If I haven’t said it enough, I’ll say it again… I really REALLY hate the banking ‘system’ here. Let me start from the beginning… On Monday, my loving father decided to help me out and wire money to my Israeli bank account (so I could pay my tuition in Shekel at a locked in rate [...]

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While at work one day last week, and frequenting some of my favorite websites (Facebook, Gmail, Someecards, Economist- yea, for real, Haaretz, and Facebook-again) I came across an amazing deal on Daka90 to travel to Istanbul for a weekend. Daka90 is probably one of my favorite websites here. Basically, it’s only for Israelis (or people [...]

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Now this list has been a work in progress since I got to Israel, but I thought I would share the first (of many) top ten ways you know you are in Israel… (If you are easily offended, avoid reading #10, it was quite shocking to me as well.) 1. The concept of a ‘line’ [...]

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Now I don’t know what is with this country and passport pictures, but Israelis seem to be slightly infatuated with them. When I first began the inital process of making Aliyah (become and Israeli citizen and move to Israel), in addition to the 30 pages of documentation requesting permission to make Aliyah as well as [...]

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