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Life in the Promised Land

A narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea and the Galilee Mountains, as tourist guidebooks define these areas. The Promised Land is an epithet familiar to millions of believers and ordinary people who are no strangers to the culture of the world. And finally, one of the youngest countries in the world, welcoming millions of people in its tiny space – including hundreds of thousands of our American-speaking compatriots. With the abolition of visas between America and Israel, the country is closer to us.

Thanks to Alexandra KARMAZINA for help in preparing this article

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Who they are, the ordinary Israelites?

61 years ago, the state was created specifically to be a home for every person who considers himself

by Jew. Let it be said straight away that in Israel, whose national flag bears the six-angled Star of David, to be Jewish does not simply mean to belong to the nation ethnically and have Semitic roots. The most important thing is to practice Judaism and observe the customs of that faith. The word “Jew” itself means “stranger,” and anyone who embraces this faith can “come” to their community. One of the notable examples in recent years is Madonna, the American megastar of Italian descent. In contrast, there are several thousand Bedouins in Israel, who are ethnically Semites but have converted to Islam and are observant of their customs and way of life. They are Israeli citizens, but no one would think of calling them Jews. In general, in Israel there are many Arabs, Ethiopians, Egyptians, and immigrants from all over the Old and New World, not necessarily being full-blooded Jews – there are actually few of them. The term “emigrant” is not common in Israel, you hear the word “repatriate” which means “returning to your homeland” much more often.

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My house is my fortress… with a marble floor

“Welcome to Tel Aviv. Our plane landed at Ben Gurion airport, the temperature was 35 degrees overboard…”. Even in winter, for example in December, the daytime temperature often rises above 25 degrees – and one is tempted to remember that “our northern summer – a caricature of southern winters. This makes it necessary for residents, firstly, to somehow protect themselves from the heat, and secondly, of course, to “tame” the sun’s energy. In addition to air conditioning, which is commonplace here, the stone flooring is a normal thing in an Israeli home, so it saves us from the heat. In the summer and summer is all that is not winter, which is 9 months a year it cools the room, in addition, to wash it – one pleasure. You can just pour water on it and with a special rubber mop to direct it to “outlets” – drains, usually provided in each room. By the way, a complete room in an Israeli apartment is considered a bedroom. What in Tel Aviv, Ashdod or Netanya is called a “salon”, and is considered… half a room. So don’t be surprised to hear that the apartment has three and a half rooms: that means a living room and three bedrooms. Most apartments are equipped with solar water heaters – they are responsible for hot water in the apartment.

Apartments are usually designed in such a way that windows overlook if not “all four sides,” then at least two to three sides. Windows in the bathroom and the restroom are also the norm, since there is no other ventilation in the houses. It’s the Israeli way to make a draught in the apartment. However, drafts can be controlled: the windows are equipped with sliding frames with glass and shutters-jalousie. Thus, there are different configurations of opening and closing windows: you can close only the glazed frames most often this is done in the rain , you can – only the blinds then the room will be dark, but through the cracks can penetrate the air , you can – both for heat. By the way, there is no heating in the houses.

Most repatriate families rent: it’s expensive, but few can afford to buy an apartment. Payment is made in accordance with the contract of hire by bank transfer: the money is automatically taken from the client’s account. Renting a two or three room apartment in the suburbs of Tel Aviv costs 2.5-3 thousand shekels, which is a little less than a thousand dollars, and is usually less than the average wage. By the way, after each aggravation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, housing prices in and around the capital go up, as many of the country’s residents who rent, at such times, move away from the dangerous areas.

