The municipal political scene in Israel was rattled in November when the Jerusalem-area religious city of Beit Shemesh for the first time ever elected a female mayor.
When Maya Kadosh, Israel’s current ambassador to India, joined the diplomatic corps, she never imagined that the job requirements would one day include modeling.
One wouldn’t expect a country officially choosing its “national snake” to make headlines, especially in the international media.
While the international community remains in an uproar over the brutal killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, similar and worse human rights abuses by the Palestinian Authority have for years gone almost entirely unnoticed.
“Are Jewish and Arab women allowed to walk on the same sidewalk? Are they allowed to drive? How are there still Arabs in Israel, didn’t the Jews kill them all?”
A group of medical volunteers from Iraq’s Yazidi minority recently visited Israel to receive “clown” training to help children back home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following years of persecution by ISIS.
A pyramid with an “escape room,” Noah’s Ark, saving Joseph from the pit, and David’s battle against Goliath.
Political cartoons are a big deal in the Arab press.
“Democracy Strikes Back” was the slogan of a forum held at the recent gathering of the Atlantic Council in late June.
An online game developed in an ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv is currently conquering millions of hearts in the Arab world.
