Wizz Air Sets Its Sights on Israel
Something about this announcement feels like one of those turning-point moments in a travel market that’s been stuck in slow motion. Wizz Air’s chief executive,…
DefenseTech Week, December 1–2, 2025, Tel Aviv University
Sometimes you catch an event title and it just sticks — short, clipped, direct, and a bit electric. DefenseTech Week feels like that. It signals…
Equality, Optional
Funny how the idea of equality before the law feels solid and permanent until the moment someone powerful decides it isn’t convenient anymore. The headline…
Karma, Haifa — A Strange Experience Before You Even Sit Down
A funny detail keeps repeating itself on my walks through Merkaz HaCarmel. Karma Restaurant sits there glowing in bright turquoise signage, tables neatly arranged, plants…
Utopia Orchid Park & Attractions, Sharon Region, Israel
The moment you step inside Utopia, you feel the shift — from the dry Mediterranean air outside to warm, fragrant humidity that softens everything. It…
Why Iran Fears the Bahá’ís — and Why Their Holiest Places Stand Peacefully in Israel
It’s hard to ignore the contrast. One place — Iran — treats the Bahá’í community as a threat, a target, something to erase. The other…
Draft Exemption Law: A Broken Covenant Reshaping Israel’s Future
There’s a strange heaviness in the air lately, harder to ignore with every headline. Maybe it’s because the uniforms are everywhere again — kids still…
Dabbah Brings Christmas Mood to Haifa
There’s something quietly charming about walking up to a supermarket on an ordinary weekday evening and suddenly feeling like you’ve crossed into a holiday movie…
Thank You, Mano Cruises
There’s something quietly remarkable about a company that doesn’t flinch when everyone else walks away. It’s easy to stay in a market when the sun…
The Gaza Lie — And the Quiet Collapse of Manufactured Outrage
There’s something almost surreal about watching narratives unravel in real time. For months, timelines have been flooded with tear-stained posts from supposed “Gaza residents,” typing…
Oligo Security: When an Israeli Startup Becomes the Firewall for the AI Era
Sometimes a press release reads like marketing, and sometimes it reads like a warning flare — this one feels closer to the second category. Oligo…
UNraveling UNRWA – A Documentary Built for a Moment When the World Can No Longer Look Away
Every once in a while, a film arrives not as entertainment but as a reckoning—something that feels less like cinema and more like a mirror…
Names in Stone, Names Remembered
Sometimes history doesn’t move forward in straight, neat lines — sometimes it loops back with a sting so familiar it feels like an echo. That’s…
A Shadow Fleet Docking in Broad Daylight — Haifa, November 23, 2025
Something about the scene below my window doesn’t sit right. Two tankers — huge, steel-black, purposeful — are moored at Haifa’s oil terminal, their decks…
Elbit Systems Secures $210M Contract to Modernize Israel’s Merkava Arsenal
There’s something symbolic when a defense contract stretches six years into the future — it signals not just procurement, but long-term doctrine. Elbit Systems’ newly…
Teva on the Rise: Israel’s Pharma Giant Opens Its Doors to Startup Innovation
Sometimes a title writes itself once the strategy becomes clear, and Teva really does seem to be shifting gears rather than just polishing its brand…
Ituran Marks 20 Years on Nasdaq With Opening Bell Ceremony
There’s something quietly symbolic about moments like this — a bell ringing in New York while the story behind it stretches back decades and across…
Israfood 2025, A Small Expo With Big Ambitions — Tel-Aviv’s Food, Beverage & Hospitality Week
There’s a moment, just after stepping into the expo hall, when the noise of outside life dissolves and the scene in front of you becomes…
Eilat, A City Stuck Between Potential and Decay
There’s a moment when you walk along Eilat’s shoreline — somewhere between the quiet hotels and the soft ripple of the Red Sea — when…
October 7 and After: Atrocity and the Echo in Lisbon
October 7 will be remembered not as a day of battle but as a day of barbarity. Hamas crossed the border with one goal —…
Sailing Out, Not Standing Still: Mano Cruises and the Persistence of Movement
From above the port of Haifa, the scene tells its own quiet story. A Mano Cruises ship, painted in bold swirls of blue, isn’t docked…
A Camera, a Festival, and the Stubborn Persistence of Stories — Haifa, October 2025
Most people will look at this giant billboard and think: film glamour, red carpets, celebrities, culture. And sure, all of that is true—the Haifa International…
Bring Them Home: Two Years On
The photo captures a solemn moment above Haifa’s bay, where a group of people sit quietly, gazing out across the city and the Mediterranean. In…