Frits on March 2nd, 2010

The Tel Aviv muncipality announced today that they want to host the International Gay Pride Parade in 1012. The municipaly will increase the marketing budget for attracting gay-tourism; as a part of the project an Israeli gay-bus will tour European gay festivals.
See the article, yesterday published at Ynet.

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Frits on February 26th, 2010

One of the most beautiful pictures, I ever saw, from Tel Aviv, was made last week by Ron Shoshani. In three days, he received more then 2.500 hits on Facebook, worldwide… Just Awesome!!
[published with permission. Thanks, Ron!]

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Frits on February 11th, 2010

Yesterday, during a bright sunny day, I visited the beautiful Ajami-neighborhood.
Towards the end of the 19th century the Ajami neighborhood , stretching south of ‘Old-Jaffa’ started to be built. In the beginning of the 20th century hundreds of families, mainly Christian-Arabs, settled in Ajami. After 1948, a large Arab population from different parts of [...]

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Frits on February 2nd, 2010

This is the 3rd time (!) in a row that an Israeli Movie (Beaufort, 2008; Waltz with Bashir in 2009) is one of the 5 nominees at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film.
This afternoon, it was announced in L.A. that:
AJAMI, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani was nominated for an Oscar on March [...]

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Frits on January 31st, 2010

In two days we will know if the Israeli film: Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani will be nominated for an Oscar.
For all the people who saw, or will see this awesome movie about the Ajami-neighborhood in Jaffo, I recommand an outstanding book about the Arab-Jewish history of Jaffo: “City of Oranges : [...]

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