2022 נובמבר #131 אדריכלים יוצרים - אירית אביר אדריכלות ישראלית 95 | | | each with his own solace editorial Solace is one of the most efficient salves that religion - any religion - applies on its believers, and this is evidenced by expressions of acceptance and completion such as "God gave, God took away" (not from us), or in more explicit language - "All from Allah". After a hot and annoying summer, promises of “Woe is me!” and insulting elections, drops of rain fall on our heads again, and the autumn wind leaves gold everywhere. All the narcissists have gathered leaves folding their petals, and on our boulevards a lark sings songs. Let’s wait for the sun, God willing, sanity may return. I personally regret that the most intelligent man in the outgoing government was born in an Arab village, but am quite certain that the intelligent man from the incoming government will no longer smoke cigars, and his wife will stop drinking champagne. I am convinced that the man with the gun will understand that you can’t play Cops and Robbers simultaneously, that the Minister of Health, who is not aware that life-saving drugs have not been available in pharmacies for a year will find another job, that the beautiful-eyed Ayelet will stay at home with her children, and that the arrogant Ministers will stop emasculating, literally, the Hebrew language. The nightingale is already twirling in our garden, and in our fields a lark is singing. All the wild pigeons flew out of our window... this spring... or the next... or the one after... they will return. In this proud land we grew up strong and were completely sane. We were taught to fight, to win, and we never believed that a day would come and we would fail (Peter Gabriel, “Don't Give Up”). The elections are indeed over and there is no longer a reason to fight, but we must not lose hope. The heart is placed on the left side of the body while the moral kidneys are on both sides… as written in Psalms 16:7: "I will bless God, who counsels me in the nights of my kidney failure.” We are all from the same family - siblings, parents, cousins, and one does not choose one’s family - everything is a matter of point of view. I once read that during World War II, two Jews were sitting on a park bench in London reading newspapers. One held Der Stürmer ('The “Stormer” in Yiddish) and the other, The Jewish Chronicle - the oldest Jewish newspaper in the world (1841) that still appears (except for Architecture of Israel). Why are you reading this, asked the one from 'Chronicle' of the one from Der Stürmer', isn't that a Nazi newspaper? Why do you ask, what is written in the Chronicle? It is written, answered the Chronicler, that the Jews are persecuted and beaten, that they lose all of their possessions, and that they are sent by train to extermination camps. Yes, I imagined... In Der Stürmer ' it is actually written that the Jews are a rich nation that rules the whole world! And for all those who have already ordered a low-cost ticket to London, even though the music is better there and people speak English with an enviable accent, there are also elections there every two days, and despair doesn't really get any easier. After you recover from the autumn, fly to London, get on the giant wheel known in Yiddish as the London Eye, from where you can see that sometimes you are up, and sometimes you are down. Architect Dr. Ami Ran דבר העורך
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