Israel Active

The U2 lead singer spent Monday evening at the Container restaurant bar in Jaffa port. U2’s last concert in Israel was in 1997.

The Haifa International Flower Exhibition is the largest ever to be held in Israel. Nine domes contained thousands of flowers bursting with colour from all over the world, each arrangement boasting a different theme.

Israel beat Portugal 3:0 to advance in the worldwide Davis Cup tennis tournament. The win takes Israel out of Group 1 in the Europe/Africa division and into the World Group playoffs, where it will contend for a spot in the coveted World Group.

Since Israel’s soccer captain Yossi Benayoun joined UK’s Arsenal team on loan, the London club has climbed to 3rd in the English Premier league and an automatic European qualification spot. Yossi is one of the most popular members of Arsenal’s squad.

Please watch the Passover “hit” video from the Fountainheads. It’s clever and the ending is quite emotional (to some of us anyway).

The singer chosen as the ‘voice of Israel’ turned out to be the new immigrant from Canada, Kathleen Reiter. “I know that this is an amazing opportunity for me and a great start to what will hopefully be a great life here in Israel,” Reiter said. The youtube video is of the winning song “Shout to you”.

Descending from Jerusalem, these tours offer a unique opportunity to explore the Jewish State from beneath. Travelling in a special vehicle, through specially carved tunnels deep beneath the ground, the tours will whisk visitors around Israel to some of the country’s most famous sites.

You can now enjoy an on-line visit to the Israel Museum using Google Street. 520 objects have been made available as part of the museum’s partnership with the Google Art Project – an online compilation of high-resolution images of artwork.

Spiderman – alias Tobey Maguire – is coming to Israel both for business and personal reasons. A family function will coincide with his promotion of the “mobi” smartphone app.

Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona won the Israeli soccer championship on Monday for the first time in the small northern city’s history. The team has caused an upset by breaking the domination of the much larger and more affluent Tel Aviv and Haifa clubs.