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| October 20, 2015
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Israeli hummus restaurant offers 50% off for Jews & Arabs that eat together

 

The Hummus Bar in Kfar Vitkin is Kosher/Halal for its clientele, and has an ‘intifada’ special of 50% off for Jews & Muslims who eat together.

By JTA

 

Can a shared love of hummus bring Jews and Arabs together? An Israeli restaurant near the coastal city of Netanya is offering 50 percent discounts on hummus for tables with both Jews and Arabs.

חומוס בר - Humus Bar on their Facebook page

חומוס בר – Humus Bar on their Facebook page

A manager of the Hummus Bar, located in Kfar Vitkin, told the Times of Israel that “several” tables of Jews and Arabs have taken advantage of the offer since it began Oct.

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| September 10, 2015
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#BDSfail: Israel’s Sabra hummus stars on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show debut

 

Stephen Colbert on America’s most watched late night talk show plugs Sabra hummus on debut broadcast in front of nearly 7 million viewers, angering BDS. 

Tzipi Shmilovitz, Navit Zommer

 

It was the most watched debut of the most watched show: Stephen Colbert stepped into David Letterman’s huge shoes on CBS’s Late Show with impressive success, and one of the stars of the programs was Israeli hummus.

His rating – nearly seven million viewers – was double the number of viewers of his alleged biggest competitor, Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno’s successor. Together with Fallon, Colbert officially became the greatest talk show host in America on Tuesday night. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2015
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Guinness Book of Records Officials Boycott Israel Using Bogus Excuse

In the ongoing Hummus saga between Israel & Lebanon, an Israeli filmmaker who planned to prepare the world’s biggest bowl of hummus received a letter from UK Guinness saying it would be ‘too dangerous’ to send over a representative. 

By Israel News

 

“It was the last thing I expected,” Israeli filmmaker Oren Rosenfeld said Sunday in response to the Guinness World Records’ decision not to send a judge to Israel to examine a record he wanted to break. 

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Lebanese chefs celebrate around the Largest hummus plate – Photo: AFP

Rosenfeld, who is in the final stages of editing his film “Hummus,” had planned to prepare the biggest bowl of hummus in history.  Continue Reading »

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