Some people love Israel and think that the country can do no wrong. I think that as with most things, the more you know, the more problems you see. Today there were three articles in the Israeli news that caught my attention.<\/p>\n
A man was fined 500 shekels for wearing a seatbelt<\/a> under<\/em> his arm. The U.S. might not be above such idiocy either, but the fact that there are such laws and such judges is disturbing. Also, a law was passed requiring all bike riders to wear helmets. There may be helmets in heaven, but there will be no helmet laws.<\/p>\n Yesterday Israel bulldozed<\/a> the home of an Arab citizen in Ein Rafa, a community next to Abu Gosh. According to the story, they arrived at 5 in the morning without any immediate warning. If it was a Jewish owner, do you think they would have bulldozed the house? Not a chance.<\/p>\n An entire company<\/a> of Israeli soldiers was suspended after a group car-jacked a Palestinian taxi. It seems that they didn’t want to patrol on foot. They also shot an unarmed man (his spade was mistaken for a gun), but they did not stop to check his status. Two observations on this story: the fact that the army suspended the unit and that the newspaper reports the story are things you would never see in a neighboring country. This reflects positively on Israel. On the other hand, what is the discipline level at when soldiers would do such a thing? For sure, this isn’t the first time this unit violated basic human rights.<\/p>\n And I hope you weren’t swimming in the Sea of Galilee<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some people love Israel and think that the country can do no wrong. I think that as with most things, the more you know, the more problems you see. Today there were three articles in the Israeli news that caught my attention. A man was fined 500 shekels for wearing a seatbelt under his arm. The\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}