Humor

> By the Israeli humorist, Efraim Dishon
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> Israel is the only country in the world with bus drivers and taxi drivers
> who read Spinoza and Maimonides.
> where no one cares what rules say when an important goal can be
> achieved by bending them.
> where reservists are bossed around and commanded by officers, male and
> female, younger than their own children.
> where "small talk" consists of loud, angry debate over politics and
> religion.
> where the coffee is already so good that Starbucks went bankrupt trying
> to break into the local market.
> whose soldiers eat three sets of salads a day, none of which contain
> any lettuce (which is not really a food), and where olives ARE a food and
> even a main course in a meal, rather than something one tosses into a
> martini.
> where one is unlikely to dig a cellar without hitting ancient
> archaeological artifacts.
> where the leading writers in the country take buses.
> where the graffiti is in Hebrew.
> where the "black folks" walking around all wear yarmulkes.
> that has a National Book Week, during which almost everyone attends a
> book fair and buys books.
> where the ultra-Orthodox Jews beat up the police and not the other way
> around.
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> Israel is the only country in the world where inviting someone "out for a
> drink" means drinking cola, coffee or tea. where bank robbers kiss the
> mezuzah as they leave with their loot. where people read English, write
> Hebrew, and joke in Yiddish. that introduces applications of high-tech
> gadgets and devices, such as printers in banks that print out your statement
> on demand, years ahead of the United States and decades ahead of Europe .
> where everyone on a flight gets to know one another before the plane lands.
> In many cases, they also get to know the pilot and all about his health or
> marital problems. where no one has a foreign accent because everyone has a
> foreign accent.
> where people cuss using dirty words in Russian or Arabic because Hebrew
> has never developed them.
> where patients visiting physicians end up giving the doctor advice.
> where everyone strikes up conversations while waiting in lines.
> where people call an attache case a "James Bond" and the "@" sign is
> called a "strudel".
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> Israel is the only country in the world where there is the most mysterious
> and mystical calm in the streets on Yom Kippur, which cannot be explained
> unless you have experienced it; and sunsets in Jerusalem are gorgeous every
> evening.