Bracha               My mother Bracha ('bracha'  means blessing in hebrew, and she was indeed a blessing...

  So far, the weather here is fine; so I get a little depressed when I read in your blogs about snow and freezing cold. Luckily, the descrip...

On the 22 of November, dozens of packages containing many kilograms of drugs washed up on the beaches of the Mediterranean,  from northern I...

  I believe in ice therapy. Ice reduces pain and swelling, prevents inflammation after a fall, and might cancel the need to go to the ER. I ...

  Naming and renaming  of streets is quite a vast subject! I wasn't aware of that till recently when we were faced with a 'hot' ...

On the 1st of November we had general elections (five rounds of voting  in three and a half years!!). Nothing to write home about. As expect...

The other day, I was reading  about a  new supplement  named 'StayIn' (stay in), introduced by the  israeli startup company Biomind ...

                                                            mineral water I wrote  in the past about 'turkish delight' - food/bevera...

Several years ago, I wrote a post about a  cafe in my hometown - a small place specializing in coffee brands and selling  a variety of pastr...

  I'm taking a break from blogging to welcome our High Holidays : New Year (Rosh Hashanah), The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). These are...

  The above idiom means that everyone gets eventually a chance to be successful at something,  sometimes, in his/her life. The phrase even a...

S tarting with May next year, there will be some new visa regulations for  those who intend to visit countries of the E uropean Union. There...

  It once used to be solely a matter of raising the salary, with or without a preceding strike. Not anymore. Workers have additional (justif...

  The other day, I had to  do a few things in a neighboring town. Before returning home, I took a stroll along its main street. My eyes caug...

There are certain people among us (fortunetellers, magicians, illusionists, mentalists)  who claim to have special powers. Many years ago, o...