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What is going on with Israel’s strategic foreign policy?

A brief analysis of recent Israeli foreign policy: regional summits a year and a half on from the Abraham Accords, plus staying neutral in face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – by Alexander Jones – Israel’s strategic foreign policy goals have always been numerous and complex, if nothing else. As the first quarter of 2022 […]

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CENTRAL BUS STATION TEL AVIV TOUR

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

– by Alexander Jones – Stop me if this sounds familiar. You’re newly arrived in a foreign land. You’ve just stepped off a bus in Tel Aviv and need to get outside, eat a meal and find your hotel. The only thing between you and a soft pillow is the daunting maze that is the […]

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Movie review – Ajami

– by Alexander Jones – To celebrate the launch of our tours in Hebrew to the Ajami neighbourhood in the south of Jaffa, we’re reviewing the immensely popular 2009 film of the same name. The film tells the interconnected tales of a dozen or so Ajami residents who all battle the various social challenges which […]

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HomeLand Insecurity: Update 1

A letter from film director, Yahav ZoharYahav’s second film Jerusalem Revealed, part of the Homeland Insecurity series, is now in pre production. Please support his work by participating in our Kickstarter Campaign at this link > Dear friends, Thank you for taking an interest in our new project, Homeland Insecurity. The first film in the series, Jaffa […]

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Homeland Insecurity: Jaffa and Tel Aviv Revealed

Released in March 2020This is the first film in the Homeland Insecurity series. We hope you like it.See below for details of our next film The next film will be about Jerusalem and is currently in development. Yahav will explore the special case of East Jerusalem- perhaps the most contested and complicated place in our […]

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Top 10 most beautiful religious sites in the Holy Land

– by Alexander Jones –  Most people visit places associated with miracles and spirituality on a trip to the Holy Land. Regardless of your own faith, this list presents the ten most beautiful religious sites which you can visit on your next trip to Israel and Palestine. 10. Abuhav Synagogue (Safed – also known as […]

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In Between

Welcome to the third in a series of film reviews which will highlight some of the most interesting issues facing our region. Watching movies and reading books about somewhere you visited is a great way to reminisce and avoid forgetting the places you went, the things you saw and the people you met. It’s also […]

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Best Tel Aviv Hardware Store

 – by Fred Schlomka –   Sometimes when on the road, we all need to to find a friendly hardware store. If you are handy, maybe you need a little tool to fix your umbrella or some glue to stick back the loose sole of your otherwise good sandal. I once bought a new shower head […]

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Jaffa to Gaza – A Short Cycling Odyssey – Day 1

– by Fred Schlomka – Day 1 • 18th May, 2017Tel Aviv – Zikkim Dunes (Israel) 2.30 am – I slip out of bed and prepare to depart from our urban homestead on the beach. My wife Sunita mumbles something about it being a crazy hour to depart, and goes back to sleep. I am ready […]

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More than just a Relic of the Past – Yiddish in Israel

By Miri –  Yiddish refers to a primarily Germanic language containing elements of Romance, Slavic, as well as a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic, which is written in the Hebrew alphabet. The language is thought of as having originated in the tenth century in the German Rhineland and from there spread through Bavaria towards the […]

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Israel’s “Foreign Workers”

By Miri –  Neve Sha’anan, South Tel Aviv Israel is a country consisting to a large extent of former refugees and immigrants. At the same time Israel does not consider itself an immigration country – as far as non-Jews are concerned, of course. Walking through Tel Aviv’s South however, will certainly give you a completely […]

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Germans in the Holy Land – The Temple Society

By Miri –   Thinking Israel and Germany usually ends up with thinking Holocaust. However, Germany’s connection to historic Palestine precedes the Second World War by quite a few centuries. Like many other Christian leaders in Europe, Germany’s emperors also had an interest in “liberating” the Holy Land from “infidels” and at the same time in […]

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