beit shean
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Still Beit Shean. Lev is reading the map.
Happy late Mother's Day to all, happy late birthday to Avidan, and a happy early lag ba'omer. It's traditional to light a bonfire today and tonight the city is on fire. We can see one of the bonfires from our window - in the words of our neighbor Yafa Shira, they built a whole shantytown of dry wood and set it alight. And this is one of those moments when the cultural gulf between Canada and Israel seems just enormous, since everyone has been collecting scrap wood of all kids for weeks and have taken tonight as their invitation to arson. I saw one fire engine, lazily drifting around in the streets, and I'd be surprised if this wasn't the busiest night in the year for the ER. So many possibilities...tetanus from the rusty nails in the wood, salmonella from the hotdogs, blistered mouths from overcooked marshmallows, bruises and bangs from constructing the bonfires, burns of all degrees. I'll try to post a picture of the madness tomorrow, if the house doesn't burn down first.
And the pope is in the house.
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