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I predicted it, but I still can’t believe it. Netanyahu seems to have done better than expected, but only by decimating Bennett’s Jewish Home. Proportionally, as expected; result to be as expected. I cannot tell you how horrible it feels to…
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A reflection on how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, past death and future uncertainty, effect daily life in Tel-Aviv.
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Why Bibi Netanyahu will lose Tuesday’s election, but still be the next Prime Minister. A short primer on Israel’s elections.
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Category: but..., Photos, Politics, Tel-Aviv, The City
Tags: Bibi, Elections, Israel, Labor, Labour, Likud, Meretz, Netanyahu
Last night: what could be more absurd than the sight of museum employees demonstrating for fair employment conditions? A scraggly group of a few dozen camped out in front of the old town hall (most recently the site of the…
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Category: I won't talk about politics, Politics, promise..., Tel-Aviv, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: anger, bialik, economics, economy, Hipsters, homeland, inequality, injustice, Israel, protest, social justice, Tel-Aviv, tycoons
Much of our lives are experienced alone. How strange then to realise that cities respond to this aloneness in different ways. Now back in London for a few weeks – bereft of The Baby, The Wife and also The Dog…
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Category: London, Tel-Aviv, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Travel, Uncategorized, Yes there's a world outside Tel-Aviv
Tags: Israel, London, Loneliness, Middle East, Social Norms, Tel-Aviv, Travel and Tourism
In our neighbourhood: Car parked; baby and wife disembarking. A car barrels down the road far too fast, driver staring out of side window, and barely misses them. Freaked out, I yell: “Hey! What the hell are you doing? Watch…
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Category: Life In Kerem Hataymanim, Tel-Aviv, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: Automobile, Games, Human, Israel, Jesus, relationships, Sake, Shopping, Tel-Aviv, Violence
Tel-Aviv is a tiny, ultra-dense city (at least the part of it you’d want to visit is – not counting the sprawling ‘gush dan‘ suburbs). About 8km long (from Jaffa to the Yarkon River) and 2km wide (from the sea…
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Category: Photos, Tel-Aviv, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: Corkinet, Highway 20 (Israel), Israel, Jaffa, Middle East, Segregated cycle facilities, Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, Tel-Aviv, Yarkon River
Another year, another Yom Kippur. I fasted (The Baby, The Wife and The Dog did not) and by midday my head was swirling and thoughts were entering and leaving my head in a disorganised and uncontrollable manner. The chaos was…
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Category: lovely little things, Photos, The City, Uncategorized, Videos
Tags: Day of Atonement, Habima Square, Habima Theatre, Highway 20 (Israel), Israel, Judaism, Tel-Aviv, Yom Kippur
In Israel there’s a concept of “this year’s war”. It implies inevitability, projects normality upon a reality where peace isn’t really peace but rather the absence (for now) of outright war. This year’s war? Who knows – could be Hezbollah…
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Category: Dogs, I won't talk about politics, Parenting, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Gas mask, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Syria, Tel-Aviv, WMD
Living where Unpublished Author lives, you could be forgiven for thinking Israel’s the left-wing liberal democracy of yore. Every billboard and toilet proclaims the strength of Meretz; every conversation you hear in coffee shops is between Avoda, Meretz and Hadash….
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Category: I won't talk about politics, Politics, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: Avoda, Hadash, Israel, Judaism, Labour, Left-wing politics, Meretz, Middle East, New Movement – Meretz, Politics, Zionism