DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN
REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 440,947,352 - DEAD 5,995,271 - AS OF MON MAR 07,2022
Health Ministry updates guidelines on polio vaccines after first case in decades-Top health official recommends Jerusalem-area kids get first dose at 6 weeks, says there are at least dozens more asymptomatic cases but doesn’t predict wave of infections-By TOI staff-MAR 7,22-Today, 6:09 pm
A top health official on Monday announced the Health Ministry was updating its advice on when some children should be vaccinated against polio, after a case was discovered in Israel for the first time in over 30 years.Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, the ministry’s director of public health, said parents in Jerusalem and the surrounding area should take their kids to get their first dose at the age of six weeks, and the second at 12 weeks.“Our emphasis at the moment is ensuring that all kids, primarily in the Jerusalem district, be in the best situation in terms of vaccination,” she said, noting the ministry’s recommendation that children receive all four vaccine doses before their first birthday.According to the Health Ministry, a mutated form of the virus — which can cause illness in the unvaccinated — was discovered in a 4-year-old boy in Jerusalem who had not been vaccinated against the disease.The case was believed to be the first polio diagnosis in Israel since 1989, after Israel largely wiped out the disease through an aggressive inoculation campaign.Alroy-Preis encouraged families to get their children vaccinated against polio and said there were likely dozens if not hundreds of asymptomatic cases of the disease. Citing sewage samples, she said the disease was only in the Jerusalem area, but called for broader sewage testing to ensure it has not spread to other regions.Traces of the virus have been found in sewage samples in Israel from time to time, but have not resulted in any clinical cases for several decades.“We don’t expect that there will be a wave of kids with symptoms, but we know the virus is going around,” Alroy-Preis said. “A vaccinated child is protected.”She also noted the Jerusalem Health Bureau has opened an epidemiological investigation into the case and will reach out to anyone who came in recent contact with the infected child.Like much of the world, Israel administers polio vaccines to children as part of its standard vaccine regimen.Polio spreads mostly from person to person or through contaminated water. It attacks the nervous system and can sometimes paralyze people within hours. The disease mostly affects children under 5 and has been largely wiped out in wealthy countries.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
US chip giant Nvidia acquires Israeli data storage company Excelero-Purchase comes two years after Nvidia bought Mellanox Technologies for $7 billion; Excelero team to join Nvidia’s growing Israel operations-By Ricky Ben-David Today, 4:29 pm
US gaming and computer graphics giant Nvidia, which completed the acquisition of Israel’s Mellanox Technologies Ltd. in 2020 for $7 billion, announced a new acquisition on Monday, of Israeli company Excelero, a provider of enterprise data storage and block storage solutions.The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Excelero’s engineering team is set to join Nvidia’s growing operations in Israel, where the chip maker employs about 2,800 workers in seven R&D centers, including Yokne’am, Mellanox’s headquarters, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ra’anana, and Beersheba in the south.Nvidia’s R&D activities in Israel are currently the firm’s largest outside of the US. The company recently announced that it was establishing a new design and engineering group that will lead the development of next-generation CPUs (central processing units) geared toward artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and Nvidia’s new platform Omniverse, which allows for virtual world simulations.The new CPU group will join a variety of teams currently active in Israel, working on high-speed networking and HPC (high-performance computing) technologies, Nvidia’s DPU (Data Processing Unit) development, AI research and other activities. The US firm, founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem as a graphics chip company, inventing the graphics processing unit (GPU), is today a leader in the field of artificial intelligence.Nvidia, with a market cap of $571 billion on the Nasdaq compared to $196 billion for competitor Intel Corp., has replaced the latter as the largest US chip maker, and the second largest in the world after Taiwan’s TSMC.Nvidia has been working with Excelero for several years since the Israeli company was founded in 2014, providing its block storage software for the company’s core networks. Mellanox previously invested in Excelero.The Israeli company will “continue to expand support for block storage in Nvidia’s enterprise software stack and “enrich Nvidia Israel’s R&D expertise with a new software-defined storage team.” the parties said. Nvidia said it will continue to support all Excelero’s customers.“The Excelero team is joining Nvidia as demand is surging for high-performance computing and AI,” said Yaniv Romem, co-founder and CEO of Excelero, in a statement Monday. “We’ll be working with Nvidia to ensure our existing customers are supported, and going forward we’re thrilled to apply our expertise in block storage to Nvidia’s world-class AI and HPC platforms.Dror Goldenberg, senior VP of Software Architecture at Nvidia Israel, said Excelero and its team bring “extensive experience and deep technical expertise in accelerated software-defined storage and networking.”“The acquisition will support our efforts in expanding Nvidia Israel’s areas of activity, with Excelero joining our fast-growing software group,” he added.
