Israel is sometimes called the 51st state. In many ways there are similarities and sometimes you forget that you’re on the other side of the world. But yesterday I had three reminders that I’m not in America.<\/p>\n
1. The cheapest child’s hamburger at Burger King is $3.20 (12.90 NIS).<\/p>\n
2. No mail arrived. We haven’t received mail in about two weeks. First there was the Passover holidays (one week), and now there is a mail workers’ strike. You would think that somebody important would get mad.<\/p>\n
3. I can’t find a single person with a GPS unit. No kidding. I asked friends and those who live at the moshav. No one has one. Not in their car and not for hiking. (The cheapest one at the mall was $800. I decided that even locating Gezer boundary inscriptions was not worth that price.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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