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Sexist "Vote Female" Voting Facilitated Rise of Radical Leftists
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against Women's Rights. I have nothing against seeing more women in positions of political and economic power. But voting "blind" for women, just because you want women's...
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Clever of Bibi to Schedule Maximum Time Before Elections
A reminder that here in Israel we don't vote for Prime Minister; we vote for a political party's Knesset list. And it's the party leader who can hammer together/negotiate a coalition who becomes Prime...
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Gantz Desperately Continues Bibi Bashing
Hat-tip for link to article Tel-Chai NationTo make it clear, I'm not voting Likud, but...Benny Gantz is certainly proving that he's not leadership material. He sounds like an immature desperate teenage...
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Letter From an Israeli Mother on The Gaza Border
We live within 7 kms of the Gaza border fence. We don't live as close as some and for that we are lucky and thankful but we are close enough and being in the center hear all the noise from the north...
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Shabbat Zachor, Remembering 23 Years Since "My" Terror Attack
Davka Shabbat Zachor...It's a full year-- innocent Jews in Southern Israel have been suffering from riots and attacks and fires from Gaza...Twenty-three 23 years since I was injured in a terror...
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Star of The Purim Story Esther, Not Haddassa
I have my "differences" with the accepted Biblical commentaries in a lot of issues. And I see things in the linguistics of the Tanach/Bible in ways that others don't. It's hard to say why, but for...
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For Want of an Asterisk, Shiloh Celebrates Two Days of Purim
Before I get started, I want to thank my husband for doing some of the research for this.There are a number of places here in the HolyLand where Purim is a two day holiday. Many of them are...
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The New Right, HaYamin HeChadash, הימין החדש in Shiloh
Last night there was a parlour meeting with The New Right, HaYamin HeChadash,הימין החדש in Shiloh. Yes, of course I attended.The New Right, HaYamin HeChadash,הימין החדש in Shiloh. MK candidates Matan...
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Has Gantz - Hit The Fan?
Right now there's a Likud Press Conference demanding that Benny Gantz, who has branded himself as "clean" be investigated. Apparently, Gantz's friend Roni Alshech, head of the Israeli Police had...
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Knesset Elections 2019, 5779, Polls are Just Polls & Feiglin Kingmaker
This post isn't the one I told my facebook friends I'd write, but I think it's good pre-Shabbat food for thought message. Print it if you don't have time to read it now, or if you want to show it to...
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Just Over a Week Before 5779, 2019 Knesset Elections, and We're on Verge of War
Life here is Israel is rather surreal. From what I've heard and know of history, Israeli culture and living here for almost half a century, that's "normal." There's just over a week before the 5779,...
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Guest Post: Waiting for Normal Life to Return to Netivot
From Life on the border with Gaza - things people may not know (but should)Waiting for Normal Life to Return to Netivotby Esther Hilf RevivoWe had a quiet (I wish) night Motzei Shabbat. There were 4...
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The State of Israel Needs Experienced Fearless Leaders
One of the reasons I'm voting for HaYamin HeChadash, The New Right is because I want them to have enough seats in the Knesset so that the Likud will have to give Naftali Bennett the Defense Ministry....
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Yamin HeChadash, New Right MK List
The Yamin HeChadash, New Right has assembled an amazing group of people running in their list to be MKs, members of Knesset.I've been following Israeli politics for half a century, and it's clear to me...
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Only In Israel, Bringing MIA Zachary Baumel Home
Funeral of Zachary Baumel Funeral of Zachary Baumel ONLY IN ISRAELI'm proud, can't think of a better word right now, that the State of Israel does not give up in its search for missing soldiers.This...
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Bibi, How Dumb Do You Think We are?
Generally just before Knesset elections, Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu, #1 in Likud, starts his:"Gevalt!! If you don't vote Likud I won't be able to form a ruling coalition."And when the votes are counted,...
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Who's The Winner of the 2019 Knesset Elections? I Can Wait Until Morning
Tomorrow will be the 2019 Knesset Elections. The three main Israeli television stations/channels are promoting their overnight vote "count."Well, count me out.I'll be happy to wait until morning for...
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Israeli Elections 2019, Shiloh
We voted. That is my husband and I voted mid-morning. Elections are in the Boys Elementary School. Outside the school was a very hectic, carnival like atmosphere. Mostly young kids were manning the...
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Gantz & Co Folded Without a Fight
The Blue & White Party led by Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid officially conceded the 2019 Knesset Elections to Likud- Binyamin Netanyahu. I kept hoping that he'd say something about waiting to hear the...
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Israel On The Moon, Davka After "New Moon" Shabbat
By now I guess everyone knows that Israel's landing on the moon was a crash-landing. We do things with a bang, of course. Seriously, it was a great accomplishment, and only three countries, all much...
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