Bye Marcio

A very touching event yesterday which shows that enemies can still be friends: Palestinians from the village of Tekoa (where the prophet Amos was born) help Jewish settlers when their car overturn. I wonder if Jewish settlers would have done the same if a Palestinian car overturned. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371057709&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The Israeli Supreme Court criticises the State for making empty talk about closing down settlements but never doing it - finally someone has the guts to do say it!http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091830.html

And newspaper columnists suggest the removal of the word "Jewish" from the State of Israel - like wow, if it were said by a non-Jew, it would be seen as treason and anti-semitic. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091809.html

And a Jewish woman from Tel Aviv threw away her mother's old mattress that hid US$1 million! Now she's looking through the landfills in search of lost treasure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8092942.stm

Today Marcio leaves Israel for good. He returns to Brasil to start a new mission. Marcio was my first cameraman before Thiago. He's very good at his job, although he was origianlly trained as an editor which he's even better at. We had great collaboration in producing several programmes and he was the one who designed the Eternal Light Webcast banner and all the openings of its programmes. Will certainly miss Marcio and his crazy music! All the best to your new mission!

And watch out next time you eat your bread. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8092921.stm