#Haifa City hall

[jontycrane]

Haifa, Rosh Hanikra, Akko, and Caesarea

A post covering Israel’s north coast, home to its third largest city, Crusader fortifications, a Roman city, and natural beauty on the border with Lebanon. To start with Haifa, Israel’s main port, a bustling place that spreads up the 546m high Mt Carmel, becoming less industrial and more desirable with altitude. By far its most famous sight are the incredible Baha’i Gardens, some of the most…

[amazingarchitecturewebsite]

Bat Galim Duplex in #Haifa, Israel by Erez Shani Architecture @esa.arch. Read more: Link in bio! Photography: Tal Nisim @talnisim79. The Duplex apartment is an "up-side down" layout. The Lower and entrance floor, consists of three bedroom suites , whereas the Master Suite is designed to have the ability to transform into a loft like open space which connects to the entrance hall/family room. The upper rooftop floor consists of all of the public amenities of the apartment, and an 80 sqm rooftop terrace which overlooks the coast, Mount Carmel, and the port of the City of Haifa… #israel #apartment #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at Haifa,Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cly-u62Ot8p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[amberfaber40]

photos by Robert Capa

photos by Robert Capa

Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot and Picasso's nephew, Javier Vilato. Spain, Barcelona. January 1939. Watching an air raid over the city. Barcelona was being heavily bombed by fascist planes, as General Franco's troops rapidly approached (left). Nüremberg, 20th April 1945. The city after the…

First Look: Robert Capa’s Stunning Color Photographs

Bikinis in Biarritz to skiing in the Alps.

20 Of The Most Iconic Photographs And The Cameras That Captured Them

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Some pictures, however, are worth at least a million. I’m talking about the iconic pictures that nearly everyone recognizes and that will forever be etched into our shared history. Even though these historical photos might be known by all, far from everyone knows about the superstar photographers who took them. Even less know about the film photography cameras they used to capture history in the making. Buckle up, amigos, you’re about to become photography buffs!

Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot and Picasso's nephew, Javier Vilato.Spain, Barcelona. January 1939. Watching an air raid over the city. Barcelona was being heavily bombed by fascist planes, as General Franco's troops rapidly approached (left). Nüremberg, 20th April 1945. The city after the Allied bombing. Spain, Madrid. Winter 1936-1937. After an Italo-German air raid. The Nationalist offensive on Madrid, which lasted from November 1936 to February 1937, was one of the fiercest of the Civil War. During this period Italy and Germany started helping the Nationalist forces, and the USSR the Popular Front government. France, Paris. August 25th, 1944. Members of the French Resistance during the liberation of the city. France, Chartres. August 18th, 1944. A mother (dark dress) and her daughter (white dress), accused of collaboration, have their hair shaved, as a sign of humiliation. The daughter is holding a baby conceived with a German soldier. August, 1945. An American soldier selling a watch to a Russian soldier. After the entry of the French 2nd Armored Division, numerous pockets of German snipers had to be rooted out in street fighting. Many French civilians and members of the Resistance helped the French troops in this fighting. This photograph shows a French civilian who was unable to contain his wrath against a German soldier who had surrendered. Paris. August 25th, 1944. Soldiers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France, June 16, 1944. Running for shelter during an air raid Bilbau, May 1937. Just after the liberation of the town, a French woman who had had a baby with a German soldier was punished by having her head shaved. Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France, 18 August 1944. Immigrants from Europe Arriving in Haifa, Israel. Tour de France bicycle race, France, July 1939. Watching the Tour de France in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, Brittany, France, July 1939. Watching the Tour de France in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, Brittany, France, July 1939. Galilee. Near Gedera (south of Tel Aviv). November-December, 1950. Village for blind immigrants (victims of trachoma) and their families, founded by a Pole. Three men are led to the community dining hall. Haifa, Israel, 1950. Italy, Naples. Funeral of 20 teenage partisans of the Liceo Sannazaro, in the Vomero district. Led by one of their teachers, the boys had fought against the Germans for 4 days before the arrival of the Allies. October 2nd, 1943. Landing of the American troops on Omaha Beach. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. Nuremberg, Germany, April 20, 1945, (right). Gary Cooper, 1942. Spain, Madrid. November-December 1936. A member of the International Brigades. Pablo Picasso in his studio at the Rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris. Gary Cooper, 1942. American soldier (left) interrogating an Italian prisoner of war. Sicily, Italy, August 1943. Truman Capote, Italy, 1953. Henri Matisse, France. Israel, Tel Aviv. May, 1949. Armon Café, on Hayarkan Street. France, Eure-et-loir. Chartres. August 18th, 1944. Shortly after the liberation of the city, a French woman who had a baby with a German soldier has her head shaved, as a sign of humiliation. Her mother (left) suffered the same treatment. Spain, April 1935, (left). Spain, Barcelona. January 1939. Little girl resting during the evacuation of the city. A member of the American Medical Corps treats a German prisoner of war. Italy, July 1943. France, Eure-et-Loir. Chartres. August 18th, 1944. Shortly after the liberation of the city, a French woman who had collaborated with the Germans has her hair shaved at police headquarters as a sign of humiliation. Ernest Hemingway and his son Gregory. Sun Valley, October 1941. Ernest Hemingway. Spain, Madrid. November-December 1936. After the Italo-German air raids. The Nationalist offensive on Madrid, which lasted from November 1936 to February 1937, was one of the fiercest of the Civil War. During this period Italy and Germany started helping the Nationalist forces, and the USSR the Popular Front government. The civilians were severely affected by the bombings. Members of the International Brigades, engaged in a house to house fight around the slaughterhouse, near the university campus, in the western outskirts of the capital. Madrid. November-December 1936. Death of a loyalist militiaman. Spain, Cordoba front. September, 1936. Near Nicosia, July 28th, 1943. An Italian soldier straggling behind a column of his captured comrades , marching towards a Prisoner Of War camp. Ernest Hemingway. France, near Chartres. August, 1944. Resistance fighters take a German paratroop officer prisoner. Republican Soldier and Gerda Taro, near Cordoba, Spain 1936. Haifa, May/June, 1950. Immigrants from Europe arriving to settle in Israel. Berlin. Jewish New Year. Paris, Les Champs ELysées. August 26th, 1944. Members of the French Resistance and soldiers of the French Army celebrating the liberation of the city. Italy, Cefalu. Two days after the liberation of the city. July 26th, 1943. France, Paris. August 26th, 1944. General Charles de Gaulle leading the parade down the Avenue des Champs-Elysées to celebrate the liberation of the city. France Paris. June 1936. Employees of the department store "Galeries Lafayette" on the rooftop terrace during a sit-in strike, (right). Spain, Barcelona. January 13, 1939. Man with two women and a baby preparing for mobilization as General Franco's troops approached the city. Spain, Barcelona. August 1936. Republican militiamembers.

