Born to laugh

Bridges 2 Israel                                                                                                             Original photo of the kineret by Ori In This Issue Born to laugh Would you like seeing Israel in new ways?! Daniel Yuval - Making good out of bad Tal Rinkov update. Lake kineret corner - The 3 lines The kineret beach at 1890 Visit Our Sponsor Quick Links  Previous Israel Rambles letters  Quick Links  previous Israel Rambles Our Sponsors Our Synagogue You are invited to join services at our Synagogue any time  see details Cantor - Boaz Pnini Israel Ramble letters  May 4 2012 Greetings, In this issue: Laughter in the holy land, see Israel in new ways, making good out of bad, Tal Rinkov art, and the 3 lines of lake kineret.  Enjoy and have a peaceful Shabbat,  Boaz Pnini  Bridges 2 Israel Born to laugh Hagashash hachiver - the humor we thrived on, click to watch with english caption  Israelis love jokes. Some coarse some fine. I cannot forget some gut churning stomach bursting nights of laughter with Israeli friends. Maybe it is a survival thing. Maybe if the Romans would have been more humorous and less busy finding ever new ways to assassinate their Caesars, maybe they would have been still around. (That meant to be a joke..)  No one laughed at my jokes in high school but that never deterred me. My friends' response was inadvertently gikhi gihki, which is a Hebrew gibberish meaning ha ha ha. To their chagrin I kept telling jokes anyway ending up being the only one laughing. Now being somewhat more adult, my best Israeli friend says that one out of 7 jokes is really good and worth suffering the other 6.   The first sound I have ever heard was the hysterical laughter of my mom. What was so funny I will never know but that is the only thing my mom remembers giving birth to me, apart from the fact that the delivery was easy and fast.   Maybe that is the reason I was trying to make everyone laugh since ever. Maybe I was fatally imprinted with that primordial laughter, maybe I am fated to be a laughter chaser for the rest of my mortal life. In hindsight it stands to reason that I married my ex wife for her amazing laughter. If you have heard her laughter once you will never forget.   I must have been 5 years old when I heard my first joke; A. Have you seen an elephant hiding behind a flower? B. no A. Apparently he was hiding very well. The second joke I ever heard was something about a train I cannot remember at the moment. The 3rd I believe was: Q. How does an elephant going down a tree? A. He waits for the fall when the leaves fall of the tree.   The best jokes of course are those made at the spur of the moment and cannot be reproduced.  The first books I ever read and owned were joke books. I have a whole shelf at home full with joke books. In early childhood around the fire camp, I will often read from Efrayim Kishon, one of my favorite Israeli humorists, or used to be.     Humor and Human both start with HUM, Is that a coincidence? hummmmmm....  Here is my favorite joke about Israelis: "Excuse me sir, what's your opinion of the meat shortage in the world?" asked the questioner. The guy from India replies: What's meat? Approaching a Russian guy then he asked the same question to which the Russian says: What's opinion? In his desperation he calls the US with the same question, and the American replies: What's shortage? Finally he called Israel with the same question, and the Israeli replies.. what's "excuse me sir?"  Is that funny or what? Probably "or what"!  If you know of a good joke please do not hesitate to send it my way. A good joke, in my mind, has to make a point obliquely, causing no offence.  In good humor,   Your Israel rambler,   Boaz Pnini  Want to see Israel in new ways? How should we approach Jerusalem? Israel - Small but Outstanding These videos will give you a whole new sense of Israel. I felt elated just watching them, especially the one on the left which has a slower pace. Relax and enjoy. Boaz Daniel Yuval - making good out of bad Daniel in the UN  click to listen Imagine yourself being 12 years old. 2 years ago you went with your family on a weekend trip. You stepped on a mine and lost your right leg. How terrible and devastating would that be?! Not for Daniel Yuval.  2 years ago Daniel Yuval took a trip with his family on a snowy day to the Golan heights. Playing in the snow they did not realized they were in a mine field. A mine blew up and Daniel lost his leg. Waking from the operation, realizing his right leg was amputated, the fist thing he said to his mom was that he did not want that to happen to anyone else, and he went into action; Making a phone call to Israel Prime Minister, marching into the Israeli parliament, promoting a new Israeli law for clearing mine fields. At age 11 and with his family support he begun a world wide campaign for clearing mine fields around the world.   Daniel is back in shape with a prosthetic leg, back to kick boxing and soccer. He found out that with a prosthetic leg his kicks can be even better.  Boaz Pnini  Bridge 2 Israel Philosophical reflections:   Isn't it part of our job to make good out of bad and making the good even better?! Isn't it part our job to dismantle the mine fields of our own minds, that we may not explode in the face of others and cause harm?! If an 11 years old can make such a difference, what can we all do?  Tal Rinkov update The Hebrew: At the edge of capability's limit- an elevator is to be found Purple Tal Rinkov is a Israeli artist I was featuring on Israel Rambles a while ago. She was involved lately with helping children with Down Syndrome developing their own business where they can sell special printed shirts, have a coffee house and be dignified. A place of their own.  Lake kineret corner - the 3 lines Click on the photo  and bare with the Hebrew for 25 seconds A reader asked me about the red line of lake kineret. Here is the story.   The kineret is only about 40 to 44 meter deep in its deepest spot. It has mineral springs under and around it, especially phosphorus.  When the water gets too law then those minerals sips into the water and makes it more salty, which have already happened to some degree. The lower red line was set to prevent that from happening. There is also a water way that was built to divert these kind of salty water away from thekineret.   The black line is even lower and it was set as a line under which no water will be drowned from the kineret comes what may. The upper red line is where water has to be allowed out of the kineret to prevent flooding.   The upper red line is about 4 meter above the lower red line which itself is about 2 meters above the black line.  Boaz Pnini  Bridges 2 Israel Please feel free to forward  Israel Ramble letters to your friends and family and anyone who may be interested. You may use the FORWARD link below. Thanks, Boaz Pnini, Bridges 2 Israel LLC

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