1 Sep, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections by Fili An
Chinese Tourism in Israel–Interview

The Israeli channel 2 morning show recently featured an interview with an English speaking Chinese tour-guide who takes mainland Chinese groups to visit Israel. The short interview provides some insights into how the Chinese see Israel and offers some curious cross-cultural interactions.     Here’s the video : (Hebrew introduction) A: You’ve been to China? [...]

30 Aug, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections by Fili An
The importance of studying Chinese - Israeli Prime Minster

The current Israeli prime minister – Benjamin Netayahu – spoke at the last Israeli Business Convention and elaborated the importance of introducing Chinese studies to the Israeli education system. I’ve known about this for quite a while, but I finally got around to listen to his speech.     Here’s the video of Benjamin Netanyahu [...]

28 Aug, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections by Fili An
Growing Chinese studies trend - Israel

3 years after I wrote about the first signs of the Israeli Chinese studies trend and there are signs that the trend is still going strong (see “The Chinese Language Studies Trend in Israel” and “Channel 2 story : Israelis studying Chinese” for more info). Every once in a while, Israeli news channels rediscover this [...]

26 Aug, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections by Fili An
China to Israel Love – Yang

I know a few cross-cultural couples who live in Israel and every once in a while when I go back to Israel I get to meet a few more. It’s only natural, since I am on the Israel-Asia line and many of the people I know are western expats living in Asia or Asians living [...]

12 Aug, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections, China by Fili An
CCTV China Documentary : Walk into Israel-The Land of Milk and Honey

CCTV, China’s national TV channel(s), produced a documentary TV series about Israel called “Walk into Israel – The Land of Milk and Honey” (走近以色列, zou jin yiselie). There was a recent launch event , and the episodes are already screening in China and available on the web.   Israeli TV station Channel 2 had an [...]

27 Jun, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections by Fili An
Israel-China blogging perspectives

Seems as though the Israeli content on China is growing fast. Not a week goes by where I find a new blog or community regarding the connection between Israel and China. At the beginning, the content was very personalized and scattered, but in recent months you could say there’s actually alot of interesting things going [...]

15 May, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections, China by Fili An
The Chinese Dead Sea

China’s Dead Sea or Salt Lake, located at Penglai Township in Dayin County of southwest China’s Sichuan province, recently received some Israeli media attention. Turns out the Chinese wanted to visit the dead sea in Israel so badly, they just opened one themselves. It offers salty hot springs, mud bathes, and made to look and [...]

14 May, 2010 in Asia-Israel connections, China by Fili An
Asaf Avidan & the Mojos in Midi Festival 2010 China

Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, one of the more interesting Israeli musicians in the last year or so, have taken part in the Midi Festival 2010 in China. Here’s my translation of Mako.co.il : […] In the last couple of days, Avidan and the Mojos performed in two music festivals in front of thousands. During [...]