[jackdelaney40]

11/23 Docked in Haifa. Been here before so took a tour of Acre, a small port city where they discovered ancient settlements of crusaders and other groups late last century. The original sites had been buried so, beginning in 1980, they excavated amazing spaces, including Knights Templar dining and sleeping halls. We toured all kinds of areas, including a secret tunnel built by the crusaders to the Port. In places it was well under 5 feet tall so nearly killed me. I'll post some additional views separately as this was a real photo day. As an aside, we were informed last night that there are 530 passengers aboard and 421 crew. Sure explains the amazing level of service.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.22

1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil). 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas. 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. 1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. 1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000. 1898 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000. 1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens. 1915 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater. 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. 1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station. 1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape. 1945 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces. 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins. 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. 1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta. 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated. 1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board. 1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. 1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206. 1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham. 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record. 2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming. 2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.

[daloy-politsey]

[Images description: A ten part Twitter thread by Suhail Matar. The tweets read as follows:

1) Because I mostly user twitter academically, let me share my experience as a Palestinian in Israeli academia. A thread.

2) I attended the Technion (In Haifa, my city) between 2004 and 2011. This coincided with Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon, 2008/9 war on Gaza, and 2010 attack on the flotilla headed for Gaza.

3) This meant many protests at the university’s gates. We were usually some 150 students, chanting support for Gaza, say and condemnations of Israeli aggression.

4) Across the street, without fail, was always a 10x bigger protest: huge Israeli flags, enraged Zionists jumping up and down yellow “DEATH TO ARABS! DEATH TO ARABS!” Our chants were 100% drowned The blind hatred in their eyes could have probably powered the campus.

5) These weren’t just random people. These were my Physical Chemistry professor, for example. He used to show up to lectures in full settler regalia. Imagine a US professor showing up to class in Proud Boys or KKK regalia.

6) It was that shy, tall, bespectacled student from year 2 who’d asked me for tips (having recently finished the bachelor’s program) only a few weeks prior. He was also there chanting “DEATH TO ARABS!” Oh, yes, he knew I was Palestinian.

7) We then had to go back to the lecture halls and literally sit with people who chanted for our death. Disciplinary action, you suggest? Hahahaha

8) Not to mention that, a few weeks later, those Israeli students who were recruited for the reserve army for whatever was it was would come back to university. We were sitting next to snipers and pilots who killed people, our people, in Gaza and Lebanon.

9) In the Technion we were “lucky” it didn’t go further. Other campuses are much more politically active, and Palestinian students are routinely harassed, attacked, arrested, expelled for simply raising a flag, or expressing their Palestinianness.

10) This is what your fancy collab with an Israeli university looks like, under the surface. This is the grim reality of Israeli academia. Yes, it has top-notch education and great researchers. But it is severly lacking in basic humanity towards even its own Palestinians.]

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Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration

Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration, Israel Office Buildings Images, Architect, Architecture Design

Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration: Office Buildings

28 May 2022

Office Complex – Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Architects: Chyutin Architects with Jacques Dahan architect

Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration Buildings

The regeneration scheme deals with the overall planning of Jerusalem’s city hall district and its Municipal square. The origins of its construction, may be traced to the emergence of Jewish neighborhoods outside of the Old City Walls during the latter half of the 19th Century.

The compound includes a variety of buildings, some unique examples of Ottoman architecture and numerous late 19th-early 20th Century buildings, planned by some of the finest British architects from the Mandate period. The new scheme proposes the construction of new buildings and re-uses of existing ones. Its goal is the strengthening the touristic, commercial, and residential activities of the compound, as well intensifying the usage of its public spaces.

At the first stage of the regeneration plan, a city hall office building, adjacent to the historic Beit Avihail (built in 1863), will be erected. The ground floor of the historic building will be excavated to merge with the square level, presenting an active commercial façade and becoming a focal point of the municipal square. The two upper floors above, will be refurbished as office areas.

The new office building’s entrance level will be open to the public and be connected to the ground floor’s facilities of the historic building. It corresponds with Yafa Street building materiality and with the adjacent Erich Mendelson National Bank (1939).

The seven-story new structure will be cladded by a weave of relieved stone plates incorporated in vertical windows. The stone relief on the rounded facades of the building literally plays with the Jerusalem light and shade to give a contemporary interpretation to the traditional stone building structures.

Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration – Building Information

Practice: Chyutin Architects In collaboration with Jacques Dahan architect Client: Jerusalem Municipality Design Team: Bracha Chyutin Jacques Dahan, Ethel Rosenhek

Floor Area: 3,500 sqm new build ; 3,200 sqm reuse Design Date: 2021 Country:Israel Location: Jerusalem

Chyutin Architects

Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration images / information from Chyutin Architects

Location: Jerusalem, Israel, the Middle East

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Israeli Architecture Designs – chronological list

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Another Jerusalem building by Chyutin Architects on e-architect:

Academy of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem photo from architects office Academy of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem

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Law Court Buildings

Recent Israeli Buildings designed by Chyutin Architects

Municipal Civic Center Masterplan, Hod-Hasharon image from architects Municipal Civic Center Masterplan

University Senate Center Beer-Sheva, Israel photograph : Ardon Bar Hama University Senate Center Beer-Sheva

Haifa Court House Building Haifa Court Building

BGU University Entrance Square & Art Gallery, southern Israel BGU University Art Gallery

Haifa University Student Center Building, north Israel Haifa University Student Center

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Israeli Architecture Design – Selection

Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Design: Foster + Partners photo : Studio Harel Gilboa Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences in Jerusalem

Jaffa House, Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv Architects: Raz Melamed and Omer Danan photo : Amit Geron Photographer Jaffa House, Tel Aviv

Peace Peres House Jaffa

Comments / photos for the Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration design by Chyutin Architects page welcome

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Film Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2018/19

Here is this season’s lifetime achievement honorees.

Academy Awards: Cicely Tyson, Lalo Schifrin, Marvin Levy, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy

Golden Globes: Jeff Bridges and Carol Burnett

BAFTA Awards: Thelma Schoonmaker, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley

SAG Awards: Alan Alda

American Film Institute: Denzel Washington

Venice Film Festival: David Cronenberg, Zhang Yimou and Vanessa Redgrave

Berlin Film Festival: Charlotte Rampling and Arthur Cohn

Cannes Film Festival: Alain Delon

Cesar Awards: Robert Redford

Kennedy Center Honors: Philip Glass

Zurich Film Festival: Donald Sutherland and Judi Dench

Twin Cities Film Festival: Steve Zahn

San Sebastian International Film Festival: Judi Dench, Hirokazu Kore-eda and Danny Devito

Camerimage: Witold Sobociński (R.I.P.)

