I had a dream. No kidding.

And in my dream, Judge Goldstone (a South African Jew) said that Israel is a war criminal. And in my dream, Goldstone's committee fell asleep while 'listening' to the testimony of an Israeli citizen, a Sderot resident telling them about the missiles shot at Sderot from Gaza, about the traumatic experience he and other people who 'live' next to Gaza are suffering from, all along last seven or eight years.

And then I was dreaming of president obama's decision to withdraw from the American policy to defend Europe from the Iranian missiles which made me think of the unbearable lightness of the world's attitude towards huge risks growing in front of our eyes.

And I thought it must have been a dream. a nightmare.

But then I heard Iran's president, speaking to the world at the U.N. committee, and having a conversation on american T.V. channel about the holocaust . and I said to myself that it was right on time for Mr. Netanyahu to tell the whole world what he (and me) think of the U.N.:  This was a good chance to expose hypocrisy and double standards within the organization which let Mr. Ahmadinigad take a speech under it's roof.

And then I woke up (Thanks God) into a real nightmare : looking at the mirror, I found out that my hair  looked awful. Just the way it looked in my dream. Well, I forgot to tell about this part.

Thank god the hairdresser can fix that one. Must rush to her..

Israeli film 'Lebanon' won the top Venice prize

The Israeli film maker Shmuel Maoz won last night the top prize: The award of the coveted Golden Lion to 'Lebanon' , at the Venice film festival


After he was declared winner, he was interviewed by Israeli news channels. Maoz sounded very excited by the winning itself, and more than that, by the responds he got few minutes after the announcement .

It was very important for him, so he said, to hear that people, from many countries, who presented their work at the film festival, assured him that from now on, they're going to look at Israelis in a different manner: that his film made a difference for them, made a change in the way they used to relate to Israelis. That looking at a war from the womb of a tank looks utterly different.

Maoz told in interviews that it took him over 23 years to start making this movie, describing his personal experience as a young soldier at the Lebanon war (1982) ." It's not a political movie", he announced , and indeed, the spectators were impressed especially by the horror of battle which could be in any war around the world- as one of the critics said.

The New York Times called it "an astonishing piece of cinema."

And that's a good opportunity to wish for a better new year:
 Shana Tova