We rest – we drink water?
Israel is a desert

More than half of the country is covered by deserts, the largest of which is the Negev translated as “dry” . No wonder that one of the most precious resources is fresh water. In neighboring countries the situation is not better, so Israel also supplies water to Jordan and Palestine. The region’s water supply depends heavily on precipitation, but the statistics of recent years are not so good: many of the region’s main water sources are starting to dry up, including Israel’s crown jewel, Lake Kinneret. The Israelis use water extremely sparingly: Different sources give the figure from 80 to 130 liters per day per person. By European, and even more so by American standards, these figures are very modest: U.S. residents are 4-5 times more wasteful! Lean in action can be appreciated in city parks and just on the streets, where each tree is connected to a tube of water, which is supplied drop by drop directly to the roots. Agricultural crops are also irrigated this way, there is hardly any irrigation. Computer control of the system allows you to take into account the time of day, type of soil, angle of slope of the site and much more! The purity of the water supply is monitored with particular care: if just one hole in the tube becomes blocked, the plant will die! Drip-root irrigation system – Israel’s know-how – is recognized as the most economical and efficient in the world.

Strategic freshwater reserves are located in the north of the country, including the famous Golan Heights, which are periodically claimed by neighbors. Here are the sources of the Jordan and the Kinneret and from there water is pumped to the Sapir pumping station and then to Israel’s single water pipeline that brings water from the north to the south, all the way to the Negev. Desalinated seawater is also used in the south, for example in the resort town of Eilat on the Red Sea, where it has become a lifeline for residents and tourists.

The desalination process is technically complicated and expensive, so it is not used much in the country, but it is still an alternative in case of serious fresh water problems. And these can come for many reasons: in addition to the drying up of the main surface sources, there is also a threat of failure of underground sources – the main for Israel. The coastal aquifer stretching from the Mediterranean to the Judean mountains provides about 500 million cubic meters of water per year.

It is replenished by both natural rainwater runoff and reclamation measures, such as redirecting floodwaters. The aquifer is in constant danger: its proximity to the sea creates the risk of seawater outbursts and mismanagement of water resources by the economy or more precisely, the! Human activity threatens chemical and household contamination. The “water” issue is regularly considered at the governmental level, but “we meet and we pour water” – this is not about the Israelis. Perhaps that is why Israel is the only country in the world where the area occupied by the desert is not expanding, but is actively reducing.

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Ancient and young

There is an Israeli saying: “Tel Aviv entertains, Jerusalem prays and Haifa works”. Indeed, each large city is very different and unlike any other. Most large cities have centuries and even thousands of years of history, but almost all cities have been rebuilt since the creation of the nation in 1948.

Jerusalem, the first capital of the state of Israel, the “Asian Rome” – is still the country’s largest cultural center. The city is divided into the actual historical part – the “old city” and the usual residential areas. In the old city there is a clear division into zones-neighborhoods where Jews, Muslims, Christians live separately.

Unfortunately, clashes often occur between them and in general reigns a “bad peace”, which, of course, is better than a good quarrel, but nevertheless… A tourist who finds himself in the Old Town without a guide may very easily get lost, even with a detailed map. Streets, passages, stairs, arches – everything is so intricate and intertwined, and historical places are incredibly close to the houses in which people live: you step out of a religious building and one meter above your head you can see laundry drying in the sun..

Asking the locals for help in English, American or even Hebrew, a tourist who gets lost may not be met with understanding – on the contrary, he may be seen as an unwelcome stranger.

The same close interweaving of history and a lively human life can be seen in Jaffa, the ancient Arab port city on the Mediterranean Sea, next to where Tel Aviv grew up today. It gets a little uncomfortable when you walk in the evening through narrow corridors and galleries you wouldn’t call them streets, because in many places they are also “covered” with stone arches , and you can touch the iron door of a Christian monastery and – after several meters – hear the sounds of a popular TV show coming from the nearest window. Yes, people live there, in the evening they watch TV and go to bed – it seems right in the middle of the museum of antiquity.

And Tel Aviv itself, which, as the Israelis say, “never sleeps? As any capital city, it is not characterized by smooth transitions from the glitz and glamour to dirt and very modest way of life. Expensive housing, expensive stores, cheap especially on Fridays! Market, beautiful promenade, great hotels, beaches, and, alas, thieves watching carefully for the things of careless citizens and tourists… If you need to get from Tel Aviv by car to the neighboring suburbs – Ramatgan, Petach Tikva, Bat Yam, Holon and others, it is very difficult to determine where one city ends and another begins. Often a large street connecting them runs through nearby towns, such as the famous Jabotinsky Street..

