Just because I live in
Israel, most of you probably think I probably listen to Hebrew music, that my
favorite TV show is filmed in Tel Aviv and my favorite movie is in Hebrew and
about Jewish culture. Well, this is not necessarily true. Most of the people I
meet and talk to from around the world are very surprised to see that I also
listen to Taylor Swift or Coldplay, that we watch the same TV shows or that my
favorite movie would probably be Pitch Perfect (great movie by the way, go and
watch it if you haven’t before). Yes, Israel has developed its own culture over
the years, but since everything is just one click away, and words like cool or
ok are as common as “Shalom” (hello in Hebrew), especially we the teens in
Israel are very exposed to different cultures around the world.
But we do still have
our own culture. Israel is a country of Diaspora. In our almost 67 years of
independence, many people came from all over the world, and it affected the
culture of the Israeli society very much. In the fifties, right after Israel's
independence, came almost overnight 650,000 Jews! It was the size of the Jewish
population in Israel before 1948!
During that time,
because many people came from countries from all over the globe, they started
mocking the people who were different from them. That is how a new genre began;
it is called “Bourikas Movies.” These movies are still loved until today. They
are comedy movies that show how life was like in Israel 60 years ago. The
movies are much extruded and mock all the immigrants that came to Israel.
The Israeli music has
changed very much during the years too. There are a lot of new singers and
bands discovered all the time. In Israel we have the X Factor and The Voice,
but we’ve also made our own reality singing shows and the most famous one was
also sold to the United States, it is called Rising Star.
Israel has many
theaters and movie theaters that put on new shows and movies every single day.
We have Operas and ballet, drama and comedy, different circuses from all around
the world. Israel is a place with different cultures, but yet we do have our
own culture.
Israelis made many new
and different inventions. We made a lot of progress in agriculture, have you
ever tasted a Cherry tomato? Indeed, it was invented in Israel! New kinds of
watering systems and new kinds of fertilizer are also Israeli inventions.
The ICQ, if you
remember- it used to be a chat room that was very popular at the time, and even
a disc-on-key, which we all use a lot, those technologies were made in Israel.
Also, a lot of military equipment like the Iron Dome or a pilot-less airplane.
Israeli inventions are used daily around the world, even here, even now.
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