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Musician Elai Botner, center, performs in the reopening ceremony for The Shack pub in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on May 20, 2026. (Ido Shalom/Kibbutz Nahal Oz via Facebook)
May 23, 2026, 10:02 am
Laughing and dancing again: Kibbutz Nahal Oz reopens pub abandoned after Oct. 7
The Shack, rebuilt with help from the Bazan oil firm and Dutch and German volunteers, is dedicated in memory of soldier who defended the kibbutz and was later killed in Gaza
By ToI Staff
The Lehrhaus is inspired in part by Frankfurt's Jewish House of Free Study, where intellectuals of the early 20th century like Bertha Pappenheim, Leo Lowenthal, and Martin Buber lectured and learned. (Getty Images. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)
August 21, 2022, 2:54 am
Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ – to study religious texts, drink beer
Combining the Old Country secular Torah study house and the kretshme, or Yiddish pub, the Boston Lehrhaus seeks to woo all denominations with food, cocktails and meaningful classes
By Jackie Hajdenberg
From left: Gyulane Farkas, Istvan Feher, Aron Feher and David Feher at Giero Pub, Budapest, May 16, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
July 21, 2022, 3:57 am
In Budapest, an underground ‘Gypsy music’ pub plays on Jewish heartstrings
One of the Hungarian capital’s best-kept open secrets is Giero Pub, a small but charming basement venue with top-notch music – and a tragic family history marred by the Holocaust
By Yaakov Schwartz
Two women sit with take away drinks from a pub on the banks of the river Thames in London, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. (AP/Frank Augstein)
June 23, 2020, 7:16 pm
Cheers as UK says pubs to reopen, 2-meter distancing cut
Recording lowest daily death rates since March, government moves to reopen restaurants, cinemas, museums and galleries as it also eases social distancing rules
By Phil HAZLEWOOD
An array of cocktails that will be on offer during Tel Aviv's inaugural Cocktail Week, May 27-June 2, 2018 (Courtesy Cocktail Week)
May 23, 2018, 3:35 pm
It’s all about spirits at Tel Aviv’s inaugural Cocktail Week
Buy yourself a wristband that lets you drink NIS 25 cocktails around the city, and you can learn how to pour ’em too
By Jessica Steinberg
Security camera footage showing the suspect with a lit cigarette in his mouth, March 2017. (YouTube screenshot)
March 13, 2017, 3:49 pm
Palestinian tried to cause gas blast near crowded Jerusalem pub — police
East Jerusalem resident allegedly opened gas tanks, damaged piping and threw lit cigarette into the fumes
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Beer taps at a pub. (Flickr/trombone65/CC BY-ND 2.0)
From the WebSeptember 12, 2016, 4:06 pm
Tech on tap: PubHub is converting Tel Aviv’s night-time bars into daytime office space for lean startups
Geektime: Two Israeli entrepreneurs identified an opportunity to turn pubs usually closed during the day into much needed coworking office space in Israel; the opening of the first such space at a pub in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff St. has been good so far
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