Friday, May 19, 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Maccabi!
Tonight will be the final game of the European league final four, Maccabi Tel Aviv Vs. CSKA Moscow.
I'm not a big sports fan, but my father and brother got me into the European basketball league, espacially since we won two years straight, and now maybe for the third time?
Maccabi's stars are Will Solomon, Anthony Parker and Derrick Sharp. Occasionally they let an Israeli play. But all European teams are mixed like that, Americans, East Europeans and locals playing in the different teams, just like the NBA.
Europe's big on soccer, basketball isn't as popular. Countries that have a strong soccer league usually don't have good basketball teams, like Germany, France and the U.K. The only exception is Spain, that has 2 very strong teams (made it to the 3rd and 4th places this year).
I wish more people knew that kind of stuff about Israel, and not just the war-terrorism-things blowing up stuff. Anyways, wish us luck!
I'm not a big sports fan, but my father and brother got me into the European basketball league, espacially since we won two years straight, and now maybe for the third time?
Maccabi's stars are Will Solomon, Anthony Parker and Derrick Sharp. Occasionally they let an Israeli play. But all European teams are mixed like that, Americans, East Europeans and locals playing in the different teams, just like the NBA.
Europe's big on soccer, basketball isn't as popular. Countries that have a strong soccer league usually don't have good basketball teams, like Germany, France and the U.K. The only exception is Spain, that has 2 very strong teams (made it to the 3rd and 4th places this year).
I wish more people knew that kind of stuff about Israel, and not just the war-terrorism-things blowing up stuff. Anyways, wish us luck!
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Dahab attack + Holocaust memorial day
Today is Israel's national Holocaust Memorial Day. It means that restaurants and cinemas are closed for the day and there are only ceremonies and holocaust related movies on T.V.
The official ceremony last evening was interrupted by the news about the Dahab terrorist attack. Sinai and its beautiful beaches are to the common Israeli the cheapest and greatest vacation option. I myself haven't been there since 1999, but apparently many Israelis are not easily scared, just like this guy here, who survived the Nazis only to live in a Casino-less country.
The official ceremony last evening was interrupted by the news about the Dahab terrorist attack. Sinai and its beautiful beaches are to the common Israeli the cheapest and greatest vacation option. I myself haven't been there since 1999, but apparently many Israelis are not easily scared, just like this guy here, who survived the Nazis only to live in a Casino-less country.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Elections
The first time I voted I was in the middle of my military service, on May 1996, after the Rabin assasination.
I missed the 1999 elections, exactly 3 years later, because I was in the middle of my European trip, somewhere in Austria.
I did vote the next time, January 2003, in the middle of the second Intifada.
And now I get to vote again, on tuesday, the middle of next week.
It seems like the winnig party will be Kadima, the party created by Sharon just before he had his stroke. This means the PM will be Olmert, who was once the mayor of Jerusalem. I don't plan to vote for them, and anyways a week's a long time in my part of the world, anything can happen.
A taste of the campaigning can be found here (no, it's not porn).
I missed the 1999 elections, exactly 3 years later, because I was in the middle of my European trip, somewhere in Austria.
I did vote the next time, January 2003, in the middle of the second Intifada.
And now I get to vote again, on tuesday, the middle of next week.
It seems like the winnig party will be Kadima, the party created by Sharon just before he had his stroke. This means the PM will be Olmert, who was once the mayor of Jerusalem. I don't plan to vote for them, and anyways a week's a long time in my part of the world, anything can happen.
A taste of the campaigning can be found here (no, it's not porn).
