As every year when Purim comes upon us, the main task is to find the most original costume to make you stand out. We went to one of the biggest custom designers in Tel-Aviv to find out what are the trends of Purim 2013.
Turns out the two days of Purim are huge moneymakers that are worth millions to the local industry.
Chances are that when you received your flower bouquet for Valentines Day, the flowers in them were from Israel. Over 30-Million Israeli flowers hit flower shops around Europe for the holidays.
And one very interesting factoid about the flowers from Israel, with the growing number of flower growers in the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli distribution companies have become their lifeline to sell their products internationally.
Just before you enter the Auschwitz Concentration Camp you get a real “reality check”! There stands a mall with a H&M, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Shawarma Restaurant. The place that once stood for death and destruction is now fruitful ground for retail.
As you pass through the camp you can not forget for a moment how helpless the Jewish people were just over sixty-years ago and how from the ashes of Auschwitz a nation of survivors raised that now can hold its own ground with the biggest and worst on the planet.
It is impossible not to think what those people who were here during the Holocaust felt on those cold winter days, we were here with coats but they had nothing. I am a third generation Auschwitz survivor, my grandmother, Nadia, was here, and I feel today like I have triumphed, like the Jewish people have triumphed.
On the eve of its first anniversary, the 120 Jewish European Parliament members convened in Krakow, Poland to discuss burning Jewish issues in Europe. And with so many fresh new members in the parliament, there certainly is a positive air of hope taking over this assembly.
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