Observations, articles, opinions etc. in Dutch and English. The author, Bert de Bruin (Yonathan Dror Bar-On), is a Dutch-Jewish historian, who has specialized in modern Jewish history and in the history of the Middle East, and who in 1995 emigrated from the Netherlands to Israel. In July 2008 his first book, Israel en ik - Vijftien bekende Nederlanders over hun verhouding met een zestigjarige (Israel and I - Fifteen well-known Dutchmen and -women on their relationship with a 60-year-old), was published. He also edited Een veilig Israel in een vreedzaam Midden-Oosten (A Safe Israel in a Peaceful Middle-East), which contains speeches (by Paul Bremer, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dan Meridor, Mark Rutte, Maxime Verhagen and others) held at an international conference in the Peace Palace in The Hague in March 2010. For feedback please post a comment, or send this blog's author an email.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Call

This is the first time ever that I blog on Yom Kippur. About 90 minutes after the fast started, while the whole neighborhood was already in the synagogues, or in the streets biking away, we heard several fighter planes fly over. I went home to try and find out if anything out of the ordinary was reported anywhere, but there was no such thing ( yet? ). To those regular DBI readers who have my cell phone number: Please call if you hear anything that might interest or concern us over here. Hopefully I won't have any reason to go online again before the end of the holiday.
PS: Ha'Aretz Update: 19:43 IAF planes called up in north but feared security threat quickly dispelled (Haaretz)
Posted by Bert at 6:39 PM

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