Main Aspects - Diversity
In Downtown Tel-Aviv you’ll find Black Christian Sudanese drinking coffee alongside Thai women shouting in Hebrew, beside religious Jewish men wearing tall black hats who dart their eyes to the ground as young Israeli women saunter by with their Ethiopian boyfriends to buy soda from Arab-Israeli vendors.
In Old Jerusalem, Nuns scurry with Easter willow rods from the market below, as an ultra-orthodox boy rides his bike on home for Shabbat. Above them a scene of Minarets, Belfries and Domes, and the mixing sounds of Mu'addin calls to prayer, Shabbat Horns, and the ringtones of a girls' pajama party on a rooftop by The Holy Sepulcher.
Israel is multicultural country and we want to expose you and our bloggers to the myriad of people, religions, cultures and lifestyles that coexist in Israel and make it such a unique place.
Israel is the only country in the world where the majority of the citizens are Jewish. The Jewish spectrum in Israel is very broad and ranges from those who regard themselves as secular, through various degrees of traditional or observant, all the way to those who are ultra-Orthodox.
About 1/5 if Israel's population is non-Jewish. Israel’s Muslim population consists primarily of about 1.4 million Sunni Arabs, Circassians and Bedouins. Israel is also home to about 157 thousand Christians, a large Druze community and is the center of the world Bah'a'i community.
Academy Award Winner - "Strangers No More"
In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger.
Strangers No More follows several students’ struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy.
With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community.
Strangers No More follows several students’ struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy.
With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community.
