You'll be getting involved with Israelis, so it's important to realize that we can be brutally blunt.
Israelis talk about salaries with the same indifference they talk about breakfast.
They give you their opinion about how you should raise your children. They aren't ashamed to tell you that you have something stuck between your teeth. "After all," they may explain. "You'd rather hear it from me, a friend, than from some stranger on the bus, wouldn't you?"
Even if they happen to be that very stranger on the bus. Polite expressions such as, "it's snowing down south" wouldn't last an hour in Israel. "Geveret, your slip is showing" is far more likely - and don't expect it to be preceded with an "excuse me."
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