Israel is the fastest growing real estate market in the world right now. Foreign investors — including many a New Yorker — are snapping up property in the often troubled paradise. But that might be a mistake.
Global Property Guide ranked Israel the hottest housing market for the last two years. In the Read More
Shortly after 1:30 a.m. on the night of Dec. 29, CBS News foreign correspondent Mark Phillips stood on a rooftop, overlooking the city of Tel Aviv. Lights from the city’s skyline flickered behind him. Through an earpiece, he listened to anchor Maggie Rodriguez, who was sitting in a studio in New York, filling in for Read More
One of the challenges facing American Jewry is to understand the Palestinian version of Israel’s war of independence in 1948. What was, for Zionists, a great triumph was for Palestinians a Naqba, or catastrophe. 700,000 of them were soon gone. They fled in fear of massacre or were expelled. I know that some argue with Read More
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 18—The café shift manager snickered at the suggestion that his business had been affected by the threat of Hezbollah rockets spreading southward toward Tel Aviv.
“On account of the security situation?” he said. “This is Tel Aviv. People here don’t care if they live or die …. In any case, there’s Read More
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 18—The café shift manager snickered at the suggestion that his business had been affected by the threat of Hezbollah rockets spreading southward toward Tel Aviv.
“On account of the security situation?” he said. “This is Tel Aviv. People here don’t care if they live or die …. In any case, there’s Read More
A year ago neocons Richard Perle and Michael Rubin and the former Israeli Ambassador Dore Gold and an Israeli general had a panel at the American Enterprise Institute, and released an elaborate booklet with colored charts inside, putting forward the idea that Israel needs defensible borders. Yes, Gaza was being given back, but Read More
Here, kitty. Good dog.
Did you hear the one about CIA tracking Osama Bin Laden in rural China using computer-enhanced satellite photos and technology like you might’ve seen on Murder, She Wrote? Oh, and that they shit their pants when they saw the photos?
If you read the Verdad (“true”) issue of Vice, Read More
Anthrax Fright Subsides, But Old Terrors Return
Things finally seem to be returning to normal, crimewise, on the Upper East Side, with bomb scares back to everyday levels, alleged anthrax-tainted letters all but vanished, and robberies returning to their preeminent place in the pantheon of felonies.
On Nov. 19, a 16-year-old boy was Read More
Dickens did it. The word orphanage conjures up darkness and deprivation, barely enough porridge to feed a sparrow and cruel adults beating little children in rags. The word orphanage is just not the right word for what I saw in Israel last week. I was traveling with the New York–based American rescue and relief agency, Read More
TEL AVIV–January is not the high time here, not even in the year 2000. The Mediterranean air is cool, the sun sets early and the lines are short. The Pope, wisely, is waiting for warmer weather.
Driving me in from the airport, the cab driver spoke in broken English about the peace talks between Syria Read More
