Why Bibi Netanyahu will lose Tuesday’s election, but still be the next Prime Minister. A short primer on Israel’s elections.
Read MoreThese were posted all around our neighbourhood. Bear in mind we are both not Yemenite, and have dog. Oops. Important Message To the renters and the new apartment owners who in the last few years or months joined our…
Read MoreTel-Aviv is a tiny, ultra-dense city (at least the part of it you’d want to visit is – not counting the sprawling ‘gush dan‘ suburbs). About 8km long (from Jaffa to the Yarkon River) and 2km wide (from the sea…
Read MoreAnother year, another Yom Kippur. I fasted (The Baby, The Wife and The Dog did not) and by midday my head was swirling and thoughts were entering and leaving my head in a disorganised and uncontrollable manner. The chaos was…
Read MoreOver here, a lot of walls get put up; not a lot get pulled down. In the country, that is. In our apartment, it’s the opposite. Just this morning, this disaster zone was my study. Now it’s a hole, and…
Read MoreOld Dog is very sick. She’s got a heart murmur, is epileptic, suffers from often-acute kidney failure and is on a cocktail of drugs that would shame Ozzy Osbourne. She is also paranoid of anything coming near her mouth and,…
Read MoreI really like Yom Kippur in Israel. I always liked Yom Kippur generally – from the wallowing self-reflection to the religiously-mandated self flagellation what’s there not to like? Well, apart from Wife asking “what?” as she nurses a cup of tea…
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