Today was a cold rainy day! Here in Israel it has not rained for awhile, so it was great to see and experience rain in Israel. We learned a lot about Israel Government. Eli, our tour guide for the week, did an excellent job explaining how Israel governments works. The Israel government is similar to England's parliament...instead of Israel having a king or queen they have a president. It's funny...Eli had said "the only thing the president does here is cut ribbons." The president does not make any executive decision within the government it is mostly his Knesset and his prime minister that he appointed. The prime minister and the Knesset does the dirty work, while the president cuts ribbons. That is probably not the case, but from the sounds of what the prime minister and Knesset does much of the decision-making. Okay, when deciding on a new prime minister they will have candidates that give different view points to make Israel better. The Knesset will vote on which candidate they like better. Once Knesset has voted then there is negotiating going on.
We also visited the tomb of Theodor Herzl on Mt Herzl. Apparently he was a journalist in Vienna, Austria in the 1880’s. As a means of protecting himself, his approach was “let’s assimilate into the culture, the Jews need to blend in.” Then in the 1890’s he was sent to Paris to cover the Dreyfus Affair. When he was doing that he got blamed on Dreyfus because he was a Jew. When that happened, he changed his position and began to campaign the idea of Israel becoming a nation again. He predicted that it would happen in 50 years. 50 years later Israel became a state…he made a really good prediction.
Today was a lot about politics, which is very interesting but very boring to read or write about, so I won’t bore you any longer. All I got to say is praise the Lord for the rain.
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