Category Archives: Daily Life

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Posted on April 18, 2024 by Shimona from the Palace

This post, like most of my posts in recent months, was supposed to be about my trip up north last week with Yad Ben Zvi to Second Temple era sites around the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). But the events of … Continue reading →

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Music in the Desert

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Shimona from the Palace

Bombarded as I am – as we all are – by news reports from all sides, I am often so angry, I burn to write and share my feelings with readers of this blog. For example, I promised to write … Continue reading →

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We Have No Unknown Soldiers

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Shimona from the Palace

“The IDF has authorised the publication…”How I have come to dread those words, which open the first news broadcast of the morning, and often the last bulletin of the evening, almost every day now. They presage the announcement of the … Continue reading →

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Shimona from the Palace

I hesitated for a long while before choosing the title of this post. Why? Because it is the title of a famous novel by Alan Paton, set in South Africa during the days of apartheid, and so many people have … Continue reading →

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The Longest Day

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Shimona from the Palace

Today is the summer solstice – the longest day of the year. From now on, the days will start drawing in again, the nights will become longer. Yesterday, coincidentally, was Rosh Chodesh – the 1st day of the month of … Continue reading →

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Massacre of the Innocents

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Shimona from the Palace

These two little angels are 6-year-old Ya’akov Yisrael Pally and his brother, 8-year-old Asher Menachem Pally. Last Friday lunchtime, they were waiting at a bus stop in the Ramot neighbourhood of Jerusalem, together with their parents and other siblings, and … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Looking For The Logic

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Shimona from the Palace

On the news this morning, I heard that the government is planning on scrapping most of the remaining COVID restrictions – this, despite the fact that there are still about 20,000 new confirmed cases daily – which is, admittedly, a … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – The Many-Headed Monster

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Shimona from the Palace

The Mutations of COVID are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before.You are fighting that which is unfixed, … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Confusion

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Shimona from the Palace

There is a vigorous drive in motion here in Israel to push the vaccination of 5 – 11 year-olds, as well as to persuade the over-60s and people who are in high-risk categories due to existing health conditions, to get … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – On Not Losing Hope

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

Those of you who have been following my blog closely over the past year and a half, will no doubt have noticed my changing attitude to the current pandemic and, more specifically, to the much vaunted Pfizer (and other) vaccines… … Continue reading →

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