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Rachel Neiman is an experienced media professional whose journalism credits include ISRAEL21c, Globes Online, The Jerusalem Post and LINK magazine. She has served as marketing communications director at several Israeli innovation-based startups. Rachel attributes her vast knowledge of Israeli nostalgia to her Palmach-generation folk-singer mother and Jewish historian father, as well as her own lifelong obsession with all things pop culture.
The wonderful Nostalgia Online’s newest project asks followers to identify the people and places seen in old photos.
From runners to mothers to cleaners with the occasional oddball, too. Photographer Ilanit Turgeman looks at the people who made 2014’s Tel Aviv Marathon a joyous celebration.
Outgoing Government Press Office photographer Moshe Milner covered 9 of Israel’s Prime Ministers, witnessing changes not only in Israeli politics but in media coverage too.
Photographer Shmulik Livyatan captures the swimmers, surfers and sailors of Tel Aviv’s Hof HaTzuk, a cliffside beach whose geological formation is unique in the world.
From day trips to months long treks, whether sleeping outdoors or at guesthouses on the way — including a unique, new Arab-Jewish hostel — there are many ways to enjoy the Israel National Trail.
Throughout the years, the delights of winter sports have long been a tourist attraction with snowy Mt. Hermon as a selling point.
A photo interview with 12 Tel Avivians who eschew the use of animal flesh explores the motives, conflict and ideals driving Israel’s Vegan movement.
The nursery rhyme Ooga, Ooga, Ooga (“Cake, cake cake”) is part of every Israeli childhood but author Mira Lobe, who wrote and illustrated the original 1950s book, had an even wider influence.
Tamar Shalit-Avni’s Ba-Pardes (In the Orchard) is a photographic series depicting cultivated agricultural spaces inhabited by man — or in this case, woman.
The railway boxcar, once used for transport to Nazi death camps, will now serve as a living monument and educational center in memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The beloved domestic pets, feral waifs and sad strays of Israel’s cities are the focus of a new photo exhibition by Orna Naor.
Sharon Raz, documenter of Israel’s abandoned structures and street artist Klone, defacer of Tel Aviv’s decaying facades, take an artistic road trip that turns nostalgia on its head.
Recycling and composting join tree-planting as Israel’s way to celebrate Tu B’shvat, the New Year of the Trees.
Wits on the battlefield and wiles in the Knesset. A selection of images of Ariel Sharon from Israel’s national and military archives.
In time for for next week’s Tu b’Shvat holiday, the pretty pink Cyclamen has made its annual appearance.