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While looking for material about the Hanut (Store) Fringe Theater on Tel Aviv’s Rehov Ha’aliya, I came across an interesting quote. Asked how he felt…

On the first day of December 1932, 1,200 copies of an eight-page newspaper called The Palestine Post were printed and sent into circulation…

I suppose I could be called something of a collector because I have this thing about clocks. I‘m drawn to them and own quite a few, all in excellent…

When one stands at the top of Rehov Bezalel and looks to the west, the luxury apartment project Mishkenot Ha’uma can be seen towering on the hill…

Guy Nattiv’s drama about an autistic young man who has been institutionalized for years and then returns to his family won the Israeli Feature Film…

MARRIAGE RULES can be very confusing. Although there is no civil marriage here, civil marriages performed abroad are recognized, including those in…

In a move that may cloud recently-resumed proximity talks with the Palestinians, Peace Now announced this week that initial construction had begun on…

It’s either seasonal or perhaps a superior being persuading Israeli art collectors and corporate patrons to unlock their archives and provide the…

Like his Bukharan ancestors who wandered the ancient Silk Road on camels and horses to make their living in trade, Shlomo Moussaieff, 86, is a master…

n SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHERS Sarah Davidovich and Eti Salanski are also socialites who are on so many invitation lists that they seldom have a moment to…

Right after the War of Independence, seven-year-old Hayim Yom Tov moved to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Yemin Moshe together with other…

A defunct east Jerusalem hotel overlooking Mount Scopus purchased a quarter century ago by an American millionaire who is an active funder of Jewish…

With the uncertain economic situation, everyone is feeling the pinch of higher prices. Being relatively new returnees to the country, my husband and…

Right after the War of Independence, seven-year-old Hayim Yom Tov moved to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Yemin Moshe together with other immigrants…

SECURITY PERSONNEL at Beit Hanassi were somewhat taken aback last week when the attractive woman accompanying Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, the President…

What would make a young man rise from a sickbed, his arm in a cast, leap onto a truck and head for battle despite terrible odds? Shot in the arm two…

A three-day festival out in the desert? Sound a bit familiar? For the past decade or so we have gradually become accustomed to a growing plethora of…

The Book of Exodus specifies that the male descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses, should constitute the Jewish priesthood - the kohanim - "for…

In a case in which truth is stranger than fiction, a best-selling author of two autobiographies trumpeting his genius in burglary will spend the rest…

Self-proclaimed psychokinetic healer Oren Zarif, whose TV appearances have been as frequent as his full-page ads, says it's the subconscious that…