13 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Nova Festival Victims Memorial is a monument commemorating the victims of the
Nova music festival massacre during the
October 7 attacks . It is located in the Re’im parking lot near
Re’im in the
Southern District of
Israel , where the festival took place on October 6–7, 2023.
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28 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
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Theodor Meron,
CMG (born 28 April 1930) is an American lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism). He served as President of the ICTY four times (2002-2005 and 2011–2015) and inaugural President of the Mechanism for three terms (2012–2019).
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9 November 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the
British Government in 1917 during the
First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in
Palestine , then an
Ottoman region with a small minority
Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from
Arthur Balfour , the British
foreign secretary , to
Lord Rothschild , a leader of the
British Jewish community , for transmission to the
Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland . The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.
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22 October 2025 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
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Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general. He was the
prime minister of Israel , serving two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until
his assassination in 1995. He was the first prime minister to have been born in
Mandatory Palestine .
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20 October 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Bat Yam is a city in the
Tel Aviv District of
Israel , on the
Central Coastal Plain just south of
Tel Aviv . It is part of the
Gush Dan metropolitan area . In 2023, it had a population of 131,099.
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8 July 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (
Hebrew : Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev) is a
public research university in
Beersheba , Israel. Named after Israeli
national founder David Ben-Gurion , the university was founded in 1969 and currently has five campuses; three in Beersheba, one in
Sede Boqer and one in
Eilat .
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23 June 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The Weizmann Institute of Science (
Hebrew : Machon Weizmann LeMada) was established in 1934 as a
public research university in
Rehovot , fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. The institute is now a multidisciplinary research center, employing around 3,800 scientists,
postdoctoral fellows , Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, and scientific, technical, and administrative staff working at the institute. Unlike other
Israeli universities, it exclusively offers postgraduate-only degrees in the
natural and
exact sciences . As of 2019, the Weizmann Institute of Science has been associated with six Nobel laureates and three Turing Award winners.
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26 May 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Jerusalem Day (Hebrew: Yom Yerushalayim) is an
Israeli holiday. It occurs on the 28th of
Iyar according to the
Jewish calendar .
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22 May 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Shopping , Union for the Mediterranean
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Dizengoff Center is a
shopping mall at the intersection of
Dizengoff Street and
King George Street in
Tel Aviv ,
Israel . The mall is named for
Meir Dizengoff , the first mayor of Tel Aviv.
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