The storm that has fallen on Israel has suffered wedding feasts
A storm in the Jerusalem area caused weddings to be shifted from evening to afternoon. According to a number of event halls, weddings will begin at 14:00 pm to finish by 18:00 pm, peak weather. A similar situation is possible in the Beitar Ilit area and, it seems, in ...
Israeli divers found the largest treasure
Off the coast of Caesarea, scuba divers discovered at the bottom 2,000 gold coins of various denominations dating back thousands of years. This is the largest treasure discovered in the Mediterranean. The Israel Antiquities Authority considers it "priceless." The coins were minted in the Middle East and North Africa in…
Return to Israel of a plane on which Jews were secretly taken out of Iraq in 1947
“Operation Michaelberg” (or Operation “Wing”) is how Mossad representatives called a daring action in 1947, in which about 46 Jewish repatriates were secretly transported from Iraq to Palestine on American Curtiss C-100 Commando aircraft. British authorities fiercely resisted repatriation. Despite…
Avigdor Lieberman: “They were killed just because they were Jews”
“Yesterday, when I was walking in a column of demonstrators along Boulevard Voltaire in Paris, I saw inscriptions on the walls of houses:“ 17 people killed. 65 million wounded. " According to French police estimates, more than XNUMX million people took part in the Republican March. It seemed that the streets ...
24 Jewish Film Festival opens in New York
The works of the Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis-Singer are familiar to many from the comedy melodrama “Enemies. Love Story "directed by Paul Mazursky. The prototype of the main character, the charming and amorous immigrant Hermann Broder, who got entangled in relationships with women, was, of course, the writer himself, whose novel is taken as the basis ...
Jewish Quarter of Old Jerusalem
Midday photo report on October 27, 2014. In the morning, the media were frightened by the specter of the intifada roaming the expanses of Jerusalem. And then - only a few days have passed since the “auto-terrorist attack” at a tram stop, which claimed the lives of an innocent baby and a young girl. They wrote about the emptiness of the Old Town, full...
Yair Shamir: “I feel sorry for the Israelis, who forgot about the Holocaust and emigrated because of the“ Milky ”
I bring to your attention an interview that I gave to the correspondent of the newspaper "Maariv" Yehuda Sharoni. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Yair Shamir recently returned from a private trip to Berlin, where he visited for the first time. »At railway stations I saw lists of places where ...
Cohen blessing
A view from the women's quarters On October 12, the most massive worship service took place in Jerusalem at the Western Wall - the blessing of the Kohanim. In order to get through the police barriers into the Old City in time, we had to leave Tel Aviv at 7 am. My intuition didn’t let me down - I...
Daniil CHKONIA: “Jerusalem fascinated me”
Daniil Chkonia was born in 1946 in Port Arthur into a family of military doctors. Grew up in Mariupol, lived in Tbilisi, and since 1975 - in Moscow. Since 1996 he has been living in Germany, in Cologne. Graduated from the Literary Institute. Gorky, since 1976 ...
The mysticism of “kaparot”: why do Jews spin a chicken over their heads?
The custom of "kaparot" before Yom Kippur is a very ancient and common custom in most Jewish communities. At the same time, debates about it have been going on for hundreds of years. These days they have become even more relevant due to campaigns carried out by advocates...