Picking up on my list of differences between America and Israel. Last time I discussed roads infrastructure, so only makes sense to talk about the cars and the drivers today. So, yeah, everyone knows by now that American cars are generally huge, compared to ours. We drove a humble Dodge Avenger which is larger than [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture’
USA Idiosyncrasies
Can countries have idiosyncrasies? Well, not sure about the word, but I wanted to elaborate some more about things which I found to be different in the US, compared to Israel. I am going to follow the points I jotted down in the previous post, so let’s see how it goes. Chocolate – I’ve only [...]
So, Shifra Cornfeld (the Dead Friedmans) Won
The first season of Big Brother in Israel ended last night. This show was by far the most popular in Israel. Highest viewing rating on Israeli TV. Ever. In a sense, what made this show such a huge hit and got people to send over 2 million votes on the last week alone, was the [...]
Booblil and the Israeli-Arab Conflict – Big Brother Thoughts
It’s embarassing to admit, but I too got addicted. What is it about 16 people locked up in a villa for 100 days? When it was launched, I simply ignored the Israeli version of “Big Brother”. I figured it was way too stupid for me to spend time on. Then one day, sometime around day [...]
You don’t mess with Israelis
At least not the ones called “Zohan”, which is really easy considering it’s not a real name in Hebrew and I have never heard of any Israeli called Zohan. Just got back home from “You don’t mess with the Zohan”, the Adam Sandler movie. It was even weirder than seeing Sacha Baron Cohen speak Hebrew [...]
