There’s an article on Sydney Morning Herald that gave me a surprise. Not the content, mind you, but the picture up top, pasted here, which had little to do with it, or so I ascertained from skimming. 

Having just returned from Israel, I found it particularly ironic, as I traipsed the country bumping into all sorts of people I know from around the world – particularly New York and Australia, and particularly in Jerusalem.

I met them at the Kotel. I met them on Jaffa Street looking at a fine metal-work and Judaica store, I met them just bumbling down Ben Yehuda Street. I met them at a mate’s apartment. It was bizarre, and always nice.

I often said while travelling there that Israel is the nexus point, and Jerusalem especially. The article makes a fair point regarding socio-economic status and circumstances inevitably drawing people of the same upbringing together in random places. Ethnically also. Not sure if it mentioned that.

A cute comment on the page was: “the actual reason is that there are only a few thousand real people in the world…”

More on Israel in the coming days, along with some observations that whirled around in the Mind.