Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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H&M will exchange old clothes for store vouchers – even in Israel!
Yay, retail! Looks like H&M has its new years resolutions in order and is starting a new program called iCollect, launching February 2013, to take your old clothes for recycling/reprocessing in exchange for store vouchers. So hand over a bag of used clothes -> get some H&M rewards. Seems the program will be worldwide, including all…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Waste
This week I learned I don’t like the word ‘waste.’ Week 49: Waste Where Nature’s throwaway meets the man-made Underworld.
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Protest: Ramat Bet Shemesh expands, the environment pays the price.
Apparently, this is the next big developmental overstepping/environmental boundary issue in our corner of Matte Yehuda… This time featuring the ever-glamorous Ramat Bet Shemesh expansion. If you haven’t heard, Ramat Bet Shemesh Gimmel is a controversial funhouse and construction is already well underway. The projects are promising to expand even further (D and E!) and…
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Bebe update: Twenty months
Bebe, I’m starting to lose count of how many months you are. We’re pretty close to the end of the month-by-month thing. I’m very ready for a two-year-old you but but there are a few things I’m not ready to let you grow out of yet… The face you make when you do ‘foo’ on…
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Tzur Hadassah update: The border town gets border police
Hello and welcome to our border town. It looks like we’re finally getting border security treatment. Back in the summer I noticed these posters go up at either entrance to Tzur Hadassah, and during the Gaza operation, we were emailed by the va’ad about some new details. When it comes to Tzur Hadassah and security,…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Home
Where I spent a bit too much time last week. Where I’m trying to get over this damn virus. Where I’m lucky to wake up every day. Week 48: Home Lived-in.
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GoldieBlox: building the next generation of girl engineers
UPDATE: GoldieBlox shipped March 12 2013! Very exciting! Here’s a project that was fully funded on Kickstarter five days after the account went up. Those stories are rare, so what could possibly have been inspiring enough for that kind of support? Debbie Sterling is an engineer out of Stanford University who, influenced by being a…
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Old school Israel: rare video of Israel way-back-in-the-day, 1947
Today is a few things; it’s the 29th of November, the date in 1947 that the United Nations adopted the resolution to recommend the Partition Plan for granting two states for the Jews and Arabs living in British-mandated Palestine. And, 65 years later, it’s the day Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas approaches the UN to…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Emotion
After an inspiration-less and stressful week, I had nothing to submit on Sunday morning. Then I accidentally dropped and cracked the last egg in the house. Then… Week 47: Emotion Don’t cry.
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Thanksgiving in Israel, ceasefire edition.
I just OWNED my Americanness at our local Mister Zol. Usually my Australian huz deals with the turkey ordering and picking up. Blasphemy, I know. I’ve been passive about it because I always felt silly ordering a whole turkey at a chicken counter in Israel. So when I approached the counter, my language evolved from…
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Tzur Hadassah Anglos rally for the south!
Here’s a shout out to the awesome Anglo crew in Tzur Hadassah, which, in 48 hours, managed to rally and collect food, household items, toys and books for the citizens of southern Israel and soldiers serving on the Gaza border. Together, about seven or eight families, filled the trunk of a Ford Focus: And I…
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