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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews enjoy eating chulent, a traditional Jewish stew, at Yoel's restaurant in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem. Many of the restaurants in Meah Shearim open late on Thursday nights to serve chulent. December 24, 2015.(Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 18, 2022, 2:43 am
On the cholent-and-kugel trail with tours of the Haredi ’tisch’
Jerusalem tour guides offer glimpses of the ultra-Orthodox world, with tables full of traditional Sabbath fare
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Sister of Mine,' a Maaleh Film School short featured in the school's digital tour of Jerusalem (Courtesy Maaleh)
September 9, 2021, 7:47 pm
Jerusalem film school offers camera’s-eye view of the holy city
Viewers invited to take a tour of three parts of the capital through short dramatic films created by Ma’aleh student filmmakers
By Jessica Steinberg
Photographer Moshe Gold was sitting at an Acre restaurant when he looked up and saw this teen diving into the water; now included in his exhibit, 'From The Beginning,' June 3-23, 2021, Jerusalem Cinematheque (Courtesy Moshe Gold)
June 11, 2021, 10:36 pm
A tour guide-turned-photographer’s view of Israeli sites and scenes
‘From the Beginning,’ an exhibit of photos taken by Moshe Gold when work dried up during pandemic, goes on show at Jerusalem Cinematheque, offering a new look at familiar places
By Jessica Steinberg
Tourists and their guide at the Cardo in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City in July 2019, months before the coronavirus would shutter Israeli tourism. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
June 2, 2020, 12:50 pm
With no tourists on the horizon, tour guides scramble to adapt to a new reality
The economy may be reopening, but with planes still grounded, and with much of the US and Europe stuck at home, an entire profession is being left behind
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli tour guide Uri Bar in an undated photo (Courtesy of the family)
July 3, 2019, 11:13 am
Israeli tour guide dies in Georgia, near Russian border
Searchers find body of Uri Bar, who had been missing since Monday, in mountainous region
By ToI Staff
Taking a walk on a camel's back in the Judean Desert adjacent to Arad. (Courtesy Kfar Hanokdim)
April 27, 2019, 6:39 am
36 hours in Arad, at the edge of the Judean and Negev deserts
Take a break in this activity-filled southern town, where desert life and civilization meet up perfectly
By Jessica Steinberg
Architect's impression of the planned cable car station on Mount Zion. The Dormition Church can be seen to the left. (From plans submitted to the National Planning Council)
April 3, 2019, 1:19 pm
With objection period ending, opposition to Jerusalem cable car plan peaks
Daniel Libeskind: City’s ‘traffic problems should not be solved by cable cars which will mar the image of Jerusalem with a technology reminiscent of a Swiss mountainside’
By Sue Surkes
Yechiel Charaz (L) receiving a certificate allowing him to host tours in the Yiddish language from Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in Jerusalem, January 13, 2019. (Tourism Ministry)
January 14, 2019, 4:59 pm
Tour guide gets rare approval to lead groups in Yiddish
After 6 years, Tourism Ministry finally certifies Yechiel Charaz to tell ultra-Orthodox tourists about Israel in his mother tongue
By Michael Bachner
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City forms the backdrop to a tour guide holding up a picture of the ancient Jewish Temple. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
October 8, 2018, 1:06 pm
Riled tour guides warn new bill could skew tourists’ Israel experience
Legislation that would allow non-licensed guides for pilgrims and some foreign groups, set for Knesset debate this month, would lower standards, threaten livelihoods, guides say
By Sue Surkes
The city of Tel Aviv is offering 60 different tours of the city over the intermediate days of Sukkot to hotel guests (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv)
August 29, 2018, 5:32 am
In Sukkot extravaganza, Tel Aviv offers 60 tours in six days
Hotel guests in the coastal city will be able enjoy a vast range of free guided walks over the festival period
By Jessica Steinberg
Trip leader Shuka Revak, 86, fulfills a life-long dream as he reaches Avdat in Israel from Jordan's Petra, February 2018. (courtesy)
March 15, 2018, 2:56 pm
86-year-old guide helps discover section of Incense Route lost for millennia
Traversing 100 kilometers in five days, Shuka Ravek fulfills dream and walks from Petra to Avdat in the footsteps of Nabateans
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
View of Kyrgyzstan. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 22, 2017, 11:10 am
Israeli tour guide killed in Kyrgyzstan car accident
Israeli embassy in neighboring Kazakhstan assisting in return of 60-year-old Dani Nahum’s body
By ToI Staff
A Museum of Jewish Montreal staffer giving a walking tour of the city's Sephardic history. (Courtesy MJM)
August 26, 2017, 1:12 am
Take a walk through Sephardic Montreal’s illustrious history on a new urban tour
Visitors to the Museum of Jewish Montreal can see a glorious — and sometimes troubled — side of the city’s Jewish past like never before
By Julie Masis
Chowing down on maklouba and hummus with Open Restaurants at the Old City market (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 25, 2016, 9:16 am
Culinary tour samples pomegranates and chickpeas, upgraded Ottoman fare
Tastes of culinary history accompany an Open Restaurants visit to Jerusalem’s Old City market
By Jessica Steinberg
Mehmet Cengiz Oz, also know as Dr. Oz, and Rabbi Shmuel "Shmuley" Boteach, being guided in the City of David in Jerusalem's Old City last summer (photo credit: Flash 90)
December 12, 2013, 2:52 pm
The art of guiding
Equal parts educator, expert and concierge, local guides are the ones who know it all, and are willing to share their secrets
By Jessica Steinberg
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