Author: David Leibermann

TEL AVIV — Unlike most of the victims’ families, Sigal Manzuri chose not to be in Israel on Oct. 7. Instead, she accepted an invitation to deliver a speech at the United Nations building in New York, marking the unveiling of a photography exhibition that commemorates the stories of 25 victims, including her two daughters, […]

TEL AVIV — Like so many in Israel, Adi Molcho has been mourning a personal loss for a full year. But unlike her grim compatriots, Adi’s husband did not die anywhere near Gaza. Instead, Gilad Molcho was killed two days after the Hamas-led onslaught on Oct. 7 when he was among the first casualties of […]

TEL AVIV — In the year since her murder by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, Amit Mann has taken on near-mythical status as the heroic paramedic who stayed behind in Kibbutz Beeri while rockets rained down in order to save lives; the woman with the voice of the angel who sang a duet posthumously with […]

This article is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. While she was studying last year at Columbia University’s journalism school, Eleanor Reich would walk by protests calling for her country to be destroyed. When she would pass by […]

At this point, Gabi Hasin had grown used to fleeing his home ahead of missile fire from Lebanon. A resident of the northern border city of Kiryat Shemona, Hasin has spent the past year on the move, relocating seven times to keep himself and his family out of harm’s way. So when he packed his […]

JERUSALEM — The whoops and applause felt more suited to a rock concert than a prayer service. But this was a gathering of survivors from the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history, and Asaf Oren had just recited the blessing traditionally said after surviving a life-threatening event. Oren, whose arm was partially paralyzed by a […]

The United States imposed sanctions on Israel’s Hilltop Youth, an extremist movement of Jewish settlers known for establishing illegal outposts and attacking Palestinians in the West Bank.  Also targeted in Tuesday’s sanctions announcement were two Israeli men: Eitan Yardeni, whom the U.S Treasury described as linked to violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, […]

Fighting is underway between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters along the Israel-Lebanon border. What is yet unclear: How many will fight, how long they will stay there, how many people will be killed and whether the blazing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, after a year of bloodshed, will cross the tipping point into a broader […]