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What, pray tell, has Knesset Members talking so tough? Qassams in Sderot? Civil rights? Poverty? Peace? No, plastic bags is the topic of the day! According to this article:
A bill proposing to oblige stores to provide customers with paper bags instead of nylon ones passed its first reading at the Knesset Wednesday. According to the […]

Look at our geraniums! Aren’t they pretty?! They are the trailing kind and I hope they’ll grow out of the box and over the rail. If you look carefully, you can see the grapevines in the garden about the large rock wall. I am writing another blog entry about that part of our neighborhood soon.
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This is the door from the living room out to the balcony of our apartment. Isn’t it inviting!? We have two nice wicker chairs out there. The neighbor lady above us hangs out of the window above and talks to us. I feel like I am on 227! Mmmaaarrryyy!

I like the symmetry of this photo! In Tel Aviv they plant these great shrubs for hedges and they form them into entry ways! It’s quite common, but I wanted to snap a picture for those of you who haven’t made it over yet…Mom, Jennifer, Nancy, CJ…oh yeah, EVERYBODY (except Dean)!

A park near our house was dotted with these lovely red flowers, anemones (sp?). Perfect for Valentine’s Day, the name of anemone plant is connected with the ancient myth, telling the famous love story between Adonis and Aphrodite. This specific myth inspired great poets like Ovidius or, much later, Shakespeare, to compose hymns dedicated to […]