Новости за 10.07.2017

Avi Gabbay just became Israel’s Emmanuel Macron.

Having joined the Labor Party just six months ago, Gabbay pulled off an upset victory tonight, besting the veteran politician and former party head Amir Peretz in the second round of voting. A businessman best known for his stint as the CEO of Bezeq, the telecommunications giant, he entered politics in 2015 as one of the founders of the Kulanu party, and served as Minister of Environmental Protection in Netanyahu’s government. In May of 2016... Читать дальше...

Maccabi Tel Aviv isn’t just a basketball team. It’s the epitome of Israel’s patriotism, the pride and joy of every sabra. The club has won 51 Israeli Championships during the competition’s 63 years of existence—claiming the title almost every season, and missing only one trophy between 1970 and 2007. They’re also major hitters on the international stage, with six European Championship titles, including that historic 1977 win of CSKA Moscow which had Israelis dancing in the streets as if they’d won the Cold War, not a basketball tournament. Читать дальше...

In far northeast China there are seven graves next to the outer wall of a Czarist military cemetery, in what was once the naval base of Port Arthur—now called Lüshun City. The burials pre-date Russia’s loss of Port Arthur to the Japanese in 1905; they held it till 1945 when it was conquered by the Soviet Army. It did not revert to Chinese control until 1955, when it became a closed military area prohibited to foreign visitors until quite recently. Because of the angle of the sun I was only able to photograph two of the graves. Читать дальше...

This summer we’re bringing you daily posts from our sister site, Jewcy.com, edited by Gabriela Geselowitz. You can find more from Jewcy here.

Last weekend, as Radiohead was playing a concert in Glasgow, Thom Yorke, the band’s frontman, spotted a gaggle of fans waving Palestinian flags. They were there to protest the band’s decision to perform in Tel Aviv later this summer, and they were hardly the first ones giving the band guff: singer Roger Waters, filmmaker Ken Loach, and a phalanx of other centurions of censorship have been pressing Yorke and his mates to call the whole Israeli thing off. Fed up, Yorke turned to the flag twirlers... Читать дальше...

In the fall of 2011 I received a letter from my friend Letizia Gualandi, a professor of archaeology at the University of Pisa. “I have a question to ask you on behalf of my mother, Giovanna,” she began.

Stephanie Lynne Mason has luminous eyes as huge and dark as an anime character’s. “I’m not gonna lie,” she told me with a sigh, “I had a total meltdown the other night. I just sat there sobbing at my keyboard for about 15 minutes. This show feels like rubbing your stomach and patting your head at the same time.”