"Small Country, Big Dreams"

I find this "space selfie", taken just 22 km (i.e. only a half-marathon!) from the moon's surface breathtaking.  That and the motto of "Small Country, Big Dreams" which made me a little teary the first time I saw it (which was, admittedly, right after Beresheet crashed while trying to land on the moon's surface....)

Hats off to President Rivlin for leading the crowd, that had hoped to watch the landing, in instead singing Hatikva, the national anthem.  I am sure I'm not the only one who stopped my Pesach cleaning, stood and sang along.

Thanks to 89-year-old SpaceIL President (and "serial entrepreneur and serial philanthropist") Morris Kahn, there will hopefully be another attempt.  For now, kudos to SpaceIL and Israel, which became only the seventh country to achieve lunar orbit.  Hopefully in a few more years, we will become the 4th country to land on the moon because, indeed, this is a small country with very big dreams!

Props to Israel Airports Authority for having a sense of humor and putting the lunar landing on its arrival timetable that day.  Too bad they couldn't change that to "final" later ;(