These Middle East dispatches often contain depressing items, and indeed two such dispatches will be posted here, later this weekend.
Israel, in particular, is subjected to relentless, sometimes fabricated, and often totally out of context criticism by respectable Western journalists, academics and artists.
Here is another uplifting video (which I posted before, here).
The Friday morning food market at Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff shopping center.
And on the theme of weddings, here is another uplifting video. (I have also posted this before, here).