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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Tails of the Gay Pride Parade
Not a typo, actually. We went to Tel Aviv this evening, but it was after the pride parade has pretty much run its course, so we just got to see a few “tails”. We actually ventured out to the local sin city for a movie earlier. Terminator Salvation was too dark and depressing (plus too [...]
International Roads Survey
Back to my thoughts about Israel vs. the rest of the world… Let’s talk about roads – cars and drivers are a worthy topic as well, which I will blog about another time. Infrastructure is perhaps the easiest thing to note. In America we were faced with huge intersections and interchanges and interhighways or whatever. [...]
Kids, When You Hear the Siren
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thoughts About the World
It’s almost one week since our return to the Holy Land. With Independence Day behind us too, I look forward to a few weeks of blissful holiday-free routine. It might be the post-holiday reaction here, but I am trying to make our days as uneventful as possible now. Sure, friends and family come and go [...]
January in Pictures
If you’re in here looking for politics, then you can skip today’s post. It’s all family in pictures – winter pictures of our family in a not very rainy January – Making a small fire with Uncle Boaz: Same day, we went to enjoy more green in the fields along the path that goes behind [...]
Israel’s 60th Independence Day – Some Pictures
It’s been almost two weeks by now, but better late than never! It’s not a whole lot of pictures anyway, but it does give me a chance to try out the new gallery plugin I installed I am still going to post more about the Nakba seminar I attended on the very days these pictures [...]