Kibbutz: there is communism on every shelf
Israel the mountains

This is what a famous American satirist writer once said about Western supermarkets, but perhaps he had not yet seen an Israeli kibbutz. The word “kibbutz” means “group”, and kibbutzim are agricultural communes where all property and profits are shared, where there is no hired labor. The first kibbutzim were organized by immigrant Jews who came to Eretz Israel in the early 20th century.

They were inspired by the idea of the revival of the people in their historic homeland and the moral precepts of the biblical prophets. But they were spurred on by poverty, unemployment, bad natural conditions, diseases – malaria, mostly – and the aggressiveness of the neighbors. Without mutual assistance, it would be simply impossible to survive.

The history of kibbutz creation in Israel is worthy of a book, not even an article, and modern kibbutz researchers call it a “distant relative of the collective farm” and “a model of alternative socialism”. Almost all of the country’s agricultural workers live in kibbutzim and similar moshavim characterized by private, rather than cooperative, production, as in kibbutzim .

Each kibbutz has a council for all affairs, a treasurer, coordinators of labor and self-government, a secretary, and various committees – for culture, defense, labor, health, social affairs, and so on. The entire population is engaged in groups, each with their own area of responsibility: e.g., feeding, shopping, raising children, poultry, dairy, farming, repairing, etc.d.

One of the “commandments” of the community is the constant expansion and development of the business, and now many of them are exploring a new direction: the hotel business. It is not uncommon at kibbutzim for people from the cities to go there to live and work – the experience gained there proves invaluable: the school of building relationships with people, the direct dependence on the results of one’s work, the ability to reckon with the opinions of others – the gold reserve of kibbutzim.

Young people and women often go there in the hope of finding marital happiness: here people are always close to one another and one can see exactly what each person is like.

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Kashrut and appliances

Kashrut means “fit for purpose” in Hebrew. Kashrut is also called a code of rules, which are given to man by the Creator according to Jewish understanding. It is not obligatory to understand these rules – the main thing is to observe them sacredly. A full summary of what is kosher and what is non-kosher can be found in Jewish educational books and websites. But it is interesting to look at white goods from a kashrut perspective.

Ideally, a house should have two kitchens: one for cooking meat and one for preparing dairy. This means 2 refrigerators, 2 ovens, 2 microwave ovens and 2 dishwashers, and of course different dishes and towels. In areas traditionally inhabited by religious families, apartments are designed, if not always with two kitchens, then certainly with two sinks.

But the ideal is not always attainable, so with some precautions one can achieve kosher from one refrigerator, one oven, etc.d. So, the kosher refrigerator. In the world of kashrut you can’t mix dairy and meat products – you can’t “boil a goat in its mother’s milk”. A break of at least six hours between meals of milk and meat. For the same reason, in a kosher refrigerator, meat and dairy products should not touch each other, “dripping on each other”.

In a regular refrigerator, there should be at least different areas and shelves for these foods. If trouble has occurred, kashrut recommends seeking help and advice “from an experienced, knowledgeable person” who will explain the procedure for restoring harmony. A kosher microwave oven should be used primarily for one kind of food – either meat or milk. If the oven is used mainly for meat, dairy and neutral foods can be cooked or reheated in the same oven, wrapped in a double layer of paper.

A dishwasher can be considered kosher if it is only used for dishes from meat or only dairy products.

All kitchens and appliances require special treatment and observance of certain rituals before the coming of the spring holiday of Pesach. This preparation is called koshering. This is not an easy matter and requires care and patience. The fact is that on Passover, the holy Torah book of the Jews forbids eating leavened – any products made from wheat, rye, barley, oats or spelt that have come into contact with water or other liquid.

By the way, it is forbidden not only to eat, but also to have such products in the house. These are bread, porridge, pastries and confectionery, whiskey, beer, vodka, and any products containing even a drop of leavened. That’s why all the everyday utensils are removed before the holiday, and replaced with special Easter dishes. Tables and all surfaces need to be cleaned from the remains of the forbidden food and covered with foil. Do the same with the refrigerator defrosting and washing it first , and the oven and stove must also be washed and covered with paper or foil.

