HERMANN STRUCK MUSEUM HAIFA ISRAEL
Herman Struck's Museum
Guided tour at The Herman Struck's Museum, by Nissim Tal, Director General, Haifa Museums
MANE KATZ MUSEUM HAIFA ISRAEL
CultureBuzz's Ultimate Exhibition Guided Tour! Idit Itav Biran & the Hermann Struck's exhibition
Our 42nd chapter of a fascinating Series, providing you with the Ultimate Exhibition Guided Tours by either the artist, the curator, the Gallery owner or Museum director (& sometimes more than one)!
What: The Hermann Struck standing exhibition.
Where: Beit Struck (Struck's House) 23 Arlozerov St., Haifa. A NEW MUSEUM!
When: On-going.
Meet your guide: Idit Itav Biran (Chief Guide).
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Haifa Museum of art
Sdovski shows urban life
PROTESTAS DE EMPLEADOS DE LOS MUSEOS
Israeli hit on State Radio station, rubble, repairs, voxpops
SHOTLIST
Beirut
1. Wide pan from buildings to sea
2. Street scene, closed shops
3. Mid of newsstand
4. Mid of man reading newspaper
5. Close up of newspaper
6. Various of newsstand
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox pop:
The Jews are controlling the world, the Arabs are watching and the Lebanese people and Hezbollah are being killed. Where are the Arabs?
8. Various of man reading newspaper
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox pop:
It is clear it is a failure from the beginning. As long as Condoleezza Rice is there, she would make it fail because it is they (the Americans) who can resolve or complicate (the problem).
10. Various of men reading newspapers
11. Street scene
12. Closed shop
Aamchit, north of Beirut
13. Various of damaged relay station belonging to Lebanese state radio, hit by Israeli warplanes according to local broadcasters
14. Various of Lebanese workers trying to fix damaged electricity line
Southern Beirut suburbs (known as a Hezbollah stronghold)
15. Various of posters of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah reading Believe me. To Haifa, further than Haifa, and further, further than Haifa
16. Various of empty street, rubble
17. Wide of poster of Hassan Nasrallah
18. Various of rubble, destroyed buildings
STORYLINE
Mountains of rubble were seen on the streets of Beirut on Thursday morning. Shops were closed and apartment buildings in the Southern neighbourhoods, considered a Hezbollah stronghold, were reduced to ashes, while people were seen packing up to flee the shell-shocked city.
Hezbollah dealt Israel its heaviest losses in the Lebanon campaign on Wednesday, killing nine soldiers in fierce firefights.
With key Mideast players failing to agree on a formula for a cease-fire, an Israeli general said the operation could last weeks.
Israel said it intends to damage Hezbollah and establish a security zone that would be free of the guerrillas and extend two kilometres (1.2
miles) into Lebanon from the Israeli border.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and top Cabinet ministers are to decide on Thursday whether to broaden Israel's military offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, officials said.
Israeli warplanes also hit a Lebanese army base and a relay station belonging to Lebanese state radio north of Beirut early on Thursday, local TV and radio stations said.
The privately owned Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation TV station said Israeli jets struck the army base at Aamchit, 50 kilometres (30 miles) along the Beirut-Tripoli highway north of the Lebanese capital, near the coast.
A relay tower in an adjacent field of antennas was also knocked down belonging to Radio Liban.
The incident occurred at approximately 1:45 a.m. local time (2245 GMT).
The television channel broadcast footage it said was of firefighters trying to put out a fire caused by the shelling at Aamchit, but it wasn't clear what was ablaze.
The army sealed off the area and prevented people from approaching, the Lebanese TV channel said.
Witnesses in Aamchit reached by phone from Beirut described loud explosions, but could not provide additional details.
There were no reports of casualties as yet.
Israeli military officials said the target of the airstrike was a radar station used by Hezbollah for attacks like the one on the Israeli missile boat on July 14. Four Israeli soldiers died in that incident.