Bennett: Israel’s ‘sacred’ task is to help Jewish Ukrainian refugees above others-PM tells ministerial committee that country must focus on Jews displaced by Russia invasion; interior minister says cap will come soon on entry of non-Jews-By Amy Spiro and TOI staff-MAR 7,22-Today, 4:45 pm
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told ministers on Monday that Israel must focus on helping Jewish refugees escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine.His remarks came after his Yamina party No. 2, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, said that Israel will place a cap the entry of Ukrainian refugees who do not have Jewish ties and are therefore ineligible to immigrate to the Jewish state.“The State of Israel was founded as a state that is the safest place in the world for Jews,” Bennett said at meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Aliyah and Integration, according to a statement from his office. “This is the heart of its purpose; therefore, we will focus on this, of course.”Israel, he said, “is a refuge for Jews in distress,” citing other waves of Jewish immigration in the past such as that from former Soviet Union countries, Ethiopia, and Yemen.“This is our purpose. The State of Israel has done this more than once in its history and we will carry out this sacred task this time as well,” he said.Noting the far-reaching consequences of the conflict, which has rattled Europe, as Russian forces battle to suppress determined Ukrainian resistance to their invasion, Bennett said that so far Israel has mostly taken in non-Jewish refugees. But he stressed that it is the Jewish community that must be helped first.“We in the State of Israel have absorbed, as of now, hundreds of refugees, some of them Jews, most of them not,” he said. “Naturally, the State of Israel will focus on Jewish refugees.”Bennett said the country is facing a “historic opportunity” and that, led by Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, it will focus on two key goals.The first, he said, was to “to reach Jews in distress, to reach them in the field and make things easier for them,” so that they do not face a tangle of bureaucracy when they arrive in Israel. The second, according to Bennett, would be successful integration into Israeli society, so that those who come will encourage their remaining family members in Ukraine to follow.Earlier, Interior Minister Shaked said Israel would limit the number of refugees who cannot automatically immigrate to the country — but did not indicate where the limit would be set.“We will approve some sort of humanitarian cap on people who are not eligible under the Law of Return,” Shaked told Kan public radio on Monday morning. “In the coming days I will formulate an organized policy, because we have to get this situation in order.”She declined to specify what number of Ukrainian refugees who are not eligible to become citizens Israel would be willing to accept. She is thought to favor placing the cap on entry as low as possible, while Foreign Minister Yair Lapid reportedly wants Israel to accept a greater number.The Population and Immigration Authority said Monday morning that since the February 24 outbreak of war, 2,792 Ukrainian nationals have arrived in Israel; 129 of them were denied entry for unspecified reasons.Throughout the month of February, 3,226 Ukrainians landed in Israel; 248 of them were denied entry and 2,134 exited, the authority said.Under the Law of Return, anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent is eligible to become an Israeli citizen.Shaked said that only around 10 percent of those who have entered Israel since the war began are eligible for citizenship. She said that Israel’s primary goal is to absorb fleeing Jews and others who can become citizens, as opposed to all refugees.“Israel has a huge challenge to absorb those who are eligible under the Law of Return,” she said. “We expect tens of thousands; we could reach hundreds of thousands if a large number come from Russia and other former Soviet nations. That’s our central mission.”While Ukraine boasts a large Jewish community, it is unclear if such a figure will materialize, and the Jewish Agency has indicated that there does not appear to be a wave of Russian immigration in the works.While Israel is focused on preparing for a wave of new immigrants, “of course as a Western nation we will also take in refugees generally,” she said.Shaked said a new policy would be announced in the coming days, and in the meantime, any Ukrainian refugees who show up in Israel are allowed to enter on a tourist visa after a brief inspection. Currently, Ukrainian refugees without first-degree relatives in Israel must provide a NIS 10,000 deposit, to be returned to them upon exiting.The deposit is held as a guarantee that the Ukrainians will eventually leave Israel, as the country rarely grants refugee status to non-Jews, and instead allows them temporary entry as tourists. Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai, who flew to Poland on Monday, has called for canceling the deposit requirement, calling it “illogical and inhumane.”Approximately 400 new immigrants from Ukraine — including around 100 orphans — landed in Israel on Sunday on flights from Poland, Moldova and Romania.The UN estimates that more than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia began its invasion last month. The vast majority have exited via Poland, though many have continued onward since.
