Elad’s blog

This week I’ve reached a new stage in my studies: I started to play with messy chemistry. In the past few days I wore strange looking protective cloths, and happily mixed acids, heated solutions, and did other neat stuff.

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The teachers are right. So are the medical doctors, the social workers, the nurses, the policemen, and basically every civil servant in Israel’s public service. They all should be paid much better. Also right, of course, are the ‘beaurocrats’ from the ministry of finance. The only one that’s wrong is the head of the teacher’s organisation, who declared recently that he’s about to lead a “social revolution” and that this is no longer a teacher’s strike but a “war for the future of a welfare society”.
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We are now close to finish the first part of our wedding preparations. That is, to hire all the providers.

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To my surprise, I found the best introduction to thermodynamics in a biology book.

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Yesterday we went to Tel Aviv, to take part in the annual Rabin Memorial ceremony. I attend this gathering on a constant basis, and in the twelve years that passed since the murder missed it only once (in 2005, when I was abroad).

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