Israeli fighter planes blasted Lebanese military communication facilities last week, knocking out nearly a dozen radar stations along the entire length of Lebanon's 200-kilometre, (120-mile) coastline, including those at Beirut, Jounieh and Byblos ports.
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Haifa | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:54 1 Etymology
00:02:34 2 Locations and names
00:05:20 3 History
00:05:28 3.1 Bronze Age: Tell Abu Hawam
00:05:46 3.2 In the Hebrew Bible
00:06:14 3.3 Persian and Hellenistic period: near Shikmona
00:06:49 3.3.1 Shikmona
00:07:17 3.4 Roman period
00:07:34 3.5 Byzantine period
00:07:48 3.6 Early Muslim period
00:08:24 3.7 Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk rule
00:09:58 3.8 Ottoman period
00:14:08 3.9 British Mandate
00:16:54 3.10 1947–1948 Civil War in Palestine
00:20:07 3.11 State of Israel
00:22:03 4 Demographics
00:23:17 4.1 Religious and ethnic communities
00:25:11 5 Geography
00:26:01 6 Flora and fauna
00:26:29 7 Climate
00:27:20 8 Neighborhoods
00:29:16 9 Urban development
00:33:03 10 Economy
00:35:19 10.1 Tourism
00:36:30 11 Arts and culture
00:37:44 11.1 Museums
00:39:13 12 Government
00:41:15 12.1 Mayors
00:41:22 13 Medical facilities
00:42:17 14 Education
00:44:28 15 Transportation
00:44:36 15.1 Public transportation
00:48:50 15.2 Air and sea transport
00:49:18 15.3 Roads
00:49:54 16 Sports
00:51:33 17 People from Haifa
00:52:34 18 Twin towns – sister cities
00:52:50 19 See also
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Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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Haifa (Hebrew: חֵיפָה Ḥefa [χei̯ˈfa]; Arabic: حيفا Ḥayfa) is the third-largest city in Israel – after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv – with a population of 281,087 in 2017. The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the second- or third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel. It is home to the Bahá'í World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Bahá'í pilgrims.Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the settlement has a history spanning more than 3,000 years. The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age (14th century BCE). In the 3rd century CE, Haifa was known as a dye-making center. Over the millennia, the Haifa area has changed hands: being conquered and ruled by the Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians, Persians, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, and the British. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Haifa Municipality has governed the city.
As of 2016, the city is a major seaport located on Israel's Mediterranean coastline in the Bay of Haifa covering 63.7 square kilometres (24.6 sq mi). It lies about 90 kilometres (56 mi) north of Tel Aviv and is the major regional center of northern Israel. According to researcher Jonathan Kis-Lev, Haifa is considered a relative haven for coexistence between Jews and Arabs. Two respected academic institutions, the University of Haifa and the Technion, are located in Haifa, in addition to the largest K–12 school in Israel, the Hebrew Reali School. The city plays an important role in Israel's economy. It is home to Matam, one of the oldest and largest high-tech parks in the country; Haifa also owns the only underground rapid transit system located in Israel, known as the Carmelit. Haifa Bay is a center of heavy industry, petroleum refining and chemical processing. Haifa formerly functioned as the western terminus of an oil pipeline from Iraq via Jordan.
First Person: Matti Friedman in Conversation with Lucette Lagnado
Matti Friedman’s new book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel tells the unknown story of four of Israel’s first spies. Recruited by a rag-tag outfit called the Arab Section before the 1948 War of Independence, they assumed Arab identities to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage and assassinations. At the height of the war the spies posed as refugees fleeing the fighting, reached Beirut, and set up what became Israel’s first foreign intelligence station. Spies not only tells a breathtaking and true espionage story, it also explores a different story about how the state was founded and raises many questions that are relevant today.
In a wide-ranging First Person conversation at the Center for Jewish History, Matti Friedman spoke with author Lucette Lagnado (The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit) on March 12, 2019 about his journalism career, researching and writing his new book, and what Spies of No Country reveals about Israel in the 20th and 21st centuries.
