In  Hebrew, the word 'balagan' means mess, chaos, disorder.  There's controversy about the word's origin (Russia? Turkey?....

The other day, I bought a few small items and got unpleasantly surprised by the price I had to pay.  It added to my gloomy mood I was in sin...

On  Sunday, we were told a storm named Barbara was on its way  from Greece to Israel, and will hit us on Monday morning.   In the meantime, ...

  I've always considered climate as an important factor that affects one's well-being and quality of life. (  long before the discus...

No bones, no skulls, no skeletons, no pottery, but silk and cotton . A few hundred pieces of exotic textile from 1300 years ago, has been ...

  One of the saddest things we witness in our third age is disappearance of familiar faces of friends, neighbors, acquaintences. Some die, s...

  Urban renewal is a widely discussed and controversial program. It is a process intended to improve specific areas of a city. There are sev...

I started the new year with  listening to some of Maria Callas' opera performances. Her voice was perhaps, not the greatest, but her sta...

                            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 ...