I worked with Joseph Zitt back in my Big Box Borders days. He moved to Israel in 2017 and is a wonderful writer who finds humor in the little things even during the war. Let me know if you want to subscribe to his daily newsletter. All are welcome. From yesterday, a snippet:
Buying locally has always been important here. The country, being quite small, is heavily dependent on importing. Fortunately, shipping by sea seems still to be happening. Some companies have redirected routes from a port close to the fighting to one further away. That port is actually owned by a company from India. Nobody wants to mess with them.
There's a national event every year for shopping locally online. It is theoretically happening yesterday and today. I have gone to the site but, even running it through Google Translate, I can't figure out how it works or even if it's happening at all. It never has worked for me. I must need some sort of secret handshake that locals don't realize that other people don't know.
The supermarket is less crowded than on most Thursdays. People are shopping less, and many stocked up on food at the start of the war. More information keeps coming in about the effect of the war on the economy, due to work absences and hesitancy to buy things.