Rome Film Festival: Martin Scorsese and Isabelle Huppert

Maine International Film Festival: Dominique Sanda

Odessa international Film Festival: Jacqueline Bisset 

Locarno Film Festival: Bruno Dumont

Rose d’Or Awards: Joanna Lumley 

SAG-AFTRA Foundation: Marsha Hunt, Norman Lloyd, June Lockhart, Barbara Perry, Harrison Ford and Lady Gaga

Antalya Film Festival: Ferzan Özpetek, Cem Yılmaz and Bela Tarr

Iran Cinema Celebration: Dariush Mehrjui

Australian International Movie Convention: Bryan Brown

Deauville Film Festival: Morgan Freeman

Toronto Film Festival: Harry Belafonte

Ulster Tatler Awards: Ciaran Hinds

Ischia Global Film and Music Festival: Quincy Jones

Comic-Con Lifetime Achievement Award: Nichelle Nichols

California Independent Film Festival: Doug Jones

Emile Awards: Clare Kitson

Heartland Film Festival: Hal Linden

St. Louis International Film Festival: John Goodman

El Gouna Film Festival: Sylvester Stallone

Haifa Film Festival: Zbigniew Preisner

Cinema Audio Society: Steven Spielberg

Asian World Film Festival: Lisa Lu

Lumière Festival: Jane Fonda

European Film Awards: Ralph Fiennes, Costa-Gravas and Carmen Maura

Critics Choice Awards: Michael Moore

Ojai Film Festival: Malcolm McDowell and Ellen Kuras

Hridaynath Award: Khayyam

Stockholm International Film Festival: Gunnel Lindblom and Mary Harron

Art Directors Guild Awards: Jeannine Oppewall,  Ed Verreaux, William F. Matthews and James Fiorito

Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Hayao Miyazaki

Heartland International Film Festival: Gale Ann Hurd

Arpa International Film Festival: Ed Asner and Edward James Olmos

Videocitta Festival: Ennio Morricone

Animafest: Suzan Pitt

Beaufort Film Society: Paul Sorvino

Chicago International Film Festival: William Friedkin

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival: Gary Ross

Screen Producers Australia Awards: Michael McMahon

Hollywood Film Awards: Nicole Kidman

Equity Lifetime Achievement Award: Julia Blake and Terry Norris

International Film Festival Of India: Dan Wolman

Top Mexican Fest: Spike Lee and Terry Gilliam

Malatya Film Festival: Şener Şen, Perran Kutman and Osman Sınav

NYC Horror Film Festival: Tony Todd

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Liv Ullmann and Ivars Seleckis

Society of Camera Operators: Harrison Ford

Palm Springs Women in Film & Television: Beverly D’Angelo and Kaye Ballard

Toronto Film Critics Association Award: Tantoo Cardinal

Bette Davis Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Douglas

Director’s Guild Award: Don Mischer

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards: Susan Cabral-Ebert and Robert Louis Stevenson

Annie Awards: Andrea Romano, Ralph Eggleston and Frank Braxton (posthumously)

American Society of Cinematographers: Robert Richardson and Jeff Jur

Women in Film and TV: Juliet Stevenson

Nigerian Film Corporation: Femi Odugbem

International Film Festival of Kerala: Majid Majidi

London Film Critics Awards: Pedro Almodovar

Zuma Film Festival:  Femi Odugbemi

AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards: Shirley MacLaine

West Bengal Film Journalist Association: Buddhadeb Dasgupta

ICG Publicists Awards: Jamie Lee Curtis

Capri Legend Award: Nick Nolte

L.A. Italia Fest: Franco Nero and Andy Garcia

British Film Institute: Olivia Colman

Canadian Screen Awards: The Kids In The Hall, Deepa Mehta and Mary Walsh

Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards: Colm Feore and Sandra Oh

[aristocratslog]

Alef b'Tamuz א' בתמוז from Yael Reisfeld on Vimeo.

In the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Safed, people come from afar to pray on the graves of rabbis from the golden age of Kabbalah in the 16th century, sometimes with hope to find redemption to their life problems.

This animated short is a combination of 2D animation with documentary footage and sound, and is based loosely on real characters. -- Awards:

-DC independent Film Festival - Best animation -Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival - Winner, Best Animation + Honorable Mention by the 'Critics Forum' Michigan Comic Convention - Best cinematography -Black Warrior, Alabama - Best experimental\dance -Prize for risk and originality- Paris International animation festival

Official Selection:

-Annecy, France -Zagreb Animfest, Croatia -ITFS Stuttgart -Animayo, Gran Canaria -VOID, Denmark -Washington Jewish Film Festival, US -Ars Independent film festival, Poland -TOFUZI, Georgia -Animation Volda, Norway -Spock Screen, Ireland -Supertoon, Croatia -World panorama in AnimaSyros, Greece -Indie-AniFest, Korea -Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Russia -Athens Animfest, Greace -International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival, Turkey -ASIF, Israel Fide, France -Haifa Film festival, Israel -Balkanima, Serbia -Deptford Cinema Film Festival, United Kingdom Cortisconi International Film Festival, Italy -ANNY: Animation Nights New York, United States -International Film Festival of Larissa, Greece -CRASH, Brazil -Chillemonos, Chile -Anibar, Kosovo -Doc Sunback, Kansas -Imaginarium Comic Con Film Festival - Michigan , Indiana -Swindon Independent Film Festival, UK -Finalist- Canton Film Festival, US - Finalist -Festival de Cine Independiente de Sogamoso,Colombia

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Written, Directed and Animated by Yael Reisfeld

Produced with the financial aid of Docuvillage Multicultural Center for Documentary Projects (R.S) Sound Design - Ilan Admon

Music- Yaniv Ben Mashiach - Kabalat Ol Malchut Shamaim As Above so Below - Severance Prologue Ido Segal (PUNXLINE) - Trance Offthesky- Hall Inside Mirrors (offthesky.com) Given Willingly- The virginal concept

Lecture excerpt - Rabbi Ytchak Cohen Photography - Omer Sehayek, Yael Reisfeld Additional color and in between- Omer Sharon, Shira Seri Levi 3D elements - Hadas Cohen, Alexander Komendant Drone Photography - Danni Tzchori, Gal Hochberg

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

UPDATED LIST OF GLOBAL PROTESTS: HANDS OFF JERUSALEM, THE CAPITAL OF PALESTINE!

