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In September 2001, Africa Israel Investments, a financial group headed by Lev Leviev won the tender for the creation of Israel TV channel in Russian. Established in November 2002, [1] the channel's first CEO was Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, who led the company until February 2004. [2] The station began broadcasting on 12 November 2002.
The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). [1] Apsley Pellatt in his book Curiosities of Glass Making was the first to use the term "millefiori", which appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1849; prior to that, the beads were called mosaic beads.
The bead with its design than has to be fired at the proper temperature, not too hot lest the beads fractures, but hot enough so as to permit the chemical etching of the carnelian stone. [10] The result design comes out beautifully white, usually with some surface calcinated residues which can be easily brushed away.
The Israel Museum included silver Torah shields and pointers created by Srulovitch in an exhibit entitled "Pointing the Way: Women Design Ceremonial Objects" that opened in the fall of 2013. Srulovitch has a workshop on Jerusalem's Arts and Crafts Lane, Hutzot Hayotzer .
During devotional services, the beads may be rubbed together with both hands to create a soft grinding noise, which is considered to have a purifying and reverential effect. A notable feature of Tendai school's prayer beads is the use of flat beads called "soroban beads" for the main beads (while most of the other sects use spherical beads). [2]
The building's grand stairway and 32 doric columns were covered from with 6,700 enormous white paper flowers. [11] [5] The set took 40 workers 15 weeks to create. [5] Audience members were seated at round tables near the catwalk; these tables were adorned with paper flower centerpieces and white “lace” tablecloths cut from paper.