Polls are over

Our sisters celebrate
their feast day 

The election results are out and the centre right party won 33 seats which is the largest share in the polling population .... and the PM's party had only 32. And the biggest surprise, the arab party is the 3rd largest place ... first time ever in Israel's history. Everyone is saying it's a backlash from the PM's tactic to scare jewish voters by announcing "the arabs are coming in droves" ... something which he did in the past 2 elections. He also tried to scare arab voters away by installing security cameras in polling stations ... like he did the last time. All backfired and the arabs did come in droves and took out his party from the govt. Now we're all waiting to see how the coalition will amalgamate. Everything will affect us foreigners ... we're praying for a coalition that'll treat us fairly.

Mounted police at night

There was a stabbing attempt at the Qalandya checkpoint north of Jerusalem. A 50+ arab woman brandished a knife and the soldiers shot her dead. Security suddenly tightened in and around the City and all checkpoints as well. I guess this will continue for the next month as the jewish High Holy Days (New Year, Atonement and Booths) will begin next week and roll through 3 consecutive weeks. Violence usually occurs on the Feast of Booths (Sukkoth or tabernacles) when jews try to destroy the Mosque and rebuild the jewish Temple in its place. Every year I go to Jaffa and stay to avoid the violence along our street. The roadblocks, the curfews and the bullets sprayed into our library .... that's too much tension for me to take. I am already fazzled by this plot to harm me ... I don't need more.