“I came from Beit Shemesh (a small town near Jerusalem) to the holy city of Tel Aviv because I always wanted to be a sinner. Among my sins, you’ll find eating pork and a fetish and admiration for transsexuals. I don’t believe in Heaven or in Hell because where one man finds sin is where another man finds pleasure and joy.”
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.” Marilyn Monroe
“A baby that breast feeds and cuddles on his mother is a manifestation of compassion and tenderness which we loose when we become adults. Unfortunately, in the Middle East, compassion is a rare feeling. Because of our survival mechanism, we become rough which is the opposite of what we felt when we where cuddling on our mom’s breast. In the play Lysistrata, women succeed in bringing about peace by withholding sexual privileges to their husbands – hopefully, if all the women in the Middle East withhold access of their breast, it will bring us an enduring peace as well.”
“I was born in Kerem HaTeimanim 75 years ago. I miss the atmosphere of the Neighborhood back than, when we didn’t lock the doors, we knew the name of every person walking in the street and we didn’t had trouble getting a Minyan for prayers. Today, even though everything has changed I will never leave this place because it has a soul. A Soul that I won’t find anywhere else.”
“I was born in Addis Ababa and came to Israel when I was a baby. Personally, I’ve never encountered racism but I know a lot of Ethiopians who have. In the bottom line it all comes down to education. It’s about time people will understand that there is no difference between white & black, they’re only different shades, all on the same color spectrum.”
“Israelis are like a cactus plant: supposedly tough on the outside, but delicate and sweet on the inside.” “Srulik (שרוליק) is a cartoon character symbolizing Israel. The character was created in 1956 by the Israeli cartoonist Kariel Gardosh, known by hispen name Dosh. The cartoon appeared for many years in newspaper Maariv. Yosef Lapid, Dosh’s colleague on the editorial board of Maariv, described Srulik as an icon of Israel in the same way that Marianne and Uncle Sam were respectively icons of France and the United States. Srulik is a common nickname for “Yisrael” (Israel). Srulik is generally depicted as a young man wearing a tembel hat, Biblical sandals, and khaki shorts. Srulik is a pioneering Zionist, a lover of the land of Israel and its soil, a dedicated farmer who in time of need puts on a uniform and goes out to defend the state of Israel. Dosh drew Srulik ...
