Time to touch base on Israel’s political situation. I have studiously avoided writing about it for many weeks because the situation has been so in flux that whatever I wrote would probably have changed by the time most of my readers read my posting. More to the point, perhaps, I …
Read More »From Israel: Who Knows Which Way Is Up??!
As to the question of who knows which way is up: There is a WHOLE lot of confusion, not just in Israel, but around the world, with regard to this. While I make light of it, just a tad, to help us all keep our sanity, in reality this dysfunction …
Read More »From Israel: With Hope and a Sharp Eye!
Last time I wrote, I focused on “good stuff,” and here I will provide more of the same. However, the good news in several instances is qualified. Not always an easy trick: To hold fast to what is positive, celebrating the promise, while at the same time retaining a realistic …
Read More »From Israel: “Triumph!”
When the polls in Israel closed at 10 PM on Tuesday, the air was fraught with tensions. Various exit polls, notoriously unreliable in any event, were providing such disparate results that there was little clarity on what the outcome would be. The count was announced early in the morning on …
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