I voted this morning a bit after 10, so now I have time to speculate about what’s happening out in the country. To be clear – I have no access to any exit polls or opnion polls since Friday — which is good, because it’s illegal to publicise them even if I did. Those last polls showed […]
Category: Life in Israel
Sending Footnotes
Human interaction is constructed around texts. Sometimes these are central universally-accepted texts. In Ancient Greece the texts were the works of Homer. In Rome, they were Homer and Virgil. For much of the last two millennia, Europe and America’s text was the Bible. In Jewish communities, it was the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and the […]
The Israeli Public and a Strike on Iran
When I came to Israel nearly a year ago, there was intense speculation that an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was imminent. Working inside the Jewish community in the UK, we had lots of worries about a possible strike, Iranian retaliation and the political and security ramfications. British news, Israeli news, world news […]
Re-entry experiences on landing in the UK
I just landed in the UK for a few days and had two re-entry experiences in the course of leaving the airport. Default Languages Since moving to Israel I’ve tried to integrate with society and learn the language. This wasn’t easy, and after my first few months I realised that I’d have to do more. […]