The Prime Minister’s office (PMO) has been urging IKEA to open up their second store in the town of Lod, one of the poorest towns in all of Israel. To all of you who believe American trends hit Israel years later, here is another one for you. Lod is notorious for its drug deals and [...]
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My dear friend Yochai sends his two of his children to the Gesher Al Hawadi (Giser Al Hawadi/Bridge Over the Valley) school, created in 2003 is the [...]
Back when I lived in Jerusalem I used to hit Mordoch in the Machaneh Yehuda market every Friday for a nice big hearty bowl of kubbe soup. Since moving to Modi’in, I go once every couple of weeks for lunch and certainly not as often as I would like. Now that winter has rolled in [...]
Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has released the very first nano-bible. A clever ploy to bring people closer to religion, er, I mean nano-technology. The entire bible has been inscribed on gold-coated silicon surface smaller than the head of a pin.
This is not an attempt to make the holy book more portable, but an [...]
From the wife’s blog, Designist Dream:
Get ready for the only Hanukkah Gift Guide featuring Israeli designers and Israeli-made products exclusively. 8 days of Hanukkah, 9 days from now. 4 categories of presents: For Him. For Her. For Them (Kids and Babies). For Home.
This holiday season, show your love for Israeli design. Support Israeli designers [...]
Pastilla’s are always big hits at Moroccan restaurants. It’s a delicious combination of savory and sweet flavors that is pretty much unlike anything I had eaten before. I really enjoyed it and decided to tackle it in my own kitchen. I was very happy with the results, but as you read on, you’ll see that [...]
Yesterday was my birthday. It’s weird, because for the first time in my life I couldn’t remember for about a full minute whether I was turning 33 or 34. What does this mean? Am I at a stage in like where birthdays become irrelevant? Or just somewhere in mid-thirties purgatory and I’ll start to care [...]
Much thanks to tafka for letting me coerce her into”tagging” me to write about my favorite restaurants in my beloved country. You’ll notice I like cheap ethnic food. I also love foi gras, but I don’t go to upscale joints that often, so I decided to keep it real.
The rules:
1. Add a direct [...]
To me, Winter in Israel means strawberries. Strawberries are hot! What better way to use fresh seasonal Israeli strawberries than make strawberry ice cream? Strawberry shortcake? How goyish! When a nine month pregnant woman demands strawberry ice cream you best deliver! And deliver I did (actually the ninth month pregnant wife did most of the [...]
I couldn’t help but laugh while reading Shmuel’s near splattering of a wild boar on the Golan Heights while driving home from work. It reminded me of one of the funniest experiences of my army service.
We were somewhere in the middle of a military zone on the Golan Heights. Even though our base was [...]
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