Elad’s blog

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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Look, for example, at this building:

Where do you think it stands?

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There’s this anecdote about Einstein and the student. It goes like this: a student goes to see Einstein. “Prof. Einstein,” he says, “look, I have this notebook I keep just for ideas. Every time I have a good idea I write it down in this notebook, so I don’t forget it.” “Very well,” replies Einstein, “my good ideas are relatively few. Every time I have one, I just remember it.”

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Since I have a girlfriend that lives in Haifa, I find myself sleeping there from time to time. As a side efect, I occasionaly drive from Haifa to Hertzliya in the early morning (usually, when it happens, I leave Haifa around 06:00, and get to my work - hopefully - around 08:00, after the normal morning jams on the coastal road). I did this, for example, yesterday, on Sunday morning.

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A Syrian “guerilla” organization (yes, I know, there’s no such thing) anounced yesterday that he holds Guy Hever, an Israeli soldier who’s been missing for ten years. They demand 9 Syrian prisoners that are currently held in Israel in exchange for him. There is one obvious response to this publication: say yes.

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Now that I finished reading the court decision in Ramon’s trial, as well as some remarks in the media and in other blogs, I think I can add a small contribution to the conversation, which made a lot of fuss here in the past few days.

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That’s innovation… it is a world breakthrough … our R&D worked on it for three years … The number of blades in the razor will get as high as the customer likes, whatever is comfortable for him… if he wants twenty, we’ll give him twenty blades…

This quote belongs to Sofi Blum, the manager of Procter and Gamble Israel, who was interviewed yesterday to a newspaper regarding the new campaign they set for the “Gillette Fusion” shaving razor, that her company represents in Israel.

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There are some subjects, which seem to be constant debate issues: like political opinions. Like the amount of harm caused by drugs, alcohol, or smoking. Like the amount of danger in motorcycles. Every now and then these subjects rise, everyone seems to stick to his opinion, until the next time.

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Some things have obvious solutions, but you know it would take years until someone applies them. Such is the energy manufacturing in Israel. Everybody knows that the current power stations cost us too much. Everybody also knows some of the solutions that we already have. Alas, it will take years until somebody applies them.

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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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