Fili’s world

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]