First of all to calm down.
It's hard to believe, but four and a half years passed without meetings between them, until Tuesday this week.
King Abdullah II talks about the two-state solution.
Benjamin Netanyahu does not believe that Abdullah means this.
The king explains that following every Palestinian death in the West Bank, a mourning pavilion is erected in the East Bank.
He thinks that Netanyahu still believes that Jordan is Palestine, and fears a serious crisis between Israel and the Palestinians, which will cause new refugees to migrate to his country.
They exchange words about the government's black sheep.
Bibi promises to control him.
Abdullah is sure that he came to his position only to make riots, and it is a fact that he has already gone up to the Temple Mount.
The king requests that every effort be made to reduce, to zero, the daily number of Palestinian deaths.
This is also the message he had to the Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant, when they met, immediately after the formation of the government.
Netanyahu avoided unnecessary quarrels.
He wants to ensure that the meeting can be called good and constructive.
He promises to make efforts.
He repeats the eternal mantra in his mouth, and promises to maintain the status quo.
But who knows what the status quo is on this sacred mountain?
None of the parties leaves the meeting in love.
But the government's left-wing marker must speak to the gatekeeper of our eastern front more than once every four and a half years.
Go tell grandma.
The Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Long Island, 34-year-old George Santos, is now at the center of a public uproar.
His website states, among other things, that he is the grandson of Holocaust survivors who fled Ukraine during the war and arrived in Brazil, before immigrating to the United States. The "New York Times" conducted a comprehensive investigation on the subject, and found no archival record of this story. Now many are demanding that he resign for The background of his misrepresentation, including the organization of the Jewish Republicans.
He himself says that his grandparents fled Ukraine to Belgium and from there fled to Brazil, where his mother converted to Christianity.
However, no proof was found for this story either, and it is possible that the young elected official will be forced to end her short political career.
There were, apparently, other lies that Santos put into his biography, but I must admit that the story of the Jewish grandmother made me happy, as strange as it may seem.
There is something comforting about someone making up a story like this to get elected in America.
lengthen instead of shortening.
The voice of a million French people could be heard almost as far as Jerusalem at the end of last week, when they demonstrated against the intention of President Macron's administration to delay the retirement of men from the age of 62 to the age of 64.
The average life expectancy in France is 82.4 (ninth place in the world, and one place behind us).
Women live to the age of 85.4 and men have to make do with the age of 79.4.
When retirement ages were set in Europe, life expectancy was much lower.
Most retirees died a few years after they finished working, and quite a few of them died before retirement.
Today, retirees have a significant period in their lives: about 20 years, in which they are supposed to reinvent themselves (and most of them have great difficulty with this).
There is nothing more logical than postponing the retirement age due to the extension of life expectancy, provided that these are jobs that are also suitable for older ages, and do not involve physical effort that does not allow the elderly to withstand them.
Continuing to employ older people (at least until the age of 70) gives the economy the opportunity to benefit from their experience, and allows the workers to earn a much higher salary than the benefit that awaits them.
It is better for the demonstrators to demonstrate against not raising the retirement age to more than 64, and not for keeping it at an age where their strength is in their waists.
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