Appreciating Architecture

May 3, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, Blogging, History and Culture 

Bauhaus building design, writes blogger Chris over at telaviv.com, is what make this wonderful city of ours (Tel Aviv) a very special place to be.

According to Chris, there are 4,000 Bauhaus style architecture structures in Tel Aviv and in his posting he lists his top five favorites accompanied by photos.

A sampling:

56 Mazeh Street
Oh my goodness!!!!!! This has to be my all time favorite building. This for me is pure Bauhaus, this is the way Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement, would have done it. I could easily take a day off work, sit on the pavement and just soak up the enormity of this building.

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Internet Marketing 101

May 2, 2008 by · 4 Comments
Filed under: General 

And now…a quick lesson in internet marketing.

Heard about the four P’s? Let’s go through them quickly.
1) Product: what you’re selling. Let’s take Mexican food in Israel for example. It’s nasty. Good luck marketing that.

2) Price: self-explanatory. Dr. Pepper costs 85 million shekels per can. I wonder why they don’t sell more here. The more competitive your prices, the easier you’ll be able to sell your product. Have you been to AM/PM before in Tel Aviv? I only go there if, aleph, it’s Shabbat, or bet, I’m at gunpoint. They won’t be hiring me for their marketing team anytime soon.

AM: PM stands for “Ante Meridiem: Post MAMA MIA ARE YOU FREAKING JOKING???”

3) Place: where you’re selling, how the product gets to the customer. I hear our neighbors make chumus better than we do. I also won’t be finding out anytime soon. This may explain why I don’t see many commercials for Chickpea Joe’s in Ramallah (or maybe it’s because I don’t have cable.)

4) Promotion: where and how you get your message to your customer. Internet advertising is the way to go these days although it seems that we still have some kinks to figure out in 2008.

WHY AM I SEEING THIS ON MY COMPUTER???

Apparently, the hottest new site for Jewish online dating.
Jdate, consider yourself warned.

Ooh la la! Baby baby-how about you come back to my place and we make fatwas all night long? At least they made the ad in my native language…not like this time.

Thanks, Talia. 

For more laughs, check out What War Zone??? 

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Foto Friday

May 2, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, Blogging, History and Culture, Holidays, Israeliness, Life 

Welcome welcome.

Next week’s Independence Day. Yahoo! 60 whole years. Lookinnnnngggg Gooooodddd!!

Meanwhile, let’s kick back & relax with some pictures.

Enjoy the weekend – we will!

Your Friends @ Israelity


“Shack”….Boaz Arad


Osem’s Answer to Israel’s 60th: Bamba Peanut Snack filled with Chocolate Nougat

Text Decay…YanivG

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Secret Documents Exposed

May 1, 2008 by · 2 Comments
Filed under: Crime, Israeliness, Politics 

Well THIS is certainly the type of scenario you don’t want going down if you’re conducting a top secret military investigation.

According to Hebrew press, the Israeli army special investigations unit lost top secret files linked to a sensitive case pending against a high ranking intelligence officer.

As part of an information gathering effort, investigators appeared before a judge in Tel Aviv this week to secure search warrants for one of the country’s top corporations.

When the court session ended investigators forgot a handful of case-sensitive documents on the hallway bench outside the criminal holding area. The documents contained investigation details including suspects’ names.

“It’s an area traversed by dozens of convicts, families of convicts and attorneys,” Hebrew daily Maariv reported.

Maariv reports “local citizens” delivered the material to their doorstep.

The army is taking the matter seriously.

Uh oh.

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Holocaust Remembering

May 1, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: A New Reality, History and Culture, Israeliness, Life, War 

Is the siren on at 10? my colleague asked with a sense of urgency when she heard my voice on the other end of the phone.

Yes, I replied. It is.

It’s my first time and I want to go down to the street and see it. Can I call you back in about 20 minutes?

Your first time for the siren? Wow. Go. Go. I urged.

There’s something powerful beyond words about the country shutting down the evening before and standing in silence the day of Holocaust Remembering.

A dozen years here and it still impacts.

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