Welcome to the World of Blogs

Well after a short while being a voyeur in the blog world, I have decided to finally start posting my own blogs.

First, a (little) bit about myself: I am a former Israeli Police Officer who quit my job once I saw that the Disengagement was going to really happen and I would be forced to displace my fellow Jews from their homes. I have since found a job in a field that allows me to help make the world (and future) a better place for us and our children.

I do not regret making that life changing decision, because I now have a clear conscience and any financial hardship that quitting caused me was worth being able to sleep at night.

All in all, the move has had a very positive effect on my life; my wife and kids see me more often, I work a normal shift 9-5 every day and I am now ALWAYS off on Shabbat and holidays. In the police, the shifts I worked varied every day and every week. I was only home for an entire Shabbat once a month and on that Shabbat, I would have to work on Friday til 3pm and then be on duty Saturday night from 8pm until 7am.

And if you want to talk about Holidays... national holidays were mandatory work days (Yom Ha'atzmaut) and regular chagim fell into the normal pool of shifts, so the odds were good that I usually wasn't home for an entire chag.

Don't assume that this means that I disliked my job in the Police. Au contraire, I loved the work, the adrenaline push chasing suspects or trying to solve a crime and the feeling that I was serving my country, my homeland. That all changed with the Disengagement, I felt cheated and ashamed to be a representative of a gov't that was willing to spit on it's own loyal citizens who were living on the front lines against terror, showing the world that we as Jews have the right to live anywhere in our own land.

Hope you enjoy my blog.