Elad’s blog

Somebody at work just pissed me off.

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Lebanon’s industry minister, Pierre Gemayel, was assasinated last week in Beirut.
I don’t have much to say about this ordeal, just one small side issue that I noticed, and seemed to slip from most reports in the media.

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NASA gave up, so they say. After twenty days, they announced they have (permanently?) lost contact with their Mars Global Surveyor spaceship, which had served as a sattelite to Mars for the last ten years or so.

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Look at these photos. Enlarge them and observe: this is how you destroy land. That’s the face of an environmental disaster.

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Just a small amusing trivia note, the kind that computer geeks probably noticed years ago: the abbreviation CAD, which some people in the industry use for Computer Aided Design, could be used with the same success for Ctrl-Alt-Delete, a very useful keyboard combination in modern computers.

I knew the mediterrenean can suffer from Tsunamis like every other sea; I also knew about some historic Tsunamis (for example, it is believed that the Mikenic culture of Crete was demolished by a huge Tsunami); I also know about the geologically active zones near Israel - the northeastern mediterrenean (north of Cyprus, from Turkey through Greece all the way to Italy) is an active reduction zone, and the Jordan valley (the drift) is an active openning zone; but the economics paper today gave Tsunami data in a way that seems to try manipulating the readers.

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On Friday I planned to go to the desert. Ofir wanted to join, but didn’t wake up on time. By the time he was ready, it was already afternoon (at least, the way I count it: he would probably say it was morning, eventhough it was much closer to sunset then to sunrise), so we got in the car and headed south without really knowing where it would get us. Eventually, we got into the Southern Judean Plane, a.k.a. as “mound land”. We landed in a neat archaeological site, the Lachish mound.

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Something happens to the ultra-orthodox groups in Israel. Surge currents are bringing changes. It is slow, it is silent, but it is definitely there. Pay attention.

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Oded commented, two posts ago, that in Israel there must be at least 3-4 types of deserts. I usually count more. I thought of responding in that post, but then decided that I can just list the major types that I see in a post of their own. So here is a short list of some distinct landscapes you can view at southern Israel.

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One of the more interesting talks I had during my latest travel to Peru, regarded a small indian tribe that lives a bit north of Lima. It was held with one Rabbi, who was sent there to check their claims to be the lost tribe of Asher (if I remember correctly), exiled from Israel over 2700 years ago. It crossed my mind this morning when I read a small note in the paper, about the cancellation of a big operation intended to bring to Israel the lost tribe of Menashe, who apparently was found in northern India.

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