Eatery’s unique offer
Recent visitors to the Hummus Bar at the M Mall in Kfar Vitkin, near Netanya. The eatery is offering a 50% deal on its hummus for Jews and Arabs who share a table and eat together. (photo from facebook.com/Mhumusbar) An…
Israel
More than just a foodie film
Roger Sherman’s Florentine Films crew chows down at El Babor restaurant in the Haifa area. (photo from Florentine Films) It might seem absurd that an American filmmaker, who, until five years ago, thought that falafel and hummus were the only…
A relatively quiet year
Among the events that began the Jewish year of 5775 (2014/15), Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to the United States, where he addressed the United Nations to warn of the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran, and met with U.S.…
Student is CEO of tech firm
Iddo Gino at the 2014 World Hackathon Day in Tel Aviv. (photo from israel21c.org) There’s something unusual about one of the startups renting co-working space in the newly opened WeWork building in Herzliya: its CEO is still in high school.…
Reading aloud aids learning
An important tip from Israeli experts: children recall information better when they repeat the material aloud. This is the conclusion of a study conducted at Israel’s Ariel University by Prof. Michal Ichet from the department of communication disorders in collaboration…
A solution for cyberbullying
Alon Bar-David, co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Red Button. (photo from Red Button) While cyberbullying is a relatively new phenomenon, bullying is as old as human history. From the playground to the office to cyberspace, it is remarkably transferable…
Is it paradise or pinkwashing?
Organizers estimate 180,000 people marched in the Tel Aviv Pride parade, June 12. (photo by Robin Perelle) Alberto Lukacs-Böhm dabs a handful of birds onto the sunny sea-to-sky poster he’s painting for Tel Aviv Pride. To live openly as a…
A look into the Ashernet archives
Traveling by car between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in 1973. (photo by Edgar Asher) In the 1970s, Edgar Asher worked at BBC Television News as a photojournalist. In 1973, he went to Israel to take photos of the country, mainly for…
The love of chocolate
Goodies from Sarina Chocolate’s kids workshop. (photo by Viva Sarah Press) Israeli chocolatiers aren’t worried about the reported shortage of the sweet treat despite warnings by the world’s largest cocoa grinder, Barry Callebaut, that a potential chocolate shortage by 2020 is…
Triple treatment for cancer
Lung cancer cells (green) cultured together with normal lung cells (red). The triple-antibody combination EGFR, HER2 and HER3 strongly impairs the survival of tumor cells while sparing normal cells. (Modified confocal microscopy image by Maicol Mancini, lab of Prof. Yosef Yarden, via…
