An avreich is suffering from intestinal disorders that were brought on by the anxiety of living in Israel. He tells his rosh kollel that he cannot come in because they can flare up at any time. The Israeli rosh kollel says sarcastically, "Can I bring you a bottle? Do you need someone to hold you?" When the young man counters that he really is too sick to come in, the rosh kollel says, "Maybe go be sick at another kollel" and finishes off with an explicit ultimatum that if the man doesn't come in he will be kicked out of the kollel.
On Rosh Hashanah, a guy asks a gabbai at the shul next door if he can borrow a shtender. The gabbai says yes, but when the man carries the shtender down the stairs, a man slaps him in the head and shouts, "gonif!" When he explains that the gabbi gave permission, the man shouts, "Even if you bring it back you are a ganif!"
This is Israeli culture. The aliyah evangelists will pretend that only the cholonim are like this, that you can come to Israel and hide among the so-called religious people, but the culture of nastiness is nearly everywhere.
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