Yaeli: The election in Israel — Up until just a few days ago, it seemed assured that Bibi Netanyahu was going to take his party to premiership but the gap has closed and Kadima, headed up by Tzipi Livni, is now neck and neck. Yesterday, I was sitting in a cafe in Tel Aviv when Livni and an entire parade of pro-Livni cars following behind her, made her way along Ivn Givrol to go give a political stump speech. As the cars…

Yaeli: The election in Israel — Hamas is trying to influence the outcome of thisweek's election by continuing to fire rockets into southern Israel,Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Monday. Malki added that Hamas does not want to see apro-peace government elected in Israel during Tuesday's parliamentaryvote, as it would pursue a political deal with the PalestinianAuthority. Speaking to reporters in Warsaw…

Yaeli: The election in Israel — Thought I'd start a thread about the impending Israeli election to share thoughts, news and views on the political circus

Yaeli: GNBlog survey update — Hi guys and gals, Preliminary results for the survey so far are very exciting and there are some surprises (ok, I was surprised!) in the findings. As soon as I get another 15 responses filled out --we need that many more to be able to conclude that we have significant results --I will do the full analysis and report to everyone on the results. So if you haven't filled it out yet, please take…

Yaeli: Here's an idea for a project, a Good Neighbors recipe book proceeds to go to... — I was thinking that if we get enough great recipes to actually put together a real cookbook we could produce a Good Neighbors Mideast Feast cookbook (or whatever title, I'm not so good with title marketing, heh) and market it on the site and maybe other places and all the proceeds we get from it could go to one or more charities or cooperative initiatives that we all decide on. What do you guys…

Sarit: Arab and Jewish Israeli girls to represent Israel at Eurovision — For Eurovision this year, Israeli artist Noa will be teaming a duet with Arab-Israeli artist Mira Awad. Noa and Mira are two of the most amazing musicians, to my mind. If you didn't hear them before you can listen and watch them here performing together here at a concert in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background Here is Mira singing one of my favourite songs, called Zman (Time) …