Two police officers stabbed near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount; attacker shot-Both men taken to hospital in moderate condition; footage from the scene appears to show assailant shot while on the ground-By Emanuel Fabian-MAR 7,22-Today, 6:22 pm
Two police officers were moderately hurt in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday evening, police and medics said.In an initial statement, police said an assailant attacked the two officers near an entrance to the Temple Mount, and they responded with gunfire.The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the two men in their 20s were treated at the scene and then were taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city.The alleged Palestinian assailant died of his wounds after being shot, the Zaka emergency service said, though there was no official confirmation of his condition and police only said he was “neutralized.”Footage from the scene showed the two officers standing over the assailant, who appears to be lying on the ground shortly after the attack.One of the officers opens fire, then stands on top of the alleged attacker while shouting expletives.The entrances to the area were closed by police.The alleged assailant was not immediately identified.
Israeli academic’s time travel adventure in Earth’s crust may explain world’s layout-Prof. Roi Granot and Dutch scientists outline a theory of chain reactions in tectonic plates that they say determined the appearance of the world as we know it-By Nathan Jeffay-MAR 7,22-Today, 6:08 pm
An Israeli-Dutch research team says it has discovered the secret of why the world looks as it does — from the location and shape of continents to the lay of the land in mountain ranges.Tectonic plates didn’t move randomly, but rather in a previously unknown chain reaction in which one event in the Earth’s crust triggered another, sometimes many millions of years later.After spending years studying the ocean floor, the team has just published peer-reviewed research in the journal Nature Geoscience. It says that volcanic eruptions 105 million years ago under Madagascar set off a domino effect of other such events that determined how the Earth looks today.The research is focused on how tectonic plates — pieces of Earth’s crust and uppermost mantle — have behaved over time. “Until today we had quite a poor understanding of the history of plate motions and the tectonic events that happened long ago, but this has changed,” Prof. Roi Granot told The Times of Israel.“For the first time, we now have an organizing principle that explains how one tectonic event led to another, and so on,” he said. “We never before had such documentation, and our observation shows there’s a causality between the events, with one triggering the next.”Granot, a Ben Gurion University geoscientist, added: “This gives us a framework to understand when and why the world saw the creation of mountain belts, volcanic activity, ocean formation, climate and much more.”An illustration of the new tectonic plates “chain reaction” theory. Ma means “million years.” (courtesy of Ben Gurion University of the Negev)-Granot and colleagues have documented what they believe to be the main events shaping Europe, Asia and Africa, and say they are confident that similar chain reactions will be observed in other areas.The research is allowing them to gradually piece together the past — but they say it’s not yet giving any glimpse into what future movements the Earth’s crust may have in store.Granot worked with Dutch academics Prof. Douwe van Hinsbergen and Derya Gürer to track tectonic activity by gathering information from the floor of the Central and Northern Atlantic. Much of it came from hundreds of magnetometers — devices for measuring the strength of magnetic fields — that have trailed under ships over recent years, some of them several kilometers below the surface.By analyzing the magnetic field of rocks, the magnetometers provided data that Granot and colleagues used to piece together the history of plate tectonics, as archaeologists use carbon dating to construct their hypothesis about the past.Magnetometer data wasn’t thought capable of giving a clear picture of plate history until a breakthrough by Granot 10 years ago illustrated that data can be used to date the oceanic crust.Gürer, a researcher at Utrecht University and the Australian National University, commented: “This is the first time that evidence has been found for a plate tectonic chain reaction.“With this research, we have dissected a mechanism to explain why there are short periods of time in which plates suddenly change direction,” she said.“These plate movements affect mountain formation, marine gateways, ocean circulation patterns, volcanism, and even the global climate.”