Faucets, sinks and faucet plugs and all dishes need koshering. However, difficulties do not frighten the present Jews, after all they consider that exactly this strict observance of kashrut helped them to keep themselves as people, despite the centuries-old detachment of different communities from each other and scattering on the world.

Shabbat

The Sabbath and dancing was a wonderful day

On the sixth day of the week, the Sabbath, one must rest. The Sabbath begins on Friday at sunset or 18 minutes before, to be exact and life in the Jewish state seems to stop. The stores, cafes and all institutions are closed, and the doors of synagogues are opened, and it’s time for rest, fellowship with one another and prayer.

The streets are empty on the Sabbath, people tend to be with their families, folk songs are sung through the windows, and the elderly gather in the parks and squares for talks, games, or just to sit on the bench.

Believing men wear “white robes” – special cloaks – for God to see. It is known that on the Sabbath it is forbidden to work, or rather to engage in creative work. What is interesting – this includes lighting the lights in houses, driving cars, doing business, and writing letters… In neighborhoods where especially religious families live, non-Jews are specially hired to work on the Sabbath – for example, elevators: pushing the elevator button is also labor.

And even more recently in Israel was very widespread semi-underground struggle with those who do not observe Shabbat. For example, the cars of people who did not refuse to drive on the Sabbath suffered. There is more tolerance in this respect now, but on the Sabbath it is still difficult to buy even the most basic products – unless one goes to an Arab store that is open on the Sabbath, which is certainly not acceptable according to local standards.

One of the capital’s world-famous landmarks – the Saturday dance on the Gordon Mediterranean promenade near the Renaissance Hotel in Tel Aviv. It is an amazing by its energy spectacle and action, the participant of which can become any passerby. More than a hundred people dance to Israeli folk and popular music in the open area at the same time. Among the dancers there are folk-dance instructors rikudey-am who teach their art to all comers on Saturdays.

Every hour there are more and more dancers, and the square becomes one big dance floor. There’s no couples dancing, everyone’s on their own and at the same time in unity with everyone else. There’s no age here – eighty-something gray-haired grandmas and grandpas, children, young people, and forty-somethings dance. Here every Sabbath is Equal Opportunity Day, bringing in people with disabilities to dance. In exactly the same way though not on Shabbat , people dance during breaks at schools, colleges and institutes. Rest and joy, a feeling of unity and self-individuality are worth seeing and trying!

You lost a day if you overslept

The Sabbath ends and the country wakes up early on Sunday the beginning of a six-day work week : the workday begins at seven in the morning in most establishments. In a hot climate, such an early start to the work day is very relevant: after all, employees exhausted by the heat, which sets in the summertime already at 8 am – not the best way to increase productivity.

Very many enterprises organize the transportation of their employees to the place of work and take them home after work in the same way. The main thing is not to oversleep, and to be at a certain place at a certain time, because the driver will not wait for a delayed employee. This is why the American formula of “oversleeping is late” does not work. In Israeli, it’s like this: you overslept, you didn’t make it. After all, many businesses are located in areas that are almost impossible to reach by public transport. And if you didn’t get in, you didn’t earn it.

But the working day ends rather early, at 15-16 o’clock. The Mediterranean siesta is not customary here, but such an early end to the working day gives an opportunity to relax, be with family, get some additional education.

Rush, rush, buy..

Shopping in Israel – a rather peculiar phenomenon. It’s enough to visit the big Oriental market once to get confused, what are the feelings more – delight from choice of fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts and other delicacies, prices low by American standards for example, 5 kg of wonderful mandarins for $1 or horror from mud under feet and wild shouts of traders – Israelis are very “loud” people.

The hottest time to shop at the market is Friday afternoon. When the sun goes down, the Sabbath begins, and trading can be resumed only on Sunday morning, which means that you have to sell out all the goods. But the main thing that strikes any imagination is a tractor with a big shovel that appears in the market every time before closing time. It rides slowly between the aisles and counters, mercilessly dumping all the unsold goods of the day on the floor, and sometimes sweeping magnificent oranges, pomegranates and apples off the lawn.

