This week saw the United States finally making public all the details of The Trump Plan for solving the Problem of Peace between Israel and the Palestinians. I’ll be writing about this some more in later pots, but this one is going to discuss just one part of that plan. It was a glaring omission … More Deal of the Century – Part 1
Before I retired I worked with computers. I had several jobs ranging from being a simple (or not so simple) programmer through being a project manager and finally a systems manager.Working with computers is not something strange to me. But I must confess that since I retired I have not really written any programs of … More Welcome Back to Hi-Tech
Whenever it is possible we like to have at least one evening a year when we take all our children, their spouses, and the older grandchildren out to a good local restaurant. Of course, an 80th birthday is a great excuse for when to do such thing. We knew our younger daughter would be in … More 80th Birthday – Part 2
It’s birthday week for me. The first part of the festivities was hosting a small celebration at the Jerusalem Scrabble Club. The above picture was taken from the club website. My wife arranged a small table of sandwiches, cut vegetables, and drinks (including wine). All our children plus some of their spouses and some of … More 80th Birthday – part 1
Every so often part of Israel, usually in the South, gets bombarded with some rockets fired by one Arab terrorist organization or another. In recent times, the Israeli Air Defense Command has been intercepting these rockets with the IRON DOME AA system. It is an amazing bit of technology. The control radar is able to … More I live in a Tough Neighborhood
I have not posted for a while. The reason is because We’ve been so busy. Today is the 7th day (out of 8) of Chanukah. It seems like nearly every day we were celebrating somewhere else. One day with our younger son and his family, another with our oldest daughter, etc. We also had a … More A Long Holiday – And More to Come
It was delightful, and lots of fun! No, this is not a review of that old Marx Brothers movie. It was funny. But this was a REAL night at a REAL Opera performance. We live a few miles South of Jerusalem. For many years there was no opera in Jerusalem. Even today, there really isn’t … More A Night at the Opera
The UN renewed the mandate for the UNRWA on 16 Nov,2019. What does that mean? It means that for the next three years there will be no action taken to change the status of about 5 and a half million people who are identified as “Palestinian refugees”. I’ve written about this before. I believe it … More UNRWA Mandate Renewed
I spent most of the day watching television. It was a very practical decision, Israeli missiles killed a leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza. In response, or so they said, that group launched over 150 rockets into Israel. Many were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. As of right now, … More A Day Watching the War
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