I came here to rest, but this place is so exciting, I can’t help but look at every painting, every sculpture, every view from this amazing place.

iso I rested for a few minutes and then ran around, praising Yacov Richter, the original architect for his wisdom in suiting himself to this remarkable environment, and wishing I could run into Lili Elstein, who renovated this place and making it into an center for the arts as well as a hotel. A hotel that is whole. Yesterday I saw her eating dinner in the restaurant, and knew the food would be as wonderful as the place. And it was.

So sorry I will have to leave soon. Wish I could be here for at least a week.

Unfortunately we have a tv in our room, and that means we had to watch the reports given by Sara Netanyahu’s cleaners about her madness, but it also meant we could be happy with Herzog’s election as president, but it also meant we are mourning the disruption of the government. Oy, how much better we are than our politics.

I warned you. I need a vacation. And I’ve finally got it – a spa hotel in an art gallery. overlooking the sea. it’s a little piece of heaven – surrounded by a mess everywhere. We are not far from Binyamina, Jisr Al Zarcha – in other words, the place I told you about a few days where there was an attempted lynch on the Arab workers in the gas station. So it’s difficult to escape the world. We’re not far from Bibi’s home either. And tonight, we turned on the tv just as we were turning in – after a day of pool, massages, an amazing lamb dinner, a stroll through the corridors strewn with contemporary art – and there was an investigation of the workers in the prime minister’s house who had complained throughout the years about her psychotic behavior. Nothing that we hadn’t heard before. But it fits with the rumor that Gantz had been summoned to the US because Biden fears Bibi is going to nuke Iran so he won’t have to give up his position and go to jail. probably much crazier than the basic Sara stories that we’ve been hearing for years. There was also a story that Nasrallah tried to commit suicide.

anyway my concern today was more basic: Professor Galia Rahav has been a heroine for me for her numerous and tireless efforts to save the country from this plague. When I heard her speak in a memorial for the town, Zhedtl, I understood the deep sense of humanity that motivated this dedication. Recently, she was attacked for advising vaccinations for children from the age of 12. This is a woman who deserves many accolades and enormous support.

But I’m on vacation

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i warned you – i needed a vacation /

 

I have no idea what awaits me – but i know that both of us are overbooked and need time off. two months ago we wanted to go to a place to rest but it was independence day and the hotel was full of virus-carrying children who filled every corner of the places we wanted to relax in. So we went on nature and archeology hikes. This time we hope to swim, relax, enjoy art, enjoy viewing nature…. and maybe gathering the fragments of my life into a comprehensible whole.

It isn’t a normal whole – i have to incorporate all the hate and anger and loss that has accumulated in our world. It includes the 65 children killed in Gaza, and double that number unsung in Afghanistan, and the uncounted in Africa. Those sacrificed and those forgotten. It includes all the politicians who have spread poisons throughout the world in their different ways. It includes the shameful way we’ve treated old people.

There are many ways of saying ‘oy’, including the gratuitous complaint and the expression of relief… i’m going through them all.

and i’ll try to explain it.