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AM
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire (atomic bomb) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence (biological,chemical,nuclear) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKED,THEN MIGRATING BIRDS EAT RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS FLESH)
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
EZEKIEL 39:1-29
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)
Ukraine rejects Moscow proposal for evacuation corridors into Belarus, Russia-Providing safe passage ‘into the arms of the country that is currently destroying yours is nonsense,’ says UK minister, backing Kyiv’s stance as Russians keep up bombing campaign-By Agencies-MAR 7,22-Today, 1:13 pm
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine on Monday rejected Moscow’s offer of humanitarian corridors to Russia and Belarus, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.Russia on Monday said it would cease bombing in certain areas to allow civilians to leave Ukraine, after attempts to evacuate people Sunday were stalled by relentless Russian shelling, Kyiv said.But with Belarus backing the Russian invasion, Ukraine rebuffed any talk of having its citizens flee into the arms of their attackers.“This is not an acceptable option,” Vereshchuk said of Russia’s safe passage proffer.The civilians “aren’t going to go to Belarus and then take a plane to Russia.”Earlier, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the proposal “completely immoral,” according to the Reuters news agency.“Providing evacuation routes into the arms of the country that is currently destroying yours is nonsense,” said UK Europe Minister James Cleverly.The Russian army said earlier on Monday it was opening humanitarian corridors from the capital Kyiv, the second-largest city Kharkhiv in the east, the southeastern port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, and Sumy, near the eastern border with Russia.Even as Russian army spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced the start of ceasefires at 9 a.m. local time Monday to allow civilians to escape, Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian cities and fighting was still ongoing in the four cities where corridors were supposed to lead from.“They have targeted Mykolaiv and Kharkiv and burned residential areas. It’s terror,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. “We must fight against inhumane evil.”Russian forces aimed heavy fire on the city of Mykolaiv, 480 kilometers (300 miles) south of the capital, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. Rescuers said they were putting out fires in residential areas caused by rocket attacks.Emergency officials in the Kharkiv region said that overnight shelling killed at least eight people and wrecked residential buildings, medical and education facilities and administrative buildings.Shelling also continued in the suburbs of Kyiv, including Irpin, which has been cut off from electricity, water and heating for three days.“Russia continues to carry out rocket, bomb and artillery strikes on the cities and settlements of Ukraine,” the General Staff said.Two recent attempts to allow thousands of civilians to leave the besieged city of Mariupol have ended in disaster, with civilians under fire and both sides accusing each other of violations.“Instead of humanitarian corridors, they can only make bloody ones,” Zelensky said Sunday. “Today a family was killed in Irpin. Man, woman and two children. Right on the road. As in a shooting gallery.”The Ukrainian government is proposing eight humanitarian corridors, including from Mariupol, that would allow civilians to travel to the western regions of Ukraine, where there is no Russian shelling.“We demand that the Russian Federation stop manipulating and abusing the trust of the leaders of France, China, Turkey and India,” Vereshchuk said.The Russian proposal was reminiscent of similar ones in Syria. In 2016, a joint Russian and Syrian proposal to set up humanitarian corridors out of besieged opposition-held eastern Aleppo was deeply criticized on humanitarian grounds. Human rights activists said the tactic, coupled by brutal sieges, effectively gave residents a choice between fleeing into the arms of their attackers or dying under bombardment.The handful of residents who managed to flee Mariupol before the humanitarian corridor closed said the city of 430,000 had been devastated.“We saw everything: houses burning, all the people sitting in basements,” said Yelena Zamay, who fled to one of the self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatists. “No communication, no water, no gas, no light, no water. There was nothing.”Russia has made significant advances in southern Ukraine as it seeks to block access to the Sea of Azov. Capturing Mariupol could allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that most other countries considered illegal.But much of the Russian advance has become stalled, including an immense military convoy north of Kyiv.Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to “neutralize” Ukraine “either through negotiation or through war,” and expectations remain low for a third round of Russian-Ukrainian talks set for Monday.