A reception, book sale and signing followed the program.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Presented by: Center for Jewish History, American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, & Jewish Book Council
Suez Crisis | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:36 1 Background
00:02:46 1.1 History of the Suez Canal
00:05:49 1.2 Oil
00:08:59 1.3 After 1945
00:12:21 2 Post Egyptian revolution period
00:13:08 2.1 Egypt and Britain
00:14:55 2.2 Egypt and the Arab leadership
00:16:31 2.3 US and a defense treaty against the Soviet threat
00:28:09 2.4 Nasser and the Soviet bloc
00:30:45 2.5 Nasser and arms purchase
00:34:13 2.6 France and the Egyptian support for the Algeria rebellion
00:35:54 2.7 Egypt and Israel
00:37:36 2.7.1 Franco-Israeli alliance emerges
00:39:20 2.8 Frustration of British aims
00:41:41 3 Nasser and 1956 events
00:41:53 3.1 Nasser and Jordan
00:43:00 3.2 Nasser and Britain
00:45:42 3.3 U.S and the Aswan High Dam
00:47:50 3.3.1 1956 American peace initiative
00:51:11 4 Canal nationalization
00:52:53 4.1 British response
00:59:05 4.2 French response
01:01:32 4.3 Commonwealth response
01:04:47 4.4 Western diplomacy
01:11:45 5 Franco-British-Israeli war plan
01:11:57 5.1 Objectives
01:13:51 5.2 British planning
01:15:24 5.3 Franco-Israeli planning
01:19:48 5.4 Protocol of Sèvres
01:22:32 5.5 Anglo-French Operation Musketeer
01:26:52 5.6 Anglo-French Operation Revise
01:27:55 5.7 Israeli Operation Kadesh
01:29:09 5.8 American intelligence
01:29:51 6 Forces
01:30:00 6.1 Britain
01:31:35 6.2 France
01:33:31 6.3 Israel
01:35:09 6.4 Egypt
01:36:26 7 Invasion
01:36:35 7.1 The Israeli operation Kadesh in Sinai
01:40:52 7.1.1 Early actions in Southern Sinai
01:43:07 7.1.2 Early actions along the Gulf of Aqaba, and the central front
01:44:23 7.1.3 Battle of Jebel Heitan, paratroop brigade under attack
01:47:18 7.1.4 Air operations, first phase
01:49:29 7.1.5 Naval operations
01:51:42 7.1.6 Hedgehog-Abu Uwayulah operations
01:56:04 7.1.7 Gaza Strip operations
02:02:40 7.1.8 Sharm el-Sheikh operations
02:04:51 7.2 Anglo-French Canal invasion
02:06:11 7.2.1 Revise: Phases I and II
02:10:46 7.2.2 Telescope modified: the paratroops land
02:16:20 7.2.3 Royal Marines come ashore at Port Said
02:24:09 8 Casualties
02:25:01 9 End of hostilities
02:25:11 9.1 Anti-war protests in Britain
02:36:38 9.2 Support for Eden
02:41:07 9.3 International reaction
02:53:32 9.3.1 Soviet threats
02:58:45 9.4 Financial pressure
03:00:47 9.5 Cease fire
03:03:33 10 Aftermath
03:11:41 10.1 Military thought
03:13:19 10.2 Europe
03:14:35 10.3 Egypt
03:17:55 10.3.1 Abolishing civil liberties
03:19:28 10.4 Britain
03:23:13 10.5 France
03:25:31 10.6 Israel
03:27:29 10.7 Other parties
03:29:50 11 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
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Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also named the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized the canal. After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The episode humiliated the United Kingdom and France and strengthened Nasser.On 29 October, Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai. Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to cease fire, which was ignored. On 5 November, Britain and France landed paratroopers along the Suez Canal. The Egyptian forces were defeated, but they did block the canal to all shipping. It later became clear that the Israeli invasion and the subsequent Anglo-French attack had been planned beforehand by the three countries.
The three allies had attained a number of their military objectives, but the canal was useless. Heavy political pressure from the United States and the USSR led to a withdrawal. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had strongly ...