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Barbra Streisand will perform two Tel Aviv concerts in Israel in addition to performing at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres.

The concerts will take place June 15-16 at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium, the Israel media reported.

On June 18, Streisand will perform at the opening ceremony of the Israeli Presidential Conference, which will be marking Peres’ milestone birthday.

Streisand reportedly has visited Israel many times, and is a strong supporter of Israel, but has never performed in the Jewish state.

One of the best-selling musicians of all time, Streisand has sold some 72.5 million records in the United States. She performed at last month’s Oscars for the first time in 36 years.

Some 4,500 people are expected to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference.

Source: JewishJournal

Follow young Israeli capoeiristas as they perform the music and sweeping movements of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira alongside a few of the more beautiful sites of Tel Aviv, including Habima Theatre Square, the beach and the port during sunset.

More than 980,000 Internet users participated in poll; Tel Aviv comes ahead of New York but after the Colombian city of Medellin.

Tel Aviv was ranked the world’s second “Most Innovative City” in an Internet poll sponsored by the marketing department of the Wall Street Journal.

First place went to the Colombian city Medellin, while third place went to New York City. To reach the final three, these cities beat out 22 other cities including London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Chicago, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, Vienna and Toronto.

More than 980,000 Internet users participated in the poll, conducted by the Washington D.C.-based research institution The Urban Land Institute and financed by financial services giant Citi. ULI provides advice and services on issues such as sustainability, urban development and real estate projects. The competition results were determined by both by the nonprofit institute’s judges and Internet users, with the results of each given equal weight. Every online participant in the poll was able to vote once a day from mid-October until the end of December, when the poll was closed.

The Tel Aviv municipality made an effort to promote its bid for “Most Innovative City.” Among other things, the municipality publicized information about the poll on its website and asked visitors to the website and its social media followers to vote for it. While still in the early stage of the competition, even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was enlisted to support Tel Aviv’s effort and called on his Facebook page for people to vote for the city in the competition.

The city welcomed its second-place result. In an announcement issued by city hall, Mayor Ron Huldai said that Tel Aviv was a leader in innovative thinking and that in recent years it had solidified its position as one the biggest centers of technological innovation in the world.

“Alongside the city’s being home to many diverse technological ventures, the municipality is investing great effort in cultivating entrepreneurialism and innovation,” said Huldai. “Already today we are seeing the clear results in the economic blossoming [of the city] and the growth in investments flowing into the city.”

Tel Aviv has won a whole slew of international titles in recent years. A New York Times writer crowned Tel Aviv the “capital of cool” in the Mediterranean region. Forbes determined that Tel Aviv is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. National Geographic ranked Tel Aviv as one of the world’s 10 best beach cities in the world. The apartment subletting website Airbnb put Tel Aviv in second place on its list of chosen travel spots. Last but not least, the website GayCities crowned Tel Aviv the best gay tourism spot in the world.

Source: Haaretz.com

Promoting his new tour, Ivri Lider has released this week a new version of the song “Bahom Shel Tel Aviv” (‘In the Heat of Tel Aviv’), a song that he originally wrote in 2004  for Mediterranean-Israeli-music-queen Sarit Hadad, and which became a number one hit for the singer. In the song, Ivri presents the true face of an average girl in the unnatural surroundings of a rich and cool people’s party in Tel Aviv, and even the guy in the most expensive Mercedes car is not her type.

The song was crowned Most Played Tel Aviv Song over the past decade, and ended up becoming even a hit in China after Hong-Kong-based popstar Yumiko Cheng has recorded a cover version to the song.

See more at: http://awiderbridge.org/ivri-lider-releases-song-about-tel-aviv/#sthash.18JZYQrf.dpuf

Tel Aviv has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 6th 2003

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