Being away from Israel I haven’t heard about this film coming out, but luckily, I stumbled across “Noodle” in a nearby DVD rental shop, and how glad I am that I did.
A Chinese female foreign worker, working for an Israeli woman - Miri, goes away for one hour and disappears leaving behind a sweet Chinese kid that knows absolutely no Hebrew. If you were Miri - what …
I’m not sure who did this and how, perhaps it’s mediated by English, but there are now a few online dictionaries that can translate between Hebrew and Chinese (מילון עברית סינית, מילון עברי-סיני). How odd, how wonderful. The first and most useful of all is a commercial product of an Israeli company – Babylon. Point at a word in Chinese, do a click combination (shift+click in my settings) and a translation will come up in Hebrew. I was so surprised the first time I noticed there’s a Chinese->Hebrew translation in there, I figured things have changed since I started studying Chinese and it’s probably time to do a short survey of the growing niche and available …
This is quite a remarkable story of a Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng-China. Haaretz tells their story with “Taking the Silk Route back home” (found through “Truth from Facts” in Chinalyst): Jin Jin and Nina Wang are students in Hebrew University’s preparatory program. They will soon commence their BA studies, but they already have long-term dreams. Jin wants to eventually serve as a diplomat in the Foreign Ministry. Wang hopes to use her …
It’s been brought to my attention that there is an interesting old book from 87 that’s has some chapters available online which details the arms connections between Israel and East-Asia. It’s quite interesting to read about the summaries on the arms deals between Israel and the East Asian tigers. Here are short quotes from “The Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and Why” by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi : Taiwan […] Taiwan …
Visiting the Israeli city of Ra’anana today I was surprised to see a sign on the entrance to the city with “Tainan, Taiwan”. Seems Ra’anana, one of Israel’s youngest most livable cities is Tainan’s sister city. I think it’s kind of strange since I’m quite sure that only a few in Raanana would be able to point out Taiwan on the map. Interestingly enough, my brother told me last week that his Israeli IT …
Comparisons between Israel and Taiwan seem to get a very wide variety of comments and I’m well aware this is a controversial issue. Still, I’ll mention an article I came across the other day titled “The Three Nos–What do Israel and Taiwan have in common?” by one John G. Adams. This article makes what I’m sure is an even more controversial comparison between Israel and Taiwan’s political status: […] Israel and Taiwan are small democracies facing serious threats from totalitarian ideologies. …
