Today I drove past the Pi Glilot fuel depot. Actually, I've passed it many times but never really paid attention to it. From the Ayalon freeway, what you see is about 10 enormous "silos". A couple of the silos are painted with pictures of butterflies, others with sunflowers. There's also a couple of smaller egg-shaped metal containers and a long filling station.

Not that we don't have more important things to worry about, but the US dollar has climbed to more than 4.93 shekels. For some unfathomable reason, rents in this country are in USD, so I've seen my rent go up almost 20% since I first signed my lease 15 months ago.