B. de Bono

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Jun 12, 2012, 10:03 AM

Euro crisis? Not for us, thank you

"If Israel were in Spain's situation, Heaven forbid, no body or state would inject 100 billion euros to help us out." Such were the wise words of our finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, this week, just hours after Spain's banks were...

Apr 25, 2012, 11:32 AM

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64?

This week Israel celebrates its 64th birthday. What better time than now, to reflect on the words of the Declaration of the State, as read out by David Ben Gurion all those years ago: "THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be...

Apr 12, 2012, 12:10 PM

Is it just me, or are things getting better and better?

Why is this Pesach different? Is it? Well it's Pesach 5772, spring of 2012, and we should be out there celebrating. It's the spring holiday, the festive time of year when we eat dried sheets of cardboard and dream of chocolate...

Mar 29, 2012, 8:27 AM

The real reason why our electricity bills are going up

Yes, we’ve managed to get the cost of cottage cheese down. But power? Not bloody likely - we’ll have to wait for the next revolution for that one

Mar 14, 2012, 11:05 AM

Wondrous Combustion Engine, Hallowed Be Thy Name

As an elderly couple are walking along the street in Tel Aviv, they notice a parking space. The woman steps into the space, stands firmly in the center of it, spreads her arms wide, and says to her husband...

Mar 1, 2012, 1:38 PM

A great statesman, and why Israel doesn’t have one

Which is the 57th highest ranked university in the world? Of course, we can all rattle off the top 35, but then it begins to get harder, doesn’t it? Well, the 57th top university is in fact the Hebrew...

Feb 15, 2012, 11:23 AM

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side?

The infuriating pettiness of Israeli labor disputes

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About Me

B. de Bono (not his real pseudonym) is a critic, philosopher, altruist, wordsmith, pedant, cynic, piano-player and optimist. But none of that pays the mortgage. So he's also a civil engineer, an editor and translator. Originally from London, England, he now lives in Israel and loves to point out how even more wonderful the country could be if only, perchance, they would put a few things right.