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A Prayer for Peace
05-Jan-09Taglit - Birthright is the famous project that brings diaspora Jews to Israel for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to get to know and love Israel. This free trip is free of charge, and any Jew is entitled to join this initiative once in his / her life.
However, the global economic crisis has affected the Taglit project, and its future is now vague and unclear.
Live Gaza Feed
04-Jan-09The expected attack on the ground is on its way since yesterday evening. I think that many are thinking of the last time we were at war and the uncertainty and mistrust we had in the people leading us. There is a different feeling in Israel today. It’s been a long time coming.. We have had enough of the attacks and the constant pain of watching Israelis living in the south of Israel under a constant barrage of missiles.
I am writing and watching the attacks in real time and its insane. We advanced in technology, medicine and supposedly awareness and we are again dragged into this. The global financial stress is not enough, we need something extra to make things interesting.
I watched “Fair and Balanced Fox News” this morning. It’s amazing to me that a News channel like this can even exist in today’s world. Geraldo Rivera was talking to Hanan Ashrawi and I switched it off. Just hearing the introduction was enough. The world is coming to an end, Iran is threatening to join the war, Hezbollah is preparing to attack from the north and terror is at the door. Balanced my ass. The only thing that station sells is fear and bad energy!!
The people in the middle of all this are the people in the south of Israel and by far worse, the Palestinian families trying to move from the North of the Gaza Strip to the South – just trying to get away from all this and literally running for their life. There are no words to describe the pain they must be going through.
On the other hand, choosing a Terror Organization like Hamas to be your leader is like going on an organized bus ride in the Rockies with a blind bus driver – at some point you are going to hit something.
There is nothing fair about all this. We as a global society are measured by the weakest link and it seems like the more advanced and the further we reach, that weak link keeps getting weaker.
The Media war is on as well and the Arab world is getting behind Gaza in all its might. Understandable. What has been unique is the Israeli side in the media war, Arab speaking Israeli officers and foreign ministry personnel were interviewed, debated and heard on Arab media channels. We are adding here the live Gaza feed from Mako the Channel 2 News channel.
It’s been less then 24 hours and hopefully this will all be over soon. For the sake of everyone involved.
Just don’t listen to Fox..
Life in Beer Sheva
01-Jan-09It’s a terrifying sound. I remember hearing it during the first Gulf War. You close yourself in a room, and pray the alarm ends without a shocking boom. Complete helplessness.
Sderot “The Musical”
01-Jan-09It’s amazing to think that while we here in the center of Israel are carrying on a normal life there are Israelis an hour away living in a constant state of fear and under the imminent threat of a “Red Alert”. This is in Hebrew but I think anyone can understand what it’s all about…
For the first time ever, Palestinian rockets have reached the city of Be’er-Sheva. Until today, Be’er-Sheva was never being regarded as a “border town”. If you look at the map of Israel, it sits right at the center of the map. It is also the seventh largest city in Israel.
But the truth is Be’er Sheva is less than 40 KM (25 Miles) away from the Gaza Strip (situated to the left of the map, by the sea). That’s all: 40 KM. In a country so small, the “home front” is merely a tiny bubble — one that is liable to burst anytime.
On the other side: if Israel is only a tiny line on the global map, well, Gaza is an invisible dot, where there is no “home front” at all.
When 2 hostile nations are packed together inside a tiny patch of land, the conflict affects everyone, anywhere.
Qassam Range by the Home Front Command
There are many exciting Archeological excavations across Israel that are scheduled for 2009.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is inviting volunteers from around the world to join these exciting expeditions.
The work is physical, and it is done mostly outdoors in locations in the desert or near the sea. The nearest excavation is set to begin next week in Ein Gedi, and all other planned excavations will take place in the Spring and Summer of 2009.
For more information, visit this website.
Notice the page says the following: Some expeditions offer credit courses from sponsoring institutions.
1000 Dead or Wounded in 2 Days
29-Dec-08It’s been 48 hours since the Air Force began pounding Gaza with “Operation Cast Lead”, and already more than 1,000 people have been killed or wounded.
While the heavily populated Gaza Strip is now under attack from both the air and the sea (Israeli Navy joined the offense), civilians who tried to flee the tiny Strip into Egyptian territory have been fired on by Egyptian forces. Surviving in Gaza is a very claustrophobic ordeal.
News reports claim 300 casualties on the Palestinian side, along with 700 injured. Hospitals lack supplies and blood units. And these early numbers are probably going to rise dramatically in the coming days.
On the Israeli side, 2 men have been killed by separate rocket attacks, while a dozen others were wounded. Hundreds of thousands of residents in southern Israeli towns are compelled to stay in or near available shelters all throughout the day. Indeed, there’s enough claustrophobia to go around on both sides of the fence.
I refrain from commentary at the moment. These are simply the dry facts.
All-Nighter of Artistic Nudity
28-Dec-08The Avni Institute of Art and Design is holding a special “Blue Night” tonight. From 5pm and until the small hours of the night, 10 nude models (men and women) will await visitors who wish to experience the art of nude figure drawing for free.
The event will be held at 23 Eilat Street, in Jaffa, and visitors are required to bring their own drawing and painting equipment.
Qassam Rockets — Until When?
25-Dec-08These numbers don’t include statistics from December 2008 (this month).
Can you imagine the US, France, or India being hit by several hundred rockets a year? Can you imagine them being hit by even a single one?!
I’m not saying I have a solution for this situation. I’m just saying it’s unthinkable.