Posts under ‘In the News’

If you haven’t seen them yet, here are the famous zebras of the Gaza zoo: A recap, if you don’t want to watch the movie: Gaza has a small zoo. The zoo used to have two zebras, but alas both have starved to death (blame the Zionist opression here). The zoo can’t import new zebras [...]

I have always wondered about the root of the conflict between Lebanon and Israel. A tiny piece of land (Shaba farms) just doesn’t seem to justify the continuous bloodshed to me. Lebanon and Israel are actually a lot a like, and you’d think they’d get along well, but surprisingly this is a very hostile border. [...]

I was asked by a Facebook friend for my opinion on the Israeli organization of “Shovrim Shtika” or “Breaking the Silence“. For those who don’t know, this is a relatively new organization which aims at collecting testimonials from Israeli soldiers who have served in the Occupied Territories, i.e. the West Bank and Gaza, during the [...]

Maybe it’s me, but my eyes wandered off to some positive news on the web today. Figured I’d share some here. Trade between Israel, PA steadily rising – pretty impressive, in times of a global financial crisis. Good news for both sides – nothing like money and economic interests to cement stability and make the [...]

I hear it’s all the rage on the news everywhere. Everywhere but in Israel, apparently. I asked around today and the Israelis I know could only say “yeah, wasn’t there something with a couple of houses in Jerusalem? no idea what though”. Since it was all over the place online, I was trying to figure [...]

When I was growing up and we only had one non-commercial TV channel in Israel, we used to fantasize about commercials. We used to envy those lucky people living abroad who get to see those fun mini-clips, all glossy and depicting a larger than life atmosphere. Hey, we even used to get to the movies early, [...]

I’m in a good mood this morning. Just got back from my first workout as a 37 year old woman – so Happy Birthday to me! Going over the headlines, this one caught my eye: Hamas: Israel distributes libido-increasing gum in Gaza Wow, make love not war! The Israeli news site, Ynet, had this to [...]

As the world mourns the death of Michael Jackson, I think this might be a good time to share my own personal encounter with the legendary pop idol. This surreal encounter took place in an IDF base, of all places. Surreal, but real. I was a young cadette in officer’s school sometime during the summer [...]

Gilad Shalit is a huge topic in Israel, and today we mark three years since he was taken hostage by Hamas. Now, I do realize we have thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons, but there are some major differences. There is no symmetry here. 1. Gilad is held hostage. Hamas has presented Israel [...]

Good thing I remembered it this morning! Well, my Mom had to ring me and remind me, really. There’s a national drill today – something at a scale I don’t remember ever being done before. They’re going to sound the sirens at 11 AM today and we’re all expected to play along and, ummmm, seek [...]