IN EARLY MAY, aid organizations warned that the Gaza Strip was on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. They claimed that the health and welfare system of the Palestinian Authority was collapsing. International aid funds had been frozen since the…
Article Author: Soudry, Orit
Confrontations and Conversations in Bil’in
LEGEND has it that the name Bil’in comes from the Arabic bila-ein, “no spring.” For indeed, this West Bank village lacks a water source of its own. On the other hand, the village is flooded with currents of another kind: the…
Art Sale for the Baqa Center
THE Baqa Center in Jaffa, a project of Hanitzotz Publishing House, has been operating for nine years. On Christmas Day 2004 it hosted one of those rare events that joins the global north with the global south, here epitomized as…
History from the Workers’ Point of View
IN July 4, 2005, 120 children (ages 6-12) and 45 counselors opened the week-long annual summer camps of the Baqa Centers and WAC, entitled “We and the World Together.” The camps took place in the Baqa Centers of Jaffa, Nazareth…
Poison in the Pastures of Tuwani
Aspring morning at the end of March. The drive from the checkpoint to Tuwani lasts a quarter hour. Broad grazing lands extend on both sides of the asphalt road. Ordinarily, the transition from bustling Tel Aviv to nature’s bosom would…
Breaking Walls at Israeli Cinematheques
VIDEO 48’s third film, Breaking Walls, recently appeared at Cinametheques in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem. Professor Avi Oz of the Theatre Department, University of Haifa, contributed to a discussion of the film in Haifa on April 21, 2005. Here is…
The Worker through History
ON Sunday July 4, 2004, the Baqa Center and WAC (Workers Advice Center) concluded their educational year, as always, with a week-long summer camp. Its theme was “The Place of Labor in the Development of Civilization.” The camp included 100…
Poetry from the Buttocks Ensemble
Actors Yuval Segev and Nadav Bosem appear often at Bamat Etgar events, a stage for progressive culture in Jaffa. They play the Yashvanim, or “Buttocks Ensemble.” The name also alludes to “mityashvim,” meaning “settlers”. Their specialty is poetry. It is…