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May 31, 2016, 9:51 PM

Living in a border community

Living in a border community: is staring at the gates surrounding the Moshav and especially the new ones build with shiny glittery barbed wire on top. is enjoying the best possible view with white sand dunes all bright in the sun and...

Oct 28, 2015, 12:22 PM

I know why it took Israel so long to bounce back this time…

Right in the first week of the terror attacks, when nobody even knew what was ahead, the Moshav where I lived had a "White Night" activity for the children in class Dalet. They spend all night outdoors, screaming, screeching...

Oct 19, 2015, 12:04 PM

Anti Semitism in Holland

Holland has a good wrap. People from my Moshav visited Holland and came back real enthusiastic. In general I am being approached positively when people hear I am from Holland. They think that the Dutch have been helping a...

Sep 7, 2015, 4:36 PM

A hard ass generation

Israelis are assertive. No doubt about that. Every single one. Dutch people, at least from the area that I am from, tend to be more passive aggressive . I do not particularly like that, I find it irritating and time-consuming,...

Aug 29, 2015, 1:12 AM

Before I came to Israel, I was quite full of myself. Not that I was the perfect mom or anything, but I had secure grip on how stuff would roll.. Or at least I thought I had. Never in...

Aug 22, 2015, 11:59 PM

Telling the kids

So there I was, so fresh of the plane that people could smell us a mile away. We arrived on 18 October 2012 in Ashkelon, and barely a month into our exciting new live, I found myself sitting down...

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About Me

Jolanda Turgeman is married and has three kids ( 6, 7 and 9 years ). She is not Jewish but her husband is. Together they lived in Holland for some 8 years through our marriage before deciding to move to Israel. Love for Israel first hand from a newbie with no historical ties to this magical country.