As Israel gets used to life sans Zvi Narkis, who died Sunday, artists reflect on how the fonts he designed shaped the way we see the world
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A life in letters
Market overhaul
The Tel Aviv, Ramle and Nazareth municipalities are investing in their open markets, hoping to attract both shoppers and restaurateurs.
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Four countries, four open markets
With plans in the works for a remodel of Tel Aviv's Carmel Market, we look at open-air markets in Taiwan, Peru, Georgia and Spain.
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Why are there no Israeli superheroes?
Israeli artists seem to treat superheroes like kryptonite. Is it society, socialism or do we just have no need of a flying man in a latex suit?
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Why are Meir Shelev's works not fit for the big screen?
Despite a recent wave of movies based on books by Israeli authors, one of Israel's most successful and esteemed writers, Meir Shelev, has yet to see one of his works adapted into a film.
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Faith No More's Mike Patton brings Italian pop to Israel
Mike Patton, the former soloist of Faith No More, took songs that could've been pure schmaltz and turned them into extraordinarily enjoyable masterpieces.
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Tel Aviv building blocks
Architects are focusing their talents on kindergartens, approaching them from a new, and more playful, perspective .
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Fashion theater in Tel Aviv
A new store devotes itself to that one item essential to every woman's closet - the little black dress - featuring 'like-new' garments designed by Chanel, Galliano, McQueen and more
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Love conquers all, even yucky foods
A look at several couples whose differing eating habits may pose challenges, but nothing a little creativity can't overcome
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A cornucopia of creativity
It's no mean feat to visit 10 exhibitions by graduates of design schools in two and a half weeks.
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Soundbox / A sad comedy in more ways than one
Before resigning, Michael Melzer achieved an important objective for the Chamber Music Festival: He integrated it with music education programs, the international summer course of the Jerusalem Academy of Music.
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Surroundings / The forced ecology of occupation
Palestinian architect Omar Yousef finds politics in even the most technical of matters.
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Shooting in the dark
The daughter of an Israeli producer and French model, Elinor Milchan starting photogrpahing young. Her work is now on exhibit in Tel Aviv.
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The designer's soft spots
Ehud Joseph's clothing collections have been inspired by the summer camps of his childhood in Israel. More important than the garments themselves, he says, is the story behind them
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The troubling fate of a pioneer’s estate
After Avraham Melnikov’s archive was sold cheap to flea markets, poet Natan Zach is urging the art community to not deal in the sculptor’s works
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What's so funny?
'Arab Labor,' whose second season premiered this month, chooses cheap laughs over political reckoning
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The lies that blur lines
The rape conviction of an Arab who posed as a Jew not only reeks of racism, it poses a danger to the distinction between sex and sexual violence. And: How can you measure Hollywood's testosterone level?
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