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J-Wire is coming to you from Israel. On Yom Kippur this city shuts down completely. No Israeli TV, no travel in or out on any airline and no traffic on the roads…much to the delight of Tel Aviv citizens who take to the Ayalon expressways on their bicycles….
The Ayalon in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur photo: agencies
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
