International Women’s Film Festival begins this week in Rechovot
Posted on August 31, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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This Wednesday is the beginning of the International Women’s Film Festival in Rechovot, Israel. The theme this year is passion and its expression in movies.
Should this post be called, “Chick flick alert”? Well, lets see some of the movies being shown over the course of the four-day festival.
At the gala opening Waitress will be featured. It is a movie about an unhappy pregnant restaurant worker in the U.S.A. Read more»
At the Elvis Diner, fans still get all shook up 30 years after the death of The King
Posted on August 31, 2007 • By Gil Zohar
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While Elvis Presley checked out of this world’s Heartbreak Hotel 30 years ago on August 16, 1977, Israel’s diehard Elvis fans are still all shook up about The King. On that date here in Israel, nine Elvis impersonators including two women assembled at the Pundak Elvis (Elvis Diner) here, a truck stop and shrine just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem expressway 10 km west of the capital, for a day-long celebration of the life of a man they revere as a proud blue suede Jew. Read more»
Israeli GDP rises, but Israel’s tax burden one of worst among developed countries
Posted on August 31, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
So often, life in Israel seems to simultaneously embody two different ends of a spectrum: we experience joy and pain, success and failure, love and hate - all together. It is no different in Israel’s business sector. Israelis were greeted last week with both happy and upsetting news about Israel’s economy. The International Monetary Fund raised Israel’s per capita gross domestic product to 18th in the world, up from the 21st spot. And yet, Tax Freedom Day only came for Israelis this year on August 2, making Israel one of the countries with the worst tax burdens in the developed world. Read more»
New non-profit angel club matches US investors with Israeli start-ups
Posted on August 31, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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Tevel is a new US non-profit angel club that aims to facilitate introductions between Israeli hi-tech entrepreneurs and potential investors in the US. Companies interested in using Tevel’s services must submit an application, and Tevel uses a professional screening process to select the most promising companies to present to their investors. Read more»
List of the current Israeli facebook groups
Posted on August 30, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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Jacob Richman of Ma’aleh Adumim, Israel has compiled a list of Jewish and/or Israeli facebook groups.
Jacob, I don’t know how long you must have worked on this list but kudos to you. He said in his blog that there are so many groups on facebook that are not active or are just not useful so he wanted to help people find groups relevant to them. The list is according to topic and can be found here. Read more»
Amiram Inc. rock band video uses fans’ footage
Posted on August 30, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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Amiram Eini, a Norwegian-Israeli singer, songwriter and guitarist and his rock band, Amiram Inc., are on tour in the UK until September 6. Click here to watch a video of one of their songs using footage that was sent to them over the course of three years by fans. It includes cellphone videos emailed to them! When you know that, it’s pretty cool to watch.
Amiram Inc. is supported by Oleh! Records, a non-profit record label that helps Israeli artists who perform in languages other than Hebrew.
“On tour”, Ynetnews, August 30, 2007.
Weizmann Institute researchers find clue to brain damage from cellphones
Posted on August 30, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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Dr. Joseph Friedman and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot, Israel, have found that exposing rat and human cell cultures to low-level electromagnetic radiation at frequencies similar to cellphones caused, even after as little as 10 minutes, activation of an enzyme that regulates cell differentiation and division.
Since we started using cellphones, I’ve wondered if they are in fact harmless or maybe less than harmless to our health. There have been other theories around their possible negative effect on our brain cells, including that mobile phones cause the brain to overheat. But Read more»
Madonna is going to Tzfat (Safed)
Posted on August 30, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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Madonna is going to Tzfat. Need I say more?
OK fine, if you insist. Madonna and her conglomerate are making a 10 day trip to Israel which will end on Yom Kippur. Conglomerate includes Demi Moore and Donna Karan (she must be good because the best pair of tights I ever owned was with her name on them). Oh, and 3,000 international students of the L.A.-based Kabbalah Center.
Of course there are mixed feelings about Madonna’s visit to Tzfat. Read more»
How to “play” the VCs and get them to invest
Posted on August 30, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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Israel gaining more tourists by sea and air
Posted on August 29, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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A new cruise company, Azamara Cruises, has announced stops this year in both Haifa and Ashdod. The passengers will be able to disembark for on-land trips and stays overnight.
The cruise, Azamara Journey, is a 694-passenger ship. It is making two trips around the Mediterranean, stopping both times in the two Israeli ports.
Though the 1,400 people expected to visit from these cruises is a relatively small number, especially relative to the 12.62 million international cruise passengers expected that year, this is a step in the right direction of renewing tourist arrivals by sea. Read more»
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