Danwei has an interesting link on "Israeli women soldiers get warm reception on BBS" leading to a Chinese discussion about photos posted on a China BBS of Israeli female soldiers. Although I find those girls to be exceptionally ordinary and questionably attractive to the average Israeli male, it is an …
If you’re an Israeli abroad there’s no escaping it, even in Taiwan. The other day I was at the Taipei Main Station tourist information center looking for some info about what was happening that week in Taipei as a smiling old Taiwanese looking man approached me in English. "Welcome, welcome" he shouted …
Israeli media, Reshet Bet this time, is discussing cross-strait relations. Following is from Reshset Bet’s international hour on Dec. 15th on the opening of cross-strait flights, sea-travel and direct mail, interviewing one of the Hebrew University East-Asian department China-related experts Dr. Eli Yofe. This is a capture of the chat, click to listen : …
The other day, 12.12.2008, I was reading through news in the Hebrew version of Yedihut Acharonot, Israel’s largest news paper, as I came across an amazing headline. Here’s a screen-capture from Google Cache which still shows, thankfully (you can try your luck here). The headline reads (translated from Reuters) : “Taiwan …
It always comes up at some point of my Taiwanese-foreigner conversation. “So, how are Taiwanese girls compared to Israeli girls? How are Asian girls compared to Western girls? which ones do you prefer? why?”. When it comes to this topic – Curiosity knows no limits. I admit it’s not the most flattering piece of …
Every once in a while I have an Israeli asking me where that Tainan place is in Taiwan. Although most Israelis shouldn’t have trouble reading an English map, there is the occasional person asking me where Tainan is that isn’t able to read English very well, for example – in my last visit to Israel [...]
A Taiwanese recently pointed out to me that a local Taiwanese show "The World is So Big" (世界那么大) visited Israel a few times this past year, and I was surprised to see just how many episodes they had on Israel. I recognized the Taiwanese translating to Hebrew and English in the Israel shows to …
A few weeks back, before leaving Israel, I was quite surprised to see what a “Jewish Blogger Conference” was when I entered it. I really felt like an outsider and in the first few minutes contemplated leaving and giving the whole thing a miss, but sticking around had its benefits and I got to see [...]