Every morning the products must be the freshest, and the fact that “there is only one freshness – the first and the only one” is vividly demonstrated to the customers. For the unprepared person, the temptation to snatch a great fruit or vegetable from this pile is very great. By the way, this is not forbidden, and many people who are in a tight financial situation take advantage of such an opportunity. Many repatriates from the former Soviet Union have also gone through it. Humiliating – but free.

In the stores they do not throw anything away, but organize “3+1” or “2=3” actions. The simple arithmetic of discounts makes it possible to buy goods in small bulk.

In Israel, large stores, called “hypermarkets”, are called “canyons”. The obligatory presence of a American-speaking salesperson in each of the departments and stores in the canyon is a necessity for efficient commerce – Americans leave the most money in the stores.

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OBJ in Israeli

The state pays great attention to security issues. Prosperity and relatively low crime rates are unpleasantly combined with “life on a volcano” and a semi-military situation. No store or public place may be entered without a bag open to security. “Thank you for understanding,” I was told in only one place. Twenty others haven’t even thought about it, it’s just a routine job. Everyone is sympathetic.

For us, a wife welcoming her husband in a gas mask is an anecdote, but in Israel even this was possible only a couple of years ago. All citizens were supposed to have gas masks, and since this means of personal protection had an expiration date, one also had to get a new one regularly.

Each house has a bomb shelter, which is regularly tested for “professional suitability. In some of the newer apartment complexes, the shelter is designed so that it’s right inside the apartment: a special room where the whole family must go in case of danger. This room borders with similar shelters in other apartments in the entrance hall, and together they form a kind of pillar, which has a good chance of survival in case of danger and from which there is independent access to the street.

Another danger is the threat of earthquakes. Israel is located very close to the famous Syrian-African Rift, in an earthquake-prone zone. The houses in such areas are built with special technology, designed to provide the best seismic resistance. The easiest way – do not build multi-storey houses, to minimize the risk of “chain” destruction of multi-storey houses. That’s why apartment buildings are mostly small towers and “boxes” – with 1-2 entrances. “Chicken legs” are also a hallmark of Israeli urban architecture and are also needed for building stability.

The driver is a friend of the pedestrian

After spending a couple of weeks in Israel and coming back to America, you run the risk of being hit by a car. In Israel you get used to not running a red light and crossing the street only on foot. But at the same time you get used to the fact that at pedestrian crossings without a traffic light, drivers always stop in front of the zebra and let pedestrians cross. And the point here is not so much the instinct of self-preservation and culture, as in the state policy aimed at the strict observance of traffic rules by all its participants. Most crosswalk lights are equipped with audible signals for the blind and visually impaired. Roads in built-up areas are designed and built in such a way that they force drivers to slow down as much as possible. All kinds of “islands” are made for this purpose – large and small, round and triangular, at intersections and beyond – the roads gently round them, and drivers simply have to constantly slow down. But even on a perfectly straight road, no one “flies” and does not forget that he was once a pedestrian – the fines for violations are so high, and the responsibility for damage to health is so heavy that the desire to “speed” disappears. For example, having a mark in the license about serious violations of traffic rules one loses his chances for promotion and a prestigious job. By the way, very strict requirements to the work of a driver in Israel, including cab drivers: a lot of tests for psychological stability, health status, and availability of appropriate rights. And a minibus driver will never take a passenger if all seats are occupied. By the way, in minibuses, the size exceeds our traditional passenger “gazelle”, the seats themselves are smaller – for example, on the sides of the cabin seats are in one row, and no one goes back to the traffic and facing the other passengers – it’s dangerous. It was partly because of this reckless attitude towards traffic safety that the Israelis were shocked to hear about a major car crash near Eilat in December 2008.

“Alti zache! Alti zache!”

These legendary Yiddish shouts are heard less and less frequently in the streets, but still junk people and their big carts go through the towns picking up, taking away, and sometimes even buying for next to nothing, old things…. Appliances, clothing, furniture that have ended up in carts full of junk are destined to become second-hand items in the remaining hot spots in the Arab territories, where large numbers of people live, alas, below the poverty line… Machines and furniture are repaired, “rebuilt” and sold wherever they are found – even in this kind of! – a pressing need.

