Lizrael Update

Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004

  • Reverse laughology.

    A Thai comedy group singing “Hava Nagila”… I suppose it serves us Israelis right.

  • Caring for the kalba.

    I never had a dog in America. I don’t know what the vet experience is like back there. But, not surprisingly, the vet experience here is very… Israeli. I just get this feeling that the same laid-back attitude that pervades all other areas of life (especially government offices) is not absent within the walls of…

  • Food colouring.

    Thanksgiving Day ranks as one of my top favorite holidays. Nothing to do with thanks or meaning or scalping Pilgrims. It has to do with… food. Glorious food. And here it is, homemade today: Perhaps that is why I continue to celebrate, even from thousands of miles away.

  • A picture worth 1,000 seeds.

  • The students strike.

    I’m not sure how far the news has traveled surrounding the university tuition increases in the face of the university budget decreases. I suppose if you are not an Israeli university student, the news wouldn’t particularly interest you. The state of university education is becoming more and more dismal here in the state of Israel.…

  • I used to be a journalist.

    I used to be a journalist. I didn’t like many aspects of it, so I stopped my advance into that profession. One thing I have found that I enjoy about the field is the collecting data for the story. Not integorrating people who don’t want to be questioned and not pushing my way through crowds…

  • Who says there are no seasons?

    Who says there are no seasons in Israel? At least there are enough leaves for this city worker to get paid. I call it: Guy with rake.

  • Change the channel.

    Irony: Changing the Israeli channel where Nasrallah is preaching and yelling to a Palestinian channel where a soccer match is going on.

  • Meet my little friend.

    If you know me, you know I’m crazy for dogs – big, chunky, friendly, loyal, happy dogs. Dogs that run up to you when you come home. Dogs that look you in the eye. Dogs that trust you and are trustworthy themselves. Dogs are magnificent animals. For the last 24 years, I never had the…

  • Israel is niiice!

    Guess who‘s coming for a visit? I come to make the sexy with you (even though you are Jews)…

  • Thanks, Hagshama.

    I needed the number for Minhal Studentim in Tel Aviv. I never would have thought they’d be organized enough to have a website. Well, they probably don’t, but someone very wonderful found this site when searching for it. It’s a list of useful numbers Hagshama put together, hopefully mostly current. Addresses to various offices, useful…

  • What's in a name?

    My husband changed my last name at Misrad HaPnim today without totally-fully-100% checking with me. To see that we were doing that whole name changing thing. I went from one ridiculously Jewish last name to another slightly less ridiculously Jewish last name, but the original reflected so much to me; my priestlyness (ok, my dad’s…

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