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Israel News Mysterious Golden Netanyahu Statue ‘Toppled’ in Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A golden statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared overnight in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, only to be knocked down hours later by Israelis. Israeli sculptor Itay Zalait placed the sculpture mounted on a white platform as a political statement and called on the public to “topple” it. He said it was…
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Israel News In Tel Aviv, Tetris Is So Huge the Screen’s the Side of a Building
Tel Aviv has turned one of its City Hall into a giant game of Tetris, complete with two oversized joysticks set up in Rabin Square. The city asked all residents to come over and play, manipulating blocks of light across the facade of the building, which served as a 32,000 square foot “screen” made up…
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Israel News Tel Aviv Proudly Goes to the Dogs
(JTA) — It’s not every day you see a dog getting a massage. But in this Israeli city, somehow it seems expected. At Tel Aviv’s first official dog festival, hundreds of dogs took over Yehoshua Park and its dog park on Friday afternoon. As canine customers wandered among vendors selling dog-related products and services, a…
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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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Fast Forward 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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