After the second consecutive night of missile barrages from Iran:
10 confirmed dead including baby;
Hundreds injured;
7 missing;
There are zero Israeli military fatalities in Bat Yam, Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, or the Arab city Tamra.
These are 100% civilian cities.
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Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of an apartment building destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact, in Bat Yam, June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Bat Yam Mayor Tzvika Brot said in a statement that “61 buildings were damaged in one way or another — six of them will need to be completely demolished.”
In Rehovot, at least 42 people were wounded, including two seriously and 13 moderately, MDA reported. One man was alive for hours under the rubble at the site of the strike, until rescuers managed to extract him.
Argentina’s PM Milei to move its embassy to Jerusalem:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-857242
US Embassy will boycott the Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade this year:
Much to their dismay, Trump survived both assassination attempts to become the elected President, and now he directed the US Embassy in Israel to officially boycott the Tel Aviv LGBTQ Parade.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-embassy-to-boycott-tel-aviv-pride-parade-in-trump-era-reversal/
US Envoy: No room for Palestinian state in Samaria and Judea – put it somewhere else:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-no-room-for-palestinian-state-in-west-bank-under-current-conditions/
IDF publishes documents it says proves that Hamas has had a policy of confiscating all the incoming aid:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-publishes-documents-it-says-prove-hamas-has-been-confiscating-aid-as-a-matter-of-policy/
Translation: Operation “A People Rises Like a Lioness.”
Do not trust the online translations saying “Operation With a Dog” – those translators do not know the difference between modern and Biblical Hebrew.
Numbers 23:22-24:
God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox. 23 “For [there is] no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob And of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’ 24 Look, a people rises like a lioness, And lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of the slain.” [Num 23:22-24 NKJV]
Apparently the battle is on, and so here in Samaria we can expect a lot more from Yemen, Iran, and who knows who else very soon. About 40 minutes after my two cats and I emerged from our bomb shelter, these alerts came through, signaling a general state of lockdown and alert for now – which could be days or weeks, depending.
Missiles, drones, whatever, this is gearing up to be a dangerous battle between Iran and Israel – with many potential casualties. The USA does not want to get involved offensively – so – will assist with Israel’s defense. Domestically the Israeli police are gearing up to defend against the enemy within.
The full conversation, including: “At the start of my work as a writer for The Guardian, I thought I was ‘one of them,’ but later I realized that I wasn’t:”
Israel government probably does not want to take chances that Iran will fake out the USA with insincere diplomacy.
Iran plans the counterattack against Israel.
Israel may have to consider how much time Iran has left to rebuild their air defenses which Israel destroyed previously after the big Iranian missile attack.
Excerpt:
Screenshot from Times of Israel taken on 12 Jun 2025.
Israel has sent in over 1,200 truckloads of aid into Gaza during the past two weeks.
This “selfie yacht” full of virtue-signaling attention-seekers carried about half a truckload of aid. Not very efficient. Still, Israel took their aid and delivered it to Gazan civilians.
Captured on 2025-06-10 from the X/Twitter account of the Israel Foreign Ministry.
Just look at Greta Thunberg there: Reluctantly forced to smile and accept the kindness offered to her from the Israelis, given in the form of water bottles, sandwiches, and hospitable treatment, even though she and her sailors despise the Jews and sought to slander Israel.
Israel towed the “selfie ship” to port and showed the sailors 43-minutes of raw terrorist footage of the Gazans’ atrocities against women, children, men, and elderly, who were massacred in cold blood while sleeping in their beds on Shabbat morning, Simhat Torah on October 7, 2023. That footage – from the Gazans’ own body cameras – is not for public consumption as it would cause trauma in the viewers. It is however offered to members of the media and leaders of nations, so that they know what really happened.
They refused to watch the video:
Text of the Israel Foreign Ministry tweet:
“Good morning to all our followers: In case you missed it: The ‘selfie yacht’ is safely making its way to the shores of Israel. The passengers are safe and were provided with sandwiches and water, and are expected to return to their home countries. The tiny amount of aid that wasn’t consumed by the “celebrities” will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels. More than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza from Israel within the past two weeks, and close to 11 million meals were transferred by the GHF directly to civilians in Gaza. There are ways to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip — they do not involve provocations and selfies.”
My pets are my friends, and they help my well-being. Many people could agree! So, keeping them healthy is crucial. Here I’ll share a bit of the tools and techniques that work for us:
L-R: 1. Covered cup as an organizer; 2. Pill splitter & crusher; 3. Liquid meds dispenser; 4. Pill popper; 5. Calming spray for cats environment; 6. Wound spray to promote healing on the animal’s skin.
1. Covered cup as pill organizer: Condiments cup, after cleaning out the leftover salad dressing from the pizza shop. Good size for a small collection of pills, and the lid stays shut well enough, and it’s free.
2. Pill splitter & crusher: This one has a top compartment to split the pill without the pieces scattering everywhere, (ever try a knife and cutting board to half a pill?!) plus a section for storing pills, and the bottom section for crushing pills into dust in case one wants to try that method.
