Ready for love

Valentine, the Christian saint, was a vicious antisemite and responsible, among other things, for the murder of more than a thousand Jews in medieval France, but nowadays he is linked with the ideal of love. So Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 14 across the world and in Israel, is back. Hence, next week, the Israel Museum is planning a whole evening dedicated to love on Monday. Between 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., at NIS 90 per person and NIS 75 for subscribers and members of the Friends Association, attendees will get the following program: Yair Agmon, author of the book The Exes, invites the audience to an open conversation about mythological exes and broken hearts, followed by a dance workshop and a Latin party, an Mashu Mashu Theater short comedy performance, and a Flamenco Song of Song: a New and feminine interpretation of the biblical scroll – a contemporary encounter between Jerusalem and Spain, between East Mediterranean and West Mediterranean, and more.51:T41d,

Freedom now

Tzur Hadassah is striving for independence and has launched an extensive field campaign in the locality of the Jerusalem mountains, to be recognized by the Ministry of Interior as an independent locality, disconnected from the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. Last Thursday, the campaign kicked off with the locality committee launching a broad public campaign demanding a fair distribution of budgets before deciding on the separation. More than 100 signs were hung throughout the locality and also in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council expressing support for the separation, but only if the decision includes a fair distribution of budgetary sources that ensures Tzur Hadassah’s economic strength. Tzur Hadassah is the largest locality in the country that is not a local council and has about 13,000 residents. Recently, a meeting of the residents of the locality was held with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked; at the end, the minister stated that she was promoting a plan to separate Tzur Hadassah from

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