All holidays and memorable dates have their usual ritual. On New Year's Eve they put up a Christmas tree, on Epiphany they bathe in an ice-hole, on Thanksgiving they fry a turkey, on Halloween they fool around, on March 8 they give flowers, on May 9 they put on orders, on Holocaust Day ...

Finally, Israel is giving the world media a familiar picture. Arab teenagers throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at policemen dressed like aliens. In front of the formation of the same aliens - crowds of people praying right in the square, on stone slabs: Muslims are not allowed into them...

Last week in Israel, the government almost collapsed over a very simple question for a Jewish country - who is considered a Jew. No, not so - who has the right to decide who is considered a Jew. As if there are no other problems. This is for Israel. Because of which…

Even in my generation, not to mention those who did not find his deafening fame, it was customary to treat Yevtushenko with some irony - roughly the way he is depicted in the gummy TV series "Mysterious Passion" by Aksenov, thanks to which many in general ...