Dateline Jerusalem — I was a Girl Scout. Our motto was, Be Prepared. The bus schedule from my home to Jerusalem has not changed in the last 2 1/2 years. I know it by heart. However, the good Girl Scout in me always checked the Egged bus site, and, as always, here were no changes in times or routes. The … Read More

[img]96|left|Shachar||no_popup[/img] Dateline Jerusalem — What can be more exciting than getting free gifts from the supermarket, just for doing regular shopping? Today at the market, when the checker put my check in the cash register, pieces of paper spewed out of the machine. It seems, I was entitled to free gifts. The store manager ran off to gather these goodies … Read More

Dateline Jerusalem — I am blessed to have wonderful friends.

Some have traveled to Israel to visit their relatives or see this beautiful country for the first time, but despite their busy schedules, they have made time to meet with me.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and safe holiday season.

Dateline Jerusalem — Winter has arrived. Thunder and lightning, torrential rains, and cable outage. That means no phone, no TV, no Internet, and the fear that I won't get my weekly column into my editor on time.

Dateline Jerusalem — Chanukah, a time of celebration in Israel, begins tonight.

Dateline Jerusalem — Morning rush hour to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is not unlike the mostly
stop-and-rarely-go traffic to Los Angeles or New York City.

Dateline Jerusalem — II often wonder if American attorneys working in the U.S. are being taken advantage of by those same American firms that outsource their work to American attorneys in Israel.

Dateline Jerusalem — It's been over two years, and I thought I had adjusted to the famous Israeli bureaucracy.

I was wrong.

Dateline Jerusalem — Two years, four months, two weeks, two days.

But who is counting?

Anyone taking bets on how long I would be staying in Israel would have lost their money.