A few days ago there was a report in the news that the World Cup is affecting the IDF fight against terror.

According to the news report, the World Cup, aka Mondial, competition/tournament that is ongoing is very popular in the Arab communities (this is well known and is not the point of the report or a surprise) and the Arab Muslim fighters against Israel, the terrorists are staying up late at night to watch the games, and then they sleep late in the morning. They are currently far more focused on the World Cup matches than on fighting.

The adjusted schedules of the terrorists has forced the IDF to adjust its schedule of activity and fighting.

The above has been reported about the fighting in Judea and Samaria, as well as in Gaza and in Lebanon. They might watch up to 4 matches a night and the are too tired in the morning to fight.

So how did this bring me back to high school?

I remember my 9th grade rebbi talking about us following baseball and other sports teams and he said that the baseball game is good for getting 40,000 goyim in the stadium and more tens of thousands watching on tv at home off the streets and not attacking or bothering the Jews. That is all it is good for.

I guess he is still right, even with Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists.

Maybe Israel's security forces should explore the possibility of creating additional global tournaments that will draw the attention and focus of the terrorists and  we will have to spend less time and energy fighting them.