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Shield of Solomon, a documentary by Igal Hecht

As we told you, Tel-Aviv has many faces… Around the ‘old’ bus-station, you will find many foreign workers, some are refugies from Dafur, Sudan. Film director Igal Hecht (Chutzpa Productions) made a moving 52 minutes documentary called ‘Shield of Solomon’. It tells you about the thousands of man, woman and children from Dafur who have been killed, in what’s decribed as the first genocide of the 21st century. This new documentary by Igal Hecht (it was screened two weeks ago at the Cape Winelands Film Festival in Cape-Town, South Africa) brings the story of four refugees from Dafur , who have found sanctuary in Israel. The photography is done by Lior Cohen. For more information: www.chutzpaproductions.com … Read entire article »

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TEL AVIV: For Ever Young

On a sunny afternoon, April the 11th 1909, 150 man, woman and children left the over-crowded port-city of Jaffa and walked 3 km north trough the hot, burning sand to a spot were they decided about the future of today’s Tel Aviv. Within a few month the first houses for those 66 families were build (Herzl, Jehuda-ha Levie and Lilienblum-street). As for today Tel Aviv-Jaffa population hit an all-time high of 391.300 inhabitants, still quite small compare to cities in Europe and the States. But this small city is an open minded city, free of spirit and always on the move. Just read what international magazines and papers wrote the last few years about the city: In January 2008 the leading French fashion magazine Vogue dedicated three flattering articles about Tel Aviv … Read entire article »

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