Foto Friday – Nigeria-Tel Aviv
Filed under: A New Reality, Art, Food, Foto Friday, General, Immigrant Moments, Israeliness, Life, Movies, Music, Travel, coexistence
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria celebrated the Tel Aviv Centennial this week with a festival of arts, culture and cuisine. The festivities, which will culminate on Sunday, included Nigerian gourmet meals prepared under the direction of Chef Charlie Fadida, executive chef of the Tel Aviv Sheraton hotel, together with the dynamic Janet Olisa, wife of the Nigerian Ambassador and a team of Nigerian culinary experts. This came in addition to performances, at the annual Jaffa Nights festival, of traditional African music, song and dance performed by troupes from Nigeria.
The festival also included the opening of a photography exhibition, “Nigeria Through the Eyes of A Passerby”, by Victor Politis. An award-winning photographer and entrepreneur, Politis is founder and CEO of PRI, an international project development and financial advisory company with a focus on emerging markets. His business travels have also afforded him the opportunity to explore his passion for photography and documenting an ever- globalizing world. More about Politis can be found here.
The Nigerian Festival Week includes a film festival featuring the best of “Nollywood“. The Nigerian movie industry, it transpires, is the third largest in the world in terms of number of films produced annually. I did not know that! The festival is held under the auspices of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, the Nigerian Friendship Association and other organizations from Israel and overseas.
Aliyah deals
Just read this week that the Absorption Ministry and El Al are offering special benefits to Israelis living abroad who move back to Israel during this 60th anniversary year. The ‘yordim’ who become ‘olim’ will be charged a flat rate airfare by El Al from any destination, and will be allowed extra baggage, a discount on shipping their belongings, as well as tax breaks for ten years, help finding work and programs for returning doctors, scientists and other researchers.
Sweet deal. I didn’t even get a free ticket when I made aliyah. Granted, snafu of my own, but this could be the opportunity to fix things. Now, my husband has been angling for a flat screen TV, and was thinking of asking friends of friends of friends who are making aliyah this summer to leave some space on their lift for a TV for us, as well as some lawn furniture. Forget the Americans; we need to find ourselves some real, returning Israelis. So anyone out there, let us know! And we’ll be happy to have you for dinner once you get here.
Subscribe
Subscribe to Israelity via email:
Social Media
Categories
- A New Reality
- Art
- Blogging
- Business
- coexistence
- Crime
- design
- education
- Environment
- Food
- Foto Friday
- General
- health
- History and Culture
- Holidays
- Immigrant Moments
- Israeliness
- Life
- Medical Breakthroughs
- Movies
- Music
- Nostalgia Sunday
- Picture of the Week
- Politics
- Pop Culture
- Profiles
- Religion
- Social Justice
- Sports
- Technology
- Travel
- tv
- War
The Face of Israel Today
-
About Israelity
Free newsletter
Stories from ISRAEL21c.orgPopular Posts