Beyond Falafel - Food Culture in Israel

We chose food as the topic for our group for two main reasons. One, it is not a highly controversial topic and two it would be a fun, clever, and accurate way to represent the pluralistic side of Israel that is so commonly omitted from the conversation. Some highlights of our filming process consisted of tasting different types of food, seeing traditional kosher dishes to seeing Chinese Kosher dishes, and hearing what Israelis had to say about the wide array of food within their country. We hope you enjoy our documentary, and next time you are in Israel, while falafel is still very tasty, see what other scrumptious dishes you can find.


Produced by Write On For Israel Teen Participants
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[DustyKatz]

@SuperAntiZionist This is a false quote, as are the others you have cited.

From Ben Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs by Shabtai Teveth.

p. 28 With the help of the Jews, the Arabs would prosper.... "We are building and revitalizing the country, wrote Ben Gurion...We will win the land through its reclaimation, and our renewal in this land will come through the renewal of the land itself, and that means the renewal of its Arab inhabitants."

[TJTheProud]

@SarahShlomo Good for you, FYI its Arab ;) nice try

[TJTheProud]

@Argento1853 Then again your exaggeration goes beyond stupidity, 1.5?? Check again.

[TJTheProud]

@Argento1853 Coptic?? Really really, falafel was made in Akka acre, dude we get it you hate our guts but please you don't have the impunity to talk about our tradition so don't dabble in what you don't know

[ForgottenEasternJews]

@sorealittty The middle eastern food that you see so popular in Israel was brought in by Mizrahi Jews who were 70% of Israeli Jews until 1990. Falafel, tahini, causcous etc was all brought in by Jews. JEWS DID NOT COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THEY CAME MOSTLY FROM ARAB LANDS AND EUROPE.

[Lotrfan99]

@sorealittty you've probably never noticed that when people say "Israeli food", THAT includes the Arabs as well, since they are citizens of Israel, thus an integral part of what defines "Israeli" culture.

[anythingnew]

Latkes and bagels are Jewish, right?

[sorealittty]

@Tristan94702 you can tell that to my dead ancestors whom descendant has been cleansed out of their land by the haganah in 1945....

as for the food, the irish can cook pizza, but when they claim pizza is an irish invention am sure the italians wont be happy about it , and the rest of the world will laugh at you and call you a liar ...

[Argento1853]

@theleb4life Shawarma is not Arabic, it's originally Turkish. Falafel is from the Ancient Coptic Egyptians, before the Arab invaded Egypt.

[Argento1853]

@SuperAntiZionist There are 1.5 million Israeli Arabs idiot. Pasta, Pascualina is part of Argentinian culture, why? Because of the Italians there.