David's Israel Adventure

This blog will chronicle the adventures of me, David Weinfeld, as an Otzma fellow in Israel, from August 21st, 2005 to May 29th, 2006. I hope this is as exciting for you as it is for me (though that would be a tad bizarre, now wouldn't it?).

Thursday, September 08, 2005

The Greenhouse project

Helping the settlers with reorganize their greenhouses proved easy enough, cuz there were almost no settlers around. I spent my time lugging metal grates and then moving plants around. While we were working, I started the song "If I Had a Hammer" to get people going. It really worked. Then someone started "Bohemian Rhapsody," which was effective until some Otzmanikim thought we should be quiet to be respectful. I thought this was odd, because there were almost no settlers around. This place where we were at, which actually looked like a settlement, was just outside of Ashqelon. But there were not many people there at all. The one bearded guy who looked like a settler lent me his straw hat, which was nice.

In the end, the whole thing was fine. I suppose it's useful to help the settlers get their lives back together, even if they are my firm ideological opponents and I believe they have been hurting Israel for decades. We also got some free plants out of it.

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