There Are Cats in Israel and the Streets are paved with Hummus

A strange thing we noticed in Beersheva was the number of stray cats roaming around. In Haifa, that number has seemingly quadrupled. Indeed, they run through the hallways of our Abba Hushi dorms all the time. If we leave our doors open they can easily come into our rooms. Aparently, Israel imported cats to deal with the rodent problem. Or so the rumor goes. Maybe it's payback for shouldering the blame for the Bubonic Plague. Of course, that was the fleas fault, not the rats, and so we would be killing the messenger, so to speak. Then again, the sins of the father shouldn't translate onto the sins of the son. Didn't we learn anything at Vatican II?