Live long and Prosper

 For an 80-year-old in Israel today, the remaining life expectancy from the latest mortality tables is about 9.2 years for men and 10.4 years for women - so the average 80-year-old man reaches roughly 89, and a woman about 90. Put another way, total life expectancy at age 80 in Israel is about 89.9 years, well above the figure calculated from birth, precisely because you've already survived all the earlier mortality risks.

Rising Power

Russia, China, and North Korea leaders are meeting in Peking. These are disciplined people, the wives standing firm in the background.  Impressive. North Korea is selling weapons and prospering. 

NBA

 

New York won the NBA championship. 

Hawara

Hawara is an Arab village in Northern Samaria. The main road passed in the middle. I felt uneasy each time I travelled to Alon Moreh. Two acquaintances were murdered in that village. The government built a bypass road, a "solution". Now, a group of Jewish youngsters made their presence felt in that place of evil. 

In the Bible, "places of evil" encompass both actual historical cities associated with extreme wickedness and symbolic, spiritual realms representing cosmic darkness.

Origins

My mother's grandfather. I don't know for sure if the younger man is his son or what. They were a very religious family.

The grandfather of my father was also very religious, but no picture remains.

The Bund

 
The shit-wipe New York Times is resurrecting the BUND, a Jewish anti-Zionist party in Russia and Poland that was totally wiped out in the Holocaust. It was a national-communist mass movement, based on the idea that Jews had lived for centuries in those lands and would continue to do so in the future. The problem was that non-Jewish communists rejected all contact with the Bund, and Joseph Stalin wrote a booklet on the correct Bolshevik nationality policy, dedicating many pages to the analysis of the Bund. When Lenin and his faction took over Russia, they erased the Bund as counter-revolutionary. But in Poland, it survived till the Nazi conquest, which ended all illusions of worker-class solidarity, of common ground with the host nation's workers against the invader.

History demonstrated that the sole viable solution to the Jewish masses in Poland was emigration. To Palestine of the Turkish Sultanate, to America, to South Africa, to Shanghai, to anywhere. Which about half did. The optimist, Bundist half, did not and was killed in situ. 

Now, the NYT is promoting the long-dead Bundist ideology.   

Tel Aviv Stocks Oscillating

 
TEVA and TOWER are heavy stocks in the local market, and, surprisingly, they are rising 5% one day and falling 5% the next day. Smaller stocks oscillate even more. Something is happening.