"Alte Sachen": From The Life Of An Arab Scrap Dealer In Israel - a Middle East Short Story

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The plane to Israel was stacked with a bunch of Semitic characters: young Israeli unmarried couples and Israeli Arab families largely provided with children. Using images from Gazit’s German and Israeli family archives along with her own photographs as resources for an animated video installation. She held out her hand, which he took, and led him away as if to look for a nearby bamboo forest tucked away behind a synagogue.

In The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land, estranged from his wife, jobless, Simcha holds onto those activities that entertain his young daughter on her weekly access visit, including their double-act of selling bottles of air to American tourists.He cut up little red circles out of cap-gun pellets, stuffing the gunpowder into a hollow aluminum tube to make home-made firecrackers. It was eye-opening to read about the bedouin dwellings, olive groves and checkpoints, I could visualise them clearly from his talented descriptions. Some of the stories are very moving, and in each one, Friedlander certainly evokes his setting and mood with some wonderful descriptive prose: “The stuff you could find, the secrets people’s objects revealed to you. In High Heels, the shoe seller’s son tells the story of the Polish ballerina’s legendary high heels to a couple he meets while night climbing: he is dazzled by them, naïve to their predatory nature.

Today the pains were real, often tough, and present most of the time while walking, lying, seated, or standing.Thank God that we have plenty of women to step in the saddle with glee and power for either prime minister or defense charges……In exchange and with a feeling that I made some progress to reintegrate myself into real life I got a new HOT MOBILE sim card.

I was glad that we were sharing this moment in the darkness, although I would have preferred to be alone with Moriah. Progressively distraught, I was desperately looking for a place to get the famous cheese pie “bourekas”, the highest contribution of the controversial Turks to mankind’s mega-poly-pluri-culture. The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land is a collection of eleven short stories by Israeli-born author, Omer Friedlander.If I have to be critical, the only thing I can think of is that the endings are sometimes a bit too abrupt.