Shawarma

Israelis pick shawarma, Samsung, ice cream as top favorites in Wolt’s annual data

Shawarma, Galaxy phones, and ice cream were among Israelis’ top choices on Wolt this year, according to new data revealing the country’s favorite foods, gifts, and gadgets.

 A courier working with Wolt, a meal delivery app service, rides a scooter as he delivers an order from a restaurant, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Tel Aviv, Israel July 9, 2020.
 Russia set to introduce a national standard for shawarma.

Russia set to introduce a national standard for shawarma

 Israeli police work at the area where a rocket landed in Kiryat Shmona, February 13, 2024

Despite missiles and an evacuation order, the spit is still turning at this northern Israel shop

 People queue to buy street food on a sunny day in central Moscow, Russia November 1, 2021

Dozens of Russians get food poisoning from shwarma, 10 hospitalized


Shawarma shop open on Remembrance Day disrespectful, illegal -explainer

The 1963 Remembrance Day law details prohibitions and procedures for the honoring of the day and Israel's fallen security personnel and victims of terrorism.

 The Azrieli mall in Tel Aviv is seen lit up for Israel's Remembrance Day, on April 24, 2023.

In the kitchen with Henny: Winter warm-ups

As the weather gets cooler, we naturally gravitate to foods that warm us up from the inside out - here are a few.

Sweet potato soup

Jordan: Child dead and 700 others poisoned by deadly shwarma in Amman

It all started when a local food stand owner in Amman offered shwarma for the extremely low price of less than NIS 6 per serving.

A worker prepares a traditional sweet "Konafa" at a shop, after the government eased the restrictions on movement aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Amman, Jordan April 29, 2020.

10,000 NIS for an order of shwarma? "It's the owner's work system."

Three weeks later, duped tourists still not reimbursed for ‘mistake.’

shwarma [illustrative]