Edmond James de Rothschild

Carmel, Gold, Elite, Stock, Sabra and Goldstar are familiar names to students of Israel’s wines, spirits and beers. These brands have each had a part…

In an emotional Tu Bishvat event last Thursday to mark the 120th anniversary of Hadera’s founding, a large crowd gathered at the city’s cemetery and…

The Bible is saturated from beginning to end with references to vineyards, grapes and wine, so it is little wonder that the winery business is one of…

An admission: My family sold our house to Muslims. It was more than 30 years ago, in England, before we made aliya. At the request of the Pakistani…

Ask ten different people touring Mini Israel what they like best about this unique and exciting site, and you will get ten different answers. The…

The first winery town of Israel is the unpretentious, pretty Zichron Ya’acov, which lies on the southern slopes of Mount Carmel, midway between Haifa…

Each of these wineries has given a great deal to the development of the Israeli wine industry and has contributed to the quality revolution of the…

Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s love of Israel and his strong commitment, both financial and educational, to the early pioneers was one of the main…

Introduction Starvation, drought and disease quickly brought an end to the second rural Jewish settlement in Galilee, founded in 1878 on land bought…

GUESTS COMING from the Jerusalem area to the dinner hosted by British Ambassador Matthew Gould and his wife Celia at their residence in Ramat Gan in…

Hundreds of people in formal attire circled through the buffet lines set up in the garden of Caesarea’s posh Dan Hotel as a harpist strummed into the…

IT’S NOT often that one sees an ambassador at a formal luncheon who is too overcome with emotion to speak, and who has to brush away tears in the…

Hospitality is embedded in the Jewish DNA. After all, if Abraham, the Patriarch of the Jewish people, had not invited the three angels into his tent,…

The city of Rehovot marked its 120th anniversary last Friday with a visit from President of Israel Shimon Peres, a special ceremony in historic…

Pro-Israel activists will launch counter-protests against “Israeli Apartheid Week,” which began Monday, vowing to use information campaigns against…

Following a large wave of Russian pogroms in the early 1880s, Jews began emigrating from Eastern Europe. Thousands of destitute refugees headed for…

On a rainy January day, horns honk, brakes squeal and buses belch alongSderot Rothschild in Tel Aviv. Water pours through the tattered awnings ofthe…

Old and new; cheap and expensive; large and small; north and south: This is a list of contradictory opposites, right? Well, kind of. But there is a…

Rehov Hamahtarot (pre-state undergrounds) is a typical small-town street, running parallel with the railway line in Atlit, just down the coast south…

Ahuzat Bayit - later to be known as Tel Aviv - was founded on April 11, 1909. That's when 66 families standing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea…