Don’t Worry. Be Israeli!
As a sort of companion post to Avi’s Jerusalem video, I wanted to share an article I recently came across from the online Asia Times, entitled “Why Israel is the world’s happiest country.”
It’s rare to think of Israel in any terms other than negative ones these days. Our unenviable geographic position, our corrupt government, […]
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