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Shalom Tel Aviv! TAP Air Portugal Launches Inaugural Flight
Category : Top 10
On March 31st, TAP Air Portugal marked an exciting milestone by inaugurating flights to three new destinations: Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Basel. Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport hosted the celebration, where the airline’s CEO, Antonoaldo Neves, delivered a welcoming speech. He described these three newly established routes as “yet another significant stride in our ongoing journey […]
Read MoreFriday, May 3rd, 2019
What Are the Best Travel Apps According to J.D. Power?
Category : Blog
Apps have become a major way travelers communicate and get information about their trips, even if they have booked with a travel advisor. Given how central apps have become to the travel experience for many people, J.D. Power has launched a new study centered around this very subject. The J.D. Power inaugural U.S. Travel App […]
Read MoreTuesday, April 30th, 2019
Is Seamless Travel Using Biometrics Closer on the Horizon Than You Think?
Category : Blog
Are you ready for a future where seamless travel is the norm? Well your customers are, but just when is that likely to happen? According to a panel of experts at the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in Seville earlier this month, that future could be coming sooner rather than later, though there are […]
Read MoreMonday, April 29th, 2019
Travel The Drisco Hotel in Tel Aviv Unveils New Culinary Concept
Category : Featured Hotel
George & John Restaurant blends modern Israeli cuisine with broader Mediterranean flavors at the city’s new hip dining establishment. The Drisco Hotel just unveiled George & John Restaurant, a new culinary concept under the helm of rising star Chef Tomer Tal. Inspired by the grand atmosphere of the Tel Aviv property and its storied past, […]
Read MoreSunday, April 28th, 2019
Free Passover Tours of Jerusalem You’ve (Probably) Never Seen Before
Category : Travel Services
You shall rejoice before Hashem your God with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite in your communities, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your midst, at the place where Hashem your God will choose to establish His name.” Deuteronomy 16:11 (The Israel Bible™) During the week of Passover, […]
Read MoreWednesday, April 24th, 2019
Passover, Easter visitors flock to historic Jordan River
Category : Blog
The Jordan River baptismal site of Qasr al-Yahud was much more crowded than usual on Monday, April 15, less than a week before Passover and Easter. To find out why both Christians and Jews were gathering here on this day — the 10th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar — ISRAEL21c joined a fascinating tour […]
Read MoreTuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Malta, Where Game of Thrones All Began, Plays Host to the 5th Annual Valletta Film Festival June 14-23
Category : Blog
Imagine Outdoor Screenings on Locations of Hollywood Blockbuster Film Sets. Malta, the first location for Season One of Game of Thrones, plays host to the annual Valletta Film Festival (VFF), June 14-23, presented by the Film Grain Foundation. This year will mark the Fifth Anniversary of this exciting film lovers’ event. During the ten-day event, […]
Read MoreThursday, April 18th, 2019
Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holoc…
Category : Events & Festivals
Dr. Gaëlle Fisher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany, and the recipient of the 2018 Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin Fellowship. Her research in the JDC Archives focuses on the activities of the JDC in Romania in the period 1938 to 1948 and […]
Read MoreWednesday, April 17th, 2019
Safi, narration of a Jewish memory
Category : Blog
In fact, there is little written about the birth of Safi because we know little about its origins Comptoir Phénicien – If we must believe the geographer Ptolémée – probably attended later by the Romans, it appears in Arabic texts under the name of Asfi, from the 11th century, it is then a small harbor […]
Read MoreSunday, April 14th, 2019
12 essential tourist tips for your Passover stay in Israel
Category : Featured Dining
Few things seem more appropriate than visiting Israel during the holiday of Passover. It is this very time of year that one can feel a palpable connection to the Bible and the Israelites who made their journey out of slavery and into the promised land. Jews with limited options back at home by way of […]
Read MoreSunday, April 14th, 2019