Life in Israel

One of our commenters here (Sir John? Mac? Tiger?) said something when the contraception brouhaha started along the lines of “Just watch. It is only a matter of time before faith-based schools simply drop student insurance altogether to get around having to comply with something that violates their faith.” Well that is, indeed, what has started to happen.

The first Catholic college to drop student health insurance coverage has emerged and you can bet more will follow. In getting rid of the health insurance and telling students they will be on their in terms of covering healthcare costs, the school cited More >

My new bank account manager is awesome. She is sweet, smart, and kind. She got my account utterly sorted and talked me into starting to put 100 sheks a month into a special savings account –if you don’t touch it for 6 months it earns more than twice the interest of the regular savings and if you leave it in for a year without touching it the rate is four times higher.

I told her I was worried about this summer when I have to pay the huge whack of moolah to the landlord (the year’s rent in advance). I More >

It was clear even before the media started reporting that police were afraid the rapist (and accomplices) had fled to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) that the attackers were Palestinian simply because the media did that politically correct thing of not giving a description of him. That is the big tip off.

The rape occurred when the school girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend entered the Gan Ha-Ir parking lot, where their car was parked, on Friday night. The attacker ambushed the two and threatened them with a knife, forcing them into a nearby public bathroom, where he forced them to More >

The Telegraph reports: BOMB disposal experts have carried out several controlled blasts after two alleged terrorists were arrested.

Police had earlier evacuated part of the British town of Cheltenham.

The local men, aged 52 and 31, were arrested over explosives offences in Friday raids on two locations in a quiet residential suburb of the spa town, which is also home to Britain’s national electronic surveillance centre.

Around 100 homes were evacuated overnight as counter-terror police investigated “items found in a garage” and the pair were then re-arrested on suspicion of preparing or instigating a terrorist act, police said.

Police warned residents to expect a More >

Awesome and inspiring. After doctors in Romania gave up and declared there was no chance to cure a local seven year old girl, her mother was advised to go to Israel to treat the rare genetic flaw, which prevented her daughter’s body from producing blood cells.

The gamble paid off and saved her daughter’s life, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

The mother of the ill child, only identified as B, lives with her family in a small Romanian village. After her second marriage she gave birth to a son who was ill with the same syndrome and died at age seven. After there More >