With this map...

...it's a little easier to explain things.


It doesn't show the roads, but it does show Shiloh, Ofra and Beit El.

I live in Shiloh and work in Beit El. The road from Shiloh to Jerusalem passes Ofra and keeps going south, not west. Beit El is to the west. There's a T Junction, called Givat Asaf, where Asaf Hershkowitz was murdered a couple of months after his father's murder, a few kilometers further south.

We have buses going north south, and Beit El has buses going to a from Jerusalem, but there isn't a bus "hub" at Givat Asaf. That means that I have to hitchhike.

That's the reality of my life. I do not get transportation from work. I get "bus fare," but there are no buses. It would take hours to go further south, near Jerusalem, change buses and come back. Buses are very infrequent. I don't work 8 hour days. As it is I spend almost as much time "traveling" as teaching, and on my short day, I spent much more time getting to and from than in the classroom.

The problem is not that we hitchhike.
The problem is that there are Arab terrorists who want to murder us. They must be stopped, not us!!