Indian under the Sun (1980)

 

Based on a story by Adam Baruch, this film is the first of the Epos 11 series. It is about a Cochin Jew in the army, led to prison by a Tel Aviv redhead. On the way, he allows the Indian to visit his village and see his pregnant wife. The Indian wants to escape, and the ginger knows it and allows him to run away, but the Indian refuses. In the end, he escapes after being delivered to the prison, saving the ginger from punishment. The film was projected only on TV because it was about sensitive racial/ethnic differences, although its message is not confrontational, on the contrary. The visual description of a Cochin Jews moshav in the Jerusalem mountains is very realistic, I know them, and the young people sitting and doing nothing is exactly how it was. 

Adam Baruch was an Israeli writer who emerged from the ultra-religious Mea Shearim neighborhood. I bought his book "Lustig" to learn Hebrew, it is about a half-hearted shooting of an Arab.  

War of the Worlds

 

1953 film based on H.G. Wells' classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The radio version presented a piece of real news, caused mass panic. How tall and skinny were those Californians.

Chinese ink brush paintng of a snow tiger

 

 Nice. Minimalist. I have a tiger ink painting in my bedroom, but it must be a copy. 

West Nile Virus

The Virus looks like a complicated chemical machine, designed to kill humans. West Nile virus (WNV) is a neurotropic flavivirus that cycles between mosquitoes and birds but that can also infect humans, horses, and other vertebrate animals. In most humans, WNV infection remains subclinical. However, 20%–40% of those infected may develop WNV disease, with symptoms ranging from fever to meningoencephalitis. It is now present in Israel, carried by mosquitoes.  Don't we have enough troubles that this thingie comes to make our life even more dangerous?

 

Getting Ready for the War in the North

Pic from today's military leaders meeting in preparation for the coming Northern war. No one is smiling at the camera. There are things on the table that the Censor doesn't allow us to see. Cigarettes? Cheetos? Bamba? Bibles?

They use Panasonic Thoughbooks. 

Bread Help Only for Non Jewish Children

 

Budapest, 1944.

Do we need to explain why Israel?

Hairless Cat

One friend had one in Kfar Saba. Entertaining as it climbed cupboards and jumped from the top of one cabinet to the other.