Geography Lesson...

I'm sorry this is sideways...

Israel is a very small country, yet it commands so much of the world's attention.  It has an area of 8,019 square miles and is 150 miles long and 75 miles wide.  It has two famous seas - the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee - and the Jordan River runs between them.  Israel has mountains, hills, plains and the Negev Desert. 

Their basic unit of money is the shekel.  Their chief agriculture products are citrus fruits, eggs, milk, potatoes, tomatoes and poultry.  They manufacture aircraft, chemicals, clothing and textiles, computers, finished diamonds, machinery, metals, plastics, and processed foods.  Israel mines bromine, phosphates, and potash.  Recently, large deposits of oil and gas were discovered.

Israel's government has a president who is the head of state whose duties are mostly ceremonial.  The working head of the government is the Prime Minister - currently Benjamin Netanyahu.  Their parliment is called the Knesset and they have a Supreme Court with 10 members who are appointed for life.  Hebrew and Arabic are their official languages.  All Jews are required to serve in the army when they turn 18.  Guys serve for 39 months and women serve for 24 months.

Tomorrow: Famous Jews

Crafts
Let's try this again...
Picture 1 - the notebook with all the printed instructions
Picture 2 - an index (saves time looking for the instructions)
Picture 3 - all contained in a box
Picture 4 - the pieces for each game are in their own individual baggies, then all those baggies were put in a large baggie and placed in the box
Nanna is ready for those grandkids!

Today's Recipe - Angelo's Chicken Salad
Salads and Buffets

3 cooked chicken breasts
1/2 cucumber
4 tomatoes
1 apple
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 Tbsp whole-grain mustard
6 Tbsp mayonnaise
1 bunch dill or parsley
1 Tbsp sugar
3 Tbsp wine vinegar
1/4 cup orange juice
grated peel of 1/2 orange 

Cut chicken into thin slices.  Cut cucumber in half lengthwise.  Scoop out seeds with a spoon.  Slice cucumber very finely.  Peel and quarter tomatoes.  Remove seeds.  Dice tomato flesh.  Peel and quarter apple; remove core.  Thinly slice apple.  Sprinkle with lemon juice.  Combine chicken, cucumber, tomatoes and apple in a bowl.  In a  small bowl, beat together mustard and mayonnaise.  Finely chop dill or parsley.  In a small bowl, blend sugar, vinegar and orange juice.  Stir into mayonnaise with dill or parsley and grated orange peel.  Arrange salad in 4 individual glasses.  Top each serving with 1 Tbsp dressing.  Makes 4 servings.