In general, in order to get rid of unnecessary furniture and equipment, it is enough to put it in specially designated places right on the street. Every few days a car arrives to pick up your goods, unless of course someone else needs them first. But not everyone drags their bulky trash to these places, so walking down the street, you can easily stumble right on the sidewalk on … a vacuum cleaner without a hose, a washing machine with a broken door or … TV “Rubin”, apparently thrown out by repatriates no longer miss America.

The Israelis treat the collection of household trash more responsibly: there are special containers for paper and, unfortunately, rather ugly “cages” for plastic bottles. Some towns began installing special garbage cans at the ends of residential buildings so as not to spoil the appearance of the streets, and stores and other public places have machines for taking glass and plastic bottles and tin cans. Recyclable garbage is either buried in the Negev desert in the south or taken to common landfills, of which we have much in common: this is an ecological problem that has not yet been solved.

Israel Cats

Murziki and Tuziki

After losing her beloved dog, a dachshund, who had lived with the family for many years, my Israeli friend felt the need to get a new four-legged friend. But she did not want to buy a purebred dog – she decided to take in an animal who would come up to her on the street. A simple task by American standards was almost impossible a couple of years ago unfortunately now, in the crisis there are stray dogs on the streets of Israeli cities . We had to go to the shelter for homeless animals, where a special service delivers strays picked up on the street. Animals brought to the shelters are neutered and treated, but unfortunately they can only stay there for a certain period of time, and if they are unable to change their fate in that time, their lot is not secure. In general, however, dogs are mostly in the families of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, the natives for the most part do not go for it. To walk your pet with a dustpan and a bag and to clean up after it – the norm of public behavior in Israel, which, incidentally, very easily get used to and our former compatriots. If we talk about the services of a veterinarian, most often the animal is bought a year’s subscription to the clinic. For example, for 600 shekels a year you can get all vaccinations, 4 preventive courses against parasites, and get a permanent discount on all the products at the clinic. For comparison: a one-time examination of the animal in the same clinic costs 150 shekels. In summertime animals are given short haircuts, because otherwise they have a hard time!

Who in Israel “pond” – so it’s wild and homeless cats. A cat is considered if not a sacred animal, like in neighboring Egypt in ancient times, then a God-pleasing and useful one: just remember the Old Testament myth of the Flood and Noah’s Ark: it was a cat that saved the legendary ship from destruction because it plugged the hole gnawed by a mouse with its tail. True, such a reputation does not help the Israeli murky cats: it is forbidden to feed them on the streets. This, of course, does not stop some compassionate grandmothers, most often immigrants from America and the Soviet Union. Interestingly, the cats in the country are clearly divided into two branches: the local – Egyptian-Mediterranean completely untamed and do not understand the “kitty, kitty, kitty” little beasts of evil, and the descendants of the badgers, brought by repatriates from Eastern Europe. In street battles, ours wins – they support each other, and the locals – “every man for himself.

Did you know that ..

In a country with very few resources of its own, they try to save everything, especially water and electricity. For example, in stairwells and floors, the light automatically turns off after a minute. The scheme is this: you go up the stairs, turn on the light, and while you’re waiting for the elevator, for instance, it’s on. As a rule, a minute is enough for this purpose, and if not enough, you will have to press the switch again.

For an Israeli, the first floor is the second floor. Even in elevators, the button “1” means the first floor above ground, and the first floor, as we understand it, is designated by a letter whose name means “ground. Therefore, the Israelis explain to their American friends and relatives which floor they live on, roughly as follows: “I live on the second floor above” – to avoid confusion.

Shabbat is a concept adopted not only for weeks, but also for years. Every seventh year is the Sabbath year, and this means that the land must rest in that year, as well as the farmers, whose duty in that year includes intensified Torah study. In this regard, this year in Israel they do not cultivate the land, do not grow crops, fruits and vegetables – only care for the trees. For this reason every seven years prices on products “skyrocket” in the country – because they have to buy them abroad.

juicer

The most common item of household equipment in the canyons, on the beaches and just on the streets – the juicer – a hand press, with which to make freshly squeezed juices from carrots, citrus fruits and pomegranates in a minute. A healthy alternative to fast food: 0.4 liter of juice replaces lunch in hot weather, and costs about 20 shekels – a little over 100 Dollars.

