Monday Dec 24, 2007

Passports, Part II

Posted by Shana Dorfman

So you may remember from my last post that I've been on an incredibly exasperating, seemingly endless journey to obtain paperwork for my Israeli citizenship from the Ministry of the Interior. The whole process has been slightly complicated due to language barriers, which I must admit is a little surprising considering that in a country where thousands of Anglos make Aliyah every year, English proficiency is apparently not a requirement for working in the main office of immigration - despite being a prerequisite for most jobs in the service industry in Tel Aviv.

My initial attempt to get a passport ended with me retreating in shameful defeat as the intolerable misrad hap'nim clerks turned me away empty handed due to a lack of proper documentation. Momma Dorfman sure was pleased to receive a hysterical long distance phone call that night, requesting that she dig up my birth certificate from the safe deposit box and priority mail it to the Middle East.

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Dagoberto Mensch: To #18. Thank you for your correction. However, even debit cards mean people do have salaries. And to have the same school curricula for everyone - ask anyone here in Brazil (200 million people) - let´s have a show of hands! Ironically, the A.S Neill's Summerhill School (Suffolk, England) stands for children choosing their own curricula. However, it was never really acceped by most people. And France is (or at least was for a long time) famous for its public universal education. Anyway, shalom for you.

Imma Dorfman - NORTHERN California: Nathan in Sydney, you are correct about the first kibbutz, Degania Aleph. Also, many others cropped up in the ensuing decades prior to World War II. There was a network of kibbutzim all over the country by the time of independence in 1948. Sue in Southern California (la-la land?): your statements are breathtakingly short of any basis in fact, including why certain people survived in the camps. A huge percentage of items we use daily? Israel is technologically very advanced, true; but most of its high-tech industry is neither situated in kibbutzim nor staffed by kibbutz residents.

nathan in sydney: Susan with due respect, Israel was created after World War II but the first kibbutz, called Degania, was established in 1910; nearly 40 years earlier.

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