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Life & Culture

Israeli Band's TikTok hit 'Self Aware' becomes a global streaming success

Temper City’s debut track surges past 50 million Spotify streams – a rare scale for Israeli pop Source link

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Nationalistic or Critical? What Israeli Independence Day Posters Tell Us

From the founding of Israel in 1948 until 2017, a poster competition was a classic feature of Independence Day, with the government choosing a winner each year. In 2017, Miri.

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Israeli movie theaters return with 'Project Hail Mary,' where the end of the world is actually fun

Meanwhile, Pixar’s latest ‘Hoppers’ delivers its smart, eco-conscious message without hitting the audience over the head and ‘Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert’ draws on hitherto unseen footage to create a.

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First Illuminated Passover Haggadah Features Imagery That Would Shock Modern Jewish Worshipers

Anyone who does not say these three things on Passover has not fulfilled his obligation: Pesach, Matza and Maror (Passover, matza and bitter herbs). Everybody who has ever taken part.

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Joe Sacco’s Next Gaza Comic Book and an Israeli Actor Wracked With Guilt

Credit: Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges, Fantagraphics, Moti Milrod, Ella Barak A renowned cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist collaborate to create a devastating indictment of Israel’s actions in Gaza in.

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‘Better Chance of Dying of Boredom’: Even Cluster Missiles Can’t Stop Tel Aviv’s Nightlife

When Ollie Danon performed last week at the Hameretz2 club in Tel Aviv, a siren went off just before his encore. He and the audience rushed to a nearby courthouse.

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This Magazine Is Unapologetically Palestinian – and Entirely in Hebrew

Sabra magazine could easily confuse anyone. The Hebrew-language online publication takes its name from a word that most Jews immediately associate with Zionism and being born and raised as Israeli,.

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'You can't live by the sword': Israeli TV's Tel Aviv street interview backfires

An Israeli TV reporter went looking for café complacency in Tel Aviv, and found Hila Tov explaining that ‘just six months ago we supposedly had a victory that would last.

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Lebanese pop star Elissa: Hezbollah has become a 'terror organization'

The singer one of the Middle East’s most successful artists, has criticized Hezbollah and Iranian aid before – but never so bluntly Source link

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Peace now? The Palestinian and Jewish artists daring to use a 'forbidden' word

This week in Cultural Roundup: From a building-sized call for peace in Tel Aviv by a former Palestinian Israeli Eurovision performer to a hostage-turned-style icon celebrating her self-expression Source link

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