Dani Ben Simhon interviews Shlomit Bauman on separation and preconception within the Israel-Palestine-Germany triangle Imagine living in an area of 841 square kilometers – an area just a little bigger than Tel Aviv and its satellite towns. Imagine that you…
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1948 Haunts the Haifa Art Museum
DR. RONA SELA, curator of the Haifa City Museum, is known for her public courage. As a research historian in photography, she has launched exhibits and written catalogues for museums in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Herzliya and elsewhere, as well as…
Bread and Roses in Tel Aviv
AN EXHIBIT CALLED “Bread and Roses,” held on Saturday, September 16, 2006, at the Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv, assembled works by 180 Jewish and Arab artists in Israel. The name derives from a famous labor struggle in 1912, when…
Arab Artists in Israel Await No Favors
THE art scene is gathering momentum among Arabs in Israel. The rule used to be that the Arab artist would have to go outside his village to exhibit – or even live outside it in order to survive as an…
The Unmaking of the Histadrut
In May 2004, Dani Ben Simhon of the Workers Advice Center (WAC) did a study of the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. We excerpt four sections: I. The Introduction; II. The Histadrut’s attitude toward Palestinian workers; III. Its decline during the last decade; and IV. The rise…