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For centuries, diamonds have captured the eyes and minds of people around the world, and their value has reflected that special prominence. However, growing awareness has raised concerns about the hidden costs borne when diamonds are extracted from the ground. These costs include environmental damage, and subpar employment conditions for workers. Mining diamonds from the soil causes air pollution and the environment, deforestation, damage to animal habitats. Moreover, the demand for diamonds can lead to gross violations of the rights of children and exploited workers, who are forced to work in unsafe conditions and at extremely low wages.
Lab grown diamonds offer an exciting alternative--the same beauty, produced in controlled conditions, making for a safer, more environmentally friendly, but still glimmering, diamond. Now X LAB DIAMONDS is bringing the enchantment of laboratory diamonds to Israel, with top quality designer jewelry at unbeatable prices.
X LAB DIAMONDS just launched its first flagship store, at the Ofer Mall in Petah Tikva. There, customers can find stunning designer jewelry inlaid with laboratory diamonds, at particularly attractive prices.
X LAB DIAMONDS laboratory diamonds are manufactured using technology that simulates the conditions inside the earth, thus obtaining diamonds that meet the strict criteria of the world of gemology and are completely identical in their chemical, physical and optical composition to mined diamonds.
The new jewelry collection uses these top-quality laboratory diamonds at prices that are significantly lower than market prices, so that everyone can be dazzled by the magic of a diamond with an easy conscience. Jewelry from the collection can be seen and purchased directly via the company's new website http://www.xlabdiamonds.co.il/
The chain offers jewelry in unique designs, inspired by the best designers in the world, set with diamonds in a huge variety of sizes and shapes. The diamonds have been created in the world's most advanced laboratories, thus protecting the environment, and workers, and sold for half the price of mining diamonds.
The Laboratory diamonds are polished by skilled diamond polishers, just like mining diamonds and are rated according to the same standards. The X LAB DIAMONDS website has an explanation of the quality and nature of the diamonds offered so that any buyer can easily learn the qualities of lab diamonds and how to distinguish the different qualities of the diamond, addressing the issue: size, shape, level of cleanliness of the diamond and other significant parameters.
X LAB DIAMONDS is truly avant garde, in creating the world’s first laboratory diamond store chain. By offering a variety of gold jewelry in unique designs, all inlaid exclusively with quality laboratory diamonds, created out of social and environmental commitment, the new chain promises to upend the diamond industry in Israel, making many happy customers in the process, and leaving the world a cleaner, better place.
The Royal X collection - The premium collection just launched includes rings, bracelets, necklaces and 14K gold earrings, set with diamonds marked by both size and uniqueness, especially designed and created by X Lab Diamonds to create a particularly dramatic look. Among the remarkable jewelry on offer, you can find a tennis bracelet inlaid with oval stones, a total of 17.8 carats, a tennis ring cut with emerald diamonds (square) - 8.70 carats, a giant diamond around the neck - 14.30 carats diamonds, 3.5 carat stud earrings and a variety of impressive rings for formal events.
The chain also offers hundreds of models of diamond jewelry: rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more. The jewelry is available for purchase both in store and on site. There is something for everyone, and every occasion, with a variety of engagement rings in every color starting from 1,600 NIS.
Hagit Shinover, the CEO and owner of the chain, emphasized that the collection is geared for customers who “are interested in diamond jewelry, but do not want to pay huge sums for them or be partners in the damage caused to the environment by diamond mining.” There’s no longer a need to compromise on what you want, can afford, and care about. Now, any customer “can enter the website or store and leave with a quality diamond jewelry," at discount rates.
X LAB DIAMONDS - the Natural Choice. To see these beautiful diamonds yourself, visit www.xlabdiamonds.co.il, or check out the flagship store at the Ofer Mall in Petah Tiqva (located on the third floor of the mall, next to H&M). You owe it to yourself, and the world will thank you for the conscientious decision.
