This is the time of year when the State of Israel has a chance to really look deep into the heart of herself and understand what condition she’s in. It’s the post-Pessach triangle of introspection: yesterday was Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and next week are Yom HaZicaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day).
When [...]
I gave away the punch line in the title, but there ain’t much more to say than that. Here’s the headline of a Ynet news article from today:
Classified info exposed on Facebook
Basically, some members of the Israeli security establishment were caught with photos of classified soldiers and locations exposed on their Facebook accounts. But what [...]
I find that lots of people - students or not - desire to volunteer on a day-trip basis when they come a-visiting, so I’m sharing the following:
Standing Together - the organization that sells us the Sderot challot every week - has an initiative set up for tourists to Israel this next month:
This winter, visitors to [...]
It’s a year and a half later, and the three kidnapped soldiers from summer 2006 - Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit have not been returned to us.
The Keren Maor Foundation was founded to assist and support the families of these three soldiers, and to raise awareness until they are brought home from their [...]
The first time I saw this one, it was Cookie Monster that caught my eye, of course. But the phrasing below His Munchiness is anything but yummy:
”Soldiers are not cookies.”
No, they are not. You can’t consume your own 18-21 year-old population like Cookie Monster devours his cookies. They are also not trash, that you can [...]