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Israel News Take a Tour with the Graffiti Geek of Tel Aviv — and Learn Hebrew, Too
On a sweltering July afternoon, a group of tourists gathered on a street corner in Florentin, a South Tel Aviv neighborhood cloaked in graffiti. Though street art tours are a popular among travelers in Tel Aviv — one even invites visitors leave their own tag — this was no typical graffiti outing. Wearing blue sneakers…
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Culture Can Tel Aviv ‘Library of Stuff’ Ease Israel’s Epic Clutter?
Talya Galam had a problem familiar to many in Tel Aviv: she wanted to have people over but had nowhere to seat them. Her cramped apartment in South Tel Aviv’s Yad Eliyahu neighborhood was too small for a regular dining table. So Galam bought a folding table. But by solving one problem, she created another…
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Opinion Uncovering the Lost Palestinian Villages Underneath Glitzy Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv residents are often described as living in a “bubble,” because of their relative distance from the epicenter of conflict and occupation, and because, at least compared to Jerusalem, the zeitgeist of the city tends toward liberalism and open-mindedness. But despite all the talk about Tel Aviv’s insulated status, this “first Hebrew city” is…
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Israel News The Fight to Save the ‘Ellis Island of Israel’
Jaffa – In 1932, a German Jewish judge named Kurte Tuchler traveled to British Mandate Palestine as an emissary of the German Zionist movement. After landing in the Jaffa port, he entered the new terminal building, erected the year before as the gateway for the thousands of Jewish immigrants who would make their way to…
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Breaking News At Funeral, Tel Aviv Terror Victim’s Father Slams Government Response
The father of one of the victims of Wednesday’s terror attack at a Tel Aviv shopping center criticized the Israeli government for not doing enough to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the funeral Thursday for Ido Ben Ari, one of four people killed when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire at the Sarona Market in central…
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News Scholar of Mideast Conflict Becomes Its Latest Heartbreaking Victim in Tel Aviv Terror
Dr. Michael Feige spent his career writing and lecturing about the effects of war and terrorism on the Israeli psyche, casting his analytic and critical academic eye on groups as diverse as the settler movement and Peace Now activists. He surely never dreamed that he would be remembered not as an expert observer of…
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Breaking News Cousin of Forward Contributing Editor David Hazony Among 4 Victims of Tel Aviv Terror
A relative of Forward contributing editor David Hazony was among the four victims of the Tel Aviv terror attack. Ido Ben Ari, a 42-year-old resident of Ramat Gan and an executive with Coca-Cola, was a cousin of Hazony’s wife. He was shot dead while eating dinner with his two children and wife, who was also…
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Breaking News 4 Killed, 4 Badly Injured in Suspected Tel Aviv Terror Attack
Four people were killed and four were seriously injured in a shooting at an outdoor shopping center in Tel Aviv. Two gunmen carried out the apparent terror attack and were shot and disarmed, according to the police. “One is wounded, the other’s condition is unclear at the moment. All these details are preliminary,” said police spokeswoman Merav Lapidot….
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