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

Went to a wedding in Jerusalem last night. Only 18 miles away, it took 2 hours to get there and 3 hours to return home. I left the office at 5 PM and arrived to the wedding at 7. Stayed two hours, leaving at  9 PM. Returned home at midnight.  This is what happens when you don't have a car. And I took a taxi from the bus station to the wedding. Driver ripped us off of course, saying it was far and there was lots of traffic, so he would only do it for 100 NIS. We offered 80. He said he'd only do it for 100. Note: it is easier to bargain with the Arab drivers. Taxi trip took 10 minutes. There was no traffic and it wasn't far. Coming back, we couldn't find a taxi so we had to hunt for a bus, which took 20 minutes and the trip took 1/2 hour, and then at the Central Station we waited 45 minutes for a bus, even though the sign said one was coming in ten, but that one never showed. Entire trip of 7 hours for a wedding where we only stayed two.  I could have driven from New York...

  Number of universities in the top 1000: US: 154 UK: 94 China: 59 Italy: 49 Germany: 49 Australia: 44 India: 38 Spain: 36 France: 36 Japan: 33 Canada: 32 Iran: 29 Saudi Arabia: 18 South Korea: 18 Taiwan: 16 Russia: 15 Switzerland: 15 Pakistan: 14 Netherlands: 13 Egypt: 13 Finland: 12 Belgium: 12 Sweden: 11 Turkey: 10 Portugal: 10 South Africa: 9 UAE: 8 Ireland: 8 Austria: 7 Hong Kong: 7 Brazil: 7 Norway: 7 Malaysia: 6 Denmark: 6 Greece: 6 Thailand: 5 New Zealand: 5 Romania: 4 Ghana: 4 Israel: 4 Iceland: 4 Poland: 4 Lebanon: 4 Serbia: 3 Jordan: 3 Czechia: 3 Chile: 3 Thailand has more top universities than Israel, which is incredible since 6 million Jews are here and Jews are in the top universities in America and other countries. So Jews normally are part of great universities. Something in Israel holds them back.

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 impo...

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.

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?