How co-work offices became the unexpected winners of Covid
For everyone weary of working at home but wary of returning to corporate offices, flex is emerging as the hybrid solution for Covid times.
WeWork Azrieli Town, Tel Aviv. Photo courtesy of WeWork
“There is now no reason that any team should even consider a traditional office.”
When the pandemic sent everyone home to work in their PJs, corporate offices became ghost towns and co-working spaces struggled to survive.
Now, co-working spaces are reemerging as “flex” workspaces offering the antidote for several Covid ills: WFH (working from home) fatigue, fluctuating personnel numbers and hesitancy to commit to long-term leases or infrastructure investment.
The Remarkable Reason Why North Korea Hates Israel
The Remarkable Reason Why North Korea Hates Israel
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Boaz Arad, an Israeli ex-journalist who is now a photographer/videographer living in Berlin, has tweeted about his experience speaking with North Korea Foreign Ministry officials ten years ago.
When he asks them what’s the beef with Israel, the response is quite unexpected…and remarkable.
The following is a loose translation based off his tweets:
Ten years ago, I came to Pyongyang to cover for Yedioth Ahronoth the largest military parade in North Korean history.
We crowded, journalists and photographers, in Kim Il-sung Square as tens of thousands of soldiers passed us in coordinated steps, followed by tanks and trucks with ballistic missiles, in a scene as if pulled from a film by Lenny Riefenstahl. Above us, on a porch, Kim Jong-il waved at his weeping subjects. Beside him stood Regent Kim Jong-un.
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Jan. 16, 2021
For her 15th birthday, in 1951, Amalia Tolchinsky received a not so exciting present from her father: a certificate affirming that 10 trees had been planted in her honor by the Jewish National Fund in Israel. So disappointed was she that completely forgot about the gift. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she was very far, physically, from the JNF pine saplings in the young Jewish state, and the truth is they didn’t really interest her very much. In fact, in the 70 years since that donation was made – even after she immigrated to Israel, where she has lived since the 1970s – she never looked for the trees that were planted in her honor. But for her son, photographer Miki Kratsman, the very existence of those trees constitutes something akin to a seminal event. They are the point of departure for a project that is related to a larger theme that has engaged him for most of his professional life: the dispossession, erasure and repression of the Palestinian pas