IDF airs footage of drone interceptions, accuses Iran of escalating ‘UAV terror’Military officials see rising trend of Iranian drone activity in recent years, as Tehran aims to supply affiliate groups with thousands of aircraft-By Emanuel Fabian-MAR 7,22-Today, 5:21 pm
As officials in recent days have said a potential nuclear deal between Iran and world powers may be in the offing, the Israeli military on Monday published fresh allegations regarding Tehran’s drone program, including new footage of Israeli planes downing several Iranian unmanned aircraft.Israel has repeatedly warned that Iranian drones are a significant threat to the region — especially as Tehran arms proxies stationed along Israel’s borders — highlighting the fact that the emerging nuclear deal does not address the drone issue, as well as the larger question of Iranian proxies.Military officials said Monday that Iran’s “UAV terror” is a new and global issue, accusing Tehran of directly attacking both military and civilian targets in the Middle East.On Sunday evening, the Israel Defense Forces announced that its F-35 jets downed two Iranian drones that were ferrying firearms on March 15 of last year. The military believes the drones were headed to terror operatives in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, based on their flight path, similar to the interception of another aircraft in 2018.The IDF said it was the first time F-35 jets have been used to take down a drone.The military published a video (above) of the interceptions, as well as an image showing that one of the aircraft was carrying several pistols.The military identified the UAVs as Iranian Shahed-197 models. Produced by Iran’s defense industries, the aircraft has a flight range of 2,000 kilometers, a top speed of 200 kilometers per hour, and a wingspan of seven meters. The UAV is capable of carrying a payload of dozens of kilograms, the IDF said.The IDF also released new details on an Iranian drone downed on February 10, 2018, while it was allegedly ferrying TNT to terrorist operatives in the West Bank, as Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed last year.According to military estimates, the Shahed-141 model launched from the T-4 airbase in Syria is capable of flying 185 kilometers per hour, and has a wingspan of 4-6 meters. That drone was downed by Israeli combat helicopters.A video of the 2018 interception was also published, along with footage of Israel conducting airstrikes in Syria in response.New details on another Iranian UAV launched toward northern Israel in May 2021, amid an 11-day-war between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip were also published.The Sammad-type UAV, capable of carrying a 115-kilogram payload, was downed near Beit She’an in northern Israel. That drone was launched from Iraq, apparently by Iran-backed militias in the area.Military officials said they saw a trend in Iranian drone attacks in recent years, beginning with the UAV downed over northern Israel in 2018, and a massive attack on the Saudi petroleum company Aramco in 2019.Since then, there have been over a dozen other incidents — which Israel believes Iran is involved in — of drones attacking Israeli-linked vessels at sea, American troops in Iraq, and targets in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.The IDF believes Iran is attempting to arm all of its proxies in the region — in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen — with hundreds and even thousands of UAVs, in addition to providing military training.While Israel has acknowledged it targets the bases of Iranian forces and allied terror groups in Syria, as well as arms shipments believed to be bound for Iran-backed groups in the region, The Times of Israel has learned several of those strikes specifically targeted sites related to Iran’s drone program.The IDF said all three interceptions were conducted “in coordination with neighboring countries.” Last month, Israeli television reported that Israel and its regional allies were developing a joint defense pact to protect against the threat of drones.The timing of the IDF’s publication was thought to be related to the ongoing, and reportedly near-completed, nuclear talks in Vienna.Negotiators on all sides have signaled in recent days that a potential agreement to revive the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is close. Last week, Gantz said a nuclear deal may be signed “in the coming weeks, perhaps even in the coming days.”The original 2015 agreement gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but the US unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump, who reimposed heavy economic sanctions.Still, talks have become bogged down due to tensions between Russia — a signatory to the deal — and the West over its invasion of Ukraine late last month.Gantz called in a Monday Facebook post for the world to “act against Iranian aggression,” vowing that Israel would continue to act in its own defense regardless of any deal reached by world powers with Iran.Efforts to lobby the international community may be a hard sell as Israel has rebuffed pressure from the West to fully back Ukraine, seeking to balance humanitarian concern and its desire to keep ties with Moscow from souring.Russia has tacitly allowed Israel to carry out operations against Iran-backed targets in Syria, access that Israel fears will be limited should Russia stop allowing the sorties.Military officials say the IDF is always on full alert to protect Israel’s skies from drones. However, last month Israeli air defenses failed to down a small drone that entered the country from Lebanon, which the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group claimed responsibility for launching.
