Gitell.com will be posting from Israel this week. I am here on a trip of journalists sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation. During the 45 minute drive from the airport to Jerusalem, someone pointed out the abundance of the majestic blue and white flag of the State of Israel, which lined the highway in preparation for Israel Independence Day. But the highway was also lined with another flag, a light-blue one with Hebrew lettering on it. What is that flag? I asked. Oh, he answered sheepishly, that was the flag of Israel’s Department of Public Works, which maintains the highways and loves to display its own organizational flag. And I thought that Joe Casazza, the former commissioner of Boston’s Public Works Department, treated the department as his own dominion. At least, they never had their own flag.
April 17, 2007 at 12:52 am |
So, nu, how’s the felafel,fresh begelach, tomatoes & cucumbers!
April 18, 2007 at 4:22 am |
cant wait to hear about this adventure!
April 19, 2007 at 12:33 am |
Just put a piece of paper in a crevice of The Kotel with my name for Refuha Shleimah.
Avraham ben Gittel (in Yiddish) or Tova (in Hebrew). Don’t worry, the spirit of God reads several languages.
October 11, 2008 at 4:00 pm |
[...] Wilson’s argument doesn’t make much sense. Anybody who has ever walked around Tel Aviv can’t help to be struck to the multitude of progressive attitudes, causes, and ideas expressed. Israelis, to be sure, know first hand the realities of facing terrorism daily. But the overall Israeli political spectrum, if anything, is to the left of the American. This is a country, I would remind Wilson, founded on explicitly socialist roots with large and important state bureaucracies still in control of many aspects of life. [...]