A restaurant where diners can’t see their food
At BlackOut in Jaffa, you wave goodbye to your vision, enhancing and testing the way you taste and connect with food – and with fellow diners.
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At BlackOut in Jaffa, you wave goodbye to your vision, enhancing and testing the way you taste and connect with food – and with fellow diners.
Here’s why we’ve been schlepping mattresses, a grill, sleeping bags, tent and toothbrushes to camp in the wilds of Israel for the past 30 years.
The simplicity yet the intimacy of the movements was different from anything I could have anticipated.
Samantha Baron’s summer in the White City included unexpected encounters with local artists, a community gardener, a mixologist and a beach meditator.
When visiting another country, we assume locals can tell at a glance we’re foreign. I went out in Tel Aviv and tested the theory… here’s what I learned.
Plant-based dim sum, sushi and ice cream get a thumbs-up from a University of Michigan student spending her summer in Tel Aviv.
I collect recipes from around the world whenever I travel, but the pandemic helped me discover I can be a culinary foreigner in my own country too.
Growing up in Antwerp, Kenneth Gotlib didn’t feel he could be gay while staying true to his religion and values. In Tel Aviv, he can fully be himself.
I admit it: I refuse to serve or eat supermarket hummus. It must be homemade or cooked up in a hummusiya.
Two infants born to surrogates in Ukraine couldn’t get to their intended parents in Israel until United Hatzalah volunteers stepped in.
A casual observation by a fellow trekker at the top of a Costa Rica volcano gave ISRAEL21c editor Nicky Blackburn unexpected insight into the heart of Israelis.
For 46 years, Jonny Kuritsky has been farming the fields of Shavei Zion. His wife, reporter Diana Bletter decided to join him one day and discovered just why it makes him so fulfilled.
Charles Clore Park became my safe haven. I would go there whenever I needed to release some stress or simply be reminded of who I am.
Israel was the first country in the world to authorize a third and fourth dose. Pioneering is central to this country’s DNA. I don’t mind being a guinea pig if it means keeping myself and my loved ones safe.
ISRAEL21c’s coffee-addicted intern scouted out cafés serving truly top-notch brews and learned all about Israeli coffee culture in the process.