The attacks have been ramping up for weeks. The PL sites continue to increase. We have custom written anti scrape and anti hammer scripts running now on our sites and its helped, but the person doing these attacks is very determined and writes automated scripts which mimic browsers and switch IPs upon detection.
The good part of the story is our Israeli friend is devoting a large part of his time and computer resources to stage thse attacks so obviously everyones efforts are having a huge impact on him or it wouldnt warrant all this attention.
Keep up the pressure and increase it where ever possible. Soon it will be too much effort and time for him to justify any longer and he will be forced to turn his attentions elsewhere as this arena will no longer be cost effective to pursue.