7 months of funny search terms

Some people check their blog stats for duration of visit, referring sites, or most popular content. I prefer to check mine for search terms of how people findthe big felafel. Some are the usual like “misrad hapnim Jerusalem” or “book stores Jerusalem” but some are pretty hilarious and fall into the [...]


An Israeli Errand…Not Just a Stop at the Dry Cleaners!

The Israeli lifestyle often involves lots of errands. Unlike the errands most of us are used to: dry cleaning, grocery shopping, post office and the bank in Israel you can add bureaucratic government offices to your list.
A typical stop at your local health office, municipality or tax authority means you are stuck in lines without [...]


Hi, is Zionism there?

Update: This post got picked up by Arutz Sheva

Where has the Zionism gone? I guess when rockets explode they bring with them a big bang to our idealism. Forget Gaydamak’s efforts to ship kids from Sderot to Jerusalem, now there is a new organization, Save Israel’s Children, transporting kids all the way to America.
While I [...]


Into Minus to Add A Bush

Israel is not a land of wealth. We don’t have oil like the other Middle Eastern countries surrounding us and we aren’t a world economic power. Let’s face it - we can’t even pay our educators what they deserve or even half of that. But when President Bush comes to town…our country goes to [...]


How I Faked It: Breaking Into The Media

I faked it. While the Americans brought their top security guys from America and Israel posted police on every street corner- I managed to sneak into the Press hotel and pretend to be one of them. It amazes me just how lax security was- so much so that I even had a taste of the [...]


Best and Worst of 2007: the big felafel style

BEST
WORST

Olmert getting rid of that nasty nasty comb over
Olmert still in Office

Free television online at alluc.org
Television tax that only some people receive even if you don’t own a tv.

The Facebook Song
Annapolis

The dollar losing value
The dollar losing value

Discovering the show Israelim
Discovering they [...]