Compiled by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

From Haifa, to Yafa, to Jerusalem, to Gaza, to Ramallah, Palestine and its people will never be defeated, colonialism and land theft will not be legitimized through imperial declarations, and millions of Palestinian refugees will return to their liberated homeland. We urge all supporters of Palestine to join the rallies around the world to support Palestinian resistance to Trump’s declaration. We will add additional events to the list below as we become aware of them! Please email us at samidoun@samidoun.net or message us on Facebook to let us know about your protests to stand with Jerusalem and with Palestine! New York, NY:  Friday, 8 December New York Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine! 4:30 pm Times Square 42nd St and 7th Avenue Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/130658067614282/ Monday, 11 December Defend al-Quds! Free Ahmad Sa'adat and Khalida Jarrar! Stop HP! 5:00 pm Union Square - Best Buy 52 E. 14th St, NYC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1696870457010107/ Chicago, IL: Thursday, 7 December Emergency Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine! 4:30 pm Kluczynski Federal Building 230 S. Dearborn St., Chicago Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/364421994006609/ Fort Lauderdale, FL: Friday, 8 December Rally; Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine! 5:00 pm Broward County Courthouse 201 SE 6th St, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/304951356667214/ Tampa, FL: Friday, 8 December Rally: Hands off Jerusalem! 6:00 pm Corner of Fowler Ave and 56th St, Tampa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2017627081855810/ Jacksonville, FL Friday, 8 December Jerusalem is Palestinian! Hands off al-Quds! 5:30 pm 300 N. Hogan St Jacksonville Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/899879560189158 Orlando, FL Friday, 8 December Protest: Hands off Jerusalem! 4:30 pm Lake Eola Park Orlando Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1857845674545873/ Sarasota, FL Sunday, 10 December Jerusalem is Palestine! No US Embassy Move! 1:00 pm Five Points Park 1 Central Ave, Sarasota Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/307092906444030/ Cleveland, OH Friday, 8 December Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine! 5:00 pm Public Square, Cleveland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1603893759671535/ Columbus, OH Friday, 8 December Call to Action: Rally Against US Embassy Relocation to Jerusalem 4:30 pm Ohio Statehouse 1 Capitol Square, Columbus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1379780698816136/ Toledo, OH Sunday, 10 December Hands off Jerusalem! 12:00 pm Corner of Secor and Central, Toledo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/134187743929658/ Los Angeles, CA Sunday, 10 December Jerusalem is Palestine! No US Embassy Move 1:00 pm Wilshire Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/594258424246788/ San Francisco, CA Saturday, 9 December All Out for Palestine: Hands off Jerusalem! 12:00 pm Civic Center/UN Plaza San Francisco, CA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1556659997759149/ Fresno, CA Friday, 8 December Protest for Jerusalem 5:00 pm Corner of Shaw and Blackstone, Fresno Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1015469261926177/ Anaheim, CA Friday, 8 December All out for Jerusalem! 2:30 pm 611 S Brookhurst St, Anaheim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1694636593913797/ Sacramento, CA Saturday, 9 December Rally and protest for Palestine 4:00 pm 20th and J Street, Sacramento Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/550487815298790/ Boston, MA Wednesday, 6 December Jews Say No To Trump Embassy in Jerusalem 6:00 pm AIPAC 70 Franklin Street, Boston Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/378087899308104/ Washington, DC Wednesday, 6 December Rally to Tell Trump: Jerusalem is Not the Capital of Israel! 4:00 pm The White House Washington, DC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/164573460955871/ Friday, 8 December Hands off Jerusalem Protest 12 pm The White House Washington, DC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/965358533619520/ Philadelphia, PA Friday, 8 December Protest Trump's Reassignment of Jerusalem 4:00 pm 1401 JFK Boulevard, Philadelphia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/959709627530281/ Pittsburgh, PA Saturday, 9 December Emergency Palestine Rally 1:00 pm Schenley Plaza 4100 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/152287848830276/ Albuquerque, NM Friday, 8 December Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine! 3:00 pm 400 Gold Ave SW, Albuquerque Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/167281704017786/ Gallup, NM Saturday, 9 December Stand with Palestine! Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine! 12:00 pm SE Corner of Maloney and Hwy 491 Gallup Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/531413267239283/ Kansas City, MO Friday, 8 December Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine! 2:30 pm Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd, Kansas City Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/168030557134043/ Detroit, MI Friday, 8 December Emergency Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 5:00 pm Hart Plaza Detroit, MI Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1483447341732510/ East Lansing, MI Friday, 8 December Emergency Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 5:00 pm E Grand River Ave East Lansing, MI Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/174939163091562/ Albany, NY: Saturday, 9 December Day of Rage: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 1:00 pm Townsend Park, Albany Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/157838194972669/ Portland, OR Friday, 8 December Tell Trump NO- Jerusalem is Not the Capital of Israel 5:00 pm Federal Building, SW 3rd and Madison Portland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2186675861560433/ Tempe, AZ Friday, 8 December Stand in Solidarity with Jerusalem - Stand Against Trump 6:00 pm Mill Avenue and University Drive, Tempe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/124218361696385/ Salt Lake City, UT Saturday, 9 December Protest Trump's Jerusalem Announcement 2:00 pm Wallace Bennett Federal Building 125 South State Street, Salt Lake City Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/549889052036922/ Atlanta, GA Saturday, 9 December Stop Trump, Protect Jerusalem, Support Peace 12:00 pm Location TBA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1488503127929972/ Austin, TX Friday, 8 December Emergency Action: Hands off Jerusalem 3:00 pm UT Tower Austin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1953208881597313/ Dallas, TX Saturday, 9 December Rally for Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine 3:00 pm Dealey Plaza, Dallas Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/548022182203536/ Houston, TX Saturday, 9 December Emergency Rally: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 2:00 pm 2521 Post Oak Blvd, Houston Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2004761833096682/ Omaha, Nebraska Friday, 8 December Emergency Rally: Hands off Jerusalem 4:00 pm 72nd and Dodge, Omaha Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/409809806105020/ Greensboro, NC: Saturday, 9 December 1:15 pm Corner of Gate City Boulevard and Holden Road In front of the Wells Fargo St. Paul, MN Friday, 8 December No to Trump's Plan to move US Embassy to Jerusalem! 4:30 pm Summit and Snelling, St. Paul Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2070178673201952/ Nashville, TN Saturday, 9 December Emergency Stand Up for Palestine Protest 3:00 pm Centennial Park Nashville Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1675250135870940/ Seattle, WA Friday, 8 December Al-Quds is the Capital of Palestine 5:00 pm Westlake Park Seattle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/305485543297018/ Dublin, Ireland: Friday, 8 December Hands off Jerusalem! Emergency Lunchtime Protest at US Embassy 1 pm US Embassy Dublin, Ireland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/522915784755200/ Derry, Ireland; Thursday, 7 December Hands off Jerusalem Rally 7:00 pm Guildhall Square, Derry Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1978229262465379/ Belfast, Ireland Friday, 8 December Tell Trump Jerusalem is Not the Capital of Israel 6:00 pm US Embassy Danesfort 223 Stranmillis Road, Belfast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/152658182127689/ Limerick, Ireland Saturday, 9 December Hands off Jerusalem! 2:00 pm Thomas Street Limerick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/313235175845579/ Edinburgh, Scotland (national demo) Saturday, 9 December Protest for Jerusalem! 12:00 pm Princess Street in front of Waverly Station March to US Consulate Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2004467089838401/ Glasgow, Scotland Saturday, 9 December Hands off Jerusalem - Not Trump's to Give Away 12:30 pm Buchanan Street Steps Glasgow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/188002085111924/ London, UK: Friday, 8 December London Protest - Hands off Jerusalem! 5:30 pm US Embassy Grosvenor Square, London Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/170537040356273/ Sunday, 10 December Do NOT Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, Trump! 1:00 pm US Embassy London 24 Grosvenor Square, London Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/151751605458340/ Manchester, UK: Friday, 8 December Protest: Jerusalem's Not Trump's To Give Away 5:30 pm Whitworth Hall, Manchester Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/173708333367924/ Saturday, 16 December No to Trump's Jerusalem Plan! Protest on PFLP Anniversary 12:00 pm Piccadilly Gardens Manchester Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/370327460076955/ Bristol, UK Friday, 8 December Bristol says Hands off Jerusalem! 5:00 pm The Centre (by the fountains), Bristol Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/135659940548935/ Nottingham UK Friday, 8 December Emergency Protest - Hands off Jerusalem! 5:30 pm Nottingham Speakers Corner Nottingham, UK Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1505996489499037/ Sheffield, UK Saturday, 9 December Protest Trump Jerusalem Decision 12:00 pm Sheffield City Hall Barkers Pool, Sheffield Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1397114987056439/ Birmingham, UK Saturday, 9 December Protest: Al-Quds is Palestine! 2:00 pm Marks and Spencer 42 High Street, Birmingham Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1943494829238119/ Halifax, UK Friday, 8 December Hands off Jerusalem! 5:00 pm Outside old central library on Northgate Halifax More info: https://www.facebook.com/HalifaxFriendsOfPalestine/ Cardiff, UK Friday, 8 December Hands off Jerusalem! 5:30 pm Nye Bevan Statue Cardiff Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1526738384060970/ Montreal, Quebec: Friday, 8 December Montreal Rally: Hands off Jerusalem! 