Culture In Israel

Israeli Premier League football club Maccabi Tel Aviv, the country’s oldest and biggest soccer club, have been sold to Canadian metal trader Alex Schneider.

Maccabi, formed in 1906, have won the league championship a record 18 times and the State Cup 22 times, but in recent years have gained a reputation for being perennial underachievers, for the moment Maccabi is in the poor 8 rank at Israeli Premier League.

Ukraine-born Schneider, who owns Midland Resources paid $20 million for an 80 percent stake in Maccabi, the remaining 20 percent will remain with the club. Schneider briefly owned the Jordan Formula One motor racing team, which he renamed Midland, before selling it to Spyker, who in turn have sold it to current owners Force India.

Reuters Report

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According to the EV World there is a large increase of Hybrid Car sales in Israel.

Sales figures of hybrid vehicles in the first 11 months of 2007 show a big rise in their popularity: 1,719 hybrids were sold. This is almost 1 percent of the total number of new cars sold this year, a 280 percent increase from 2006.

We hope that sales in 2008 will be higher…

Well… Israel Houghton have no a really connection to Israeli Culture, but he have a big influence at world Christian worship music. Israel Houghton (sometimes known only as Israel) is a Christian worship leader mostly known for his cross-cultural style of worship music that fuses elements from Gospel music, Jazz and Rock.

His project Alive in South Africa, recorded live in Cape Town, received a Grammy Award for “Best Traditional Gospel Album” in 2007 and two songs from the album, “Not Forgotten” and “Turn It Around”, received a Dove Award for “Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song” in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Both his album Live from Another Level and rendition of “Again I Say Rejoice” received a Dove in 2005. He has served as worship leader for the Promise Keepers and Champions for Christ events, as well as the Hillsong Conference 2006. Israel also serves as a worship leader (alongside of Cindy Cruise) at Lakewood Church in Houston, TX, pastured by Joel Osteen. With Lakewood he has recorded four albums: We Speak to Nations, Cover the Earth, The Gift, and Free to Worship. He is currently signed to Integrity Music.

Israel and New Breed broadened the visibility of their ministry, accompanying Alicia Keys at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards for a performance of George Michael’s “Freedom ‘90.”

You can watch him at this clip at YouTube

Now this is official: It’s not easy to be rock Star. 

Study that published today in a British health magazine, claims that the rock stars situated in the risk to die young, two or three times more than the rest of the population. 

In the study, that published in “journal of epidemiology and community health“, examined the researchers 1,064 stars British and Americans. The study speaking about musicians that acted between the years 1956 and 1999. 

The average age of the death amongst the British musicians stood on 35, whereas the Americans held a status until age 42 the respectable. According to the researchers, the highest risk to the lives of the rockers is in the five first years of activity. 

Interesting what the study say about the Israeli rock stars….