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Sinai, here we come!

Tomorrow night, I’m taking a long weekend off, and traveling to the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. A bunch of friends and myself are going to the lie on the beach for 4 days, doing absolutely nothing.

Sinai

Well, we are going eat (Hummus and Fish mostly), drink (Sahlab primarily), and maybe even fell the water of red sea, but no real activities are planned…

In the past 2 and half years, since the terrorist attacks on Taba and Ras-A-Satan ( and a few more that followed), not many Israelis dare to go there. But I’m sick and tired of being afraid, and bombs go off also here in Israel.

I’ve been 5 times to Sinai, and I really love the laid back atmosphere, the deep blue sea, the red mountains, and being cut off from the hectic modern life. Apart from those big words, it is just so fun!

I promise to write and share photos when I’m back.

Salam Alekum.

Glowing Drinks are good from afar

I’ve attended a birthday party last week, at a bar. The owners made a little gesture to the girl that was celebrating, and brought her a Martini cocktail in a glowing glass, on the house.

Glowing Drink

At first, I was fascinated. Seeing the glass glow in the dark, and the shiny liquid move around caught my eyes. It seemed as if the liquid was glowing.

When I got to put my hands on it, it didn’t look that good anymore. Taking a sip from it felt like drinking some radioactive fluid, or a cleaning substance. My fascination was gone, and I got back to my naturally colored beer…

Connect to Nature and smell the Fuel

Going out of the city for a weekend, we did some camping on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret). This small fresh water lake, less than two hours from Tel Aviv is a very nice place.

After exploring about ten camping sites, we finally chose the one at Caparnaum (Kfar Nachum). It seemed relatively quiet, not too crowded and friendly. Well, that was on Friday evening.

When we woke up on Saturday morning, we lots of jeeps arriving at the shore, parking at the waterline, and unpacking their jet skis and motorboats. Then, these vehicles were sailing along the coast, and coming back to the shore to fuel up.

Motorboats on the Sea of Galilee

Except having the jeeps block the waterline, we now had a constant smell of fuel. Not exactly the ideal “nature” trip. Our wish to wake up in the morning and dip into sea was undermined.

It was quite frustrating. Can’t we enjoy nature anymore?

Israeli Doctors Curing Palestinians

No, this is not a scoop. It happens on s regular basis. Shiba hospital (near Tel Aviv) takes care of Palestinian people who are sick or injured. They even have an agreement with the Shifa hospital in Gaza. It’s been like this for years.

So why am I writing this? A group of British doctors published a letter in the Guardian, calling for an international boycott on the Israel Medical Association. The reason: Inhumane behavior towards the Palestinians.

You can blame the IDF for many things (as I did a few days ago), but not the doctors! Israeli doctors, under the medical oath, are doing their best to assist anyone.

An Israeli doctor that works in Shiba’s pediatric intensive care unit, uploaded a short movie to Youtube, where you can see how politics are not part of Israeli physicians’ routine.

If you want to help in showing a truly bright side of Israel, please rate this movie, and / or favorite it. If you want to take a further step, post it in your blog. That would be great 🙂

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