Fili’s world

Israelis are studying about China Chinese language, and Asians are studying about Israel and the Hebrew language The connection between the Jewish people and China has a long history going back hundreds of years. Wikipedia even has a special long section on the topic, detailing the historical timeline and key figures :
Jews and Judaism in [...]

Israelis have the strangest holiday season. Right now, after celebrating the lunar new years and fasting on the holiest of days, Israel is celebrating Sukkot.
The word Sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth or hut. During this holiday, Jews eat their meals, entertain guests, relax, and even sleep in a sukkah, [...]

Westerners studying Chinese and Chinese studying English makes sense. An Israeli fascinated with Chinese language and culture shouldn't sound all that strange, right? But how about a Asian interested in Hebrew and Judaism? Wouldn't you find that to be special? Well, I've come to know and hear-about a few of those.
On my first week in [...]

This weekend's Haaretz has a long deadly article, spanned over 3 full pages, about a western perspective of Shanghai and Singapore, titled : "A little nuisance at West end - how does Israel look from the East? Traveling to Shanghai and Singapore and coming back depressed". This piece was written by one of Haaretz's finest, [...]

How many Israelis travel to Taiwan every year? Not many, at least judging by the amount of resources available for Israelis on Taiwan. While China is slowly becoming a hot spot in the Asia tourism, Taiwan is still far behind and there are very few Israeli websites that cover Taiwan.
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Lately, a new big travel website [...]

Su Fei strikes again, in what's probably the best blogging production I've seen about China - Danwei's Sexy Beijing . After the big "Sex and Shanghai" Chinabounder blog scandal Su Fei gets some pretty amazing responses in the beginning of this new episode.
Su Fei : Do you have Chinese girlfriends? The foreigner : Yep. [...]