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Reaction on the Golan: A new leisure park and a women’s entrepreneurial course

Posted in America, Annapolis, Israel, Syria, tagged , , , on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here is the latest news about the reaction on the Golan Heights to the attendance of the Syrian deputy foreign minister at the Annapolis conference: a new leisure resort park has been established near the Amir Junction, the new B’not Yaakov bridge has been completed, work on road 98 from the Magshimim Junction to the [...]

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Annapolis today

Posted in Annapolis, Israel, Syria on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Good article by Chris Kaltenbach in the Baltimore Sun today, quoting me about the ‘Post’s coverage of the Annapolis summit.
“We’re treating this as a major event, giving it at least four pages in Tuesday’s edition and possibly more in Wednesday’s paper,” Amir Mizroch, news editor for The Jerusalem Post, wrote in an e-mail from Jerusalem yesterday. [...]

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Syria’s relationship status: It’s Complicated

Posted in America, International Relations, Iran, Israel, tagged , , on November 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Reuters reports Sunday that Syria had blocked access to Facebook
Now, Damascus has said it is sending its deputy Foreign Minister to the Annapolis conference, signaling a possible shift in its close relationship with Iran, who was not invited to the peace parley.
Iran and Syria have grown very close over the past few years, despite the [...]

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What’s eating the Israeli driver?

Posted in Israel, Lifestyle, Science and Technology, tagged , , , , , , , on November 22, 2007 | 8 Comments »

“Godless sociopaths the lot of them,” Jackie, a Tel-Aviv taxi driver for the past 18 years says of Israeli drivers. “They care about nobody but themselves. I used to carry around a baseball bat in the cab and I used to shout and scream at people, but now I’ve mellowed out. I’ve made the switch [...]

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So we lost

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I know the side is terribly disappointed, especially since it was such a crucial game. As I wrote in my story on Friday, Israel’s vulnerability is its batting, and that seemed to be the problem on Sunday, as too many batsmen underperformed. Everybody said however that the match was a cracker.  
 
Cricket: Close loss to Croatia [...]

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Israel to host its first ever international game of cricket

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Team members going through their paces Friday 16 November at Hadar Yosef, two days before the game.

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Are you talking [English] to me?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Gadi Bleicher is stepping down from a position that, over the past 10 years, has provided him a bird’s-eye view of how Israelis relate to the English language, and to how “Anglos” teach it here. After being Berlitz Israel’s district director from 1997 to 2002, and then its CEO for the past five years, he [...]

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Greenhouse – Incubating Middle East filmmaking talent

Posted in International Relations, Israel, Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Incubating talent
ISTANBUL – They say a good story has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. This story has an excellent and dramatic beginning, a beginning so chaotic and fraught with danger that it almost put the middle’s very existence into jeopardy, let alone the ending.
I’ll introduce the characters straight away, because, as [...]

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Between Europe and Asia

Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Last week I traveled to Istanbul to cover the Greenhouse project – an EU funded program to develop documentary film and filmmakers from the Middle East and Mediterranean. My feature will come out this Friday, but in the meantime here is a short travel piece from Istanbul that appeared in today’s paper.
Istanbul is, perhaps, best seen [...]

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African asylum seekers in Tel-Aviv, Friday 3/11/07

Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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First Class observations

Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Why does the captain need to tell me what altitude I’ll be flying at all the time? What possible use can I make of that information? Is he trying to engage me in small-talk? Does he want my input? Does he want to know if I concur? Yes, we should fly at 30,000 feet, or [...]

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