Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

Israeli dentists are notoriously rough, which is not who you want poking around your mouth with sharp objects. So you think, I'll hire an American dentist, assuming that you'll get American care. One such dentist recently installed mercury filled amalgam fillings into a patient without telling him, as is customary, that the fillings are 50% mercury. Dentists all over the world notify their patients about the mercury and have them sign disclosure and permission forms. Why didn't the American trained dentist do this? It's because he lives in Israel and is affected by the Israeli mentality of militarism. Call it bossiness if you will. You just order people around. There's no sense here of respect or allowing people to make their own choices. There's no sense of giving them information. You just make declarations like a military commander. That is, after all, the religion here.  The environment got to him. So don't assume that there are Anglo enclaves in Israel....

A friend of mine called a music shop in Tel Aviv. He asked for directions. Here's what followed: Israeli: Look on Google. Don't bother me. Friend: I don't have Google. I don't have Internet. Can you help me with directions? Israeli: Oh, you are Haredi. F... off. Take your 15 children and leave. We don't want you. F... off. --------------------- I have been all over the USA and Canada and to many countries in Europe. Never did I receive treatment like that for being a religious Jew. Do you want to get away from antisemitism? Don't come to Israel. Such lovely people. Welcome home to family.

Another only in Israel story for your reading pleasure. Late night bus from Jerusalem. The driver, an Arab, is annoyed by the conduct of some of the unruly passengers and intentionally misses stops. The passengers start yelling at him. He yells back. A near melee ensures. Passengers are pounding on the glass, threatening to call police. The driver shouts at them ferociously. Children are crying from all the shouting. I don't know if it got worse from there because the person who witnessed this and told me the story got off the bus when the driver did make a stop a few miles from his apartment and found a way home. Can that happen anywhere else in the world? I haven't been to the Congo, but I'm guessing that it's only in the Mideast and possibly only Israel. 

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  "Why was the Torah given to Israel? Because they are impetuous.... The laws of these are like fire, for had not the Law been given to Israel no nation or tongue could withstand them." Talmud, Beitzah, 25b

  Tonight on the bus from Jerusalem, we endured a ticket checker who had quite the anger problem. He screamed and screamed. It started with a guy who might not have paid. Sometimes, the problem is the card. I once boarded a bus in Jerusalem, swiped my card at least five times because I couldn't tell if it worked or not. You don't get a receipt and the machine screen is not readable. You are waiting for a beep. People are behind me waiting. The driver waved me on, so I went. A ticket checker came on and ran my card through his little machine and couldn't find proof of my paying. I explained that I had swiped it numerous times and the driver waved me on. Didn't matter. The drive didn't back me up. The checker made such a scene and did his best to embarrass me. He was clearly a former army guy. Aggressive, hard faced, muscular. There was such a cruelty to his style. He seemed so proud of himself that he caught a Haredi looking person. They hate us so much.  Sometimes t...