Tag: Haifa
The Luck of the Gambler
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). We all know the picture from the books and the movies: a gambler sits at the roulette table in a casino....
The Great Conspiracy
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). In the Autumn of 1948, after some eight months of continuous fighting, I was promoted to the lofty rank of...
The Four-Letter Word
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). When a Briton or American speaks about a "four-letter word", he means a vulgar sexual term, a word not to...
That’s How It Happened
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). After my last article, in which I mentioned that the Arabs started the 1948 war after the partition resolution of...
The Arabs did it – The Great Fire in Greater Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). When my parents married in Germany, just before World War I, among the gifts was a document attesting that a...
The Call of the Mu’ezzin
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The first mu`ezzin stood on the roof of the prophet Muhammad's home in Medina, during his exile from Mecca, and...
Optimism of the Will
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). So now we have another anti-Semite. Mazal Tov ("good luck") as we say in Hebrew.
His name is Ban Ki-moon, and...