Picture of the week: I’ll have it on ice please
Filed under: Food, General, Picture of the Week, Pop Culture
I don’t really get the attraction myself, but since my kids first read the Guinness Book of Records, they’ve been planning various record-breaking attempts. Person to kneel on a fit ball longest – that’s one idea, or what about person to eat the most chocolate at one sitting (they haven’t reached the age when they realize how awful that suggestion actually is), or even person to make the biggest ball from elastic bands.
None of these seemingly ludicrous ideas are actually any more ridiculous than some of the record-breaking feats actually being carried out by people for the book itself.
Hence Israeli magician, Chezi Dean is now attempting to break the Guinness world record of staying in ice. Dean, who served as a magician for the IDF during his military service, hopes to break the record set by David Blaine, then 27, who encased himself in a block of ice for 58 hours, right in the center of Times Square.
Dean, wearing just trousers and a hat, entered the ice structure right in the heart of Tel Aviv on December 29th, and plans to leave the ice on New Year’s Eve – six hours longer than Blaine. Photo by Roni Schutzer/Flash90.
This isn’t the only record-breaking attempt going on at the moment. On January 8th, Juadat Ibrahim, owner of the Abu Gosh restaurant in Abu Gosh will be trying to break the world record for the biggest platter of hummus – a record that was just broken in October this year by Lebanon.
Then 250 chefs got together to create the dish using 2.976 pounds of chickpeas and 13,525 ounces of lemon juice. The final dish weighed in at more than two tons, beating the previous record, which was held by an Israeli company.
At Abu Gosh, the goal is to create a four-ton platter of hummus and some of the country’s best chefs will be on hand to do it. The event will be attended by government ministers, ambassadors and Jewish and Arab professionals, who will no doubt be feasting on hummus afterwards.
Picture of the Week: The shots that won’t make it to the catalog
Filed under: health, Picture of the Week, Pop Culture
Okay, I know it’s supposed to be just one picture in the Picture of the Week, but if you can’t break the rules in a blog, where can you break them? And this seems like an ideal pairing – the photos that WON’T make it into the advertising campaign.
First off we’ve got some poor soul from Holon getting a swine flu shot. A man shrieking in pain as a nurse gives him the flu jab is clearly not the message that the government wants to give. One look at this picture, and my kids wouldn’t have an inoculation again in their lives.
The Israeli health authorities have started vaccinating the population against swine flu. The Health Ministry purchased 7.3 million doses of the swine flu vaccine – enough for every Israeli –but is increasingly perturbed by the reluctance of Israelis to actually take the darn thing.
Only 30 percent of health care officials and personnel took the shot, and the general public seems to be following suit – so far just 160,000 have rolled up their sleeves. No doubt news that three people – all dialysis patients mind you – died shortly after receiving the vaccination, has made the injection a little less appealing.
If this keeps up, millions of expensive doses of swine flu vaccine will simply just go to waste. In response the Health Ministry is now thinking about offering the inoculation in shopping malls and workplaces.
Next up, we’ve got Bar Refaeli posing for Fox’s new summer catalog with Noam Tor. Refaeli and Tor are the current ‘faces’ of Fox, a popular Israeli clothing chain for men, women, kids and babes that offers relatively cheap, fashionable items.
This year’s shoot, for next year’s fashions, was at Mevo Horon, and supposedly in the spirit of Woodstock. Wasn’t the Woodstock revival last year?
While you’d be hard put to find a bad picture of Refaeli, you can be pretty sure that this shot won’t be making it into next year’s catalog. And sorry Fox, but what is that thing she’s wearing?
Pic of the man suffering Trypanophobia (that’s fear of medical procedures involving needles) by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90. Pic of Refaeli and Tor by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.
Picture of the week: Doves for Shalit
Filed under: coexistence, Picture of the Week, Politics
We’re all watching and waiting. The reports that have been coming out in the press of an imminent release are just adding to the pressure. It’s been three and a half years since Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Palestinian militants. When is he finally coming home?
