Lockdown, Part 2
Israel is locked down again. Some restaurant owners here smashed plates in the streets to protest the nation’s second round of coronavirus restrictions. Other citizens simply went without pizza. Upon learning that just under 12% of recent, ongoing nationwide COVID-19...
New Media, Ancient Libels
On an otherwise ordinary day at a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland, over one hundred fifty years before anyone had laid eyes on an iPhone, American inventor, Alfred Vail, sat beside a device he had developed with his partner, Samuel Morse. While listening to a...
What next? Israel has a sail-in theater!
By Cliff Keller — While in Tel Aviv, why not catch a movie on a boat? Israel joined the elite ranks of Canada’s Port Toronto and Washington State’s Port of Everett this month when the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality launched (to use a nautical term) this...
Force Zvika and the “virtue” of Israeli contrariness, a remembrance…
Native Israelis’ perhaps most annoying vice may also be their nation’s saving grace By Cliff Keller —Israel’s “coronavirus cabinet” recently voted to order hospitals here to prepare to serve 2,000 additional coronavirus patients who may soon need ventilators. The...
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