Not long ago I was driving along, listening to one of the morning programs. I’m not crazy about current affairs, but suddenly something familiar caught my attention. The broadcaster was interviewing the president of Tel Aviv University. They were talking about the warm relationship between the university and the municipality of Nanjing in China and […]
If you have children I assume you pay a visit to a school occasionally, but when was the last time you visited a school that is 150 years old and still operating? Well, recently, I had the opportunity to do so. Just outside Tel Aviv, in the Israeli city of Holon, you can see a […]
Maybe you’re not aware of this, but science fiction lovers, especially followers of the 1980s movie series Back to the Future recently marked a special day. Marty McFly, a typical American kid, with the help of his neighbor, the eccentric inventor Doc Emett Brown, journeys through time and tries to change the course of his life by […]
What does the name Van Cleef mean to you? Well, for the more mature of us, the first thing that springs to mind is the menacing expression on the face of Angel Eyes, the “bad” character from the classic film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, played by tough-guy actor Lee Van Cleef. But […]
A few days ago, quite by chance, I found myself doing something I haven’t done for years – acting as an interpreter. This is what happened: I took a trip to Jerusalem with my family to visit the Old City and, on our way home, we took the light rail. The train had just left the station when it […]
I love the comedian Louis CK. Louis is a brilliant New York stand-up comedian who has created a marvelous TV show in which he stars and portrays himself, with a healthy dose of self-humor and sarcastic observations on the urban surroundings in which he lives and works. In one of the previous seasons, he falls […]
Do you remember the actress Renee Zellweger? In the 1990s she was one of Hollywood’s leading actresses and starred in numerous movies, mainly romantic comedies like Bridget Jones’s Diary. Over the years, her fame faded somewhat and she disappeared from the headlines, until a few months ago, she astonished the media by suddenly reappearing with a […]
Over the course of the years that I’ve been in the translation business, I’ve dealt with hundreds, if not thousands, of translation projects of different sorts – hundreds of clients, dozens of languages and many, many different types of jobs. Every now and then, though, a project crops up that is slightly out of the […]
Lichi Translations is, above all, about people.Our greatest asset is our pool of translators – hundreds of men and women located all over the world, who supply us with top-quality translations in the language they have spoken from birth. Our translators connect us with the world. Thanks to them our clients can communicate with people who […]
