Jerusalem is being held hostage today by the “crippling” snow. It’s been snowing all night here. The entire city is shut down. Jerusalemites everywhere are making their way to Gan Sacher, the largest park in Jerusalem to play in the snow. I was just watching Channel 2 news. There were kids playing there at 7:30 [...]
According to a survey held in a Jerusalem high school, three out of four Israeli children couldn’t identify the composer of the national anthem, Hatikva.
The most popular guess was Tzvika Pik, an Israeli songwriter and super-cheeseball. His latest great accomplishment was writing “Diva” for Israeli transvestite singer Dana International, which won the Eurovision cheese [...]
I’m certain that left-wing pundits are going to cite his age but Peres is finally starting to make some sense. His comments are surprising considering he is considered a francophile.
From The Associated Press:
Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on Thursday criticized France and Germany for their opposition to a U.S.-led attack on Iraq, and questioned [...]
Israeli born Hollywood actress Natalie Portman is here on a visit. According to an interview on Army Radio, Natalie has a lot of family here and visits three times a year.
This visit however, Portman took some time out of her schedule and visited victims of terrorism at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem.
Portman was [...]
Got back late last night from Ein Bokek, a massive area of hotels on the Dead Sea. I was pretty surprised as to how crowded the hotels were. It was of course all internal tourism, with the exception of a few Germans with psoriasis. Germans have very good health insurance apparently. They are permitted to [...]
Blogging will be light in the coming days. My parents are visiting this week and we are heading down to the Dead Sea for a couple of days.
We are actually going to go to Masada. I haven’t been there in over ten years so it should be fun. Might take them to the Flour [...]
So the incoming freshman of the 16th Knesset had their orientation yesterday. Mitzna was a no show. Omri Sharon showed up late. I happened to catch the English news on Channel one yesterday evening and saw Gila Gamliel interviewed. She could barely put a sentence together in English. It was pathetic.
A shocking fact about [...]
I just got back from Home Center. I decided to beat the rush and buy everything we need for a sealed room. I bought water, ten meters of plastic sheet, a flashlight, a battery operated radio (I forgot to buy batteries though!) and some other random things.
There was a television crew from some channel [...]
Israel Radio drives me nuts. It is a talk radio format with news on the hour and the half hour. Members of Knesset are interviewed all day. They all yell and scream at the top of their lungs. The worst is when there is more than one guest. They scream and can’t hear each other, [...]
I can’t express how sad I am today. Work was a nightmare. I just wanted to go home and commiserate with myself.
I clearly remember the Challenger incident. I was in sixth grade and we were watching the broadcast live. We weren’t sure exactly what was going on, but knew it wasn’t good. Suddenly, my [...]
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