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      From the Hills of Efraim
      by Yisrael Medad
      This blog will be informative, highlight foibles, will be assertively contentious and funny and wryly satirical.
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      Yisrael Medad is a revenant resident of Shiloh, in the Hills of Efrayim north of Jerusalem.  He arrived in Israel with his wife, Batya, in 1970 and lived in the renewing Jewish Quarter, eventually moving to Shiloh in 1981. 

      Currently the Menachem Begin Center's Information Resource Director, he has previously been director of Israel's Media Watch, a Knesset aide to three Members of Knesset and a lecturer in Zionist History.  He assists the Yesha Council in it's contacts with the Foreign Media in a volunteer capacity, is active on behalf of Jewish rights on the Temple Mount and is involved in various Jewish and Zionist activist causes.  He contributes a Hebrew-language media column to Besheva and publishes op-eds in the Jerusalem Post and other periodicals.

      He also blogs at MyRightWord in English and, in Hebrew, at The Right Word.


      Kislev 3, 5769, 11/30/2008

      Road Terror


      Many people can become so one-dimensional.

      For example, you say YESHA and either you get a very positive or a very negative reaction based on whether you think we Yesha residents are heroes or fools, whether Arabs have rights or what rights, etc.

      But there is also a normal life out here.  And "normal" means also traffic accidents.  Some are caused by lousy driving.  Some are caused by unavoidable cricumstances, others by rain or oil spills.  And some by bad road infrastructure.

      Here are pictures of a traffic accident on Friday along the Shiloh entrance road:

      People need to be so careful. Including safety belts.

      And if roads need to be improved, too sharp curves that need to be straightened out, then those in responsibility must be pressured to do their job.