Ilan Ben Zion
By Ilan Ben Zion
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Food No ‘Cultural Genocide’ Here: An Israeli Sandwich Stays Out Of Hummus Wars
Celebrity cook Rachael Ray stumbled into a decades-long sideshow to the Israeli-Arab conflict last month: the hummus wars. American pollster James Zogby lashed Ray on Twitter for calling hummus, tabouleh and stuffed grape leaves Israeli, accusing Israel of “cultural genocide.” Falafel and hummus are points of contention in the culture war between Israelis and Palestinians….
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Food Vibrant Tel Aviv Food Scene Set To Vanish As Africans Face Deportation
Anwar Mohamed beams as he sets down a yellow-and-white speckled plate of ful, stewed fava beans redolent of hard-boiled egg and salty cheese — and reminiscent of simpler times. The heaping plate, from a Sudanese eatery near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station, is a working man’s breakfast at a working man’s price, a rarity…
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Food Are The Fried Locusts In My Taco Kosher?
The beady eyes in my taco glare back amid the citrus salsa and avocado, and peek out from behind a leaf of cilantro. The first bite is crunchy, and faintly nutty, like toasted corn — if toasted corn came with six legs and a pair of wings. Before long I’m popping individual fried locusts into…
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News EXCLUSIVE: New Archaeology Shows ‘Refugee Camp,’ Not Just Rebels, Atop Masada
Tour guides leading thousands of visitors to Masada each year follow a similar routine: Where Roman troops breached the walls, they retell Josephus Flavius’s account of how a group of obsessive, fanatical Jewish rebels refused to concede to servitude or slaughter, and committed suicide instead. For decades, archaeology at the site has been calling the…
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Israel News Young Palestinians Barred From Temple Mount Riot In East Jerusalem, West Bank
Tensions over the Israeli decision to put metal detectors and other security equipment on a Jerusalem site holy to both Jews and Muslims exploded into deadly clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the city and the West Bank on Friday in the worst outbreak of violence there in recent years. As simmering outrage…
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