and declining Arab birthrate, Jerusalem's Jewish majority is assured.

What is "rude health?"

Just google the idiom, you bunch of numpties

It is poor translation to use a British idiom on an international site. ( it is poor translation to use any idiom that is specific to one country) There are not only native English speakers reading this but people for whom English is a second language. I guess YNET doesn't want that readership!

the Capital City of Israel will become an ultra orthodox ghetto. Not much reason to get excited , even as a Jew.

"If someone's in rude health, they are very healthy and look it." This idiom is not commonly used.

Does this term describe the behavior of Israelis while waiting in line to be seen by the doctor in Kupat Holim?

might benefit from sometimes reading The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, where the idiom is commonly used. Not to mention British works of fiction, though offering such advice to Yanks is really going out on a limb.

To rent a room in tel aviv costs as much in some areas as renting an apartment in Jerusalem but salaries are lower and choices few. That is why they leave.

why couldn't you have been like #5 who explained the expression? I suppose it has something to do with your British public education!

Two thirds of the first 13 TBs focused on use of 'rude health' The rest referred to the actual subject of the piiece. Is word usage the real passion of most TBers? I'll add to the list. The term seems clumsy even to this ex-Brit but it suggests the ruddy (red) cheeks of healthy folks in northern climes. Glad the economy is improving, and Jewish population growing. Happy Yom Yerushalyim! Le chaim!