On April 11, 1906, sixty Jewish families moved north from nearby Jaffa to the sand dunes of the Mediterranean to established a new community. A lottery was held to pair families with a building plot. Using sixty white shells imprinted with each family's name and sixty grey shells each showing the number of a single …
Tag: Tel Aviv
Israel- Start Up Nation
My tour took me to The Israeli Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv and The Center for Israeli Innovation. Sorry but I need to use an idiom (all my books on writing frown on this). Here it goes, I was "blown away" by what I saw and learned there. Tel Aviv is called the Silicon Wadi …
Tel Aviv, Israel
I've never been so excited about going on a trip as I was about going to Israel. Friends on Facebook were looking forward to my posts and pictures but many cautioned me to stay safe and be careful. One friend went as far as asking why I wanted to go to a place "so,so dangerous". …