1:00 pm US Consulate General Montreal 1155 rue St-Alexandre, Montreal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1968933419989588/ Sunday, 10 December Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 1:00 pm Guy-Concordia Station Montreal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1995490697389410/ Ottawa, Canada: Saturday, 9 December Ottawa Rally: Hands off Jerusalem! 2:00 pm US Embassy 490 Sussex Drive, Ottawa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/166675890733664/ Vancouver, Canada: Friday, 8 December Emergency Rally for Palestine: Defend al-Quds/Jerusalem 5:00 pm US Consulate Vancouver 1095 W Pender Street, Vancouver Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1566269640131706/ Toronto, Canada: Saturday, 9 December Hands of Jerusalem (Al Quds) Emergency Rally 1:00 pm US Consulate 360 University Ave, Toronto Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/129418627726205/ Sunday, 10 December Hands off Jerusalem Protest 1:00 pm US Embassy Toronto 360 University Avenue, Toronto Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/174939763103524/ London, ON, Canada Saturday, 9 December Rally: Hands off Jerusalem (Al Quds)! 2:00 pm Victoria Park, London Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/910265845803457/ Kingston, ON, Canada Saturday, 9 December Rally: Hands off Jerusalem 2:00 pm City Hall Kingston 219 Queen St, Kingston Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/347280662400551/ Calgary, Canada Saturday, 9 December Yemen is Bleeding - Save Palestine 2:00 pm Calgary City Hall Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1721331861219481/ Auckland, New Zealand Saturday, 9 December Protest Trump's Plan to Move US Embassy to Jerusalem 2:00 pm Aotea Square 291-297 Queen Street, Auckland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/677594152449309/ Stockholm, Sweden Saturday, 9 December Hands off Jerusalem 12:30 pm Humlegarden, Stockholm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/301301177028829/ Gothenburg, Sweden Saturday, 9 December Protest: Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 1:00 pm Gotaplatsen, Gothenburg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/522280941473909/ Vaxjo, Sweden Saturday, 9 December Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 1:00 pm Vaxjo resecentrum Norra Jamvagsgatan 5, Vaxjo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1925262207739636/ Malmo, Sweden Thursday, 7 December In Defense of Jerusalem 5:00 pm Mollevangstorget Malmo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1514028312012848/ Friday, 8 December In Defense of Jerusalem 5:00 pm Mollevangstorget Malmo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1514028312012848/ Halmstad, Sweden Friday, 8 December Jerusalem is Palestine's Capital 4:00 pm McDonald's Halmstad Storgatan 13, Halmstad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/166034210669263/ Kristianstad, Sweden Saturday, 9 December Jerusalem - Capital of Palestine 12:30 pm Main Mall Downtown Kristianstad Koblenz, Germany Friday, 8 December Protest for Jerusalem 6:00 pm Herz-Jesu-Kirch Lohrrondell 1a, Koblenz More info: http://palaestina-solidaritaet.de/2017/12/07/koblenz-fr-08-12-kundgebung-zu-jerusalem/ Berlin, Germany Wednesday, 6 December Protest for Jerusalem 8:00 pm US Embassy, Berlin Thursday, 7 December Jerusalem- Capital of Palestine 9:30 pm Pariser Platz, Berlin More info: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212576173053319&set=a.1367129332304.2053495.1053806238&type=3 Friday, 8 December Protest for Jerusalem 4:00 pm Brandenburger Tor Pariser Platz, Berlin More info: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210919504331322&set=a.10200905035015848.1073741829.1464387955&type=3 Dusseldorf, Germany Friday, 8 December Jerusalem - Capital of Palestine 1:00 pm Bertha-von Suttner-Platz Dusseldorf More info: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1626021097478863&set=a.371559096258409.87819.100002129649200&type=3 Frankfurt, Germany Friday, 8 December Jerusalem - Capital of Palestine 12:00 pm US Consulate Giessen Street 30, Frankfurt More info: https://www.facebook.com/palaestinaforumnahostfrankfurt/posts/894323874083093 Vienna, Austria Friday, 8 December Jerusalem: Capital of Palestine 2:30 pm US Embassy Bolzmangasse 16, Vienna More information: https://www.facebook.com/VerletztPalastina/photos/a.684287411617388.1073741825.460675240645274/1606099069436213/?type=3 Copenhagen, Denmark Friday, 8 December Jerusalem is Palestine's Capital 2:30 pm Dag Hammarskjolds Alle 24 Copenhagen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/549172678760968/ Brussels, Belgium Friday, 8 December Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 5:00 pm US Embassy in Brussels Boulevard du Regent 27, Brussels Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1742370302462330/ Monday, 11 December Netanyahu Not Welcome! 11:30 am 14 Avenue de la Joyeuse Entree Brussels Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/184835458761008/ Antwerp, Belgium Tuesday, 12 December Jerusalem Palestine - Antwerp Solidarity 5:00 pm Hoek Amerikalei Graaf van Hoornestraat, Antwerp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/920806664743014/ The Hague, Netherlands Friday, 8 December Rally for Jerusalem 9:00 pm Lange Voorhout 102 The Hague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1921750411186196/ Tuesday, 12 December Jerusalem Capital of Palestine 12:00 pm Lange Vijverberg The Hague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/159192554831145/ Amsterdam, Netherlands Friday, 8 December Protest for Jerusalem 2:00 pm Leidseplein Amsterdam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1973406299585378/ Sunday, 10 December Rally for Jerusalem 1:00 pm Leidseplein Amsterdam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1721613757870221/ Athens, Greece Friday, 8 December Rally at US Embassy against Trump's attack on Jerusalem 6:00 pm US Embassy Athens 91 Vas. Sofias Avenue, Athens Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1517072295012564/ Rome, Italy Saturday, 9 December Hands off Jerusalem! 11:00 am In front of US Embassy Corner of Via Veneto and Via Bissolati, Rome Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/518111025234729/ Milan, Italy Saturday, 9 December Rally against the declaration of Donald Trump on Jerusalem 3:00 pm Piazza Cavour Milan, Italy More information: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212443809108254&set=a.1043921416259.2008922.1172311563&type=3 Torino, Italy Sunday, 10 December Protest for Jerusalem 2:00 Via Nizza outside the Porta Nuova station Torino More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/523943591308912/ Verona, Italy Sunday, 10 December Protest for the Palestinian People 3:00 pm Verona Centro Piazza Bra, Verona Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1396061230515969 Cagliari, Italy Saturday, 9 December Protest for Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine 11:30 am Piazza Yenne, Cagliari More information: https://www.facebook.com/sardegna.palestina/photos/a.301520073374663.1073741828.259218764271461/852789158247749/?type=3 Valencia, Spain Friday, 8 December Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine 5:00 pm Plaza del ayuntamiento de Valencia More information; https://www.facebook.com/ACHispanoPalestina/photos/a.408049306248220.1073741828.408032642916553/508303136222836/?type=3 Zaragoza, Spain Friday, 8 December Jerusalem, the Capital of Palestine 6:00 pm Plaza Espana (Provincial government of Zaragoza) More information: https://www.facebook.com/ACHispanoPalestina/photos/a.408049306248220.1073741828.408032642916553/508247376228412/?type=3 Madrid, Spain Tuesday, 12 December Protest against the Trump declaration on Jerusalem 8:00 pm US Embassy in Madrid calle Serrano 75, Madrid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/729573840571384/ Barcelona, Catalonia Sunday, 11 December Jerusalem - Capital of Palestine 7:00 pm Placa Sant Jaume Barcelona Paris, France Saturday, 9 December Denounce Netanyahu's Visit! 2:00 pm Place de la Republique Paris Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2007829459492311/ Toulouse, France Tuesday, 12 December No to the annexation of al-Quds/Jerusalem! 6:00 pm Jean-Jaures Toulouse Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/328960474247657/ Marseille, France Saturday, 9 December Marseille for Jerusalem/Al Quds 4:00 pm Vieux-Port de Marseille Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/247128672486026/ Rouen, France Friday, 8 December Rouen for Jerusalem 5:30 pm Rouen Metro - Theatre des Arts Rouen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/516453125400982/ Lyon, France Saturday, 9 December Protest for Jerusalem 3:00 pm Place de la Republique Lyon Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/294550661054500/ Oslo, Norway Saturday, 9 December Rally for Jerusalem 4:00 pm House of Parliament Oslo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/166834367248421/ Helsinki, Finland Friday, 8 December Jerusalem - the Palestinian capital! 5:00 pm Kiasma Mannerheiminaukio 2, Helsinki Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/147328039371464/ Budapest, Hungary Friday, 8 December Protest over Trump's Jerusalem Announcement 3:00 pm Szechenyi Istvan ter 9 - Outside US Embassy Budapest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/131786937497210/ Geneva, Switzerland Saturday, 9 December Rally Against Colonization and Occupation in Jerusalem 2:00 PM Place du Mont-Blanc Geneva Sao Paulo, Brazil Sunday, 10 December Protest: No to Trump's declaration on Jerusalem, the Capital of Palestine! 11:00 am Praca Osvaldo Cruz, Vila Mariana Sao Paulo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/258995597962352/ San Salvador, El Salvador Friday, 8 December Jerusalem - Capital of Palestine! 10:00 am US Embassy San Salvador, El Salvador Santiago, Chile Monday, 11 December #LunesDeLuto for Jerusalem, Capital of Palestine 7:30 pm US Embassy in Chile Avenida Andres Bello 2800, Santiago Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1307216849423890/ Rabat, Morocco Sunday, 10 December Moroccan Popular March for Jerusalem, Capital of Palestine 10:00 am Rabat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2038355933044332/ Tunis, Tunisia Thursday, 7 December Habib Bourguiba Avenue Mass protest for Jerusalem and Palestine called by general student union Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, 10 December Rally for Jerusalem 11:00 am US Embassy in Awkar Beirut, Lebanon Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/195238161039694/ Sydney, Australia Friday, 8 December Solidarity with Jerusalem 6:00 pm Martin Place opposite the US Consulate Sydney Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/330447074099140/ Melbourne, Australia Wednesday, 13 December Rally - Hands off Jerusalem 6:00 pm State Library of Victoria Melbourne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1176684729101145/

