First, the bad news.
Within hours of the opening of Germany's new national Holocaust memorial to the public, a vandal scratched a Nazi swastika into one of the 2,711 gray slabs, a spokesman for the memorial said Friday.
Are we surprised? I think not. And now, the good.
The faculties of Oxford, Warwick and Sussex universities faculty has rejected he boycott of Haifa and Bar Ilan universities by Britain's Association of University Teachers, reported Israel Radio on Friday morning.
The decision by Oxford faculty to reject the boycott came in advance of the proposed May 26 emergency meeting at which it was expected that the anti-boycott faction would try to overturn the boycott. A source told The Jerusalem Post that the AUT accepted a letter with the required 25 signatures submitted by John Pike of the Open University, calling for the special session, and for a "comprehensive debate of the issue."
This boycott thing isn't going too well, is it?
And, finally, some of both.
In yet another attack by Hizbullah terrorists in south Lebanon, a number of rockets or mortar shells were fired at IDF posts in the Har Dov area on Friday afternoon. No one was wounded in the attacks.
The army said that either nine rockets or mortar shells were fired at IDF posts at Har Dov. The IDF responded with artillery fire. IDF tanks also fired shells at Hizbullah positions in the southern sector, and the air force attacked two Hizbullah positions near Har Dov.
The good news there is twofold: (a) no one was wounded and (b) Israel fired back. It's all about consequences.
Shabbat Shalom.
