How expensive is Tel-Aviv's food?
According to the 2013 Corporate Travel Index, Tel-Aviv is the 24th most expensive city in terms of the total cost per night for business people, out of 100 cities checked. However, while Tel-Aviv's hotel prices were ranked in the 17th place, the high-quality food turned out to be not so expensive, balancing the expensive business visits prices…In case you were wondering, the most expensive city (US cities not included) is Tokyo…
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A poster to commemorate the Holocaust
The Yad Vashem memorial center and the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs have initiated a poster design competition to commemorate the victims of the holocaust. Out of 108 posters, the judges chose Dea Giladi's (23) design. Her poster shows a tree with deep roots, whose branches have been cut off.
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Anti Semitism 2.0
The internet has provided us with tools to pass and spread information in almost no time. But while most of us make good use of the “information era,” many haters go online and spread words of hatred and lies. “Kill a Jew day,” holocaust denials and Jewish conspiracies, all being spread to innocent, clueless people, who believe the lies they see and hear. We must fight back. We must provide a proper answer.
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HBO telling one of the many stories of the Holocaust
This Friday, American television channel HBO aired a full-length film about a couple who saved dozens of Jewish children from the Holocaust in 1939. The documentary is called “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus.” The film, narrated by Alan Alda and Mamie Gummer , tells the inspiring story of an American couple from Philadelphia that went into the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, risking their personal safely to save 50 Jewish children from the Shoah.