In Israel, the cell phone is called… a pelephone. This has been the custom since the widespread introduction of cell phones into the masses, and because of the primacy in this area of the mobile operator with this name. “Call me back on the phone,” “where’s the charger for the phone??”You hear these phrases all the time in everyday conversation.

The traditional computer sign “@”, which we call “doggy,” and less frequently “frog,” in Israel is called “strudel,” or, to be precise, “strudel” – after the name of the national dish.

“What’s up, Rabinovich??”

– “Don’t wait for it!”

In Israel, advanced medicine and good life expectancy. At the same time, drugs are quite expensive, but if the drug is prescribed by a doctor, and you have a prescription, in the pharmacy will only have to pay 10% of the cost. Here’s an “overheard” in a pharmacy dialogue American tourist and pharmacist:

– And what do you drink for a headache??

– That is to say? – The girl in the white coat doesn’t understand.

– Well, we have analgin, paracetamol – and you have what?

The pharmacist makes a stern face:

– You can’t do that! We have to determine the cause of the pain, and there are different kinds of pain. What your doctor says?

As a rule, medicine is not bought just to quickly relieve the disturbing symptoms – self-medication is not encouraged at the state level and is punished by the ruble, that is, excuse me, a shekel.

In the big “superfarms” – stores that connect the cosmetics, perfume, and pharmacy departments – the employee at the entrance will ask you: “Are you going to the pharmacy??”And it’s not about curiosity, it’s about the fact that he can fax a prescription to a pharmacist, and when you get to the pharmacy department, the medicine will be found and ready to go.

In Israel, the practice of nursing homes is very well developed. Elderly People in Need of Constant Medical Observation and Care Find a New Home in Nursing Homes. In terms of comfort level they are, of course, different. One thing in common – they help people not just to live to the fullest but to extend life and improve its quality. For example, if a non-walking patient has difficulty seeing or hearing, and it can be corrected, then the patient must undergo surgery to make available to him simple human pleasures such as books, radio, and just simple communication. Payment for an elderly person’s stay in a boarding school is partly assumed by the state: the payment is a pension, and the rest is almost always state subsidy.

Much is being done at the state level to promote sports and healthy lifestyles. Currently the country is overwhelmed by the fashion for fitness, and now, in the midst of the crisis, not just sports grounds began to appear on the streets, but real gyms in the open air: on embankments, beaches and parks. They are free to enter: you can enter and work out during the walk, if you wish! And this people do not lack a desire to live and be healthy, and we would like to wish them the same zest for life, as we wish our dear compatriots!

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Comments: 3
  1. Sage

    I’m curious to know what makes life in the Promised Land so different and special? Can anyone share their personal experiences of living there and how it has impacted their daily lives? Do you feel a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose in the Promised Land compared to other places? How do the people and culture contribute to this unique way of life?

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    1. Cambria

      Living in the Promised Land, for many, is a truly transformative experience. The sense of fulfillment and purpose one finds here stems from various factors. Firstly, the Promised Land is often a place where dreams can come true, with ample opportunities for personal growth and success. The people who reside here are ambitious and forward-thinking, creating a culture that encourages innovation and hard work. This environment fosters a sense of determination and inspiration, motivating individuals to strive for greatness. Additionally, the melting pot of cultures and ideas in the Promised Land fosters an open and accepting society, where diversity is celebrated. This acceptance and diversity contribute to a unique way of life, promoting collaboration and tolerance. Overall, living in the Promised Land offers a vibrant and dynamic atmosphere, where individuals can truly thrive and make a positive impact, ultimately enhancing their daily lives.

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  2. Aria Coleman

    What are some challenges and opportunities that people encounter while living in the Promised Land, and how does it affect their overall sense of fulfillment and happiness?

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