The mornning paper has the same headlines every day, "2
palestinians were killed and one baby heavily injured", next
to it in bold letters, "Sharon sends hes griefs to the
family", the line under has the name of another Arab village
where Israeli soldiers responded fire to.

After that i just get in the car and drive to school - no
bombs in the way, no houses surronded by barbed wire and 20
maniacs that shoot everything they can - just another normal
day. The only difference is a few more soldiers and cops on
the streets, more military police stopping cars which they
find suspected.

After school on the way back I cannot help my self from
stopping for a quick video game at the famous Dizingof
Center. The streets around are full of people, the two
violin players are still playing and the only diffarence is
the big tree with the names of the people who died while
crossing the street by a suicidel terrorist who exploded in
a bus - But the eyes are used to big trees with name in this
part of the world.

After the game I get back on a bus, num. 5, it won the "bus
num. which was bombed the most" contest..
my watch announces the full hour and the bus driver turns
the radio up to hear the news, "Good afternoon this is 88 fm
and these are the 3 o'clock news. Rockets were fired at the
Gila mountain in Jerusalem - Israeli forces responded fire.
The 3 young men from Rishon Letsion that were arrested for
raping a 17 year old girl from Lod will see a judge that
will decide their sentence...."


The situation in Tel Aviv is very tensed - yet stable,
although the random bombs which explode in the big cities
like Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Petach Tikva, Ra'anana the massive
amount of armed forces who are searching every inch of this
country for terrorists are doing a very good job in making
the Hizba'la work hard.

Most of the war is going on around the country close to the
border (which is probebly the most un-definable subject in
this country...), most people are busy with other important
issues like the recruitment of the religious people, the
heavy financial problems of the HiTec in Israel and the bad
horrible hot sunny day that was yesterday. But one is for
sure - If you are looking for a nice discussion about the
situation, a demonstration against something or just people
shouting and screaming at each other blaming the other for
voting for the wrong prime minister you will have no problem
finding what ever you want in every city in Israel.

This concludes my report about life in tel aviv, may 2001.
I'de like to add a personal note - life here may seem like a
war zone, but the amonut of love and kindness you can find
from the people, the feeling of brotherhood that is in every
street, if you just take away the Israeli nature of
shouting, spitting, stealing the sinks from hotels in Greece
and just being nasty - when times come in which this country
needs to defend itself - it's just so nice to walk down the
street... ( just check for bags in corners and suspicious
objects...)