The other day I visited the showroom of a bamboo products' firm named "Kne Kash". It's a  spacious place located...

I didn't give much thought to the European Union (after all, I live in Asia, LOL) until the first significant crisis occurred - the ...

Sometimes you walk into a store and you're hit by some specific smell that might make you feel, even after a few moments,  quite un...

Meron is a village in northern Israel , near the town of Safed (Tzfat). It is famous for the tomb of Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai), ...

reactor 4 (web picture) Last month, on 26 of April, the world marked the 30 years anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986)...

Reaching the age of 100, is a common phenomenon in certain parts of the globe.  Among these places, named by researchers ' blu...

The lovely little square in the above picture has a french name displayed on it :  Saint Maur des Fosses. (If you enlarge the ph...

I like it in April; the cold of the winter is gone, the heat of the summer is not here yet ( except for a day or two of desert-like...

On Tuesday the 22 of March, I joined a one day guided tour to the Lower Galilee area, in the north of the country.  It included , among ot...

Apropo round shape (my previous post 'Rotunda'), and women (the Woman's Day celebrated on the 8th of March last week) :...

A new residential building has been erected at the junction of a main road with a side road. It's a circular building, and al...

front cover I have a small prayer book with prayers for every occasion and purpose. It has a fine genuine brown leather cover, which mak...

The daughter of an acquaintance  of mine has recently undergone nose cosmetic surgery. I feel sad about it and its result. I'm afraid s...

Historical place turned into a recreational spot. Nothing  wrong with that , especially that there's due respect given to history...