Right, so, five of Israel’s six major Mediterranean desalination plants had been shut down after an algae bloom clogged the seawater intakes of the plants.

Five out of six. How could this have happened, is this the next Biblical plague after the bees and the rats that I covered the other day?

No rocket had been fired. No Iranian missile had flattened the crucial machinery. No Houthi drone had given an unexpectedly accurate survey of Israel’s water resources.

Only a bunch of green pond scum, which, as far as causing Israel significant problems, effectively has better aim than half the region's artillery.

Now it should be said that since the worst of this, plants have been brought back online, so it's not like Israeli taps are all spitting out green stringy muck, and Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t been reduced to brushing his tee ...