Moving to Israel - Not Kedai for most people

    This is a signup form for Microsoft. You'll note that country/region is not optional. Only USA is available. Come to Israel and experience this continuously. The credit card that you have used for decades doesn't allow non-US addresses. Paypal didn't for years. I'm still unsure what is going on with Paypal. You'll find the same with all kinds of online shopping, with video streaming. They only work in the USA. What you learn when you come to Israel is that the USA is the world's superpower and a shockingly high percentage of technology and services come from the USA. But when you move to Israel your ability to access these become seriously limited. I am the treasurer for a non-profit in the USA but cannot access the bank account because the bank will only allow US phone numbers for security checks. Every board meeting is an adventure for me to coordinate with someone in the USA to gain access.  Oh, you can just switch to Israel companies. Oh yeah, keep livin

There's space in Israel which prompts the question why are people living on the Gaza and Lebanon borders and in the West Bank. There's plenty of space in the Galil and in the center of the country. I imagine that there are historical and political reasons, the latter of which includes expansionist ambitions, but I won't get into it. The point for today is the spacious places are not where you'll be living. You'll move to Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Be'er Sheva, Rananana where there isn't much space. And since you'll now be in an apartment or maybe a house that's way smaller than what you have, you'll be short on space. Israeli apartments don't have closets, so you'll have even less space after you install a cheapo standing closet. You won't have room for your books, toys, or clothes. But much worse, you won't have room for sleep over guests. Even if you host a kiddush, it will be uncomfortably crowded. But worse, there will be compli

Remember when I told you about the post office appointments, how if you need something from the post office you have to make an appointment, wait three days or sometimes more, and then be sure to arrive within 10 minutes of the scheduled time? Well, sometimes that's not enough to get your stamps. Here's a story that happened today. Woman arrives twenty minutes early, but the door is closed. She can see that there's a worker in there, but the door doesn't open. It's now 1/2 hour after opening time. People are waiting, but nothing. Her time passes. Nothing. 1/2 hour more passes but nothing. Suddenly the door opens, and the sole poster worker scurries out, locks the door, ignoring everyone, and leaves the building. This woman rushes over to her and says "Where are you going? Are you opening? We have appointments." Postal worker says, "Too bad. It will open later." Welcome to SSOI (the secular state of israel). There were numerous Americans on the un

News from 10/9/24.  And Yitzchok Breitowitz will claim Jews are unsafe everywhere. And RHS says he feels less safe in Washington Heights. These Zionists are delusional and have no compunctions against  endangering your life. And in related news, a Jewish student at Columbia University got shouted at. Oh my gosh, we must flee America. 

  It continues. Every few days. Sometimes on consecutive days, Jews murdered in Israel. Are the lunatic aliyah salesmen going to continue asserting that Jews are no less safe in Israel?

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-823326 Israel one year into war: 885 civilians killed, 70,000 wounded - National Insurance Institute Following October 7, 217 civilians who were not members of the  security forces were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip. Some 885 civilian casualties were added to the total number of victims killed in terror attacks, according to the National Insurance Institute (NII) on Sunday. The total count did not include members of the security forces or emergency standby squads. Seven of the casualties were added just last week as a result of the Jaffa terror attack, who were not included in the NII's findings. Of the 878 victims counted, 578 were men and 300 were women. Among them, 53 were children and teenagers under the age of 18: four were aged 0-3, two were 3-5, three were 5-8, nine were 8-12, eight were 12-14, and 27 were 14-18. Additionally, 72 of the victims were foreign citizens. ....Since the war began, over 70,000 victims of hostilities have