Israel Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Cuisine=== {{Main|Israeli cuisine}} [[File:Food in Israel.jpg|thumb|A meal including [[falafel]], [[hummus]], [[French fries]] and [[Israeli salad]]]] [[Israeli cuisine]] includes local dishes as well as [[Jewish cuisine]] brought to the country by immigrants. Particularly since the late 1970s, an Israeli [[fusion cuisine]] has developed.<ref name=raviv/> Israeli cuisine has adopted, and continues to adapt, elements of the [[Cuisine of the Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]], [[Cuisine of the Sephardic Jews|Sephardi]], and [[Ashkenazi cuisine|Ashkenazi]] styles of cooking. It incorporates many foods traditionally eaten in the [[Levantine cuisine|Levantine]], [[Arab cuisine|Arab]], [[Middle Eastern cuisine|Middle Eastern]] and [[Mediterranean cuisine|Mediterranean]] cuisines, such as [[falafel]], [[hummus]], [[shakshouka]], [[couscous]], and [[za'atar]]. [[Schnitzel]], [[pizza]], [[hamburger]]s, [[French fries]], [[rice]] and [[salad]] are common in Israel. Roughly half of the Israeli-Jewish population attests to keeping [[kosher]] at home.<ref>Uzi Rebhun, Lilakh Lev Ari, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CG-WQZDJdo8C&pg=PA113 ''American Israelis: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity,''] Brill, 2010 pp. 112β113.</ref><ref name="bernstein 227, 233β234">{{harvnb|Bernstein|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FYXlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 227], [https://books.google.com/books?id=FYXlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA233 233β234]}}</ref> [[Kosher restaurant]]s make up around a quarter of the total {{As of|2015|lc=y}}.<ref name=raviv>Yael Raviv, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KjuYCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT119 ''Falafel Nation,''] University of Nebraska Press, 2015</ref> Together with non-kosher fish, rabbits and ostriches, [[pork]]βoften called "white meat" in Israel<ref name=bernstein-231>{{harvnb|Bernstein|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FYXlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA232 231β233]}}</ref>βis produced and consumed, though [[Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork|it is forbidden]] by both Judaism and Islam.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jeffrey Yoskowitz |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2012/08/israel_s_pork_problem_and_what_it_means_for_the_country_s_christian_arabs_.single.html|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|title=Israel's Pork Problem|date=8 August 2012 |access-date=28 December 2015}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page