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Chloé Zhao, Gia Coppola and Michel Franco head up Venice Film Festival 2020

Following the (fully expected) cancellation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, our attentions quickly turned to the two major international autumn festivals, Venice and Toronto. Viewed by the industry as the launchpad for awards season, both of these long-running cultural institutions have been faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to forge ahead with their initial plans for 2020.

On that front, the organisers of TIFF have already announced a programme “tailored to fit the moment”, comprising physical screenings and drive-ins alongside virtual screenings, red carpets, press conferences and talks. Venice will not be following suit – perhaps surprisingly given the current status of the pandemic. Today, the line-up for the forthcoming 77th edition was announced in full, and just six weeks out it appears that the show will indeed go on.

Venezia 77 Competition

In Between Dying – Hilal Baydarov Le Sorelle Macaluso – Emma Dante The World to Come – Mona Fastvold Nuevo Orden – Michel Franco Lovers – Nicole Gracia Laila in Haifa – Amos Gitai Dear Comrades – Andrei Konchalovsky Wife of a Spy – Kiyoshi Kurosawa Sun Children – Majid Majidi Pieces of a Woman – Kornél Mundruczó Miss Marx – Susanna Nicchiarelli Padrenostro – Claudio Noce Notturno – Gianfranco Rosi Never Gonna Snow Again – Małgorzata Szumowska The Disciple – Chaitanya Tamhane And Tomorrow The Entire World – Julia Von Heinz Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić Nomadland – Chloé Zhao

Orizzonti Competition

Apples – Christos Nikou La Troisieme Guerre – Giovanni Aloi Milestone – Ivan Ayr The Wasteland – Ahmad Bahrami The Man Who Sold His Skin – Kaouther Ben Hania I Predatori – Pietro Castellitto Mainstream – Gia Coppola Genus Pan – Lav Diaz Zanka Contact – Ismael el Iraki Guerra E Pace – Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi La Nuit Des Rois – Philippe Lacôte The Furnace – Roderick McKay Careless Crime – Shahram Mokri Gaza Mon Amour – Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser Selva Trágica – Yulene Olaizola Nowhere Special – Uberto Pasolini Listen – Ana Rocha De Sousa The Best is Yet to Come – Wang Jing Yellow Cat – Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Out of Competition

Sportin’ Life – Abel Ferrara Crazy, Not Insane – Alex Gibney Greta – Nathan Grossman w/ Greta Thunberg Final Account – Luke Holland La Verità Su La Dolce Vita – Giuseppe Pedersoli Molecole – Andrea Segre Narciso em Férias – Renato Terra, Ricardo Calil Paolo Conte, Via Con Me – Giorgio Verdelli Hopper/Welles – Orson Welles w/ Dennis Hopper City Hall – Frederck Wiseman Lacci – Daniele Luchetti (Opening Film) Lasciami Andare – Stefano Mordini Mandibules – Quentin Dupieux Love After Love – Ann Hui Assandira – Salvatore Mereu The Duke – Roger Michell Night in Paradise – Park Hoong-jung Mosquito State – Filip Jan Rymsza 30 Coins: Episode 1 – Álex de la Iglesia Princess Europe – Camille Lotteau Omelia Contadina – Alice Rohrwacher, Jr

Though it remains to be seen exactly how this year’s festival will operate – there’s no word yet on whether red carpets and press conferences will take place as usual – it’s heartening to see the film world returning to something resembling normalcy. Of course, with cinemas in the UK only now preparing to reopen, and things looking much less certain elsewhere, we sincerely hope that Venice 2020 will be carried out sensibly and with public safety as the first priority.

