Well, although I am thrilled about the first half of this headline, I am pretty tired about the second half. The title is from an article on Arutz Sheva:
The 5.4% GDP jump is a slightly lower rate than in the two previous quarters, but higher than government forecasts. The Central Bureau of Statistics further reported this [...]

A week ago on Shabbat, we were at a friend’s house for lunch. Chananya (14 months old) was playing with some little toy, not bothering anyone. Until a slightly older toddler (somewhere in the 2-3 year old range) saw that Chananya’s toy looked interesting, and as toddlers are wont to do, walked over and ripped [...]

A few minutes ago I saw in my stats (yeah, I can be a little bit obsessive about those sometimes) that someone tried to use the contact form to send me an email (around 8pm, Israel time). After not receiving any email, I checked my blog setup and discovered that the contact form was not [...]

Here’s a new piece of Israel-born ingenuity. From the creator of the Arrow defense missile, we now have…Arrow garbage recycling:
The idea sounded simple enough: to treat solid waste using water. But their point of origin, says Zadik, was revolutionary. “Europe was still considering how to treat segregated trash, and assumed they could teach the public [...]

So far, I have been outed (ie: identified by someone who I know in real life as being connected with this blog) by new friends and neighbors at a pretty fast pace. Each Shabbat (which is the only time when you have any real interactions with people beyond those who live on your street and [...]

I saw a response to my Taxes in Israel II post by “Kalashnikover_Rebbe” on Hashkafa.com:
I was actually almost in this situation (in the end I didn’t end up working so it was irrelevant). I would just “neglect to inform” the Israeli government about that income and pay the MUCH lower US taxes. But ideally I [...]

Like most places in Israel, there are lots of dogs where I live. Some are wild (there is suppossed to be a guy whose job it is to catch them and bring them to the pound) and some are “domesticated”, living in people’s houses. There seem to be lots of families with dogs here, and [...]

A month after we made aliyah and living on a yishuv with a baby (and thus dependent on the bus service) we felt that we really needed to get a car (spoiled Americans that we are). So we asked around among our neighbors and were given the recommendation to call M. M owns a car [...]

Over one year ago, I wrote a post titled Receiving a US-based Salary in Israel the Right Way, in which I detailed the ways in which I was addressing my tax situation as a US citizen living in Israel, working on contracts for US-based companies. Since then, my situation has changed. I am no longer [...]

See The Dollar Effect on Israel’s Real Estate Market:
For the first time in four years it looks like there is a reason for prices to drop in the attractive Israeli real estate market. The main culprit is the low dollar. Foreign buyers from the US may be deterred from buying due to the combination of [...]