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The outskirts of Beer Sheva – She was in her early 50s, with short big-hair and large rimmed plastic glasses. “What kind of car is it?” she asked skeptically, in Hebrew, from the other side of the counter.“Subaru,” I answered. Two weeks of walking and taking cabs has been tiring and expensive. Whether to work, a nearby restaurant, or home from the Old City, every trip costs 25 shekels ($6). The distance just doesn’t seem to matter. It makes me nuts, and I’m wearing the soles of ...

Today begins early again (what's new) with a three-hour drive into the desert.  Israel is a very small country (about the size of New Jersey) so when you drive three hours to get somewhere, you know you are going far.  Sometime around 10am, we arrive at our destination (we had to make a restroom pitstop and pick up another "paramedic" first).  It's a national park deep in the Negev Desert.  The park is lined with huge canyon walls (think Grand Canyon, but smaller and les...

So I arrived in Be'er Sheva safe and sound and realized it was Friday, so I was in big trouble. Luckily I was able to hitch-hike to a little inn/motel whatever you want to call it, and hole up until saturday night when things got moving again. So Irepeated the process I had done inthe north of going from Kibbutz to Kibbutz looking for work. I might want to mention that there is a very ditinct difference between the north of Israel and the south. mainly that one is green and has water (the nor...