3. Liquid meds dispenser: The plan here is to get the tip into the side of the cat’s mouth and squirt the meds towards the other internal cheek. Don’t shoot that liquid straight to the back or it might go down the breathing pipe and into the lungs, and that’s not good. It’s a syringe without a needle.
4. Pill popper: Load a dry pill into the tip, and use this syringe-like action to toss that pill as far back into the mouth as possible.
5. Calming spray for cats’ environment: I spray this on the towel for the cat burrito, and inside the carrier case about 10 minutes before transportation.
6. Wound spray to promote healing on the animal’s skin: The spray sound scares my cats so it never lands on the cat. But the idea is, to coat the wound on the skin (usually bites from fighting outdoors, or thorns) to promote healing. Possibly more useful for dogs.
BONUS: Fresh rope to refurbish my cat scratching tree: With some finishing nails or a staple gun plus a few dabs of glue, I rewrapped the cats’ scratch pole with this fresh rope. Just be sure to wrap each round of rope tightly against the previous round and one can save a lot by not having to buy a new tree.
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For one of my street rescue cats, all the “pill hiding in food” tricks just won’t work: he sniffs out and avoids the med at all costs no matter how well I hide it inside tasty foods. Using the pill popper didn’t work for me, but it may for more calm animals; in every strategy he would spit the pill out, or avoid the food completely, whether the pill was ground to dust or sandwiched inside choice smoked salmon. So for him, I had to use the Purrito Restraint Method with the liquid formulation of the medication measured and loaded into a liquid syringe, for him to swallow that liquid orally.
For my other street rescue cat, I found that hiding the medication inside gelcaps works fine, and he still eats the meat and swallows the half-pill whole, without noticing my trick. Here’s how this works, no Cat Purrito needed:
These empty gelcaps I simply collected from vitamins whenever I emptied them into a drink instead of swallowing whole; sometimes I’d like the vitamin to be more fast-acting without having to dissolve the gelcap in the tummy first. I saved the gelcaps just in case, for a job such as this. Here’s my process for splitting a pill in two, and cutting a center piece out of the empty gelcap, and loading that half-pill into the gelcap and closing it up again. In this way, no pill taste gets into the cat’s food, and one cat is able to swallow the gelcap not noticing that it’s buried in a lump of meat.
Left, Top to bottom: 1. Empty gel cap, closed; 2. Opened gel cap; 3. Excess length cut out from the long half; 4. Smaller gel cap with a split half-pill inside. Right side: plastic covered cup with half-pills all set to go, encased inside shortened gel caps. One of those gelcaps is yellowed, probably made of a different material.
Fuzzy photo, I know, but nope I’m not staging it again to take another picture. It’s good enough.
Cat Burrito technique (Purrito):
I suspect that to film videos like this, the vet most likely drugged their cat to make him nearly comatose prior to attempting a film session. Normal cats will not sit still for this towel malarkey. Mine, being rescued street cats, are so athletic and high-speed that I was seriously concerned I would not be able to apply this technique alone, thus rendering me incapable of administering the pills or liquid meds. So I show the video here for teaching, however, in practice, you’d probably need more speed, coordination, and perhaps an extra set of hands:
Further complicating this at home – most people do not have an appropriate table or counter. That stainless steel operating table at the vet is amazing. So, while wrangling this on the floor, I took the benefit of using my knees to hold the burrito together while one hand holds the cat’s head still and the other hand gets the syringe with liquid meds into the side of the cat’s mouth, aiming to force the cat to drink the meds. Once I got the hang of it, it’s a quick 60 second process start to finish.
Israel noticed that some brave Gazans were looting the aid trucks – thus preventing Hamas from hoarding all the aid for themselves. Nobody expected Israel to support the looters – but that’s exactly what they’re doing!
So now, the IDF is able to deliver aid directly to the people of Gaza, totally bypassing the Hamas thieves.
7 minute vid:
A longer 37 min vid below goes into more detail on changes of conservatism in Israel:
All that remains is her Nokia mobile phone, on which she had written “Speak ill of no one.”
Arab activist woman by the name of Ahlam Tamimi (yes, related to that Tamimi family) was tried in Israeli court and found guilty of planning the mass murder, selecting the day and the location, and directing the killer to the spot. From 2001 until 2011 she was in Israeli prison, at which point she and 1000 other terrorists were released in a trade for one Israeli named Gilad Shalit, who had been taken captive by Hamas in Gaza. She then relocated to Jordan and was received as an anti-zionist, antisemitic hero there.
The issue is – some Americans were killed as well at that shop on Ben Yehuda St in Jerusalem – such as 15 year old Malki Roth — and Ahlalm Tamimi never stood trial in the USA for the crime against Americans. So, Malki Roth’s parents have been petitioning for years on this. There are many signatures. Now with the Trump Administration in office, which appointed Mike Huckabee as Ambassador, there’s new hope for justice in this case.
Will the USA successfully pressure the Kingdom of Jordan to give her up? Or will Jordan instead find a different nation to take her in?
