You've heard descriptions and read articles about the vast differences between Israel and other countries or locations. They only reinforce the fact that things really are in Israel. It's not just your imagination. Things happen differently, things look different, things act in a different way, and so on.
DayBREAK is a very real concept in Israel. It seems to be dark one minute and then it is suddenly light and bright. A similar situation occurs at nightFALL. After an extended period of daylight, a sudden and almost unexpected night seems to fall from the sky. There is no gradual change.
Warm weather suddenly changes to cold weather, and back again.
Products and growing things seem to face the same phenomenon. They may taste similar (but not identical) to the comparable item elsewhere, but they are strangely different. Israeli watermelons look rounder. Even a larger and more elongated Israeli watermelon is not the same as those that you have experienced abroad.
Trees are different. True, you can account for part of the difference because some grow only in a warm climate. However, many of the familiar types of trees seem to look different. They seem to grow differently in Israel.
Some species of fish that you can view in Eilat's underwater observatory do not exist in any other place in the world. This is all the more surprising when you remember that fish swim from one location to another, and all of the water in the world is connected.
Climatic differences are equally amazing. Every possible climate is represented in some location, and at some time.
Tiny Israel seems to encompass just about every form of nature. It's a kind of mini-world - and it's all in one small location.
Hmmm. So maybe Israeli isn't part of the Real World after all!
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