samaria. The main road passed in the middle. I felt uneasy each time I travelled to Alon Moreh. Two acquaintances were murdered in that village. The government built a bypass road, a "solution". Now, a group of Jewish youngsters made their presence felt in that place of evil. 

In the Bible, "places of evil" encompass both actual historical cities associated with extreme wickedness and symbolic, spiritual realms representing cosmic darkness.

Origins

My mother's grandfather. I don't know for sure if the younger man is his son or what. They were a very religious family.

The grandfather of my father was also very religious, but no picture remains.

The Bund

 
The shit-wipe New York Times is resurrecting the BUND, a Jewish anti-Zionist party in Russia and Poland that was totally wiped out in the Holocaust. It was a national-communist mass movement, based on the idea that Jews had lived for centuries in those lands and would continue to do so in the future. The problem was that non-Jewish communists rejected all contact with the Bund, and Joseph Stalin wrote a booklet on the correct Bolshevik nationality policy, dedicating many pages to the analysis of the Bund. When Lenin and his faction took over Russia, they erased the Bund as counter-revolutionary. But in Poland, it survived till the Nazi conquest, which ended all illusions of worker-class solidarity, of common ground with the host nation's workers against the invader.

History demonstrated that the sole viable solution to the Jewish masses in Poland was emigration. To Palestine of the Turkish Sultanate, to America, to South Africa, to Shanghai, to anywhere. Which about half did. The optimist, Bundist half, did not and was killed in situ. 

Now, the NYT is promoting the long-dead Bundist ideology.   

Tel Aviv Stocks Oscillating

 
TEVA and TOWER are heavy stocks in the local market, and, surprisingly, they are rising 5% one day and falling 5% the next day. Smaller stocks oscillate even more. Something is happening. 

The AI impurity

 The Szatmar Csodarabbi too is against AI. 

He delivered an emergency address broadcast live to all Satmar institutions around the world, harshly attacking artificial intelligence.

In his remarks, the Rebbe called on his hasidim to distance themselves from any device that enables access to AI - including "kosher" phones approved for use by haredim.

"On every phone in the home, even on a kosher phone, one can connect to this impurity in a single moment," he said. "There are many victims - young boys, girls, and even married yeshiva students. They are falling and descending directly into hell.

Hungarian hasidim were always the most fanatically obscurantist. They are persistently restricting knowledge. 300 years of rejecting change. 

Wiki: The obscurantist believes that religion serves the social control of the populace. To that effect, the obscurantist limits the publication, extension, and dissemination of knowledge, of evidence countering the common-belief status quo with which the nation is ruled—the local variety of “the necessary” Noble Lie concept introduced to political discourse by Plato, in 380 BC.

Beirut evacuating

The Golani Battalion is crossing the Zahrani River and advancing towards Beirut's Southern neighborhood. Katz said it clearly: If there is no quiet in Israel, there will be no quiet in Lebanon. The Ayatollah Jr., from the Persian Bazaar, threatens to stop bargaining.