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Exercise: Act out the text in Hebrew while looking at the
English text.

The Israelis

The Israelis are very stubborn. A lot of Israelis don't even
know how to write the word lenient. But, like every
person, they won’t say that they are stubborn. They will
say that they simply "know to stand up for themselves." A
lot of Israelis have high confidence, and even [also] if they don't know
English – they will always say that they speak excellent English, and they
will try to talk with every person who has an Anglo-Saxon accent in
English, even [also] if he understands Hebrew excellently.

Many people say that the Israelis are rude, maybe because of the qualities
that we mentioned, and perhaps because of the behavior of the Israeli
drivers. Who didn't hear about the stressed, nervous Israeli drivers who
yell on the road? If you haven't heard, you probably have never driven on
a road in Israel for more than 5 minutes.

But just a minute, there are also many beautiful things in Israelis. Even
though that on the road they are stressed and nervous, in life they are very
calm and optimistic, and believe that always “it’ll be OK”. The Israelis
are very generous, and if you stay as a guest at Israelis you will always
come out with food and drinks for two weeks. And most importantly,
they are very friendly, and they call every person on the street "my
brother".

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