Eden Inn Zichron Yaakov
Aharon St Zichron Yaakov, 30900, Israel
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On the way out
... no one's favorite fruit. Most people will eat a couple and move on to sweeter family members, like the excellent clementines growing not more than six feet away. Anyway in my ever enterprising way I decided I was to help ease the tree's burden and help its fruit fulfil its god given task of being consumed. Again I can't emphasise enough how extraordinarily productive this tree is. It is to cumcuats what Michael Jordan was to basketball, so dominant ...
Wedding
... stores. Based on the responses I got, it sounded like the dry cleaners was my only choice to get the laundry done today. I dropped it off and she promised me it would be done at 3:00. I left, dismayed that I was getting ripped off and didn't have a choice, but glad just to be done with my mission. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure I was supposed to negotiate, but at this point, I didn't even care.
It was extremely hot ...
Who's promised land? A day in Hebron.
... and since, but the outcomes of this war are really significant, as other than the Sinai going back to Egypt, these are pretty much the borders that the currently exist, which is the main point on contention with Syria to this day, because they want the Golan heights back (and the Palestinian refugees to go back as well, they don't want them either).
So where does that leave us now - pretty much in the exact same position. So if you think of Israel as a country ...
Two Sides to Every Story
... much more conflicting than that ladies and gentlemen. They can’t even agree on what they’re fighting about!!
Something else I was thinking about as we walked through the Old City two days ago and yesterday, and the Old City in Bethlehem for that matter, is how incredibly old these places are. I mean these are sites that are THOUSANDS of years old! These were the streets Abraham and Sarah walked! I mean I’ve sure they’re ...
A city divided by religion
... shops were sealed shut and the area above the stalls was covered with chicken mesh. We were told this was because the settlers who live in and around the area throw missiles at the stalls. It has gotten that bad that most of the Palestinians have ceased to open their stalls in the area. This may be due to the owners themselves not wanting to open up. For the most part though, the Israeli soldiers soldering the stall doors shut. We were taken up ...