X LAB DIAMONDS, Ofer Mall, 72 Jabotinsky, Petah Tiqva - Israel
Open Sunday-Thursday, 9:30-22:00, Friday 9:00-15:30,
and Saturday night from half an hour after shabbat ends until 23:00.
Phone: 03-5082742
פייסבוק X Lab Diamonds Israel – יהלומי מעבדה
www.instagram.com/xlabdiamonds_israel
The store is fully accessible for all customers.
Photos by Silvia Golan
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Enoteca, has taken over the clocktower square in the center of Jaffa’s old city with a wine popup bar serving alcoholic beverages at an unbeatable price of 20 shekels a glass, along with authentic dishes from the Arab-Mediterranean kitchen. Yes--20 NIS for a glass of Moreau or Cordon Negro in the heart of old Jaffa!
Owned by the Hinani family, Enoteca, specializing in imported wines and alcoholic beverages, is bringing its rich flavors to the old city of Jaffa, with a modern twist, in the form of a popup wine bar. The popup bar adjoins Cafe Rozette, opposite the Setai hotel, and is a fusion of traditional Arab culture with a top brasserie, serving international quality beverages at the unprecedented price of 20 NIS for a glass or 100 NIS for a bottle.
Among the wide range of wines that the company imports from various countries around the world, white and red wines have been carefully selected to suit the Israeli palate: Chablis from J. Moreau, Cordon Negro-Cava from Freixenet, Rioja Rosado from Muga, Gewürztraminer from
Dresden, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir from Fornier, Rioja Reserva from Solar Viejo, evacuated Noir from the Fornier Winery's Loire. Alcoholic beverages such as Ouzo, San Miguel beer from the tap, white and red sangria, and more will also be served.
The wines and alcohol complement perfectly the Mediterranean menu, with light dishes carefully prepared by Rosette Hinawi as the perfect complement to a glass of wine, or alternatively serve as appetisers to a full meal with meat from the iconic family butcher shop: merguez sausage (46 NIS); Kebab with a grilled salad (46 NIS); Yoghurt and fresh mint beside stuffed grape leaves and tomato prepared in a Taboon (hearth oven) (NIS 54) and more.
Enoteca Wine Pop Up, provides a relaxing and scenic atmosphere in one of the most popular destinations in Israel. Minutes from the Mediterreanean Sea, it includes a spacious and well-kept courtyard that complements the overall experience. The music, the lovely courtyard, the meticulous interior design and the high ceilings all contribute greatly to the atmosphere, and guests may imagine that they have been momentarily transported abroad. This is sure to become one of the most top spots in Jaffa.
Alongside the pop-up that invites the general public to try a wide range of international beverages at surprisingly low prices, specialty alcoholic beverages from a variety of categories and countries, including imported wines, whiskey, brandy, San Miguel beers, and more will be for sale.
Roget Restaurant
Address: Marzouk and Ezer 2, Jaffa - Clock Square.
Opening hours: Mon-Wed - 8 am - 10 pm, Thu - Sat 8 am - 11 pm.
About Enoteca
Enoteca is a wine and alcohol beverage importing company owned by the Hinawi family.
Enoteca holds a rich portfolio of premium products including well-known wine brands such as Frescobaldi, Freixenet, Pol Roger Champagne, Muga, Tzuba Winery and more.
At the same time, the group also imports alcohol brands - such as KREMLIN AWARD Vodka and HINE Cognac. The beer sector imports the world's leading Spanish beer brand San Miguel and more.
Highly recommended!!!!!!!!!!!
Photo credit: Silvia Golan
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Center Stage presents
The Sound of Goosesteps Echos of the Nazi threat in 3 Musicals
The sound of Music, Cabaret, The Producers
lecture and Vocals by Eyal Sherf
Directed by Udi RazzinWednesday 27.5.20 at 20:00
A life streaming event through Zoom
A Zoom link https://bit.ly/2X70M1I
Meanwhile, enjoy a trailer of the live version of The Sound of Goosesteps.
