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The Schmooze Tel Aviv Fashion Week: Gowns to Headdresses
While Americans were eating turkey and giving thanks last week, local designers in Israel were showing their collections for the for first official Tel Aviv Fashion Week in 30 years. Dressed in his signature suit and sunglasses, designer Roberto Cavalli kicked off the over-the-top festivities with an encore showing of his Milan Spring 2012 collection,…
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The Schmooze Low Fence Blamed for Tel Aviv Skyscraper Suicides
The Azrieli Towers have come to define the Tel Aviv skyline in recent years, but they have also become the prime location for those seeking to jump to their deaths. There have been 10 suicides from the towers in the past three years. Israel’s Channel 2 News reported yesterday that the Tel Aviv police have…
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The Schmooze What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Calmer?
It looks like carbon monoxide may have been getting a worse rap than it deserves. The silent killer turns out also to be the silent calmer — and anything that soothes the nerves of frazzled city dwellers is ostensibly a good thing. Prof. Itzhak Schnell of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geography and the Human…
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The Schmooze Tel Aviv Museum Gets Fancy New Wing
Crossposted from Haaretz Next week, Tel Aviv joins the long list of cities around the world with art museums in contemporary, state-of-the-art buildings. What started with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain in the late 1990s began a mushrooming global trend of investing in the architecture of cultural institutions. Bilbao turned from a sleepy industrial…
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The Schmooze Does Yom Kippur Unite or Divide?
Does Yom Kippur in Israel unite or divide the country’s Jewish population? Gesher, a nonprofit that promotes religious-secular dialogue, believes that a poll it just commissioned with Ynet shows the holiday’s unifying function. The poll found that 58% of Israeli Jews plan to fast. Taking a closer look at the figure for fasting, that means…
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The Schmooze Why Are Some People Born Without Fingerprints?
With all the heightened security and anti-terrorism measures in place these days, we are all pretty sick of bureaucratic problems at border crossings. But people with “Immigration Delay Disease,” however, face a unique challenge when traveling from one country to another. Those with “Immigration Delay Disease” (its scientific name is adermatoglyphia) have no fingerprints. In…
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The Schmooze Australian Man Suspected of Grisly Murder in Tel Aviv
Husband-wife trips don’t always work out well, but this one turned out far, far worse than the usual bad vacation. Israeli police were summoned to a hotel room on the 15th floor of Tel Aviv’s Dan Panorama hotel earlier this week to find Australian tourist John Paul Sebastian with the body of his 54-year-old wife,…
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The Schmooze Israeli Scientists Develop Date-Rape Drug Detector
Israeli researchers look poised to make nightclubs safer. They have developed a sensor that detects date rape drugs in drinks. Fernando Patolsky and Michael Ioffe of the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University have developed a sensor that detects changes to optical signals caused by drugs such as GHB. In a summary of the…
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