The Fun of Snow in Israel!

When I was a child growing up in Rockville, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC, I have very fond memories of snow. Whenever there was a blizzard, all of the neighborhood children would go sledding together. There was a hill that was perfect for this in the back of our neighborhood. In addition, we would build snowmen and igloos. My father would usually bring hot chocolate out to the igloo where my girlfriends and I were sitting. Yet many people who grew up in Israel don’t have such childhood memories that are common to many Americans.

My husband, Shachar Avraham, was born and raised in Netanya, Israel, which is right on the Mediterranean Sea. It never snows in Netanya. For university, he relocated to Be’ersheva, Israel, the provincial capital of the Negev desert, in order to study at Ben-Gurion University.

Turkish Journalist Outspokenly Defends Israel

Hurriyet Daily News writer Burak Bekdil is not shy about expressing his beliefs, despite the fact that he is living presently in Ankara, Turkey under AKP rule. At times, his outspokenness has gotten him into trouble, since he received an 18-month suspended sentence for insulting the Turkish judiciary in 2002. However, this has not deterred him.

Bekdil is known as a frequent critique of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and despite it being unpopular in Turkey, has defended Israel on a number of occasions in his writings as well.

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