Meet 9 adorable dogs of Tel Aviv!
Come and meet nine of the cutest dogs living happily with their owners in the most dog-friendly neighborhood in the world – Tel Aviv’s Florentin.
Scene at a dog park in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90
Tel Aviv is home to a neighborhood known as Florentin, well known for its street art and eclectic atmosphere.
But even more impressive is the fact that this neighborhood has the most dogs per capita in the world!
We spoke with various Florentin pet parents, and several of them voiced the opinion that having a dog during the pandemic has been a blessing and a perfect reason to get out of the house.
Everyone’s trying Deep Nostalgia to bring old photos alive
MyHeritage genealogy platform introduces a wildly popular made-in-Israel feature enabling users to animate faces from the past.
Screenshot from MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia
Only two weeks after online genealogy platform MyHeritage
debuted its jaw-dropping Deep Nostalgia photo-animation feature, more than 43 million faces have come to life and a few thousand more photos are being animated every minute.
The Israel-based MyHeritage licensed this sophisticated Live Portrait technology from another Israeli company, D-ID.
“When we released Deep Nostalgia last week at RootsTech Connect 2021, we knew that lovers of family history would be thrilled to see their beloved ancestors’ faces come to life. We also knew that it had the potential to go viral, and we hoped that would happen, but the extent of its success exceeded our expectations,” Esther of MyHeritage blogged on March 4.
Israeli trumpeter’s unique East-West sound wins jazz prize
Itamar Borochov fuses the Mideast-North African synagogue music of his Jaffa childhood with the American jazz of Armstrong, Davis and Coltrane.
Award-winning Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov. Photo by Aviram Valdman
Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov and Immanuel Wilkins of Philadelphia recently won 2020’s two LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Awards, besting more than 700 candidates and winning the services of a professional team to arrange their appearances at seven leading international jazz festivals.
That is, when jazz festivals resume. The Covid-19 pandemic temporarily silenced these popular events and led to Borochov’s return to Israel after 14 years honing his talent in New York.
New museum to showcase the women who helped build Israel
‘There’s nothing quite like Israel in the world and nothing quite like the women of Israel,’ says founder of the Israeli Women Museum.
“Shomeret” (Watchwoman) by Haya Graetz Ran. Photo by Boaz Lanir
How many “she-roes” of Israel can you name?
Maybe you’d start with Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister. Or the tragic and courageous spy Sarah Aaronsohn and paratrooper Hannah Senesh.
The list would include physician Vera Weizmann, the first First Lady of Israel, who helped establish Chaim Sheba Medical Center, now the largest hospital in the Middle East; and second First Lady Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, who taught Jerusalem women how to grow vegetables, milk cows and make cheese so their husbands could go out and build the state.
5 lessons that hiking the Israel Trail taught me about coping with Covid
A psychotherapist from Jerusalem shares powerful, relevant things she learned on her trek that can help us face the challenges of the pandemic.
January 25, 2021, 8:15 am
Allan Rabinowitz, Tzippi Moss and their son, Ezra Rabin, on the Israel Trail near Eilat. Photo courtesy of the Moss family
When Covid hit, I was in the midst of the final intense edit of
Angels & Tahina, a book about my family’s experience backpacking the entire Israel Trail, each of 18 chapters focused on a lesson our hike taught me.
I was stunned to discover how powerful and relevant those lessons were for coping with the challenges the pandemic was throwing at us.