Rain in summer!!!

The full moon is up again over
Damascus Gate

I've realized that my asthma attacks come in cycles. I get continuous bad attacks for a couple of weeks, then it ends off for another couple of weeks, then it comes back. I am now monitoring these cycles so I know when to take my medications ... and also monitoring the food and conditions whenever it occurs.

The humidity has been rising and dew falling every early morning. It feels more like autumn than summer. Then it finally happened - it rained yesterday!!! In summer!!! Not in Jerusalem but in the plains of Sharon ... that is the lowland between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It is very rare. People there had a big surprise ... a nice one. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4842676,00.html

So the continuing saga of the policemen who scared a palestinian girl, confiscated her bicycle and threw it into the bushes, breaking it into 2. Both police were not charged. The children of the family are living in fear, their father is a cripple, their only toy - a 2nd hand bicycle is broken. Today a kind jewish man donated a bicycle to the children. He remembered how his own jewish father suffered discrimination and could not bare seeing the palestinian children suffer the same from Israeli police. There are still good people left in this world. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-buys-palestinian-girl-a-new-bike-after-border-guards-broke-hers/

Rain clouds over Mt. Scopus north-
east of Jerusalem

On another note, Jerusalem municipal officials are picking on an arab summer camp for palestinian children in the village of Silwan (biblical Siloam). As the main door of the camp site is less than a meter from the road - which is very steep so cars drive at full speed to climb it - the camp organizers placed a tape along the road to stop children from running out of the door and getting hit by a car. In fact 2 children have already been run over. Officials have charged the organizers, made them pay fines and for the past weeks have sent police and officials to enter the camp.  http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.737248

And horror of horrors - or pride of pride - depending on which side you're supporting ... a rabbi has finally admitted sending his son out to commit arson throughout the country. It was to burn images or photos of women in bus stops, billboards etc... But of course he'll never be charged.   http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/in-israel/local/rabbi-berland-admits-that-he-ordered-arsons-23050