Nir Barkat and the Soup Festival
Last week, we attend the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum’s evening with Nir Barkat, who is running for mayor of Jerusalem.
http://www.meetup.com/swf/membership_badge.swf?chapterid=807042
We wanted to see, if elected, would he take care of the most pressing issues in Jerusalem:
- get rid of the ridiculous TV tax
- install a ticket machine at the Central Bus Station that assigns seats for inter-city travel
- teach city office workers to be pleasant, polite and helpful
Although he didn’t give a direct answer, he did talk about bringing 10 million tourists here over the next few years and mentioned a website he started called gojerusalem for finding out about what’s going on in Jerusalem.
This is how I found out about the soup festival which I plan on attending. I don’t know if I would actually call it a “festival” but rather a good deal on soup that gives you entrance into the fancy David Citadel Hotel. But I guess that title wouldn’t be as catchy.
If you need me, I’ll be in the David Citadel from 10am-11pm packing in the all-you-can-eat soup for 48 shekels.
The Big Felafel 
How about a quota on teenagers in a 2 mile radius of downtown?
| Posted 15 years, 1 month agoI don’t know who Nir Barkat is but if he’s elected I hope he can run the city better than the way he is handling the GoJerusalem website that you mention.
1) Your link to http://www.gojerusalem.com crashes and burns
2) If you link to http://gojerusalem.com it takes an age to load
3) If you click on educational tours it crashes and burns
3 strikes and you’re out Nir.
| Posted 14 years, 9 months agoShmuel
Shmuel – you make some good points – that is a nasty screen that’s appearing right now. I’ll try to email Nir and tell him.
| Posted 14 years, 9 months agoShmuel – I just emailed Nir Barkat and his webmaster emailed me back saying their server was hacked and they’re trying to get things back in order. Scary stuff. He said he’ll tell me when it’s back up, so I’ll let you know.
| Posted 14 years, 9 months agoI just went to gojerusalem.com and it works just fine now. Really beautiful, and be sure to turn your speakers on.
If Nir runs the city like this Web site, I’m all the more for him.
| Posted 14 years, 5 months ago