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The Schmooze Shakira Takes A Stand On Israel By Performing In Tel Aviv This Summer
Shakira is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park this July — despite expected BDS protests. This will be the first time that she performs in Israel, though she did participate in a 2011 presidential conference, hosted by Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. (Apparently, Peres referred to Shakira multiple times as Sharika, but that’s all…
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Fast Forward Over 20,000 Israelis Protest Deportations Of African Asylum Seekers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 20,000 protested against a government plan to deport African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan to a third country in Africa during a rally in Tel Aviv. The rally in Rabin Square was organized by NGOs and Sudanese and Eritrean groups, as well as the Stop the Deportation movement and…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv U. Gets $10M Grant For Medical Research With California Universities
(JTA) — Tel Aviv University scientists will collaborate with their counterparts at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley on research in medical and information technology. The initiative is being funded with a five-year, $10 million grant from the Koret Foundation, which funds Bay Area organizations and initiatives, and works to support the U.S.-Israel…
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Fast Forward Thousands Demonstrate In Tel Aviv Against Deportation Of African Asylum Seekers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Up to 20,000 demonstrators protested in Tel Aviv against the deportation of African asylum seekers. The protest on Saturday night took place in south Tel Aviv, near neighborhoods highly populated with the African migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea. Many of the Israeli residents of the neighborhood object to their living there….
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Food Innovation and Indigenous Grapes Define A Boutique Kosher Winery To Watch
The surge of Israeli boutique wineries — defined as those producing 20,000 cases or fewer — is hard to miss. Those in the Royal Wine Corp. portfolio include Shiloh, Psgot, Bazelet haGolan, Or Haganuz, Matar, Vitkin and Titora. One producer, Jezreel Valley Winery, stands out by marketing itself as “true Israeli winemaking” and “original Israeli…
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Food This Kosher Bordeaux Was Worth The Wait
Tel Aviv’s Kosher Food and Wine Experience (KFWE) took place last week in a light and airy event space called Trask, overlooking the Mediterranean in the Port of Tel Aviv. As afternoon sun poured into the hall, Royal CEO Nathan Herzog introduced winemakers and winery representatives here to showcase their latest kosher releases. Zur, the…
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Fast Forward Vladimir Putin Inherits Tel Aviv Apartment
Tel Aviv may be getting a famous new resident: Vladimir Putin has inherited a one-and-half bedroom apartment on Pinsker Street. The Russian president originally bought the beach-front property for Mina Yudikskaya Berliner, his high school teacher in St. Petersburg, Russia who moved to Israel in 1973. After Berliner passed away last December, she left the…
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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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