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Throughout Israel, there are a lot of cats that live in the street. The climate allows it, the winters are not THAT cold. Cat lovers in this country end up being feeding holes for dozens of them. A wonderful example is Haya in Jerusalem who owns fourteen cats and many others that come to visit.

[Cat in Garbage Bin] But most cats live in and around the neighborhood garbage dumpsters -- LARGE containers that are picked up and replaced by special trucks once a week. so all week long, the cats jump in and out of these things, getting their noses all grimy and grey. They lie around on top of them, sunning themselves, and stare at you when you pass by.

Most wild cats are shy, but every once in a while you come across a friendly one, begging you to take it home with you. This has happened to me twice.

In Jerusalem (1990)a wonderful little white kitten adopted me. I named him Lavan which means "white." We went through the Gulf War together.

In Beer Sheva (1995), I was stopped by a little squirt who meowed at me on the sidewalk in front of my house as I came home one night. She looked like she grew out of the desert, streaked with black and gold like a sand picture someone dragged their fingers through. I named her Zehava which means "gold."

When I left to meet Randy, I did not know long I would be gone or if I would even return, so I found a permanent home for her together with Gedalia (her boycat friend) at Tsameret's house in Jerusalem.

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