Tel aviv — Everyone waiting at the arrivals gate seemed to have them. They were attached to prams and backpacks, tied around toddlers’ arms, and clustering on the ceiling. The usual atmosphere at airport arrival gates is hurried, impersonal, a sense of people very impatient to get away. At Ben Gurion, the arrivals gate felt like a big family gathering, as if every single person here had come to pick up much-...
Tel aviv-yafo — The tradition in this Israelian university is for visitors not to own their own office or to be gathered in a guests office, but to be welcomed by a permanent professor to share his office. It has not...
Jerusalem — It’s 3:34 am. My stomach is growling. It’s pitch black and silent, except for the freezer whirring. It feels like the whole city is rising and falling from the inhales and exhales of people’s slumber....
Jerusalem — Nous pouvons apprendre bien des choses de la symbolique : les mythes et leurs significations s’expriment dans l’objet, le corps et le geste qui se transforment dès lors en symbole. Dans les temps anci...
Even they eat potato chips in Mea She'arim
A Momentary Superpower
There is something so captivating and motivating about perfect weather in the December. Like a powerful energy drink.
I pushed through tiny alleyways littered with hanging laundry and African men in acid-washed jeans. I was headed to a place where nice, white girls weren't supposed to roam.
No plush, sodded lawns in surburbia, no limes in the grocery stores, and no self-respecting Israeli kid would dream of eating broccoli. So why is Israel considered so green?
PESSA’H ET RAMADAN, À LA RECHERCHE DU LIEN PERDU
The first thing I noticed when I arrived at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday were the balloons.
Taking the shuttle to work reminds me of lousy school trips; riding a crumpled bus crowded with sleepiness and gossip.
It walks!!!
Setting type in Tigrinya
Long & Boring discussion with a client...
Is this train moving or at a standstill?
Welcomed by books