Tel Aviv was the first, Modiin is the second city to introduce ‘edible forests’ to their inhabitants: fruit gardens, orchards and vegetables planted by volunteers under the supervision of the city administration or ‘Hava and Adam’ ecological farm experts and free for the public. The idea is to provide free fruit and vegetables for people…
The list of keynote speakers at the opening ceremony of the new Israeli Innovation Center couldn’t be more sophisticated: former President Simon Peres, President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are going to inaugurate the new think-thank at the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Yafo. With the actual innovation center being actually opened…
Tel Aviv’s domestic airport Sde Dov is going to be closed down by the end of 2018 for civilian aviation and in 2017 for military aviation. While the area will be turned into a place for around 16 000 housing units, hotels, shopping malls and a seafront park, domestic flights to Eilat will become less…
It sounds like a repetition but is a well-deserved title Tel Aviv is winning all over again: the renowned Conde Nast Traveler magazine named Tel Aviv as one of the top 15 culinary cities in the world. Other competitors are hubs like London, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Vancouver, Buenos Aires or Sydney and Singapore. For…
After around 30 years of excavating, archaeologists of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon discovered a Philistine cemetery. The findings from this cemetery can be dated to the 11th-8th century BCE and are considered a piece of evidence for the migration background of the Philistines in the 12th century BCE. The Philistines buried their dead…
