“The Internationals,” we were called. A strange amalgamation of foreigners who arrived on one of the hottest days of the year, so far, to protest the existence of the wall at Bil’in, in the West Bank. We were German, American, French, English, Irish, and Canadian. Our presence did two things:...

Tel Aviv has a feral cat problem. They are aware of this. The program in place now to deal with this is pure genius. Most other animal agencies worldwide would simply kill the cats. The Tel Aviv agency realizes that killing the cats would only increase the resources for the remaining cats and therefore...

Does this look familiar? It's amazing how they managed to make the D in "diet" look exactly the same in Hebrew, even though it's a completely different letter. Further, Hebrew is read right to left so the letter that looks like the D is actually the T. I will keep an eye out for other product...

And here begins my quirky outsider observations of Israel.
These boxes are all over the park. They hold poop bags, for dogs. The text says literally "Sacky-Cacky." Or as we like to say, pooper scooper. The best part, though, is the artwork. That really says it all.