With nuclear deal looming, Gantz implores world to ‘mobilize’ against Iran-In Facebook post, defense minister vows Israel will act against Tehran politically, economically, and militarily, ‘whether or not’ an agreement is signed-By Emanuel Fabian-MAR 7,22-Today, 3:22 pm
Defense Minister Benny Gantz attempted to divert part of the world’s attention from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to what he said was another threat to world peace, seeking to rally the international community against Iran amid speculation that a new pact over its nuclear program may be in the offing.Gantz called in a Monday Facebook post for the world to “act against Iranian aggression,” vowing that Israel would continue to act regardless of any deal reached by world powers with Iran.“Today, we must reiterate the warning that Iranian aggression, whether it emanates from Iranian territory or through Iranian proxies, is a threat to global peace and to regional stability, as well as a threat to the State of Israel,” Gantz wrote.Gantz recalled previous disclosures he had made of malign Iranian activity and those behind it, including Sunday when the IDF claimed it had intercepted an attempt to transfer armed UAVs from Iran to Gaza.“It is during this important time, when a nuclear agreement is being negotiated in Vienna, that we must remember: Today Iranian aggression is conducted without [it holding nuclear weapons]. If Iran reaches a nuclear threshold, it will become even more dangerous to world peace,” Gantz said.“Now is the time for the world to mobilize to stop it,” he declared.Negotiators on all sides have signaled in recent days that a potential agreement to revive the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is close. Last week, Gantz said a nuclear deal may be signed “in the coming weeks, perhaps even in the coming days.”“Whether or not an agreement will be signed, it will not be the end of the road for us — nor should it be for the countries of the region and the world, which must continue to act against Iranian aggression,” Gantz said Monday, adding that Israel “will take all measures necessary — political, economic and if needed, also military, in order to defend our sovereignty and ensure the security of the citizens Israel.”But talks have become bogged down due to tensions between Russia and the West over its invasion of Ukraine late last month. On Saturday, Russia demanded “guarantees at least at the level of the secretary of state” that US sanctions would not affect Moscow’s interactions with Tehran. That threw into question the months of negotiations held so far on restoring the 2015 deal, which saw Iran agree to drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.On Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the Russian demand “irrelevant” as the nuclear deal and sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine war were “totally different.”The original 2015 agreement gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but the US unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump, who reimposed heavy economic sanctions.That prompted Iran to begin rolling back its own commitments and enrich uranium to a purity level only a short technical step away from what is needed to produce nuclear weapons.Israel has urged the international community to use more pressure on Iran and keep a military threat on the table, but has made little concrete progress.On Monday, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu accused Gantz, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid of being “silent” on the Iran deal.“In the Bennett-Gantz-Lapid government there is only weakness, weakness and more weakness,” he charged. Bennett, Lapid and Gantz “are simply not ready to confront even our allies.”Efforts to lobby the international community may be a hard sell as Israel has rebuffed pressure from the West to fully back Ukraine, seeking to balance humanitarian concern and its desire to keep ties with Moscow from souring.Russia has tacitly allowed Israel to carry out operations against Iran-backed targets in Syria, access that Israel fears will be limited should Russia stop allowing the sorties.Hours before Gantz’s post, Israel appeared to strike Syria for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing two civilians and causing material damage near Damascus, according to Syrian state media.Israel has acknowledged it targets the bases of Iranian forces and Iran-backed terror groups, particularly along the Golan border, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has fighters deployed in southern Syria. It says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups.Agencies contributed to this report.
Blinken assures nervous Baltics that NATO protection against Russia ‘sacrosanct’US secretary of defense warns ‘no one should doubt our resolve’ to protect allies’ territory, but Lithuanian leader frets if Putin not stopped in Ukraine ‘he will not be stopped’-By Matthew Lee-MAR 7,22-Today, 3:37 pm
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday assured Lithuania of NATO protection and American support as he began a lightning visit to the three Baltic states that are increasingly on edge as Russia presses ahead with its invasion of Ukraine.The former Soviet republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are all NATO members and Blinken is aiming to reassure them of their security in the event Russia chooses to expand its military operations.“We are bolstering our shared defense so that we and our allies are prepared,” Blinken said, stressing that the US commitment to NATO’s mutual defense pact is “sacrosanct.”“We will defend every inch of NATO territory if it comes under attack,” he said. “No one should doubt our readiness, no one should doubt our resolve.”Memories of Soviet rule are still fresh in the Baltics and since the invasion of Ukraine last month, NATO has moved quickly to boost its troop presence in its eastern flank allies while the US has pledged additional support.Blinken’s opened his Baltic tour in Vilnius, where Lithuanian support for Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion is palpable as signs of solidarity with Ukrainians are evident in many businesses and on public buildings and buses.“Unfortunately, the worsening security situation in the Baltic region is of great concern for all of us and around the world,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told Blinken. “Russia’s reckless aggression against Ukraine once again proves that it is a long-term threat to European security, the security of our alliance.”Nauseda said that a policy of deterrence was no longer enough and that “forward defense” was now needed. He predicted that “Putin will not stop in Ukraine if he will not be stopped.”“It is our collective duty as a nation to help all Ukrainians with all means available,” said Nauseda. “By saying all, I mean, indeed all means all, if we want to avoid the Third World War. The choice is in our hands.”Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called for a surge in assistance to Ukraine, noting that the NATO allies “are doing a lot, but we cannot stop.” He also called for an immediate halt to imports of Russian energy. “We cannot pay for oil and gas with Ukrainian blood,” he said.Lithuania is also dealing with pressure from another large power — China — for its relationship with Taiwan, the island China regards as a renegade province. China has taken actions, including halting imports of certain products, against Lithuania for allowing Taiwan to open a de facto embassy in Vilnius.Blinken said the Ukraine situation was relevant to Lithuania’s Taiwan situation as all countries should have the right to pursue their own foreign policies. “Every nation is free to associate with whom it chooses,” he said. The United States continues to stand by Lithuania and every nation to choose its own path.”Blinken arrived in the Baltics late Sunday from non-aligned Moldova, which is also warily watching the war on its doorstep, and Poland, where he visited the Polish-Ukrainian border and met with refugees from Ukraine.Later Monday, Blinken will travel to Riga, where he will meet senior Latvian officials and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, before visiting Tallinn, Estonia and then going on to Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday.Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend and Macron has been in frequent contact with the Russian leader.
Ukraine fears iconic port city of Odesa could be Putin’s next target-The cosmopolitan city has a Russian-speaking majority and a rich history as the birthplace of the Jewish Russian mafia and the storied setting for crime novels-By AFP-MAR 7,22-Today, 3:56 pm
Odesa, which Ukraine fears could be the next target of Russia’s offensive in the south, is the country’s main port and is vital for its economy.But the city of one million people close to the Romanian and Moldovan borders also holds a special place in the Russian imagination.A cosmopolitan port with stunning 19th-century architecture, sandy beaches and a Mediterranean climate, it has a Russian-speaking majority from its days as the empire’s second port.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Sunday that Moscow was “preparing to bomb Odesa,” saying, “it will be a war crime… a historical crime.”Founded near the mouth of the Dniester River in 1794 by the Empress Catherine the Great, Odesa became one of the great ports of the Russian Empire.A melting pot of Russians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Turks, Jews, Romanians and Bulgarians, the average Odesan in its 19th-century heyday is said to have spoken a smattering of five languages.It also provided the spark for the 1905 Russian revolution, when sailors on the Battleship Potemkin mutinied. Their uprising was bloodily suppressed by Tsarist forces, with 2,000 Odesans dying alongside them.Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film of the events was shot in Odesa. Its pram scene on the Potemkin Steps is one of the most famous in cinema history.As a Russian-speaking island in the far west of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has long had his eye on the city, saying in 2014 that it was never historically part of Ukraine but of Novorossiya — a part of southern and eastern Ukraine that was controlled by imperial Russia.Odesa is only 70 kilometers from Transnistria, the tiny unrecognized separatist Russian-speaking statelet that broke away from Moldova as the Soviet Union collapsed. NATO member Romania is a four-hour drive away.But the city resisted the separatist push that took the mainly Russian-speaking Donbas region in the east out of Kyiv’s control when Putin annexed the nearby Crimea peninsula in 2014.However, 48 people — most pro-Russian — died in clashes in May 2014 after being trapped in a building that was set alight after they attacked a group of Ukrainian nationalists with guns and grenades.Odesa is Ukraine’s main port complex. The one in the city itself handles petrol and metals, while others in nearby Youjni and Illytchyivsk handle chemicals and containers. A large part of Ukraine’s enormous corn and barley exports pass through the ports.Odesa’s beaches, Italianiate architecture and relaxed way of life made it a tourist magnet, with numbers increasing since the annexation of Crimea.Alongside its picturesque beaches and buildings, Odesa has long had a reputation both in literature and in reality as a crime capital.Ostap Bender, the conman hero of a string of popular Soviet novels was from Odesa, and the great Jewish writer Isaak Babel based his crime boss Benia Krik in his “Odesa Stories” on the real-life Jewish gangster Michka Iapontchik (“the little Japanese”).This nefarious reputation followed Odesans abroad. The Jewish Russian mafia in the United States got its first foothold in the Brooklyn district of Brighton Beach. “Little Odessa,” as the neighborhood was dubbed, inspired the 1995 mob movie of the same name, starring Tim Roth and Vanessa Redgrave.
