Nir Barkat and the Soup Festival

by: Rebecca

Nir Barkat

 

Last week, we attend the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum’s evening with Nir Barkat, who is running for mayor of Jerusalem.

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

Soup Festival Jerusalem

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.

January 31, 2008 | Jerusalem Scene, Wisdom Gained | Comments

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2 Responses to “Nir Barkat and the Soup Festival”

  1. Posted by: Benji - 01/31/2008

    How about a quota on teenagers in a 2 mile radius of downtown?

  2. Posted by: 3 websites to find out what's going on in Jerusalem | the big felafel - 03/27/2008

    […] - Go Jerusalem, which I covered earlier, is Nir Barkat’s baby, and is a good reference for events happening in Jerusalem and also […]

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