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.

Israel Museum Jubilee

Jerusalem’s Israel Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary with new exhibition, 1965 Today, and a unique, crowd-sourced nation-wide family album.

Red Flowers for Remembrance

The flower known as “Blood of the Maccabees” has become the symbol for Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism.

A Personal Panorama of Israel

Photographer Moti Pinhassi uses low-tech methods to create beautiful panoramas of Israel while implementing high-tech media to get them into the public eye.

Traces of the Sabra

An exhibition by photographer Oded Balilty examines the plant long considered the symbol of the native-born Israeli.

Passover in Jerusalem – 1913

A long-lost movie, now restored, documents Jewish life in Ottoman Palestine, including Passover at the Western Wall and a holiday gymnastics exhibition.

Beautiful Israel in Green

An exhibition of Israel’s finest flora accompanies Passover holiday vacationers en route to the duty-free at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Gazelle Valley’s New Lease on Life

Jerusalem’s rejuvenated Emek HaTzvaim — a unique ecological habitat situated in the heart of urban space — reopens this week after years of controversy.

Voting at Hillel Yaffe

On Election Day, patients at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center were able to exercise their right to vote – fitting testament to a visionary pioneering doctor after whom the hospital is named.

Elections 1965

Election day 2015 is almost here, outcomes are uncertain, critical issues are at stake and our fate hangs in the balance… but it’s not the first time things have been this way.

Creating Values for Women

History buffs can make history — or at least write it — by adding new entries to Wikipedia Israel in a new contest launched in honor of Women’s History Month.