Shura will decide

 

Tomorrow will be the vote in the Knesset about the dissolution of the government. If the Ra'am Islamic party decides so, the Bennet government falls. Ra'am has convoked consultations (Shura in Arabic) and they will decide the fate of Israel. Presumably, millions will flow into the pockets of the Beduin leadership and Bennet will have a respite.  

Life expectancy

 

According to the US Social Security calculator, I have 11.6 years to live. According to John Hancock Insurance, I'll die at 97.  I'll look like this fellow Hungarian Jewish refugee. Not nice. 

Anyway, I have to work out a quinquennial plan. 

Discovering the Pokemon Universe

 

Arbel has a big Pokemon cards album and demonstrated to me what each critter does. Could you believe that this superannuated grandpa had never heard of the Pokemon universe?  Springtime for the always-learning saba J. 

A Fresh Face in the White House

The new American Press Secretary is a very nice Haitian lesbian.  
 

A New Calamity

 The environmental craziness has found another way of stopping development. From The Economist:

Nutrient neutrality came suddenly to Herefordshire, a pretty corner of western England, in 2019. “We had no warning. We just got a letter in the post,” says Merry Albright of Border Oak, a local house-builder. Like others, Ms Albright quickly discovered that she could no longer obtain permission to build homes across two-fifths of the county. She now travels across England, as far as Essex in the south-east, to seek work.

The rules that have paralyzed house-building in Herefordshire are designed to protect rivers and wetlands. Nutrient neutrality means that no development likely to draw people to an area, from a new home to a campsite, can be approved if it will result in more nitrates or phosphates entering a protected river. That is a severe limitation, since water-treatment plants do not remove all pollutants before discharging into rivers. In practice, the rules make building much harder.

Shanghai Refugee Museum.

 

A statue outside the Shanghai Jewish Museum.

A relative, Dr. Kovacs, was there. He came to Argentina with many Chinese artistic artifacts. 

Big Steps in China

 

A sculpture of a giant person walking stands still at the entrance of the Super Sample exhibition in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province. One of the largest artworks produced in China in recent years, Walking Person by renowned artist Su Xinping depicts a person taking big steps forward, raising a series of questions for viewers to think about: Where does he come from? Where is he going? Why is he in such a hurry?