All Entries Tagged With: "Only in Israel"
To Drive or Not to Drive, That Is The Question
Maybe it isn’t so clear to Jews or others outside of Israel what happens on Yom Kippur in Israel. Cars stop for the day. They just stop. It looks like a post apocalypse movie where the oil ran out one night and all we have left are bicycles and roller blades.
As far as I can [...]
Michael Scofield Meets Dana International
New Israeli commercial for Satellite television provider YES.
And in case you don’t know who Dana International is, “she” is an Israeli transsexual pop singer, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Diva”.
Update: Still on the subject of Israeli commercials, I thought it time to dust off the cobwebs and bring this classic [...]
Rocking the Casbah
From JTA:
An Israeli army rabbi is under investigation for putting a mezuzah up in an off-limits area of Hebron.The rabbi of the military’s Judea Brigade was photographed this week putting up a mezuzah in the casbah, or old city of Hebron, accompanied by Chabad supporters.
The Hebron casbah, from where many Palestinian residents have fled during [...]
Joke of the Day
Chutzpah, thy name is Israeli Arab Knesset members.
Israeli Arab lawmakers responded angrily Wednesday to proposed legislation that would prevent anyone who travels to a country classified as an enemy state from serving as a Knesset member.
The Knesset plenum approved proposals for two bills on this issue in preliminary readings on Wednesday.
The bills were drafted by [...]
The Convert
Meet Asaf Ben David, a palestinian who converted to Judaism, only to aid in palestinian terrorist attacks against Jews.
The Haifa District Court convicted Asaf Ben David, a Palestinian who converted to Judaism, of contact with a foreign agent and conspiring to aid the enemy.
The 39-year-old Ben David (originally Hussam Sawatmeh) was convicted of trying to [...]
Reaching For The Stars
While palestinian first-graders are learning how to become martyrs, their Israeli counterparts are learning the regular things first-graders learn. You know…reading, writing…astrophysics and astronomy….
Pupils in Jerusalem’s Har Homa neighborhood can now aspire to reach the stars, thanks to a new curriculum from first grade that includes astrophysics, astronomy and space studies. It will be offered [...]
An Oldie But a Goodie
Last night over dinner, the subject of the famous Israeli McShwarma commercial came up.
So in case you missed it the first time I posted it over 2 and half years ago, here it is:
Guest Post: “Kosher” Certification of a Different Kind
And now for something a little different….a guest post. This one is from Israellycool friend, political analyst and journalist Jeremy Wimpfheimer (who also featured on an Israellycool podcast here).
Israeli restaurant owners are well accustomed to the question “Do you have a Teuda?,” referring to the official certificate deeming all food and food preparation to be [...]
Reasons I Love Israel #587
One of my favorite aspects of living in Israel is the feeling of solidarity between Israelis during the tough times. And since the times are by definition always tough due to the fact that a not insignificant portion of the world would like us wiped off the planet (manifested by terrorism or support for terrorism), there is plenty [...]
Jerusalem Syndrome
Worth watching, even though you are subjected to seeing Michael Moore at the beginning.
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