The Soul-Sapping Grind of Re-planning a Grocery Store in Bureaucratic Israel

 
For ten days, I have been working (WORKING!) on updating a supermarket in an industrial zone in the periphery. The Client is going crazy, they want it - yesterday! I am fed up; I have other projects waiting. And really, I do not need the money. I am an old-old man who works because that is the only thing he knows. Better people than I are resting in Punta del Este or are long dead. 

Are we living in the inferno?

 YOU MIGHT think it would be impossible for the inferno in Israel and Gaza to burn hotter. Yet Binyamin Netanyahu is fuelling three simultaneous emergencies: a humanitarian one in Gaza; a torching of support among European allies; and a constitutional crisis over who controls the security services, army and courts. The pressure on Israel and its institutions is almost unbearable for the country. A culminating moment is probably imminent. 

Quote from The Economist. I respect The Economist's journalists. But living here, I don't see what they see. Should I believe The Economist, or my shortsighted eyes?

P.D.: Only a month ago, The Economist thought Israel was full of hubris, victorious and expanding.

Commandment

 
 Benedixitque eis Deus, et ait: Crescite, et multiplicamini; replete terram et subicite eam. Et dominare piscibus maris et volatilibus caeli et universis animantibus, quae moventur super terram. Primus homo Adam, sicut dixit, potestatem habuit super omnia regendi.

See the original Hebrew text. 

Mysterious Message

 

Investment reflexion

Gold (zahav in Hebrew) is mentioned 400 times in the Bible.  Silver (kesef) is mentioned 300 times.

Nvidia is not mentioned even once. 

Photo: Hanukkah Gelt.

Arctic People

 The Nenets. Living near the North Pole does something to you. 

Die Goldene Medine

Israel has demonstrated that its Iron Dome anti projectile system is effective. America is building a Dome for itself. For us, it is existential. For America, it is a sign of retraction, of isolationism. 

The future is up for grabs. Carl Bildt.

The future is ours. At least, a part of it.