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Drive-By Killing Hits Beach as Mob Violence Rattles Tel Aviv

Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed a man as he drove near Tel Aviv’s bustling beachfront on Saturday, in what Israeli police suspected was the latest in a wave of gangland murders and attacks. The drive-by shooting took place in broad daylight, as families and tourists walked nearby on the afternoon of the Jewish Sabbath….

By Reuters Feb 15, 2014 | 2 min read
Food
A Taste of Paris Comes to Tel Aviv

Photo: Lauren Tolila What did Israeli restaurant-goers and French President Francois Hollande have in common this week? They probably ate the same dish. A group of 19 French chefs from some of the most prestigious restaurants in France visited Israel this week as part of the 2nd annual French gastronomy week, an event organized by…

By Danielle Ziri Feb 13, 2014 | 3 min read
Opinion
Avant-Garde Aliyah to Berlin

“There’s always this joke that half of Tel Aviv is actually here,” Liad Hussein Kantorowicz told me when I interviewed her in her Berlin apartment. The numbers back her up: According to the latest estimates, 15,000 to 20,000 people have left Israel in recent years to forge a new life in Berlin. Most of these…

By Martyna Starosta Feb 3, 2014 | 2 min read
Breaking News
Larry King and Technion Israel Institute of Tecchnology To Promote Israel High-Tech

Former CNN host Larry King and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have agreed to work together to promote Israeli high-tech. King and the Technion are establishing the Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. They are set to be launched in Tel Aviv and at Stanford University in Palo…

By JTA Jan 23, 2014 | < 1 min read
Israel News
African Immigrants Rise Up From Shadows To Mount Powerful Revolt in Israel

They are normally behind the scenes, but now they are the ones making a scene. Tel Aviv is in the throes of a pot washers’ rebellion. In this city, you can eat in a fancy restaurant without ever encountering the illegal African immigrants who are most likely cutting your vegetables and cleaning the china. You…

By Nathan Jeffay Jan 16, 2014 | 6 min read
Breaking News
Rolling Stones in Talks To Add Tel Aviv to Upcoming Tour

A new round of very serious negotiations are going down in Israel—this time between Israeli producers and the Rolling Stones. According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot, the band is in the process of hashing out a deal to add a Tel Aviv performance to their upcoming European summer tour. It would be their first-ever…

By JTA Jan 9, 2014 | < 1 min read
Israel News
Anger and Indifference as Africans Immigrants March in Tel Aviv

(JTA) — They marched down Allenby Street today, past the market and the traffic jam of buses and cabs, their chants echoing around buildings and into courtyards. “What we want?” one man yelled. “Freedom!” hundreds chanted. “No more prison!” Most of them Eritrean, most of them men, the crowd swelled as it reached the beach…

By Ben Sales Jan 6, 2014 | 3 min read
Breaking News
Family of Murdered Teenager Urge U.S. Court To Reject Israeli Attempt To Silence Witness

Lawyers for the family of an American teenager killed in a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv urged a U.S. court on Tuesday to reject an attempt by Israel to muzzle a witness in an anti-terrorism case, court documents showed. The lawsuit revolves around allegations that Bank of China knowingly allowed Palestinian militants to use…

By Reuters Dec 17, 2013 | 2 min read

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