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Life in Israel
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/
my thoughts and comments on life in Israel, ranging from cultural issues to political issues with anything and everything in between.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 14628 )
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the Fiction of the Necessary Draft Law
The news is reporting that the Supreme court has decided to not grant the government any further extensions to prepare a new law to replace the previous draft... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Leading the Stores to More Chaos
Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein this morning said that the rules will not be changed int he coming weeks to allow stores and malls to open. Read more
Posted on 04 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
MK Tessler in Advance of Shmitta: Farmers Should Plan to Go to Sudan (video)
MK Tessler has an interesting proposal for farmers during the upcoming shmitta year.. ------------------------------------------------------ Reach thousands of... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
the Krembo Shortage of 2020
Ice cream is not a big thing in Israel during the winter season. It used to be that it was actually fairly difficult to find much ice cream available for... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Interesting Psak: Entering a Church to Vote
It seems that residents of Crown heights and parts of Flatbush discovered their polling station for today's elections to be located inside a church. Halacha... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Go Vote!
Israelis have had enough of elections for a while, but today it is the turn of our friends in the USA... go vote! Exercise your democratic right and make your... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Quote of the Day
We made a decision last week that we would discuss the issue of [increasing the] fines. How can Netanyahu go ahead and make such a decision without first talkin... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Remembering Reb Shlomo Carlebach with Rav Shlomo Katz & R’ Eitan Katz (video)
I am no major Carlebach fan but I do like the Katz brothers, especially when they sing together... ------------------------------------------------------ Reach... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Store Becomes Shul but Still Gets Fined
store owners have been upset that this round of easing up of the lockdown restrictions included opening shuls indoors with up to 10 people yet left businesses... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Quote of the Day
Not returning the deposit on bottles to customers is exploitation of the consumer. Yet instead of dealing with the injustice of the small bottles, we are... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Low Testing Numbers
A number of statements today by members of the government, or functionaries of the government, seem to be expressing some dismay at the significant decline in... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
People of Jerusalem, 5 and 6 (video)
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Posted on 02 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
the Look of Anarchy
Yesterday the Vizhnitzer Rebbe spoke at his tish about people who report on others who violate CoronaVirus regulations. The Rebbe spoke very harshly about... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Notable Articles
Here are a couple of interesting links I just did not know how to work them into anything I would write about but also thought they were still worth noting.. Read more
Posted on 01 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Picture of the Day
This is the first Israeli to get the Corona vaccine developed by the Biological Institute of Israel. Segev Harel is 26 years old from Sde Nechemia. Read more
Posted on 01 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Quote of the Day
The IDF Chief of General Staff sent the troops out for a major training session on the southern border and said it is necessary and worthwhile even to the... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
UAE Signs Deal to Import Golan Heights Wines
According to a report in the Jewish Press, the Golan Heights Winery just signed a deal to export its wines to the states of the United Arab Emirates. Read more
Posted on 29 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Supreme Humility
Here is a beautiful story of supreme humility. I like these. Like the rosh yeshiva who has no airs about him and runs for the bus instead of having personal... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Price of Gas Dropping
Prices of gas went down at the same time we went into both the first and second lockdowns. The first time it even went down a lot. Just after we came out of... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Interesting Psak: Participation in CoronaVirus Vaccine Trials
According to @Haskupim, (a Haredi breaking news feed on Twitter) Rav Shmuel Eliezer Stern, the head of the Beis Horaah for Medical Affairs in Bnei Braq, it is... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY
