Get the full recipe here: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/food/1.698731 and find out why this chopped salad is a staple in the Middle East.

Producer & Director: Aimee Amiga, Photographer: David Bachar, Editor: Eran Cohen Atzmoni.

(c) Haaretz 2016.

47 Comments

  1. This is a wonderful salad. It reminds me of my Lebanese step grandmother's salad dressing. Oh yum. Please don't go hating on this due to the clash of cultures. TY. Let's stay focused on beautiful food.

  2. I've been making this salad for years now. Funny, I wasn't even aware it was called Israeli Salad…
    Thanks for the info!

  3. I am quite suprised left-extremist pro-Antifa Haaretz advertises for Israeli food – the food of the assertive "oppressors".

  4. O wow , infact this is an old very old iranian salad recipe which name is shirazi salad .its root goes back to shiraz city wich is the third big city of iran for decads…

  5. I have a much better and easier idea for you. Simply take this Palestinian salad as it is, and replace "Palestinian" with "Israeli" salad and done! I mean you already stole the land and the cuisine, might as well get some Arab salad while you're at it 🙂

  6. This looks like the salad eaten in the movie, Ushpizin (The Guests). (Minus the sacred citron species, fortunately.)

  7. Reminds me of Turkish shepherds salad. But let’s be honest here: A salad of tomatoes, cucumber, onion etc can be found almost anywhere in the world and especially in the Middle East and surrounding regions. I would just call this “a salad”.

  8. This is hilarious‌, it's an Iranian Salad called Shirqzi Slad, it's also served in Lebnon, and Israel claims it for itself, haha😂😂😂typical

  9. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (2 Corinthians 7:10)
    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
    And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)

  10. Fun fact, no one in Israel calls this Israeli salad, it's just "salat katsutz" (Chopped Salad) or even "salat aravi" (Arab salad). This type of salad is common throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean. Everyone there has some variation of it that is practically almost the same. Turkish: Shepherd Salad, Persian: Shirazi Salad, Palestinian: Salatat Banadura, Egyptian: Salata Baladi, Saudi: Salata, Indian: Kachumber, etc.

    What we know for sure is that tomatoes weren't even introduced and cultivated in the Middle East until around the 18th – 19th century in the Levant which was part of the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, almost every cuisine in the region has a form of it and it isn't a big deal that this is called Israeli Salad outside of Israel.

  11. That’s Shirazi salad 🥗 from Iran 🇮🇷
    You MF used to stole everything from others?! 🖕

  12. when I was a boy we called this grandfather salad and the eggplant dishes grandfathers eggplant. he would always add dill. the older I get the more I eat them both with sesame bread or rice and yogurt. He imparted to us an entire cuisine of Sephardic culture of France and Spain without us knowing any of the Hebrew names.

  13. Shirazi salad …….shiraz is city in iran so its IRANIAN salad 🇮🇷
    This is very old iranian salad

  14. Oh gee, this salad is so easy to make I cud even create it while the comment section is fighting as to where it's original from 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

  15. Are you kidding me? First steal their land and then their culture and just pretend it was yours? That's nothing but ridiculous…

  16. Hello, this is how we make the salad in Turkey. There are common dishes in Greece, Türkiye and Israel. It originates from the close geography. There are certain dishes that can be prepared in whatever grows in that climate.

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