The program in its entirety will be presented in English.
Much has been said about the representation of Nazism and the holocaust in various genres. Musicals, however, have mostly been overlooked, much due to their perception as escapist entertainment. Yet, as an American art form, the musical is a fascinating source through which to examine changing American attitudes towards Nazism and the holocaust.
Cantor, music theatre performer and researcher Eyal Sherf will present a special virtual edition of his acclaimed lecture-concert The Sound of Goosesteps. This follows a live presentation at Center Stage, the country’s first professional English theater venue, where the show was received enthusiastically earlier this year.
The Sound of Goosesteps is directed by Udi Razzin, and produced by Center Stage’s co-founding executive artistic director Daniella Crankshaw.
What artistic differences arose surrounding the visual representation of Nazism in The Sound of Music, why were the Jewish creators of Cabaret perceived as anti-Semitic, and
how wanting revenge propelled The Producers. All this and more in a fascinating evening incorporating hand-picked videos and live singing.
Picture: Tomer Lupasko
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- Given the current situation worldwide, the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) in Tel Aviv adapts its cultural activity to the present realities and will organize, for the next period, the “Romanian Cafe” series of events online, via its official Facebook page.
The next event held within the "Romanian Cafe" online, held in English, will take place on May 21st, starting with 17:30 hours, via live streaming on the official Facebook page of RCI Tel Aviv
and on the official YouTube channel of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrV8OAoQyKqOA7d1dGrFesQ
and will include Prof. Dan Michman, researcher at the Museum Yad Vashem, historian Raphael Vago (professor at Tel Aviv University) and Peninah Zilberman, founder of the Tarbut Sighet Foundation and promoter of the preservation of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Romania.
To mark 76 years since the deportation of Jews from Maramureș region, RCI Tel Aviv is organizing the online conference "Memory and historical aspects on the Holocaust in Romania", in which Professor Vago will present the general historical framework, making a comparative analysis of the regimes in Romania and Hungary and their respective treatment of Jewish population during the war, while Prof. Michman will talk about the issue of ghettos, in a presentation called "Ghettos, Open Ghettos, Ghettos in Romania, Open Ghettos in Romania: Complexities of History, Memory and Compensation”.
At the same time, Peninah Zilberman will talk about the work of preserving the memory of the approximately 40,000 Maramureș Jews who lived in the region before the Holocaust, carried out through the Tarbut Sighet Foundation.
Born in Romania, Raphael Vago is the founder of the Center for Russian Eastern European Studies at Tel Aviv University, which he coordinated between 1982-1986. With a doctorate in Romanian-Hungarian relations from 1944-1977, his research interests include the Holocaust and modern forms of Antisemitism, minorities in Europe, post-communist systems, European integration and minorities in Europe. At the same time, he authored numerous articled and conducted several studies.
Professor Dan Michman is the head of the International Holocaust Research Institute and the chair of the Holocaust Study Department. He is also Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish History and Chair of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research. He obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on "Jewish Refugees from Germany in The Netherlands, 1933–1940”. He has published numerous books and articles in a variety of languages on the history of Dutch and Belgian Judaism, Israeli society, and especially on various aspects of the Holocaust — historiography, ghettos, elements of Jewish community and religious life, and more.
Born in Haifa to Romanian parents and Holocaust survivors, Peninah Zilberman, former director of the Holocaust Museum in Toronto, leads an intense activity of educating the general public about the Holocaust in the Maramureș area, through thematic conferences, meetings that bring together descendants of Holocaust survivors in Romania, as well as guided historical tours in Sighetul Marmației, which offers those interested the opportunity to discover traces of the important heritage left by the Jewish community in the area, all organized under the umbrella of the Tarbut Sighet Foundation, which was founded in 2014.
Photo provided by the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) in Tel Aviv
