merry chrismakah

Who celebrates christmas in Israel? Actually, we have a huge christian arab population to join the traditional christmas time pilgrams. A jewish friend of mine is obsessed with christmas and santa and the tree and the presents and has been facebook status updating about her love for it, over the past two weeks at least. I want to delete her just to get rid of her status updates. She's going to bethlehem today and is trying to convince her israeli parents to buy her christmas gifts to put under her tree. Part of her christmas tactic was to convince me that my good friendship obliged me to accompany her on a christmas pilgrammage for jews. Hello, jews for jesus? Sorry sweetie, it's really not my thing. Nevertheless, I extend merry holiday wishes across the board to everyone!