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I know
how hard it is
for you
to put food
on your family.
� American President
George W. Bush

It's nice to rationalize about our salaries: "We're rich spiritually." That's true, of course, but that's not the issue.

Since it's difficult to focus on the issue when dealing with Israeli salaries, let's try to understand the terminology.

Etymologically, the word "salary," comes from the term "salt." People were once paid part of their salary in salt. Really. Some articles say that too much salt is not good for our health, so we try to limit our intake of salt. We limit our salt, and our employers limit our salary (it's the same term, remember?) so we must be quite healthy.

Limiting our salt is not that difficult, because we use our noodles. Here's how that works:

The numbers on our salary slips seem to be quite similar to those on the statements that we received abroad. There are only two (minor) differences:

Israeli salaries are in shekels. Those who work in other countries receive salaries in dollars, Sterling, or other solid currencies

Salaries in the Old Country are paid weekly. Here the same amount is paid monthly

On second thought, it's also paid weakly here

You may mistakenly think that we manage on this salary. Wrong. We find it more realistic to depend on the same survival techniques that have saved the Jewish people for thousands of years.

Those techniques are called "miracles."

As a result, we have, in the mortal words of comedian Sam Levenson, "Everything but Money."

Where do you want to go now?