Galilee in Spring
It’s not Israelity Foto Friday but it IS Spring and Passover is a few weeks down the road.
Time to get out the travelin’ shoes, rev the engines and commune with nature before the hot, dry days settle.
From Dutchblog Israel come these lovely images of Tzipori Moshav near Nazareth.
Horrible Tent Dress
Celebrity Debra Messing was spotted at LAX committing this fashion felony:
TMZ.com’s Style Insider comment on Messing’s colorful muumuu:
Debra Messing landed at LAX — in this voluminous coral parachute shmata and head scarf, looking like a Tel Aviv kibbutz farmhand. Oy.
The Will & Grace star certainly has seen better fashion days, eh? 
Oh and for the record, we don’t have kibbutzim in Tel Aviv proper. But if we get them, we’ll certainly send recruitment on over to Ms. M’s mansion with a sign-up packet.
tia, Designist Dream
Foto Friday #47
It’s fun discovering things about your friends.
Take my colleague & confidante Jeff, for example. We’ve known each other for a whole slew of years – ever since he trained me for an assignment editor position with NBC News Tel Aviv a while back.
We have since formed a “friend bank” of shared experiences: wars, peace negotiations, job promotions, personal crises, marriage, divorce, layoffs, high rolling times, economic doldrums…
Jeff moved on to take a key position with Germany’s Deutsche Presse Agentur in Israel and at the same time has been polishing his photography skills.
Who’dve known?
Take a look-see for yourself.
A Happy Friday to all & a thanks to my partner in former crimes Jeff.
The Story of Fat George
Here’s a bit of light and delightful tale-telling compliments of Israel Stories blogger JC:
George was a huge monster of a man. Fat was not the word, obese paled into insignificance, mammoth maybe, gargantuan seems most appropriate. We called him Fat George, because gargantuan George was, for want of a better phrase, to much of a mouthful.
George, how on earth he got that name remains a mystery, was a Bedouin tracker. He could tell whether an Ibex had recently been nibbling on a bush, where it was now and what its ID number was. He was very good. He’d been decorated by the army for being so good. But now he was contented to lead tour groups across the country’s southern deserts and eat. The nimble and agile George of yesteryear was replaced by the lumbering and wheezing giant tour guide of today. Was he happy, you bet your crown jewels he was.
Why was George so happy? Well he was doing what he wanted to do. Walk about in the open air, meet nice people, eat and get paid for it.
Now why am I laboring on about the fact he was so huge. Well, as with many people, I am little insecure about the fact that since getting married all those years ago, there isn’t a chance I could ever fit in to my wedding suit. But George was so blissfully happy with himself it made me sick and jealous. The only thing that kept me going was the certainty that he wouldn’t fit into my suits either.
So I made the resolve that if George was happy with his temple then I should be to.
At home, biscuits and crisps are more or less banned as we all try and lead a healthy lifestyle. So I decided, why deny myself; and went out and bought cookies, chips, bisli, chocolate and anything that would ordinarily be taboo.
For the first few days it was a feeding frenzy. . .
And now comes the part where you have to click over clicking over to find out what happens next….ENJOY!
Secrets from Surgery
I’m not 100% sure whether knowing what really & truly goes on in the operating room between anesthetized i.e. unconscious patient and the medical staff is a good thing.
On the one hand, surgical gallery stories can be amusing and even shocking. Remember the one that hit the press earlier this year about med students performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without consent? That needed to go public but it was nary pleasant to read.
On the other hand, when glimpsing the inner workings of hospital goings-on via amusing tales, the sneak-peak can be a whole lotta fun.
Enter Israeli anesthesiologist The Sandman:
One night, after finishing the last of several urgent operations, I received a phone call from a very, very, very, very junior surgical resident (meaning: he started his residency that month). He was concerned about one of the patients who had undergone an emergency appendectomy earlier. He said, “The patient isn’t moving.” I then suggested, “Pronounce his death and let me get some rest for God’s sake.” “No,” he said, “it’s not that, he’s alive, he’s just not responding to me.” I thought to myself, “If I were your patient, and if I knew that you were the most inexperienced doctor in the hospital, I wouldn’t respond to you either.” No, I’m not that mean spirited, I didn’t actually say that to him, but I do get cranky at 3:30 AM when I haven’t gotten my beauty rest. “Oh, alright, I’ll be right up.
I had not been involved with that particular patient’s anesthetic, so I asked the doctor who had, to meet me on the surgical ward. I found the resident and asked him to show me to the gentleman in question. I found a young Bedouin man lying in bed staring at the ceiling with his mouth open. After noting his normal breathing and skin color, I just had to have some fun with the resident (after all, it was 3:30 in the blessed AM). “Are you sure he’s not dead? He looks dead to me, did you take a pulse, did you measure his blood pressure, and have you informed the next of kin?” The look of abject failure made me feel sorry for the kid. “Don’t get yourself in a fit. He’s alive, I’m pretty sure of that. Now watch and learn.”
Read the rest of this amusing and informative share here.
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