Friday rain

Flowers and sufganiot for Ambra

Rain was forecast for today and the rest of the weekend. The sky was dark and cloudy but no rain fell ... until this evening at 9pm. A shower broke and just as quickly it stopped. Not very satisfying. We're all hoping it'll rain heavily later tonight.

Next Saturday - feast of the Immaculate Conception - our former library assistant Ambra will make her perpetual profession to her community of St. John the Baptist. She was a great help to both our libraries as she holds a degree in library science. So yesterday while on my way home from the hospital, I stopped at the florist and bought a bunch of flowers, and a box of sufganiot (ponschski) as a gift from the staff of both libraries. When I reached her office - she now works in our Curia office - she wasn't in. Her parents had come to celebrate her profession a week ahead so she's out with them. Her colleagues took photos of the gifts and sent it to her ... but we decided to eat the sufganiot as it won't last till 10 days after.

The famous Clock Tower of
Jaffa in the rain

Well on the international level we read that the US govt is scrambling to undo (at least in part) the US  abolition of aid to the Palestinians. Trump shot his mouth when he frivolously made that decision without thinking ... now his govt realised that intelligence sharing and co-ordination with Israel will also be cut ... and that is a grave danger since terrorists will be able to work without hindrance. So the US govt is now trying to salvage this abolition by granting exemptions to the Palestinians. Typical of Trump to frivolously make decisions without thinking of the consequences.

Today's leftwing paper Haaretz just publicly expressed what I've been saying all along ... Israel's greatest enemy is from within ... the infighting and implosion of Judaism.  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-iran-and-hamas-threaten-israel-s-security-so-do-the-leaders-of-ultra-orthodoxy-1.6699505?fbclid=IwAR2wAINf_lgpPw473vBLkZfPRlDRPQAhDR0yeqGNqDylKGhd5t4g167yorE