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The Meter is Broken

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

If you are looking to part on the side of a street in Jerusalem, there are four different options:

Parking is illegal (signified by a red circle side with a diagonal blue line running through it and/or red and yellow stripes painted on the curb)
Parking is legal…but you have to pay (signified by black and blu [...]

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Mincha in Aisle Six

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

On my way back from Yerushalayim this afternoon, I stopped in the local supermarket (Rami Levi at Shaar Binyamin). The main reason was to get some pizza for dinner (they have a small take-out pizza place right there, with the cheapest pizza in the area by far - 24 shekel for a pie with toppings [...]

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