Israel woke up this morning to discover that a revolution had occurred in the Labor party. Shimon Peres is to Israeli politics what Susan Lucci is to the daytime Emmy awards in the United States – always a candidate, yet no matter how deserving, never a winner. In yesterday’s Labor party elections, Amir Peretz, who is also the chairman of the Histadrut labor union, managed to...
Before I get started, this is in no way a political post leaning leftwards, but I’m sure the odd idiot out there will take exception to something or other I write…so, if you are an idiot, please read no further. Tomorrow sees the 10th anniversary of the Rabin assassination. Can you remember where you were 10 years ago tomorrow? Crazy, eh? 10 whole years, 10 years...
Now that the disengagement is behind us, it seems that the Israeli government has returned to its previous routine of devising ways to screw the weaker sectors of society, while rewarding those situations are somewhat less precarious. As of today, the price for a loaf of bread will rise by 6.57 percent. According to an article on the Haaretz website, the primary reason given...
Who’d have guessed it? I’ve fallen in love, and it feels so good! The sights, the sounds, the people (well, obviously not all the people, and certainly not in an individual, sexual sort of way! Get your minds out of the gutter, people!)! That’s right, I’ve fallen in love with Tel Aviv! I know what you’re saying. You think it’s too soon. I’ve been on the new job for less than a...
Whew! Parents successfully dropped at the airport (though admittedly, I have yet to hear whether they’ve arrived back home safe and sound, so I suppose it’s possible that they’re still at the airport, though I imagine they’d have called had this been the case). Two hectic weeks of running to and fro, here and there, and essentially, everywhere. I felt like a tourist in my own...
And they just keep on coming… Holidays galore round here, though I can see the light at the end of the tunnel – just one more little festive round to go. Bit strange though, right? On the one hand we’re all smiling because we know that nasty ol’ working week is a little shorter for each week in October. On the other hand, we know that the holidays bring...
Yes, we’ve been quiet. We know. But, we’ve got very good excuses. All of our parents are in town! He and I haven’t even had a chance to touch base, we’ve just been so busy running around with our ancestors and watching them turn all mushy in the presence of our children that we haven’t had a moment to write! With the little one safely in day care...
I haven’t posted for a while, so thought I’d grab you with some seasonal banter… Oh yeh. The holiday season is upon us. That means lots of family gatherings to enjoy and savour. I don’t know about you, but my wife’s family is a bit on the enormous side, so these ‘little’ gatherings take on proportions that always manage to give me the...
Life in Israel is no picnic (aside from Independence Day, of course, when the whole country turns into one big barbecue party), so occasionally, we imagine going somewhere else. Maybe relocating back to the “old country”, or just heading to the Far East for a while. Most of us have considered it at one time or another, and needless to say, it’s been an...
Heh heh. By golly, those crazy Likud pranksters are at it again! Last night during the Likud Central Committee meeting, someone (or perhaps several someones) managed to sabotage Prime Minister Sharon’s microphone just as he was starting to speak. And this was done not once, but twice. After having sat through Mr Netanyahu’s eminently predictable speech (and the man...