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• TRAVEL: A whole new vista for Tel Aviv

  By richardferrer on November 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Hilton Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s oldest and most adored luxury brands, has transformed its top floors into an exclusive boutique hotel within a hotel. Richard Ferrer checks in. It sounds like an idea for a daytime television show: transform… Read More ›

• OPINION: What horror might we wake to on Friday the 13th?

  By richardferrer on November 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  READERS of a sensitive disposition, look away now. In a few weeks’ time Britain’s prime minister could be a man who refused to sing the national anthem; paid tribute to IRA terrorists; considers the psychopaths of Hamas and Hezbollah his… Read More ›

• FEATURE: I’ve never looked so good

  By richardferrer on November 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It wasn’t the countless mornings wishing I could find my glasses so I could find my glasses, or the countless nights I slept in contact lenses and woke up looking like I’d stumbled off the red eye from Rio. What… Read More ›

• OPINION: Being in shul felt like being at the scene of the crime

  By richardferrer on October 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m not religious, but I still went to synagogue yesterday for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This I did for two reasons: to keep my dad company (my father who art in Streatham, not my father… Read More ›

• FEATURE: ‘There are no Israeli or Palestinian sides, just a team’

  By richardferrer on September 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Unlike so much about Israel and Palestine, at least football is not a matter of life and death. Rather, it’s a cause for fresh hope. Chelsea women’s football team has just returned from a pre-season trip to Israel, taking centre… Read More ›

• OPINION: A monumental decision for Britain

  By richardferrer on August 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There are hundreds of Holocaust memorials worldwide, 69 in the United States alone – from Nashville and Nebraska to Missouri and Mississippi. Most are incongruously located thousands of miles from humanity’s greatest crime. Here in the UK the Holocaust is,… Read More ›

• OPINION: The beach front in the battle against blind hate

  By richardferrer on August 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We all sense it. The calm before the storm. Before you can say ‘Facilitated customs arrangement’, Westminster will reconvene to face down its greatest challenge of the 21st century. The British prime minister, his majority now hanging by a gossamer… Read More ›

• REVIEW: Epic, but even Like a Rolling Stone was a complete unknown

  By richardferrer on July 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Had the eagerly assembled Hyde Park crowd noticed Bob Dylan was singing Like A Rolling Stone, you’d have heard a pin drop. As it was, the level of idle chatter (“What time’s Ocado coming?”… “Federer beat Nadal!”) almost drowned out an… Read More ›

• OPINION: Why the Labour Party protects its antisemites

  By richardferrer on July 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For 100 years the Labour Party was the broadest church in politics. That all changed the moment it passed into the tender loving care of Team Corbyn. Suddenly, faster than Margaret Beckett could say “let’s put Jeremy on the leadership ballot to… Read More ›

• FEATURE: 10 things we learned from Israel’s Eurovision Song Contest

  By richardferrer on May 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  1) The UK is now so reviled we could put the Beatles on stage singing Love Me Do and still come last. 2) All I can say in Iceland’s defence is it’s dark there for most of the year. 3) Israel’s Borat lookie-likey… Read More ›