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Eli Halili gets what he wants. And he has a wooden bench with his name on it to prove it.

A baggage handler at Baltimore-Washington International Airport recognized a familiar face, a redhead with a crew cut and closely trimmed beard and big kippah, the other day.

“What’s up, Jewish Jordan?” the baggage handler, an African-American, asked Tamir Goodman.

Israel is still in the bronze age.

A largely unsuccessful week and a half for Israel’s athletes in the Beijing Olympics, marked by several near-medal performances, improved when windsurfer Shahar Zubari, top right, finished third in his event, the same one that brought Israel’s first-ever Olympic gold medal, by Gal Fridman, in Athens four years ago. Zubari’s come-from-behind bronze medal performance was Israel’s only appearance on the winner’s podium by midweek.

A baggage handler at Baltimore-Washington International Airport recognized a familiar face, a redhead with a crew cut and closely trimmed beard and big kippah, the other day.

“What’s up, Jewish Jordan?” the baggage handler, an African-American, asked Tamir Goodman.