Its snake season here in Israel and everybody is frantic about snakes. This year is worst for some reason, anyhow here is a picture of the snake that came into our house after 5 minutes and parting from NIS 500 that went to the snake catcher, the snake was caught. It’s a common snake in Israel called Tzefa, poisonous an fast. Thank God we got him and no kids were home, my wife is still recovering from the trauma

Well it happens to be a mistake in identification, and the official snake catcher of the council called us and said we had nothing to worry about because the snake was not poisonous, he is called Zaaman Shahor or in english - Coluber jugularis

Here is the picture from the internet

Well when you have a screaming wife and sister in law in the house
you really don’t have time to ask the snake what his official name is or if he is poisonous.

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Hasbro opened up a online vote to include certain cities in its new edition of World monopoly. At the beginning All the cities in the world had their country next to them, all but one Jerusalem. Hasbro explained that since Jerusalem is under a political dispute it did not include Israel as the country connected to Jerusalem. The foreign ministry of Israel was all up in arms and filed a complaint against the company, which resulted in Hasbro moving all countries listings next to the cities. Now I ask my self a simple question, what should a Toy Company think when it sees that as the voting for the cities is going online, the state of Israel and their leader Ehud Olmert is discussing with its enemies on how and which parts of Jerusalem to give back, If the government of Israel does not know if Jerusalem is hers or not why should a toy company know any better !

It’s amazing how the entire western culture, its positive and negative is mirrored in a young girl called Britney Spears. An experiment of society a lonely soul, a used object - a reality show where all the viewers are participants. There is nothing to write or add to this phenomena, after being high and low, exposed and covered, shaved and hospitalized, married and divorced, mom and been taken away that right. Used and abused by family and friends, escaping to alcohol and drugs, medicated, uppers downers - a monkey in a lab was not experimented on so many times. But what does that teach us - one thing and one thing only: God gave us freedom of choice - and we have the power to choose. In this case the freedom of choice was taken, and it was the first time this little girl walked on stage. The only way to get your life back is to get back that freedom of choice, and the fist step is to leave everything behind, friends, fans, family, husband, exploiting rehab centers, managers.
Only then can you explore the real possibilities of freedom of choice, and when you do, you will find that you are in control of your choices and you will not feel alone anymore. Let this poor person be a reminder to all of us, of how a person looks when his freedom of choice is taken away from him, he losses his image of God and feels very very lonely.

Dear Mr. President

We appreciate and recognize you as the most trusted friend of Israel in the last 30 years

You are in Israel now and the choice is yours, how would you like to go down in the books of history. This is your first and last historical journey to the holy land as a president.
Lets admit it, peace is not happening in this presidency, its not even close, so you have a choice of how you want to go down in the books of history.

option 1: Do you want together with condi to Push the Jewish people to give up their land that they have liberated, giving the arabs a right to a land that does not belong to them and encourage the expulsion of Jewish people from their home, while standing aside and watching Iran building a dooms day bomb.

or

Option 2: Recognizing the land of Israel as the state of the Jews and encouraging them to dwell in the biblical borders of Israel, offering a covenant between America & Israel to fight radical Islam. Standing up for Judeo/Christian values and morals and making a historical statement.. you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

It’s your choice Mr. President - How do you want to go down in the book of history.