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Aliyah Blog 41: 1/2 Yr Check-In & Shopping Habits - Introduction It feels like about three months, maybe, though it’s now March. I’m here this long without seeing my friends from America? The weather has gone from the 90s with huge differences in how...
Aliyah Blog 40: Holiday Loneliness - Background This isn’t an article that I plan on sharing on social media like I usually do, though I feel that if someone wants to get a fuller picture about what it is like...
Aliyah Blog 39: Prove Yourself and Plumbing - Prove You’re American The best way to let Israelis know that you are American is to open your mouth and start speaking. The second-best way is to walk into an electronics store and ask...
Aliyah Blog 38: Talking in Quiet Peace - Today, I write about a few recent things, none really having much to do with the other. For one, trying to find someone to fix a grandfather clock of a kind no one finds...
Aliyah Diary 37: Technical Difficulties - Let’s do some back and forth – explanations follow: Birds Internet Yawning at Work VPN “Free” Online Hebrew Phones Side Effect of Learning Hebrew Immigration It’s Included In the Price Coconuts Plastic Bags Water...
Aliyah Diary 36: Road Rules in Israel - Got My First … Second, and Third Parking Tickets Okay, first one was not fair. I spent 10 minutes installing and using the app to pay and selected the wrong neighborhood in Jerusalem. Second...
Aliyah Diary 35: Mitzpe Ramon & Ein Avdat - No School Wednesday The Bible says “six days a week you shall work” so Israel’s only full workday off is Saturday. America has two full days off, while in true Israeli fashion, the consistency...
Aliyah Diary 34: Finding Obscure Products in Israel - Hairdryer For My Earbuds To my wife, “Where can I find a hair dryer?” She responds with some joke about how I don’t have enough hair for that. (While my brother insists that hair...
Aliyah Diary 33: Quest to Pay My Taxes - Photo credits go to Homestar Runner and Sierra-Online. Paying Taxes: U.S. vs. Israel Citizen: “I want to pay my taxes.”United States: “Sure! How would you like to pay? Credit card? Here are three competing...

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