Category Archives: Main PageIvri Lider. Credit: Ronen Ackerman Ivri Lider, one of Israel's biggest rock stars, has just released his first single in the United States. It's called Jesse – clip below. As you've no doubt guessed after viewing the clip, Ivri Lider is gay. He came out of the closet several years after he became famous, in [...]
Further to my previous post, a spoof on suicide bombing can be funny. The clip below was filmed on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv back in 2002 (ignore the opening credit that says 2005 – they be lyin' ). The team behind the clip is called Keta Keta, and they got tons of publicity for [...]
See below for update. Gen X Americans might remember a certain anti-drug commercial from the late 1980's, called “this is your brain on drugs.” It showed a man who held up an egg and said, “This is your brain,” before picking up a frying pan and adding, “This is drugs.” He then cracks open the [...]
Your roving reporter in Ramallah's Manar Square, 13 June 2007 Israeli citizens are not allowed to enter Gaza, even if they have a foreign passport, so they have to content themselves with reports from the West Bank instead. Here is a report on what I saw and heard in Ramallah last Friday, the day after [...]
Brian Ulrich pointed me to Conflict Blotter, the excellent blog of Sunday Telegraph reporter Charles Levinson, who is one of the very few Western journalists currently reporting from inside Gaza. Charles has a lot of guts, and he's a great writer too. He's updating several times a day, so check him out.
Arcadi Gaydamak at a Tel Aviv press conference. Arcadi Gaydamak, the shady Russian-Jewish oligarch who allegedly made his billions by funneling billions of dollars in arms and oil-backed loans to Angola's government in return for lucrative oil contracts with Western oil companies, is now busily trying to buy the State of Israel, Inc. Mainstream Israel [...]
In two days the Knesset will choose a new president. The candidates are Ruby Rivlin (a.k.a. The Clown) of Likud, Colette Avital of Labour (my favourite, although, sadly, she has no chance) and Shimon Peres (Kadima), the 84 year-old deputy prime minister. Peres is currently the front-runner for the ceremonial role, although there's a rather [...]
Here's an issue that prominent Hebrew bloggers and Internet activists like Hanan Cohen, Jonathan Klinger (English version here) and Gadi Shimshon are taking very seriously: A bill that proposes to introduce Internet censorship to Israel has passed a first reading in the Knesset without opposition. A full list of Hebrew bloggers' posts about the bill is [...]
So an American couple gets hungry during a long day of shopping and darbuka drumming in Jerusalem's Old City. Instead of making the obligatory stop at Abu Shukri for hummus-chips-salad-pita-falafel-who-cares-about-the-calories-we're-on-vacation meal, they run over to a taxi driver and ask him where they can get a real “local” salad. That is the silly-but-kinda-funny premise for [...]
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