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		<title>these aren&#8217;t the droids you&#8217;re looking for</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the robots say, we have moved! I decided to take the Pixelpost plunge and after some hours of faffage with my hosting provider and HTML, it&#8217;s up and running. My new site is found here. So please head on over there and tell me what you think. There are probably all sorts of things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=560&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jaffa and a movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re making a movie on the Charles Clore beach in Jaffa/ South Tel Aviv. It looked rather romantic against the backdrop of Old Jaffa. On another note, I&#8217;m in somewhat of a dilemma. I&#8217;m rather frustrated by the limitations of WordPress &#8211; this is their only photo template, it&#8217;s annoyingly fixed width and it doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=554&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gan Eden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[now that's value for money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top: juice bar on Dizengoff featuring cute plastic apple tree . Bottom: &#8220;Adam and Eve&#8221; (Adam ve-Chaya) sex shop on Ben Yehuda featuring Adam and Eve with fig leaves, a neon apple and a closing down sale, 60% off. Yes, I did have to put up with &#8220;witty&#8221; comments from passers-by as I took the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=550&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persian Cyclamen</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/persian-cyclamen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually post a picture a day, and I don&#8217;t usually post flower pictures  but I want to post a small series showing the wild flowers that are blossoming right now around Israel. Just because they make me happy. And why not also in honour of Tu b&#8217;Shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=546&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>View from Ein Karem</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/view-from-ein-karem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A landscape!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Villages in the hills surrounding Jerusalem, from the summit of the hill in Ein Karem (&#8220;Spring of the Vineyard&#8221;). You can see the ancient olive terraces on the hills &#8211; they&#8217;re thousands of years old. Ein Karem is outside Jerusalem, and is a popular weekend spot for Israelis (plus there are some great food opportunities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=538&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>kiosk tv</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/kiosk-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiosk on Ben Yehuda street. I used to come here on my break during my evening Ulpan classes, and  sometimes get an overpriced coffee. The kiosk has gone up in the world since then, and now boasts two flat screen TVs. The owner was very happy for me to photograph them, but this man got in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=534&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>all that potential</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/all-that-potential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lasalle Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oranges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulpan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulpan Gordon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[אולפן]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Sculpture at Ulpan Gordon, Lasalle Street, Tel Aviv; and orange trees close by. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the term, an Ulpan is an intensive Hebrew course, taught in Hebrew only, for new immigrants. Tel Aviv is the first Hebrew city in modern times, so the idea of the Ulpan has a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=530&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>perspective is everything</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/perspective-is-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just having fun. I feel like doing something new &#8211; watch this space. The picture of the enormous looking palm tree and the Neve Zedek tower was taken from almost next to the crumbling Bauhaus building with the pigeons. Posted in Israel, Jaffa, Neve Zedek, Public Space and its Discontents, Tel Aviv, Urban Fragments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=525&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>rabin square</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/rabin-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabin Square, central Tel Aviv. A great place to take photographs. Named after Yitzhak Rabin z&#8221;l who was murdered here in 1995. There&#8217;s a memorial close by. Posted in Israel, Public Space and its Discontents, Tel Aviv, Urban Fragments, ישראל<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=522&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shesh Besh</title>
		<link>http://transparentthings.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/shesh-besh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two shop owners playing Shesh Besh (the Turkish form of backgammon, extremely popular here) on Nachalat Binyamin street, Tel Aviv. Posted in Culture, Israel, Locals, Tel Aviv, Urban Fragments Tagged: balagan, messing around, shesh besh<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transparentthings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983343&amp;post=518&amp;subd=transparentthings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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