Author: David Leibermann

TEL AVIV — As an American immigrant to Israel, Lital Friedman knows a thing or two about pancakes — including that Israel’s crepe-style versions don’t often stack up favorably against the fluffy style popular in the United States. But she didn’t make the trip from Jerusalem to the American-style pancake pop-up in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market for […]

With war raging in Gaza and protests rocking the streets of Jerusalem, the Israeli government is set to pass a key piece of a plan that once sparked turmoil across Israel: the judicial overhaul.  The protests against the overhaul, which dominated Israelis’ attention prior to Oct. 7, 2023, have also resumed. On Wednesday, thousands massed […]

The Nova music festival, where more than 350 people were murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, has quickly become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Israel. More than 200,000 people per month visited the site, at Kibbutz Reim near the Gaza border, on average over the last six months, according to Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish […]

This article has been updated with a statement from the Israeli military.  Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was beaten by West Bank settlers and then taken from his ambulance by the Israeli military, according to a local publication and fellow activists. “Now: The Oscar-winning director and […]

An 85-year-old Israeli man was killed in a terror attack in northern Israel that also injured his son and a soldier. The attack occurred on Monday morning, southeast of Haifa and comes a month after an earlier string of attacks in the country, and the first since fighting restarted in Gaza following a two-month ceasefire. […]

TEL AVIV — As Ohad stood in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night, it’s safe to say that he disagreed with many of the tens of thousands of others protesting alongside him. Unlike the centrist and left-wing politicians who headlined the rally, and many attendees, Ohad, who declined to share his last name, is a […]

Michal Cotler-Wunsh was tapped as Israel’s special envoy to combat antisemitism just weeks before Oct. 7, 2023 — and she’s spent the past 17 months relentlessly globetrotting to all manner of meetings about the worldwide surge in anti-Jewish bigotry.  But in a recent interview, she also talked about one meeting closer to home that didn’t […]

Hamas fired three rockets from the Gaza Strip at the Tel Aviv area, the first time Israel has had missile fire in months and another sign that the Israel-Hamas war has resumed. No one was injured by the rockets, which set off warning sirens in several suburbs adjacent to Tel Aviv. One was shot down […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that a “leftist Deep State” was working to “thwart the people’s will” in Israel and the United States, adopting President Donald Trump’s worldview and rhetoric about the institutions in his country’s government. “In America and in Israel, when a strong right wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep […]

When Sen. John Fetterman said he loved the Israeli operation that sent exploding pagers to members of Hezbollah, he probably never expected that Israel would give him a beeper, too. But that’s what happened this week, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Fetterman, an outspokenly pro-Israeli Democratic lawmaker, to his office in Jerusalem. The […]