A chart showing that boots are worn 25% of the year, while sandals are worn 75% of the year. Halva Nagila says: it's a boot time I started sole searching.

Israeli weather and footwear

My kids’ footwear choices indicate that Israel has only two seasons. The last few weeks we’ve been clogged inside, loafing around as the weather has been flip flopping. But today …

Native Israeli with jeans and BBQ; immigrant dressed in blue and white with tears of joy

Yom Haatmaut 2021

Before we made Aliyah, our Yom HaAtzmaut family tradition was making falafel, pita, and Israeli salad and opening cans of Israeli pickles and olives. I would fill ziplocks with chocolate …