Aliyah Blog 62: I MADE IT.
It’s a little under 11 months since I first arrived and I think I’m fully ‘at home’ now with no desire to go back to the ‘old country’. Similarly, after 11 months we stop...
Author: tostien
Aliyah Blog 61: Bring it to Israel for Us?
The Case of The Missing Laptop I’ve written about this before – here’s the conclusion. My wife’s laptop of 4+ years broke. It was a fine Chromebook which I bought for her because, like...
Aliyah Blog 60: New Kitten – Pebble
Learning to Love Nearing the end of reading Nesach haKatan, the Little Prince, which I read together in in Hebrew and English, there’s a great little story about a fox that says, “I am...
Aliyah Blog 59: 12 Day War
Background Iran has plans to destroy Israel since shortly after their 1979 revolution, using Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, and to a lesser extent, Iraq, as part of their plan alongside development of nuclear weapons....
Aliyah Blog 58: Called Up to the Army
Snailmail We don’t check our snail mail much. We have to go to a central mailbox area and its mainly ads. Anything of use comes by email or text message around here. You can’t...
Aliyah Blog 57: Ben Shemen Forest
Introduction You could visit Israel as a tourist two dozen times and probably never go to this more than 8 square mile forest! How is there this huge forest in the middle an alleged...
Aliyah Blog 56: Agam Museum
A bit “off the beaten path” is an interesting little museum in Rishon L’Zion near the center of the country and the sea. Born Yaacov Gibstein in 1928, first art exhibition in 1953, and...
Aliyah Blog 55: Idiosyncrasies of Israel
Introduction My notes for things to put on the blog are getting longer faster than I wrote blog articles. Google Keep is an easy way to keep the notes … now I’ve amassed a...
Aliyah Blog 54: Marseilles and Avignon
Can I conceal myself forevermore? Pretend I’m not the man I was before? “Do they all hate us?” – fruit seller in Sdorot asking me a question about the United States. He continues, “that’s...
Aliyah Blog 53: TLV Airport Speed Run
What’s a Speed Run? Ever play Super Mario Brothers? When you beat the game – which few of us do (including me) you rejoice at having spent only seven hours getting to the end....