Nova Festival Victims Memorial in Israel

13 February 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© Israel Preker Pikiwiki Israel/cc-by-2.5

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.   read more…

Portrait: Theodor Meron, an American lawyer and judge

28 January 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: Portrait Reading Time:  4 minutes

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© flickr.com – UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia/cc-by-2.0

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).   read more…

Balfour Declaration

9 November 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  9 minutes

Balfour Declaration © British Library

Balfour Declaration © British Library

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.   read more…

Portrait: Yitzhak Rabin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Israel

22 October 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: Portrait Reading Time:  7 minutes

Isaac Herzog during Rabin Day, October 2021 © Haim Zach/Government Press Office of Israel/cc-by-sa-3.0

Isaac Herzog during Rabin Day, October 2021 © Haim Zach/Government Press Office of Israel/cc-by-sa-3.0

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.   read more…

Bat Yam in Gush Dan

20 October 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Marina Beach © Ynhockey/cc-by-sa-4.0

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.   read more…

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

8 July 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  6 minutes

Solar energy and Environmental Physics building at Jacob Blaustein Institutes © David Shankbone/cc-by-3.0

Solar energy and Environmental Physics building at Jacob Blaustein Institutes © David Shankbone/cc-by-3.0

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.   read more…

Weizmann Institute of Science in Rechovot

23 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  9 minutes

Main gate with sign calling for the return of hostages © Chenspec/cc-by-sa-4.0

Main gate with sign calling for the return of hostages © Chenspec/cc-by-sa-4.0

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.   read more…

Jerusalem Day

26 May 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  4 minutes

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© Hoheit/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

Jerusalem Day (Hebrew: Yom Yerushalayim) is an Israeli holiday. It occurs on the 28th of Iyar according to the Jewish calendar.   read more…

Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv

22 May 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Shopping, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© NaturalSoundsYEAH!

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.   read more…

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