All Entries in the "Life in Israel" Category
The high street battle for your fashion budget: Castro vs H&M
Many Israelis have always told me that they believe Israel is the 51st state (or is it 52nd after Puerto Rico?!). I heard this story through a friend the other day and now I must relay it to you because it is the perfect example of the “commercialization” and “Americanization” of Israel.
The friend, [...]
Oscar glory beckons for the Ajami crew!
Tonight it’s Oscar night and Israel interest in the annual movie extravaganza is high, as this is the third consecutive year that an Israeli movie is in line for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. This years’ candidate, Ajami, looks like it could be in with a shout, though some movie critics are less than [...]
Making Aliyah: Paying for stuff (Hora’at Keva and Tashlumim)!
Hora’at keva is the term used for payments that are deducted straight from your bank account automatically.
For example, your health insurance/kupat cholim. Your phone bill. Your internet payment. Your electric bill. Your water bill. I think you get the idea. Pretty much the way things work here is that you need a credit card [...]
Purim 2010
So this weekend saw Purim festivities hit Israel, and hit Israel big time. Undoubtedly the most fun of all the Jewish holidays, it’s a great excuse to get dressed up (for both kids and adults) and to just let your hair down and party. And then there’s the gift parcels that are given, often between [...]
The Catholics are coming! The Catholics are coming!
No, not another Rock God joining the long list of talent coming to perform in Israel in 2010, but an acknowledgment of the rising numbers of Catholic tourists visiting Israel. According to numbers released yesterday, approximately one third of tourists to Israel are Catholic, though thanks to some recent marketing moves by the Israel Tourism [...]
Snow and skiing in Israel? Are you kidding me?!
Oh yes. You might not associate the colder aspects of a North American or North European winter with the Middle East, but during the winter months in Israel you can usually see some snow. And if you make it up to the northern tip of Israel, to Mount Hermon, you can even brush up on [...]
Another record breaker for Israeli tourism
I’m not going to say “I told you so”, but my optimistic forecast for tourist numbers to Israel this year looks like coming true. January 2010 was a record January, up some 62% from last year with some 212,000 tourists visiting the Holy Land. That’s quite a nice leap in the right direction…
As Tourism Minister [...]
Israeli movie Ajami set for Oscar glory
Israeli movie Ajami, a story of drugs, violence and tough times in a mixed Arab-Jewish Jaffa neighborhood, has done the Israeli movie industry proud with the amazing news that it got an Oscar nomination yesterday. This is the third year in a row (following Beaufort in 2008 and Waltz with Bashir from last year) that [...]
Santana cancels Tel Aviv concert
Guitar legend Carlos Santana tonight canceled his summer gig in Tel Aviv, thanks largely to a busy schedule which has meant the reorganizing of a few shows and the canceling of some. Israel was one of the unlucky ones.
His management promised a full refund to the many thousands who had already purchased tickets. And Israeli [...]
igoogledisrael.com does its bit for Haiti
After watching the endless hours of news coverage following the Haiti earthquake, and getting blown away by pictures like these, I thought I needed to do something. There’s not a lot I can really do, but as I’m just about to launch an online Israeli t-shirt shop, I thought I’d pre-launch it with a small [...]
So, does it rain in Israel?
You might have been forgiven for thinking that Israel doesn’t have much of a winter, what with posts about wearing flip-flops in January and shots of delicious sunsets from my back garden…but this week the weather finally came to bite most of us on the ass. With sharp, vampire-like fangs…
If you enjoyed this post why [...]
Lauren’s story of how she made aliyah to Israel
Time for another new columnist to be launched into the realms of super-stardom, we thinks! Welcome to the world of Lauren, originally from the US, who describes how and why she gave up the good life back home to make aliyah to Israel, and what it’s like living in the Holy Land for a newbie…if [...]
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- Alan Parsons Project live in Tel Aviv March 12, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLIV March 11, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLIII March 4, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLII February 25, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLI February 18, 2010
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- Pm, Ministers Meet To Discuss Us Crisis (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 13, 2010
- H&m Opens In Israel, To Glee Of Shoppers, Rage Of Radical Left (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 13, 2010
- Netanyahu 'surprised' By U.s. Condemnation Over East Jerusalem Plan (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 13, 2010
- ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza fishermen under fire (source: IRIN) March 13, 2010
- MIDDLE EAST: Experts urge governments to revise water policies (source: IRIN) March 13, 2010
- How To: Track the scent of life (source: IRIN) March 13, 2010
