More locusts news

Chef with locust delicacy (AP photo)

The plague of locusts may be a curse for farmers but certainly not for restauranteurs. Chefs are grabbing this rare treat and cooking them up ... after all according to Haaretz' report "it's kosher, parve, healthy, affordable and environmentally friendly".  http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/routine-emergencies/when-god-gives-you-locusts-make-locust-stew.premium-1.507666  The locusts overnight had covered 2000 hectares of land!!!

Meantime another plague is proving more threatening - missiles from Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. The Sharon region (coastal plain) will hold a siren drill in a few minutes time in preparation for a missile attack. Actually this threat is more theoretical than real. But no harm being safe than sorry. This can however not be said about the recent findings by Israeli scientists - that cellphone use and thyroid cancer could be linked. And talking about Syria, the kidnap of UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights by Syrian rebels is very disturbing. As far as I can see, the rebels are guilty of many destructive acts ... no less than what they accuse Assad of doing.

And the weather has turned cold again. It was only 3 degrees last night. That's not helping my sickness; asthma is very bad now, even during the day. And both my knees have become very weak: buckled several times but thank goodness didn't fall .... yet.