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A peephole into the south of Israel

Abi Goodman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:52:27 +0000

You’re walking down the street, you’ve just left the Dizengoff centre to walk the five minutes to your apartment. It’s a Thursday afternoon, the shopping centre is packed with people coming to taste the array of food at the market and doing their weekend shopping. People crowd the pavements and buses and cars jam the [...]

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Making aliyah or moving to Israel?

Abi Goodman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:41:27 +0000

In 2011 over 21,000 Jews made aliyah. 21,000. I’m not one of those people who can look at a number and see the number standing in a room in the form of people so I don’t really know what that means but I know it’s a lot. 21,000 x me. So when 21,000 people are [...]

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Past, present and future

Abi Goodman — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:48:10 +0000

Today I was truly humbled by an ulpan classmate of mine. She isn’t a typical ulpanist – young, noisy, partying every night, struggling to keep her eyes open in class. Her name is Eva and she turned 95 a couple of weeks ago. She already speaks 7 languages and is learning Hebrew with us. In [...]

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