Overweight Jackals

 Tel Aviv and its surrounding areas are seeing a proliferation of wild fat jackals. The animals smell a barbecue and come in from miles away to feast. They also feed in open garbage bins. Jackals are expert hunters of rats and birds, but ours are lazy and overweight. They are known to make loud, high-pitched wailing howls. My auntie, who lived in Palestine before independence, told me about the frightening, outworldy midnight howling jakals on the streets. But I never heard them.