Look Who’s Looking

April 14, 2008 - 2:30 PM by

We here at Israelity are very fond of…

1) Seeing large scale publications tout Israel’s niceties
2) Seeing our friends progress along the ladder of success

When the two combine….Well, James, pull up the limo. It’s going to be another night on the town.

Moving right along on our Travel Israel thread, we note with glee the Conde Nast Traveller April edition (UK).

Look at the country sporting the supplement cover, wouldja?

Photographer Amit Geron teamed up with writers Linda Grant, Nick Fraser and our blogging and writing pal Lisa Goldman to compile comprehensive and incredibly eye pleasing overviews of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv including places to visit, stay, shop & play.

Jerusalem is beautiful in a way no European city manages to be: jarring at times, disquieting and, despite its age, incomplete. It has been destroyed and rebuilt and destroyed again. Empires have come and gone, leaving more ruins. No one can bet on a city whose function is to supply the end of the world. No promises of eternal life arise from the masses of stone under near-white skies.…Nick Fraser

Above all else, Tel Aviv is alive, existing in the present tense (not the future: too uncertain.) Nicknamed by fellow Israelis the ‘Buah’, or ‘bubble’, due to its psychological separation from the rest of the country and its troubles, its population manages to go on living as if life were normal, or rather to live despite the abnormality of its situation. It is as if Tel Aviv is the one spot on earth where all that Jewish tragedy is triumphantly transcended, where the iron weight of history does not rest on your head.…Linda Grant

Off with ye to the local magazine vendor!

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