Elad’s blog

Several days ago, I had this talk with some of my friends. It dealt with the distribution of languages in the world: how much a language like, say, English, is widely spoken? Can you really “get along” anywhere with it? things like that.

Today, in my newspaper, I found a nice report about it. The headline talks about “The fourth widely spoken language in the world”, and the newspaper say that it is… Portuguese.

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Noah, the bible tells us, built an ark. Then he escaped the flood in it, he, his family, and all the animals: each species sent either two or seven representatives, depending how close it was to god (e.g., if they were “clean” animals or not).

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Today’s top story was hiding as a small paragraph in a small reportage published in an inner page at the economics part of my newspaper. It deals with electricity supply to the Palestinians in Gaza, and though I didn’t check the details myself, the reporter that brought this story (N. Shtrasler) is usually reliable. I think it demonstrates profound stupidity.

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The map had a small mark on it. “Geyser”, it said. Although it is true that geologists believe the Carmel mountain started as a tropical island with a volcanoe, it is long gone: so what kind of geyser, I wandered, did they find in Atlit these days?

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I went yesterday to see the new Israeli movie “Half Russian Story” (Sipur Hatzi Rusi, which for some odd reason I believe is distributed abroad under the title Love and Dance).

I really liked it, with one major remark: why do they call it only “half”, and not full, russian?

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I just finished reading A.B. Yehoshua’s The Lover. As some of you may know, this roman, which was published at the late 1970s, is considered one of the best readings ever published by Yehoshua and in the 1970s Israeli literature; it is also on the literature material at many Israeli highschools. I have some comments on this subject and on the book.
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About a month ago ( in September 7th) there was a nice moon eclipse, seen from eastern Europe. My big brother, who deals with astrophysics, received a nice picture of it, and sent it to me.
Here it is, so everybody can enjoy this nice spectacle.
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Kobi Alexander, the Comverse guy the FBI was looking for, was found an imprisoned in Namibia. Five days later, a local judge released him.

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