City Wide Art Festival in Jerusalem
On September 5 Jerusalem will host an exhibition on the comptemporary Israeli art. Over 200 artists will be exhibited in locations across the city. The city will provide buses to transport visitors to the main exhibition sites.
Protest on Gender Segregated Buses
Women have stepped their opposition to the buses that have been called mehadrin lines' in Jerusalem in which women riders sit in the back. The women protestors sit in the front of the bus and wear red bracelets as signs of their opposition.
Spokesperson Shiran Dadon explained their opposition to the buses:
"We are not fighting against ...
Amos Gitai
Amos Gitai was born on October 11, 1950 in Haifa, Israel. His father was an architect and he was studying architecture when he was called up for the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He was shot down by a Syrian missile on the Golan Heights while flying in a helicopter. This would later be a part ...
Yehuda Amichai – Poet
In 1924 Yehuda Amichai was born in Wurzburg -Germany. His family moved to Israel in 1935. During WW II he served in the British army. During the War of Independence he served int he Palmach.
Amichai is one of the great modern Israel poets. In 1982 he won the Israel Prize for Poetry. He published 11 ...
“Lebanon” director Shmulik Maoz
The Israeli movie's world premiere will be at the Venice International Film Festival early September.
The film will then be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the event's prestigious "Visions" program in September.
According to the festival's organizers, "Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who ...
Amos Elon – Writer and Journalist
Amos Oz (birth name Amos Klausner) was born on May 4, 1939 in Jerusalem. He is a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva. He grew up in the Kerem Avraham, which is the setting for much of his fictional writing.
In 1939, when Amos was 12, his mother committed suicide. At the age ...
Israeli Health Care
With the recent debates about Health Care in the US it is odd to see the conservative Republicans trashing a health care system that Israel has enjoyed for decades. Health care in Israel is universal. All citizens have the same Uniform Benefits Package.
The World Health Organization ranks Israel as the 28th best health care while ...
25% of Israelis suffer from mental distress
About a quarter of the population in Israel had suffered from mental distress in 2007, but only about half of those who experienced problems reported seeking professional help, a new report on the subject published by the Myers JDC Brookdale Institute revealed.
The survey aimed at examining the patterns of seeking care ahead of the reform of ...
Rap in Nablus
Thousands of Palestinians attended a rap concert in the city of Nablus this week, as part of the Marketing Festival being held in town. The young, excited audience chanted the words of the social and political protest songs along with the group Words of Pain.
One band member, Nizar Kabha, told Ynet that Words of Pain ...
David Broza Gets Medal from Spanish King
Israeli singer David Broza was awarded a Spanish royal medal of honor Wednesday, for his longtime contribution for Israel-Spain relations.
Broza has been performing songs in Spanish, alongside his Hebrew repertoire, for most of his career.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain decided to award him the medal for his contribution to both Israel-Spain relations and his ...