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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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!]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 : [...]
