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.
In days gone by, shoes for the spring holiday season weren’t fun or colorful. It took decades to transform Israel’s staid footwear market into the innovative and creative industry it is today.
ISRAEL21c presents a photographic retrospective of 7 decades of queuing, cardboard boxes and paper chits that keep Israel’s democracy going strong.
Collection from the National Library of Israel shows the genuine warmth between Israeli Prime Minister Begin and Egyptian President Sadat.
Three collections of rare and one-of-a-kind items from the National Library of Israel are featured in a new Google Arts & Culture online project.
How the US-USSR space race, regional security threats, an arms race, and an upcoming election contributed to Israel’s first rocket launch, Shavit 2.
Feel like listening to a good old Arik Einstein song or discovering music from the next superstar? Shiri offers everything from Sasha Argov to Zohar Argov.
The crowd-pleasing Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan got its start as a pet shop in Tel Aviv in 1935.
It can’t compete with its global counterparts in size but the Jordan River exceeds most in terms of its historical, literary and spiritual importance for
92 years ago, Jewish residents thronged the streets of Tel Aviv to mourn the death of the great man of letters known by the pen name ‘Ahad Ha’am.’
During the British Mandate, soldiers and civilians from across the Empire celebrated Christmas in the Holy Land, often under tough circumstances.
How did spinning tops become integral to Hanukkah? And did the first child to speak modern Hebrew give the dreidel its Hebrew name?
After stealth operation of several months, 28,000 photos of pre-state Israel are finally released to public by Wikimedia Israel. Check out the best pictures here.
Israelis have a love-hate relationship with ficus trees, which provide shade but drop nasty berry goop and can uproot sidewalks and penetrate pipes.
‘The Eighties’ took viewers back in time to the controversial 11th Knesset, whose significance still affects Israel to this day.
Even veteran residents may not know that their city missed having the first Sephardic mayor and the first woman mayor: a candidate named Golda Meyerson.
