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The return of the Paella
Finally, we could find decent Sea-Food to cook the Friday Paella.
Writing this post from Malaga, Andalusia. Hoping to eat as many paellas as possible this week.
South Korea's Foreign minister visit in Israel
The Marmot’s Hole pointed me to the following Chosun article:
“Foreign Minister Song Min-soon visited Palestine and Israel on Sunday. The Palestinian Authority sent a welcome delegation to meet Song at the border. It provided a Mercedes-Benz sedan flying the South Korean flag and the Palestinian flag and traffic was controlled en route. In Israel, Song was taken to a meeting in a limousine provided by the host government. But the Volvo sedan looked nothing like the sort of limousine that would normally convey a visiting chief diplomat. Not only did it have a scratch mark on the outside door and the letter V missing from the Volvo logo, one of the front tires also got flat during the journey.”
“On arrival at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Song was greeted by a flawed South Korean flag, which had the four trigrams placed at the wrong corners. What Song experienced in Israel was in stark contrast to the warm hospitality he received in Palestine, which has not yet reached full statehood. Israel reportedly apologized for its blunders. But cynics suspect Israel made an “intentional mistake” to express its displeasure that Song visited Palestine before Israel. We doubt that Israel, a country known for precise thinking and action, committed this protocol lapse by mistake. When a senior diplomat receives cold treatment overseas, the people of his nation naturally feel insulted. Whether it committed its errors intentionally or not, Israel lost many points in what until now had been a favorable opinion in Korea.”
It is funny me to read that, since for me this is a symbol of Israeli sloppiness. The flag looks similar, the car is a Volvo. I am sure it was not intended, just the negligence of several officials (who will not be fired for this).
Globes reports on Airspan
Globes, the Israeli Business magazine, features a report on Airspan. It is an interview with Paul Senior, Airspan’s CTO.
Herbert Samuel restaurant in Tel Aviv
Yesterday, we visited “Herbert Samuel” restaurant in Tel Aviv. The location is a bit strange, it is not in the restaurant “heart” of Tel-Aviv. You need to actually drive there. (Unless you are staying in David Inter-Continental).
Started with a few Tapas Options: Anchovy, Squid with Beans and Tehina, Parma Prosciutt, and the wonderful bread. Very good dishes.
For main course we took: White Lasagna for me, Risotto for Mika. Again wonderful, though a bit heavy for our taste.
Highly recommended
Are Japanese Actually Jewish?
Japan probe features the following story :
Are Japanese actually descendants of one of the Jewish Lost tribes. This story re-surfaces once in a while, and there was even a book describing the similarities between the Shinto and Jewish religion.
I have a firm belief that it is not true. Although we don’t really know what ever happened to the 10 tribes, Jews appear here and there (India, Ethiopia, Myanmar), I don’t really think no book, or Hebrew writing exists in Japan.
It is a nice story, anyway.
Ikebana
My wife studied Ikebana for more than 10 years and has a teachers diploma. She sometimes just picks flowers, branches from the garden and assembles another work of art.
This time my child (3 years old) joined and created his own creation.
Woodpecker
There is a woodpecker around where I live. I can mostly hear it pecking the trees.
But, just this time I managed to take two photos. It is wonderful watching the nature just outside your window
Makuya in Israel
Makuya is a Christian sect operating in Japan.
Below, a video of one of their visits to Israel.
Summer In Israel
Posted by Avi Telyas on Aug 8, 2007 in Isreal
Attached a few photos of Tel-Aviv beaches taken in July 2007
Flying from Israel to Japan
This week we are flying to Japan.
Unfortunately, there are no direct flights from Israel to Japan.
There are basically two options:
- Flight to Europe (4 to 5 hours) , hopefully a short connection (2 hours) and then a flight to Japan (~11).
- Flight with El-Al to Hong Kong/Thailand (~11 hours), connection (2), flight to Japan (5).
El-Al cannot fly over Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan…), therefore the flights to Hong Kong and back are a bit longer than what you should expect.
Price: Cheapest flight (return) is about 1250$. Assuming you are only staying for about a week or two. If you stay more than a month, the price jumps to around 1400-1500$.
Having spent time explaining about the technicalities, I can now write what we are doing: Mika and Roi will fly through Hong Kong (El-Al JAL), and I will with Air France (Via Paris). Complicated, isn’t it? But, that’s the best combination we could find. (price/timing wise).