My favorite Jewish joke in the history of the world.

A young American computer expert read some books on the early Zionists who came to Israel and worked hard just to develop a bit of farm land. They gave of their sweat and toil so that there should be a fertile country for us. He was impressed with their unselfish toil and decided to immigrate to Israel and be a pioneer.

He went to the Jewish Agency and applied to come on Aliyah. They asked him what he did and when they found out that he was a computer genius, they promptly assured him that he would be taken care of in Israel. They set him up in a nice apartment in North Tel Aviv in a modern building with a job in a equally modern building a short ride away.

After a few months in Israel his pioneering spirit began to plague him. He wanted to feel like a pioneer and he felt that there was no difference between his life in Tel Aviv to that of his native New York. So he went out and bought a camel.

Every day he would ride his camel to his office and in the evening he would ride it back. Now at least he felt that he was in the Middle-East. But after several weeks of riding the camel he came out and it was gone.

He called the missing camel department of the Israeli police who promptly sent out an senior investigator to help find his camel.

"Tell me sir, I need some information so that we can look for it. Was it a dark brown camel or a light brown one?"

"I don't exactly remmember the color" he said.

"Okay, tell me did it have one hump or two?"

"Hmmm, I really did not pay attention, I sat on a saddle"

"Well then, did it have a long tail or a short tail?"

"Gee, I really did not notice"

"Do you remember the color of the eyes."

"No, I haven't any idea."

"Well you probably don't know if it was a male camel or a female."

"Ah, that I do know! It was a male!"

"Now look here sir, if you did not know if it was a one humper or two humper, if it had a long tail or short tail, if was dark brown or light brown, or the color of the eyes, how on earth are you so certain that it was a male?"

The young man answered "Well, you know that every morning when I would ride it to work, people would come running to the sidewalk to watch me as I rode by. I could hear them call to their friends yelling, 'Hey, come here and see this big schmuck on a camel!'