Headlines in Israel

This is what should be in the headlines you read, in the newspapers from "chul". Chul is an abbreviation of Chutz L'Aretz, meaning outside the Eretz. There are two places in the world: haAretz (the land) and chutz la'aretz (outside of the land). Yes, here are the things your should be reading about in your papers.
*the waves along the shore. The way Murray and Eleanor walked the whole Galloping Goose in Victoria, we walk the entire coastline of Israel, wading in the shallow waves, sometimes surprised by sudden bigger waves. All of my clothes have saltlines. From Netanya you can see waves, fainter and fainter along the scalloped coastline, to the northern tip of the land, and to the south. This land is not so big.
*the figs ripening on the trees. You are never hungry, on a walk. Grapes and figs fall sweet into your mouth wherever you go.
*La Scala in the Park. 100,000 people of all ages gathered to picnic and listen to a huge choir and orchestra from La Scala within a bandstand decorated as if it were the real La Scala in Milan, complete with chandelier. You may not have known that Verdi's Requiem includes fireworks at the end. It was grand.
*Last Shabbat we slept at Kibbutz Beit Alfa, at Dani and Sima's. Singing the old Israeli songs under the stars at night, I understood that Israel is the Israel each one of us creates. You wish it were the Israel where people dance and sing the old songs under the stars? So pull out your guitar, and everyone is singing and it feels like the Israel you hoped to find. There's a song about that.
Omrim yeshna Eretz
They told me there was a land
with Maccabis and tzaddikim.
Where are the Maccabis? Where are the tzaddikim?
Aha! You be the Maccabi. You be the tzaddikim.
That's what this land is.
We then drove to Sally Bar's art show in the artist's village of Ein Hod.
*In a restaurant, a glass broke.
Everybody in the whole restaurant yelled, "Mazel Tov".
Moments like this, you know you're not in chul.
Moments like this, you are in Israel.
And that should make the headlines.