We were delighted to have the management of Maccabi, towards a cooperation between the Maccabi movement and Beit Hatfutsot, in which groups from South American, the United States and Europe are planned to visit Beit Hatfutsot. Among the distinguished guests were Eyal Tiberger, CEO Maccabi Israel, and Carlo Tapiero, deputy director-general of education. The cooperation will […]

Israel is awash in a wave of nostalgia. Hipsters model 60s styles in Tel Aviv. Khaki pants star in Fashion Week. And retro raves attract hundreds of victims of the Static and Ben-El era, who gather to trade stories about the First Gulf War to the strains of Queen songs. Foreign media notes that nostalgia […]

We can venture a guess as to what Walther Rathenau had on his mind during the few moments he lived after extreme right-wing assassins riddled his upper body with bullets in his hometown of Berlin. Perhaps one of the early 20th century’s greatest statesmen thought: My lifelong conflict has finally been solved. I am finally […]

Itzig Stern did everything possible to hide his Jewishness. He took pains to lose his Yiddish accent, read only anti-Semitic papers, and underwent dozens of plastic surgeries to fix his beaked nose, doe-like eyes, meaty lips, and thick tongue. His efforts paid off when he married a German-Christian bride. But the charade was revealed when […]

A Tisch Dialogue evening was held at the home of Claudia De Benedetti, the Italian representative on our International Executive Board of Governors. The guest list comprised Museum Directors, opinion makers and prominent members of the Jewish community.  The evening was chaired by Elena Loewenthal who is a well-known and highly respected figure both in […]

‘’Mother, tell me one more time/ how did we end up here Tell me of the journey in the desert/ how we left in darkest night’’ The 3rd Annual Yerusalem conference, held at Tel Aviv Cinematheque, was dedicated to Israeli Ethiopian women. Previous conferences honoured Ferede Aklum Z’’L and Baruch Tegene Z’’L whose persistence helped […]

Use of Hitler’s accursed name to slam one’s adversaries is not the invention of poets. At least in this sense, Yitzhak Laor is in “good company.” One of the first to drop the German despot’s name for the sake of debasement is none other than Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion. A diplomatic genius with […]

Hiroo Onoda was a high-rank intelligence officer in the Japanese army. Sent during World War II to the Lubang island in the Philippines, his orders were to do literally everything to prevent the enemy from invading the island. Should he failed, he’d better not return to Japan, they said. Hiroo Onoda had no intentions to defy […]