I’m going to keep on updating this post with positive and negative observations as they come up. I know it’s started on the negative side, but what can you do, these are my fellow Israelis:

When you party outside my building – in a residential area – with your friends and scream and shout and spin your car wheels and have a great time, all through the night, it shows that you care only about yourself. When my neighbors tolerate this, night after night, when nobody calls the police and the mayor does nothing, it shows that the adults are scared of the kids, or that they’ve just given up. When the police come round with a patrol car once a month and tell the kids to shut up or move to another area, the kids say ok, and they quiet down until the cop car leaves, and then they start up again like before. This shows that our kids have no respect for the cops, the cops have no respect for the residents, the residents have no faith left in the cops, and nobody knows what the mayor does. Continue reading →