Category: Aliyah Diary

Introduction My rabidly left of the intersection self-hating Jewish political science professor in college had only one good thing to say about Israel: there’s a museum of Islamic Art in the Jewish half of...

Chaim Weizmann Short Biography Chaim Weizman, the first president of Israel (not prime minister) exchanged knowledge of acetone production for the Balfour Declaration. The British Empire could continue to make munitions when most of...

Introduction to Kiryat Anavim Kiryat Anavim is a secular Zionist dream – started as a kibbutz in 1918 by Jews from Ukraine on a Judean hill close to Jerusalem, they cleared the land away...

Introduction A long-time reader of my blog suggested I check out Hezekiah’s Tunnels … this is another case of “not at all what I thought it was“. If you haven’t gone and want everything...

Introduction This is “Golan Heights I” (one) because I trust that there will be more blog entries about the Golan. Thank you, Syria, lover of all minorities, for generously giving us back this beautiful...