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5 hour trip

They finally opened an MRI center near my apartment but I had to transport the disc to Hadassah hospital to ingest into the records system so the doctor there could read the results. Round trip took me five hours. 

3 bedrooms $700,000 and worse

 

How about that religious unit?

Israeli military suspends battalion involved in assaulting, detaining CNN crew in West Bank By  Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond Tel Aviv —  The Israeli military’s top general suspended all operational activities of a reserve battalion involved in the detention and assault of a CNN team in the West Bank last week, the Israeli military said Monday. The reserve battalion, which is comprised of hundreds of reservists who served in the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion, will be immediately withdrawn from the West Bank and reassigned to training until further notice, an Israeli military official said. The sweeping disciplinary action by Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military chief of staff, appears to be unprecedented in speed and scope, coming about 48 hours after CNN’s report about the incident first aired. It also appeared to reflect growing concerns inside the Israeli security establishment about spiraling Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. The suspension follows an i...

Some war with your tea?

 Today's headlines. Another day of war in Israel. Does that look like geulah to you?

Beit Shemesh vs. Oak Park

 Here's what you get for $1.5 million in Beit Shemesh: That's an apartment so there's no yard. The building appears to be twenty years old Here's what you get in Oak Park, MI where by the way there is no draft, no bombs dropping on your head, and where there are decent jobs and nearby hospitals. Brand new home:

MRI? Sort of

Here's more of what it's like here. I had to wait three months to get an MRI. That included traveling an hour to Jerusalem to see the doctor who prescribed it. So I go to the MRI and in the middle of it, air raid sirens go off, while I'm in the machine! That's the wonderful place to live according to a certain aliyah pushing rabbi who lives in comfort in New York. 

Geulah?

Remember when they told you the state was the beginning of geulah?