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  THE WORLD'S MOST INCREDIBLE MUSEUMS: 1. The Louvre → Paris → the world's largest and most visited museum 2. The British Museum → London → the entire history of human civilisation 3. The Met → New York → one of the greatest art collections ever assembled 4. The Vatican Museums → Rome → Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel alone is worth it 5. The Uffizi → Florence → the finest Renaissance art collection in existence 6. The Prado → Madrid → Goya, Velázquez and El Greco under one roof 7. The Rijksmuseum → Amsterdam → Rembrandt and Vermeer in their home city 8. The Hermitage → St Petersburg → three million objects across 350 rooms 9. The Egyptian Museum → Cairo → Tutankhamun's treasures where they belong 10. The Acropolis Museum → Athens → ancient Greece told perfectly 11. The Smithsonian → Washington DC → twenty-one museums, all completely free 12. The Natural History Museum → London → the blue whale stops everyone who sees it 13. The Guggenheim → Bilbao → the building is as i...

English for donations only

Not only do Israelis generally not speak English, even the signs listing the departments in the hospital are all in Hebrew. If you don't speak the language you are lost. However, the donor plaques are all in English because Israelis don't or can't donate. The money is all from chutz.

4 years

This bus arrivals sign has been broken and left unfixed for 4 years. So not only were electronic bus signs not invented in Israel (they had been in Europe for years) but they aren't even maintained.  In  Zurich, would anybody bash in a sign? Would the city leave it broken for 4 years?

The latest in real estate prices

3 bedrooms outside of Jerusalem with one small central gathering room (dining, living, den all in one) 1 million dollars

3x the space for half the price

  That's 914 square feet. In the frum area in Minneapolis, you get 2,542 square feet, with a driveway and a yard for $350,000, half the price. That's nearly three times the space for half the price in a region where you salary is 3x that of Israel.  I don't have a photo of the apartment in Israel, but from experience I can tell you it will look something like this: Here's the home in Minneapolis: Additionally, there's no military conscription in the USA and in Minnesota people are much more polite than in Israel.  I ask you, have we lost are minds with this aliyah madness? 

Twice the price

 124,274 miles, $6,666 for 13 year old car In the USA, private party value typically ranges between $2,800 and $5,200. Mileage Impact: At over 120,000 miles, these vehicles are considered to have high mileage, placing them in the lower end of retail value. So figure $3,300 in the USA. Twice the price in Israel, while your salary is 1/4 that of the USA.

Benches are for people

Not saying that young men in chutz aren't capable of this, but in my experience, such a lack of consdieration is more common in Israel. The bench outside the bustop. This is supposed to be where people can sit while waiting for the bus, especially people with grey hair.  Here's the bench in the bus shelter, blocked by their electronic bicycle: I didn't take a photo of the yeshiva bochurim who loaded the bench with their stuff, as they stood chatting with one another. I stood near them for at least 15 minutes, but nobody made a move to clear a bench.