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, József Váradi, confirmed that the airline plans to open a full operational hub in Israel by around April — not just more flights, but a proper base with aircraft, crews, and a long-term commitment. After meeting … [Read more...] about Wizz Air Sets Its Sights on Israel
Heavy column of smoke reported in Haifa’s industrial zone
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 urgency without yelling, innovation without the buzzword fluff, and a level of seriousness that fits the moment when global defense strategy, cybersecurity, and advanced dual-use tech are converging in ways that would have felt almost … [Read more...] about DefenseTech Week, December 1–2, 2025, Tel Aviv University
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 dropped—Netanyahu announces a pardon request—and for a second it almost felt surreal, like a political plot twist from a show that forgot to tie up its loose moral logic. But no, it’s real life, and real life doesn’t mind … [Read more...] about Equality, Optional
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 lined up like a polite barrier, and yet… always empty. Not quiet-because-it’s-late empty, but the kind of empty that makes you wonder if you missed a review, a scandal, or maybe a local … [Read more...] about Karma, Haifa — A Strange Experience Before You Even Sit Down
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 sits in Kibbutz Bahan in the Sharon region, just inland from Israel’s central coastline, and although the desert isn’t far, the atmosphere inside the greenhouse feels more like Southeast Asia than the Middle East. The structure … [Read more...] about Utopia Orchid Park & Attractions, Sharon Region, Israel
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 — Israel — quietly maintains their holiest sites in Haifa and Acre with care, symmetry, and respect. And in the middle of that contrast, something important happened this week: the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning Iran’s … [Read more...] about Why Iran Fears the Bahá’ís — and Why Their Holiest Places Stand Peacefully in Israel
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 with acne carrying rifles, reservists blinking through exhaustion, families quietly packing duffel bags they’ve already packed too many times this year. And then, right there in the middle of that reality, the government pushes … [Read more...] about Draft Exemption Law: A Broken Covenant Reshaping Israel’s Future
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 set. That’s pretty much the vibe outside Dabbah in Haifa right now — glowing reindeer wrapped in warm fairy lights standing guard near the entrance, illuminated golden ornaments hanging from above, and shoppers … [Read more...] about Dabbah Brings Christmas Mood to Haifa
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 is shining and business is effortless. It’s a whole different character when things get complicated—when headlines turn grim, uncertainty hangs in the air, and corporations elsewhere send carefully worded statements about “temporary … [Read more...] about Thank You, Mano Cruises
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 smoothly through airstrikes, power cuts, destroyed infrastructure, and supposed existential terror — and doing it with remarkably stable Wi-Fi, fluent Western slang, and posting schedules … [Read more...] about The Gaza Lie — And the Quiet Collapse of Manufactured Outrage
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 Security, a Tel-Aviv based cybersecurity company, just announced a major expansion of its platform to secure the fast-growing world of AI deployments — everything from basic AI-powered applications to large language models and … [Read more...] about Oligo Security: When an Israeli Startup Becomes the Firewall for the AI Era
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 held up to decades of politics, trauma, silence and carefully curated myths. UNraveling UNRWA, the upcoming documentary from Zygote Films, feels exactly like that. There’s a kind of uneasy urgency surrounding it, the sense that its timing … [Read more...] about UNraveling UNRWA – A Documentary Built for a Moment When the World Can No Longer Look Away
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 the feeling that lingered in Miami Beach as the Holocaust Memorial unveiled the names of those murdered in Israel on October 7, 2023, engraving them permanently beside those who perished in the Shoah. In the warm Florida air, under … [Read more...] about Names in Stone, Names Remembered
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 tangled with the usual industrial geometry of pipes, valves, safety railings and catwalks. On the closest one, the white-painted bridge shouts the standard “NO SMOKING” warning familiar to petrochemical shipping anywhere from … [Read more...] about A Shadow Fleet Docking in Broad Daylight — Haifa, November 23, 2025
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 announced $210 million deal with Israel’s Ministry of Defense fits squarely into that category. It isn’t about building brand-new armored platforms from scratch; it’s about making existing steel smarter, sharper, … [Read more...] about Elbit Systems Secures $210M Contract to Modernize Israel’s Merkava Arsenal
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 narrative. The phrasing feels surprisingly appropriate—Teva is not rising in the sense of returning to past glory, but rising into a different role: not just a manufacturer, not only a generics superpower, but a company willing to … [Read more...] about Teva on the Rise: Israel’s Pharma Giant Opens Its Doors to Startup Innovation
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 continents. Ituran Location and Control Ltd. (Nasdaq: ITRN) is taking that moment on November 25, 2025, stepping onto the Nasdaq MarketSite stage to celebrate not just a date, but a journey: thirty years since the company first came … [Read more...] about Ituran Marks 20 Years on Nasdaq With Opening Bell Ceremony
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 its own little world — compact, contained, lively, and buzzing with purpose. This year’s 40th International Food & Beverage, Hospitality & Retail Week at EXPO Tel-Aviv wasn’t the largest trade fair on the planet, not by scale or surface area, … [Read more...] about Israfood 2025, A Small Expo With Big Ambitions — Tel-Aviv’s Food, Beverage & Hospitality Week
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 it hits you: this place isn’t dying, but it’s definitely not living either. It’s suspended. Waiting. Hesitating. As if the city knows what it could be, but no one has bothered to push it forward. The image tells the story clearly. The water is … [Read more...] about Eilat, A City Stuck Between Potential and Decay








