Money hunting

Awesome sunset

The first Advent week has started and everyone is already in the holiday mood. Well almost. The students have an exam in 2 weeks time so they'll have to work hard before the real holidays begin. But the weather suddenly turned very summer ... it was 28 degrees during the day! The sun was shining and everyone just wanted to go out instead of studying in class. The nights were also bearable ... I only had one heater turned on. However the cold snap will return in 48 hours ... the lowest will be 4 degrees and the maximum daytime temp. will not be over 10 degrees. Such extreme switches in weather ... no wonder everyone is sick.

Boys searching for coins in
the "stream"

Last night while on my way home, I stopped at Palm Plaza to rest ... as I usually do because I get exhausted walking the 1 km home. The fountains were working and lots of water was running down the "stream" from the upper pool to the lower pool. Arab youths were as usual hanging about, riding their bikes ... when suddenly one of them noticed a shekel in the "stream". That started a money hunt ... over 10 boys were running up and down the "stream" with flashlights searching for more money thrown in the water. And they found over 10 shekels in all.

Anyway this evening I'll go back to the Christmas Bazaar to see if there are anything worth supporting. Maybe a couple of christmas decorations ... mainly to help the poor families selling these things.
The economic situation is bad so a little show of support for our parishioners goes a long way.

Now this is for real ... the ultra-orthodox jews have reached a stage where even looking at the face printed on a 50 shekel note is a sin because the guy (russian jewish poet) featured there was a jew who married a christian. He's an apostate, the ultra-orthodox rabbi says. So the banknote must be folded so that it doesn't show the face.  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.826510