Haim Watzman I didn’t hear the “Re-Vo-Lu-Tion” chants that Gershom heard because I was unable to attend the demonstration Saturday night. Had I not been otherwise engaged, I would have attended, but I suspect that I would come home more meditative and less enthusiastic than my blog partner. Like Gershom, I’m delighted to see Israel’s [...]

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Gershom, I agree with the spirit of your Cause of Death post, but I think you’re over-idealizing Israel’s socialist past. Think back to those good old days, when the country was making makework for everyone. Remember getting shunted from one bureaucrat to another in grossly overstaffed government offices where everyone always seemed to be on [...]

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He was 48 years old, according to the brief items that appeared in the Hebrew press late last week (here , and here ). Yossi Danziger was the director-general of Polgat, a producer of wool fabric in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat. He died of a heart attack, shortly after the company did. [...]

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