But let’s focus on the positives for now – we simply can’t wait to get stuck into what is a very promising line-up. More encouraging still, Venice and TIFF, in collaboration with the Telluride and New York Film Festivals, will not be competing against one another but rather sharing the wealth: Nomadland is set to receive its world premiere simultaneously on 11 September, marking an unprecedented partnership between the festivals. That in itself is surely cause for celebration.

The 77th Venice FilmFestival takes place at Venice Lido from 2-12 September. For more info visit labiennale.org

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Why Fascists Fail

Even if President Trump embraces fascism, American democracy is not nearly as vulnerable as the young and fragile democratic systems that existed in Weimar and the Italian republic of the past century, FP’s Michael Hirsh writes.

History’s autocrats have been the architects of their own demise. Even if he seizes power, so will Trump.

— By Michael Hirsh | JULY 21, 2020 | Foreign Policy

(Italy’s Benito Mussolini addresses a crowd in Rome on April 15, 1934. Ullstein Bild Via Getty Images) and Fascist Hindu MODI of India

Joe Biden, who is way ahead in the polls, has called it his “single greatest concern.” What if Donald Trump refuses to leave office freely if Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, wins the November election? Last weekend, the president openly suggested to Fox News that he might not accept the results, declaring: “I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no.” Indeed Trump is already working to invalidate the 2020 tally, accusing Democrats of plotting fraud through mail-in voting that might be needed because of the pandemic, and legal challenges are mounting at an unprecedented rate. Moreover, Trump has spent his entire first term trampling over the institutions of American democracy, obstructing justice and defying Congress and the courts and crying “coup!” every time he’s investigated.

Alternatively, what if Trump doesn’t seize power illegally but is actually reelected? Surely that would amount to a virtual mandate, in his mind, to ignore the Constitution and the law of the land altogether. Plenty of fascists past and present—from Benito Mussolini to Vladimir Putin—have made mincemeat of vulnerable democratic systems to install themselves as autocrats. For more than four years, legions of Trump critics have accused him of having fascist tendencies, and American democracy now appears badly wounded, if not broken, and vulnerable to further manipulation, especially since Trump has turned the Republican Party into little more than a cheerleader for his personal aggrandizement.

Fascism, as the Yale University scholar Jason Stanley has written, “is not a new threat, but rather a permanent temptation.” And Trump’s words and actions indicate that he’s sorely tempted to emulate autocrats he admires around the world. One never knows for sure when Trump is joking—he insists he is whenever he is criticized for saying something especially controversial—but in 2018 Trump spoke glowingly of Xi Jinping’s brutal consolidation of power in China and his title of “president for life.” “I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday,” Trump said.

So let’s suppose the worst: Trump—whose niece, the author Mary Trump, calls him the “world’s most dangerous man”—really does attempt to embrace his inner fascist in the coming months. The good news is that history tells us he will almost certainly fail in the end, especially since Trump possesses nothing like the fearsome competence or detailed programs of fascists past.The good news is that history tells us he will almost certainly fail in the end, especially since Trump possesses nothing like the fearsome competence or detailed programs of fascists past. Fascism in its various forms has no enduring record of success in the long run; based on the evidence, it is almost always doomed to destroy itself in an orgy of ultranationalism and megalomania, as Adolf Hitler and Mussolini did. Other fascists or strongmen who stayed in power longer, like Francisco Franco of Spain and Turkey’s Kemal Ataturk, did so by wisely changing course or because they were misunderstood and weren’t really fascists at all for much of their careers, some scholars say.

By itself, “fascism is difficult to work in practice because it always has grandiose visions inconsistent with reality, upon whose shores it crashes,” Stanley, the author of How Fascism Works, told Foreign Policy. It may be an effective means to gaining power, but fascists typically destroy themselves before long, especially when crises erupt. “We are seeing that with COVID-19 in the United States and Brazil,” Stanley said.

Stanley’s 2018 book is a detailed look at the broad concept of fascism, which he defines as ultranationalism embodied in one leader and movement, and at the kind of politics that fascism typically practices. These strategies are familiar to anyone who has observed Trump’s rise: inventing a mythic past of greatness, promoting anti-intellectualism, playing up national victimhood and the need for law and order, appealing to the heartland, and fomenting division, especially by attacking immigrants and liberal elites. Like Trump, fascists almost always promise to “drain the swamp” by concocting false charges of corruption, as the U.S. president did against Hillary Clinton and is now doing against Biden. Above all, Stanley says, fascist politics is about identifying enemies, appealing to an insecure majority group like America’s white population, and destroying truth and replacing it with power. As Mussolini said in a 1922 speech, to create a fascist national myth “it is not necessary for it to be a reality.”

Such words are like song to Donald Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, Tennessee, on Oct. 1, 2018. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

In his book, Stanley invokes the German word Gleichschaltung—describing the Nazification process by which Hitler slowly destroyed Germany’s liberal democratic organizing principles—to help explain what is happening in several major democracies today, including the United States, India, and Brazil. “In all three countries, there is movement toward unifying institutions around loyalty to an ethnic identity, as in India, or loyalty to a single leader, as in the United States, where the most powerful political party is increasingly defined by fealty to Donald Trump,” Stanley writes. “This threatens the democratic nature of these institutions as well as their competence to carry out their institutional missions. Our democratic culture is on life support.”

That may be true, but fascism has a very poor track record as a replacement. Some historians argue that strongmen of the past who were sometimes identified with fascism, like Franco and Ataturk—whose harsh, swift brand of nationalistic transformation inspired Hitler, according to the historian Stefan Ihrig’s 2014 book, Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination—succeeded in the end only because they outgrew those tendencies.

Ataturk also pursued long-term plans for national transformation that brought in best practices from Western nations—he hired the famed U.S. educator John Dewey, for example—and even programmed in the return of democracy. Those leaders, in other words, had larger, detailed programs of the kinds that elude Trump. His instincts may be fascist, but he has shown little or no greater purpose other than manipulating the truth to his political benefit and rousing his poorly educated white base.

“His stupid, careless talk is not really fascist but conceivably subfascist,” said Stanley Payne, a well-known historian of European fascism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Both Hitler and Mussolini spoke more toward theoretically coherent goals.”

Even Spain’s Franco, the military strongman who toyed with fascism as Hitler and Mussolini rose to dominance in Europe, abandoned it in the end for a more pluralistic system, some historians contend. “The Franco regime in its full form, from 1945 to 1975, was not fascist,” said Payne, a specialist in Spanish fascism. “A distinction should be made between the Catholic, corporatist, quasi-monarchist system of ‘mature Francoism’ and the semi-fascist phase of 1937-45. Francoism lasted so long that it was more than one thing, though the non-fascist form predominated.”

In an interview, Ihrig, a historian at the University of Haifa, said Trump is plainly deploying fascist tactics of the past, but he added: “The United States is not Weimar Germany. True, we always need to be worried. He is using the classic methods: destroying checks and balances, influencing the legal system to one side, polarizing society and playing with the notion of truth—making it inoperable. These things are really worrisome, but rather than being a fascist himself, I think Trump is more like one of these authoritarian kinds of conservative figures, like in late Weimar Germany, who allied with the Nazis to change the system.”

