Writer: Rachel Neiman

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.

Banner Day for Gay Pride TLV 2013

Tel Aviv let its freak flag fly freely and proudly at the city’s annual Gay Pride celebration that boasted some uniquely Israeli features. Photographer Elyssa Frank was there to catch all the action.

Dry Bones at 40

Yaakov Kirschen, creator of Israel’s longest-running comic strip — four decades and going strong — was honored by the Israel Cartoonists Association (ICA) at Animix, the Festival for Animation, Comics and Caricature which took place in Arad last week.

Jerusalem Light Festival 2013

The Fourth Annual Jerusalem Light Festival, the largest event of its kind opened this week with a rock circus, events and photo competitions for professionals and amateurs.

Footballers in the open market

A unique outdoor photography exhibit presents us with the opportunity to see how Israel’s greatest football stars looked when they were in their prime.

Fresh Paint 6

The Fresh Paint 2013 exhibition featured Israel’s leading contemporary art galleries and presents works by artists, both international and local, established and up-and-coming.

Vintage Advertising

A new exhibition presents images from Israel of the 1960s in advertising, fashion, photography and industrial and commercial design.

Yehudit Sasportas: Seven Winters

Yehudit Sasportas: Seven Winters presents an alternative universe of black-and-white forest and marsh landscapes that vacillate between conscious and subconscious.

Happy Landings in Lod

Today’s travelers landing at Terminal 3 of Ben Gurion International Airport glide on endless walkways past tasteful mosaics and water features towards glamorous gift shops, entering planes on carpeted ramps. Yet, there was something to the old “Natbag”.

Clay McLachlan: Seeing Seafood Beyond the Sea

Culinary photographer Clay McLachlan’s most recent project brought him to Tel Aviv’s celebrated seafood restaurant, Mul Yam. The result — Seafoodpedia — was a winner in Paris at the “the Oscars of art cookbooks.”

Milk is health!

Milk production and the man who brings milk forth from the cow are celebrated in this comedy short from 1958.

Celebrating Jerusalem with Noam Chen

A super-saturated look at Jerusalem by photographer Noam Chen who’s offering Facebook followers the chance to win a photo from his Holy Land of Israel portfolio.

From Doll Factory to High Rise

What’s the connection between a rubber duckie and the tallest building in the Middle East? A new exhibition presents dolls from the 50s and 60s made by a pioneering factory in the spirit of the new State of Israel.

Dana Arieli – Reexamining Givat Ram

Photographer Dana Arieli knows the Givat Ram campus well, having studied and worked there for over 20 years. Between 2010 and 2013, however, Arieli decided to look at Givat Ram through a different lens – that of her camera.