Category Archives: Israel

CHANGE.WORLD: Israel – 75

Israelul împlinește în această săptămână 75 de ani. Ziua Națională marchează aniversarea Declarației de Independență a Israelului, semnată pe 14 mai 1948 sau 5 ale lunii ebraice Iyar. Cum toate sărbătorile evreiești sunt celebrate după calendarul ebraic, data diferă în … Continue reading

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The Eternal Zionism

    A couple of months ago I attended in the day care center where my mother-in-law spends her mornings at the party given for her birthday together with the celebrations for other colleagues of her born in February. All … Continue reading

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Sionismul etern

  Cu două luni în urmă am participat la căminul de zi unde își petrece soacra mea diminețile la sărbătorirea zilei ei de naștere, împreună cu alți colegi născuți în luna februarie. Toți sunt ca vârstă între 80 și 90 … Continue reading

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‘Spiritul Sapantei’ – o expozitie la kibbutzul Beeri

Intr-unul din locurile cel mai putin verosimile se afla una dintre cele mai neobisnuite galerii de arta pe care le-am vizitat. Kibbutzul Beeri este situat in sudul Israelului, nu departe de Netivot si Shderot, langa fasia Gaza, zona care se … Continue reading

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Richard III under Rocket Attacks

This is maybe one of the most unusual texts about a theater performance that I have ever written. It is not only about Shakespeare’s masterpiece, not only about the staging (and I have great references to compare with, starting with … Continue reading

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Snapshots in Tel Aviv and Yaffo

Below are a few pictures taken this morning during a short tour in Tel Aviv and Yaffo.     Beit Tamar is the name of the building that stands at the intersection of the streets Chelouche and Shabazi in the … Continue reading

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signs and faiths in Jerusalem

I discover each time I am here the beauty and fascination of Jerusalem, this place unique on Earth for its combination of faith and history, of landscape, people and emotions. The weekend Liliana and me spent here was a quiet … Continue reading

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Polishuk, Polishuk, Polishuk! …

If elections were hold today in Israel a political party that never existed and a politician who was born only in the imagination of TV script writers and comical series directors would have good chances to exceed the minimal percentage … Continue reading

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Graduation Ceremony at IDC Herzlya

I am no fan of ceremonies and speeches. The one yesterday was however one that I would not miss as the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzlya celebrated its 2010-2011 graduates. And two of the speeches at the rather long ceremony … Continue reading

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‘The Human Scale’ in Tel Aviv

It is a remarkable coincidence that ‘The Human Scale’ written and acted on stage by the Pulitzer winner journalist Lawrence Wright from The New Yorker and brought to stage by director Oskar Eustis for the New York Public Theater was … Continue reading

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