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Last week, on September 7, Israeli police arrested the mayor of Netanya, Miriam Feirberg, on the suspicion that she accepted millions of shekels in bribes from real estate developers involved in city projects. Her arrest came after a Haaretz investigation in July that revealed that the mayor had financially benefited from city hall real estate…
Forget about Halloween! Purim is the real party in Israel. Every year, thousands of children head to school dressed up in their finest costumes, their mishloach manot in hand. That goes for grown ups too (any excuse to tap into your inner child). In cities across the country, big parades, called Adloyada, travel through town,…
The gap between the center and the “periphery” — a term that is increasingly used to refer to pretty much everywhere in Israel except Tel Aviv and its surroundings — is growing, at least economically. But happily, the cultural divide may be starting to narrow. Two weeks ago, Tel Aviv didn’t sleep — it held…
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