Category Archives: Daily Life

The Corona Chronicles – It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over!

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

Well, I should have known it was too good to last, shouldn’t I? And it didn’t. Thanks to the Delta Variant, a lack of due diligence at Ben Gurion Airport and insufficient enforcement of isolation rules, the number of COVID-19 … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Yesterday…How I Long For Yesterday

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

Looking back at what I was posting on my blog a year ago, I see many similarities to what I should be writing about today – the continuing drop in the number of new COVID-19 cases, the opening up of … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Business As Usual

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

Yesterday was Jerusalem Day, the 54th anniversary of the liberation of the eternal Jewish capital from the illegal Jordanian occupation, and of the city’s return to Jewish sovereignty for the first time in two thousand years. It should have been … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Behind Us At Last?

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

It’s been a while since I last posted. Since then, we have had a General Election (with no clear-cut outcome), celebrated Pessach (Passover), Independence Day and Lag b’Omer, witnessed a national tragedy at the Lag b’Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Feeling Lightheaded

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

What has the pandemic done to us? I had intended to devote this post to such weighty matters as the forthcoming elections to the Knesset (in less than three weeks), to the various fake news reports and outrageous conspiracy theories … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Bagpipes and Banana Bread

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

In my previous post, if you remember, I wrote about the changing partners within the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party (aka the National Religious Party), and expressed the opinion that it was, as the airlines put it, “not final”. How … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – COVID, Cotillion, Computers and Cake

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

It’s hard to know really, where we stand with regard to the pandemic. On the one hand, more than 2 million Israelis have already received the first dose of the much-vaunted Pfizer vaccine, administration of the second dose is well … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Chiaroscuro

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Shimona from the Palace

Chiaroscuro – an Italian term meaning “Light and Dark”, used in Art (according to Wikipedia) to describe “the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.” The term originated during the Renaissance, and the reason … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – Back on the Merry-Go-Round

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Shimona from the Palace

It’s been a long time since I last posted on this blog. I had intended to write last week about the brutal murder at the hands of a “Palestinian” terrorist of Esther Horgan, a 52-year-old mother of six, who went … Continue reading →

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The Corona Chronicles – A Small Candle in the Darkness

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Shimona from the Palace

Albert Schweitzer is reported to have said: “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and Cats”. I am sure that many of us, forced to live in a bubble largely cut off from meaningful human … Continue reading →

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