Bad news weekend

Figs are in season

And the education funding saga goes on ... the govt. is now cutting funding to jewish secular schools teaching the obligatory core subjects (just like it did to Christian schools) BUT adding 500 million more shekels to fund the religious jewish schools that do not teach the core subjects. This is totally absolutely the opposite of what the funding of schools is all about. TOTALLY OPPOSITE!!! It's senseless and utterly laughable. It makes a mockery of the parliament that legislated the law on funding. It can only happen here in Israel. And as most newspapers are criticising ... the govt. is funding a generation of jews who cannot count nor know the fundamentals of science or economics or history or geography. Israel is going to have a generation of people who are of no use to the workforce ... and who do not pay taxes or serve in the army. It is doomsday for Israel ... don't expect to win a war with that generation that cannot produce generals and military strategists and scientific innovators. The arabs will do well if they realise this and up their education programme now.  http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/politics/additional-funding-for-haredi-students-cutbacks-for-secular-students-22754

And talk about bad news ... yesterday a sewage pipe broke just meters away from Tel Aviv's busiest beach. It leaked into the sea, polluting all the other beaches around it. The municipality immediately issued a health warning to everyone against entering the water. You can see sewage floating everywhere. Now do you expect a yeshiva student who never studied biology, chemistry, physics or mechanical engineering to deal with this crisis?????  http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/in-israel/health-and-environment/sewage-flowing-onto-tel-aviv-beaches-in-the-middle-of-the-summer-22716

Well let's hope the weekend won't end like this with all the bad news. Something good might just brighten it up ....