Today Nir Barkat, the Mayor of Jerusalem got together with Jewish and Arab children to release hundreds of doves in support of Shalit at Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The event was timed to coincide with the opening of the Israeli Doves Exhibition, which takes place at Alrov Mamila in Jerusalem during Hannukah, and features more than 300 doves of different species.
Let’s hope Shalit comes home soon.
Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.
Picture of the week: Drinking, driving and mini donuts
Filed under: Food, health, Holidays, Picture of the Week
The shops are full of them, everyone is offering you them, and – worse than that – it’s almost churlish to refuse. Yes, Hannukah is almost upon us, and donut production has gone into overdrive.
The shops and bakeries began selling sufganiyot some weeks ago, but now sales are getting serious. Tray after tray of these sugary, fried cholesterol bombs are on display everywhere tempting the unwitting, unwary or just plain foolhardy.
Every year bakeries outdo themselves to come up with something new. So we’ve had peanut butter donuts, halva and dulce de leche. This year, however, the alcohol importers have decided to get in on the act with a new type of donut – soaked in vodka . One 100-gram donut contains the alcohol content of a bottle of beer. So don’t eat more than one if you want to drive home.
While I’ve never been a great fan of the donut – except the small ones filled with chocolate and cream that Roladin creates – even the greatest lovers of these calorie-laden balls would find it hard to eat a donut with pleasure after reading an article by nutritionist Limor Gilat in Ha’aretz
this week.
Each donut, she points out, contains between 350-800 calories, and to burn off these calories, you would have to run at a sprint for an hour straight. And digestion, well, Gilat goes into some detail about the arduous work your body has to do to get that jelly donut through your system.
So what’s the answer? Gilat suggests a mixture of restraint and abandon, and some mint-flavored gum. I’d like to put forward a suggestion too – why don’t bakeries drastically reduce their size (even smaller than Roladin’s donuts), so we have mini sufganiyot. I know my kids would love them, and so would the nation’s kupat holim (health authorities). Photo by Nati Shohat /Flash90.
Picture of the week: Bar Refaeli – in trouble again with Israel’s ultra-orthodox
Filed under: General, Israeliness, Life, Picture of the Week, Pop Culture, Religion
Earlier this month, it was Bar Refaeli’s
They just don’t like to see her naked, or even semi-naked, or even, come to that matter, any hint that she might be naked under her clothes.
When Fox put up their billboard on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv showing Refaeli lying provocatively under a blanket next to Israeli Survivor winner Noam Tor, with jeans on I might add, and not actually showing the slightest bit of breast, they immediately threatened a boycott if Fox didn’t take the advert down.
So what did clothing chain Fox do? They caved of course. They thought about the outlets they have selling clothes to the orthodox and panicked. The risqué, and rather sweet, ad was immediately replaced by a modest one of Refaeli and Tor fully dressed in winter clothes . Boring.
Now the ultra-orthodox are up in arms yet again because Bonita De Mas has put up a billboard of Refaeli wearing nothing but a bra and knickers.
Now I can think of many reasons why we should be campaigning against this kind of ad – mainly because of the objectification of women, the damage this kind of picture does to women’s self image etc. etc., but somehow when the ultra-orthodox population complains that this is poisoning the public environment, I get a little narked.
These are the same people who force women to sit at the back of their buses, the same people who conduct aggressive modesty patrols, attacking women who they deem to be wearing the wrong length of hemline or cuff. These are the same people, in fact, who are trying to make women completely invisible.
And let’s not get into the protests against Intel, the riots in the streets, the firebombing of shops that sell ‘provocative’ women’s clothes, or even the stoning of motorists who drive in the wrong areas of Jerusalem on a Saturday. Enough already.
Hell, I hate to see naked women adorning posters, but I hope Bonita De Mas sticks by its guns and keeps those posters up for all to see.
Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash 90.
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