For whose sake am I busting my ass to find new ideas every week? For my family's sake, right? So she and the kids can have a better life, right? For whose sake am I sacrificing myself? And so what if she earns a little more than I do?
This time, in the spirit of the new trend - flagrant economizing - he behaved like the prime minister (who had already learned his lesson) and flew Arkia.
Ami Brown's vast art collection is kept in a well-guarded warehouse, but he himself is a far more closely guarded secret. Although he worked with Ben-Gurion and Teddy Kollek, and established Israel's Coca-Cola plant, he keeps to himself, buys art obsessively and gives generously - when he feels like it.
Ranin Bulus, an Israeli Arab and a Christian - and fleeting star in a TV reality show last year - has moved to England, where she is working in the world of finance. Away from it all now, she talks about her complex childhood in a Jewish-Arab community, about racism in Israel and about the serenity she has found in London.
What is so compelling about movies set in Jaffa alleyways or the cramped interior of an IDF tank? Film critic and scholar Ariel Schweitzer, who helped put together the Israeli film retrospective now on in Paris, explains why local movies are winning kudos worldwide.
Philosopher or stand-up comic? Mathematician or funnyman? Haim Shapira is all of these, but what's the real reason his lectures attract people of all ages from all over the country?
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