Whatever Trump’s true nature or aims, such alliances are necessary for fascists to succeed. Like Putin, who today is plainly deploying a form of fascism by controlling corporate Russia, Hitler and Mussolini gained power by manipulating conservative and corporate elites who believed, with tragic consequences, that they could control the emerging dictators. The backing of such elites is crucial for fascists to last more than a few years in power because the “corporate oligarchy craves a certain kind of stability,” Stanley said. “This, together with the support of social conservatives who are made to fear nonexistent threats, can and does leave fascism in power in the face of conflicts with reality.”

Marchers hold placards with satirical portraits of Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during a May Day parade near Union Square in New York in the early 1930s. Historica Graphica Collectio/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Such a support base does not exist to nearly the same degree for Trump. While he has tried hard, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, to enlist and win over corporate America, he has created just as many enemies among the U.S. corporate elite. And from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, America’s business leaders are far more independent than in, say, a country like Russia.

Beyond that, American democracy is 244 years old and not nearly as vulnerable as the young and fragile democratic systems that existed in Weimar and the Italian republic of the early 20th century. America’s constitutional checks and balances, though seemingly strained to the breaking point—as we saw during Trump’s impeachment and acquittal—are far more in evidence than in the case of other fascist takeovers. Even the majority conservative Supreme Court has curtailed some of Trump’s ambitions, ruling most recently that he is not above the law in requiring him to release his financial records to prosecutors. And the U.S. military establishment, which in previous fascist history bent much more willingly to the designs of autocrats in power, has made a stand for constitutional restraints as well. Following the killing of George Floyd in May, Trump’s own defense secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman very publicly distanced themselves from him as he sought to enlist them in his campaign for “law and order” in the face of civil unrest.

Still, Ihrig cautions against complacency. Even though it is nearly two and a half centuries old, American democracy has not yet been fully tested against freshly malign forces like cyberattacks, the historian argues in a forthcoming book. This is especially true since the end of the Cold War, which he compares with the unstable interwar period of the 20th century that led to fascism. “With the end of the Cold War, certain restraints to the left and right of the spectrum as well as a more general consensus on politics and society disappeared,” Ihrig said. “If you take away times of war (World War I, World War II, and the Cold War) as well as those in which major parts of society were excluded or underrepresented (women, minorities, also workers in some systems, etc.), then democracy did not have too much time to play out its battles with heavily opposing forces, to test itself, and to come up with a range of successful strategies of coping with fundamental opposition.”

Payne said fascists can and do last in power if they don’t go overboard; the problem for them is they usually do. “Historical fascism worked very well so long as its leaders stayed out of big wars,” he said. “From 1922 to 1940, Mussolini could hardly be described as other than successful. From 1933 to 1939, Hitler had the greatest six years of any leader in German history. Big wars did them in, as they did to many other leaders.” Trump has already started a global trade war that is going nowhere and threatened real war against Iran and North Korea. And most scholars would argue that, by its nature, fascism is born of megalomania, which in turn chooses war and ultimately self-destructs.

— Michael Hirsh is a senior correspondent and deputy news editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @michaelphirsh

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IsraelSeen Exclusive – Leaving City Hall To Save A Life

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Holy Moses am I tired! Sleeping 2 hours a night and being on the move constantly is starting to wear on me. I suppose I can sleep when I’m dead.

For some reason I went to bed at one and woke up at three. Like, awake. So I tried to relax, go back to sleep, but ended up blogging a bit and thinking about sleeping. At 5:40 I get a ‘you up’ text. And not the kind the kids are sending these days. Carolyn remembered she wanted to find the ‘I love Tel Aviv’ sign, and since we had to leave at 8 sharp she thought we should go quick. She had the address, we asked the guys at the reception if they knew about it (they didn’t, but they do now), I ordered an Uber and off we went.

It’s on the way north side of town at the port. We were in the dark with no internet walking the pier while tons of runners passed us. I found a map and sure enough, it was close! We got a few pictures and went back to the main road to hail another cab since we didn’t have internet to use the app. Round trip we were gone an hour. Quite the adventure. When you travel you have to be flexible and ready to go when something remarkable pops up. It’s happened on multiple trips for me and is always amazing to watch it unfold.

Today was a long bus day and it was full on information. Our first stop was Caesarea. We walked around these ruins for awhile. Seeing the amphitheater where they would perform, the hippodrome, and putting our toes in the Mediterranean were some of the highlights. I don’t want to say that I don’t like seeing things like this, but it’s not my favorite. I’d rather see them all built up like it would have been instead of using someone else’s image of what it should look like. Just me, though.

We jumped back on the bus and then off again at the aqueducts that brought the water down the hill from the Carmel Mountains to Caesarea. These were really cool. A bunch of them are still intact and you can even climb up and walk along the tops. We were lucky to get there before the droves of people unloaded their buses!

Our next stop was the hanging gardens of the Baha’i in Haifa. They were incredibly beautiful, but you can only go down a couple of levels before you’re stopped by a large gate. You can see down into the rest of the levels and it’s very well manicured, even for winter. I had never heard of the Baha’i religion before this trip. I had to google them, so if you’d like to know more, I suggest you do the same! :)

Off we went again to the ancient city of Acre. Here we had a group lunch in a local restaurant. The meals here are always interesting, as they have appetizers or tapas sitting out when you arrive. Most of today’s assortment was just pickled veggies. They were, umm, interesting. I had schwarma in a pita. Quite delicious. I keep trying the hummus but unfortunately it’s brilliance falls short on me.

We walked through the crusaders fortress and saw the knights hall. I almost fell and punched a wall. If I’m being honest, most of the information was lost on me. There is so much history here that it can be easy to get lost and confused. Well first they were here, and then they were conquered. They lasted awhile before they were conquered. So on and so on.

After our tour we stopped at the El-Jazzar mosque. We put on our head scarves and got a good glimpse of the inside. A couple of people came in to pray while we were there. A father and what I imagined his son came in and it looked like the father was teaching the techniques? I honestly don’t know since I don’t speak Arabic or Hebrew. Not yet, anyway. The Muslims have 5 prayers a day. Sunrise, morning, afternoon, sunset and evening. They really aren’t supposed to miss one, so it seems they have all their ducks in a row, if you will.

We left Acre and headed towards Nazareth. We will stay here for a night before heading on. We pulled into town as it was getting dark, and I was exhausted, so I got to my room and took a nap. We had dinner at the hotel and then a few of us broke off from the group to play a game. Kind of a - get to know each other better - kind of thing. It was mostly us ‘youngins’ and aunt Nancy. She’s the best. The guides in Kenya nicknamed her mama safari, and for being almost 82 she plays quite well with us! We played Ellen’s game, Psych, for a bit while choking down some more Arak. Turns out it was only good the other night with the lemonade and mint. Yuck!

Well, another full day of adventure tomorrow. Thanks for following along! :)

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Events 4.22

1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas. 1601–1900 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. 1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. 1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000. 1898 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000. 1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens. 1915 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater. 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. 1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station. 1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape. 1945 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces. 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins. 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. 1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta. 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated. 1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board. 1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. 1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206. 1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham. 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record. 2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming. 2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.

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