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Daniella Cheslow
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Yacobi Plumbs Israel's Built Environment in 'Constructing a Sense of Place'
In Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse (Ashgate, 2004), architect and planner Haim Yacobi has compiled a fascinating collection of essays...
East Jerusalem Getting First Mall
You heard it here when Jenin got a mall-ish furniture superstore. Now East Jerusalem is also joining the trend. According to Danny Rubinstein at YnetNews,...
Are Suburbs Making Israeli Kids Fat?
A study released last week shows that more than one in five Israeli schoolchildren is overweight. According to Haaretz, the towns Nahariya (37%), Bat Yam...
Green Building Takes Off in Turkey
The global ecologically friendly building trend is taking hold in Turkey as well, according to the English-language daily Hurriyet News and Economic Review. We’ve covered...
Israeli Land Reform Takes a Beating, But Not Dead
Last week, a scowling Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (left, photo from Ynet) sat in parliament while his land reform took a beating. Key members...
Lebanese Expats Build Suburbia in Bint Jbeil
According to Lebanon’s Daily Star, the war-ravaged southern town of Bint Jbeil is remaking itself as a suburban summer getaway for expatriates who left over...
BGU Makes Green Plan for Bedouin City of Rahat
As a geography Master’s student at Beer Sheva’s Ben-Gurion University, this semester I took a class in environmental law and policy with Alon Tal (we...
Israel Scraps Tax on Fresh Produce
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu gave up an idea to close a 1.8 billion shekel ($450 million) budget gap by taxing fresh fruits...
Taco Bell Goes Green with All Unnatural Ingredients
Loyal GP readers know that there are many ways to cut a burger out of your life, from being a part-time vegetarian to vegging out...
Beer Sheva Getting 100,000 Sq. Meters of Greenwash
Beer Sheva, the long-suffering capital of Israel’s Negev desert, just broke ground on the biggest shopping mall in Israel. Like the other seven malls of...
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