Posts from ‘June, 2008’

While the ceasefire still holds, technically, it’s not going too well.
Gaza border crossings stay closed in light of rocket fire
So, to sum this up:
Israel doesn’t shoot. The Palestinians fire rockets, but it’s not Hamas doing it. So, is that a violation of the ceasefire?
Apparently, not enough of a violation to declare the ceasefire void, but [...]

My DH just drove away with the cute little dog, to get her to the pound. She was here for 24 hours and we decided we can’t keep her with us any longer. Basically, we don’t want to adopt a dog at this point, for various reasons. The house is way too small and overcrowded [...]

Every now and again, I shock my family with a stray animal that I get off the street and bring home. At least today it was a healthy medium size dog (past rescues included a huge and very sick dog, a black chicken, an injured heron and a giant bug).

I was driving through town this [...]

Had such a lovely time last evening at the beach. I just have to post this short movie for our family to share. This is family time, so probably quite boring for everyone else - be warned!

Israel on Wednesday officially confirmed that an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire (tahadiyeh) with Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip will go into effect at 6 A.M. Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/993702.html
There is a lot of controversy in Israel concerning the topic of a ceasefire with Hamas. What people are afraid of, in a nutshell, is this -
1. The Hamas [...]

Here’s an optimistic piece of local news -
Programming for peace / Israeli hi-tech companies outsource to West Bank
I think this is absolutely awesome. Finally, cooperation and in a field that does both sides good. I like the fact that there are educated people, engineers and programmers, and not what we call here “black labor”. [...]

Well, it’s still a fantasy at this point, though growing more real as the days go by. Over the past couple of weeks, we’re getting serious about a trip to the US in 2009. I’ve never been to the US, and IsraeliDad only visited once, for a work seminar, so didn’t get to see too [...]

A visitor to this blog left me a lovely comment, and while some of it was personal, she was kind enough to allow me to quote her questions and reply on the blog, so here goes, this is from Karen -
Can Jewish tradition exist without belief in Judaism? Are there vocal non-believers in Israel? What [...]

It’s the Eve of Shavuot here, and we’ve done plenty of celebrating so far. Sharing some holiday pictures here today.
Here’s our Ron, all dressed up and ready to go to kindergarten. Holding his “Tene” - basket with first produce of the year. For some reason or other, we were told to put a sweet dairy [...]

Well, the ice coffee warning was right on time. Quite the heat wave yesterday, hot and humid outside (although I think it’s supposed to take a drastic change into hot and dry today - so far just cloudy).
Evening time is lovely though, after the mosquitoes finish their own rounds. Tuesday evening we went to one [...]