By JPOST EDITORIAL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent last week in Paris with some 140 world leaders at a conference on climate change. Attendance was especially high, since the conference, planned months ago, has turned into a show of solidarity with France after the Paris terrorist attacks of Friday, November 13.
That’s not to say climate change and violent conflict are not linked. It is no secret, for example, that the Syrian civil war was brought on by the worst drought in Syria’s modern history. Maybe if the negative effects of the drought had been dealt with earlier, the situation in Syria would not have gotten out of control. In any case, Syria can serve as a lesson for Israel.
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Tour the Sky of Israel
By LAURA KELLY
This winter, the hot-air balloon company SkyTrek Israel is offering special flights that are an exciting activity and a chance to see Emek Yizrael in the beautiful first light of the early morning sun. The whole experience takes about four or five hours, starting just outside Afula, and the time is before sunrise, 5:30 a.m. In the package is also an early morning picnic, and the crew happily hands out blankets to fight the morning cold.
The history of ballooning and safety standards are discussed before takeoff, while soon-to-be flyers can enjoy seeing the huge balloons begin to inflate.
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Hey, Mister Whisky Man
By PATRICIA CARMEL
Ralph Katzenell, “Ralphoosh”, as many call him, has been teaching himself about whisky for years. A chemist, his job has taken him all over the world, where he has tried different drinks from many countries. Nowadays, Katzenell lives in the north of Israel, teaches courses about whisky, and mixes unconventional whiskeys for fun.
“In the early 1980s, I was at a very high class restaurant in Wiesbaden, Germany. Most people were drinking beer. I went up to the bar, and I saw a 25-year-old Macallan. The waiter brings the drink to my table, and it’s got ice in it. I’m shocked. One does not drink a 25-year-old Macallan with ice. This is a very expensive drink, this is not an ordinary whisky, and you do not kill it with ice.
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Driven to Create in Israel
By TAMARA ZIEVE
Noémi Schlosser has been working in the Belgian theater since the age of six. Growing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel feelings in the past few years, however, have isolated her in the arts community in her home city of Antwerp, driving her to Israel, where she is now directing her first show in her new home.
Schlosser says that after last summer’s war in Gaza, the arts community toughened against Israel. Schlosser, who had been in Israel that summer, was loud in her support of Israel. She is somewhat of a public figure in Belgium, on both radio and TV. She had no idea quite what this would do to her career until she directed a show called Traktorfabrik, a tragic-comedy about the war diaries of Russian war journalist and writer Vasily Grossman.
Want to read more? Find it on page 24 of this week’s ‘Lite’.