My Home in Israel

After reading David Brinn’s post on Israelity about the Tnuva Strike, I bumped into a newspaper article about something of which I wanted to make note.

About half-way through the most recent Lebanon War, I noticed that one of my favorite prepared food products was off the shelves. Mama Off, which is a refridgerated cooked chicken breast (they also have wings) were gone! I remembered that they were certified by the rabbinate of Kiryat Shmoneh, so I assumed (correctly) that the war was making it impossible to make these products. When things calmed down, I was heard to exclaim “the chickens are dying again in Kiryat Shmoneh!”

Just a note: Take a look at this article about the public relations involved with the creation of this product!

After having my cell phone stolen, (well, I think I lost it and then someone took it, so that sort of counts as stolen) I had to (not in Hubby’s opinion) find the perfect ringtone for my new phone.
Previously, I had the theme from The Muppet Show, but that was getting a bit old.

My first choice would have been. “Can You (point you finger & do the twist)“, performed by the Wiggles. But when I asked the Australian site if there was a way for me to get it, they didn’t respond (damn anti-Semites…(just kidding–I hope).

So I decided to surf the Orange (my cellphone provider) website. Since this is the Israeli site, you get lots of Israeli music, but the other categories include, TV shows and Israel’s version of Pop Idol (Cochav Nolad). The one category that, to me, truly separates Israel from the rest of the world: “Shirim Optimim”–Optimistic Songs. I’m not sure if this category was there before the most recent war, but it contains 18 (chai….even more appropriate) songs, both Israeli and Foreign (Beatles, Monty Python etc). I was thinking about taking “Lo Nafsik LaShir” (we will not stop singing), but in the end the winner was “L’olam Bekvot HaShemesh”, which I can’t quite translate. (Always for the Sun…any help out there?)

My big girl is madly in love with this song. I hope this will make her more accepting of my phone ringing–except maybe she won’t let me stop it from ringing.

• enclosure: http://www.mercurymobility.com.au/abcmobile/content/samples/sample_16x11_mp3/Wiggles_The-Do_The_Twist.mp3 62589 audio/mpeg