Author: David Leibermann

Our teens have managed to corner the babysitting market at our local synagogue. So when the WhatsApp message first arrived a week and a half ago from one of the other dads, it seemed pretty routine. “Can one of your kids babysit Saturday night? We’re going to see an Oscar nominated documentary that’s only in […]

The World Zionist Congress election, which runs from March 10 to May 4, determines how $5 billion will be spent in Israel — and is seen as a referendum on the future of the country. Jews in the United States can choose among 21 lists of candidates, or slates, each with a specific agenda and […]

Israel has released the video for “New Day Will Rise,” its entry to the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest that focuses on the theme of emerging from darkness. In the video, Yuval Raphael, selected as the country’s representative for the annual contest, sings in a field of red anemones, Israel’s national flower, after connecting with a […]

If I found myself sitting across the table from one of the top leaders of Hamas, I don’t know if I would have been able to control my emotions and not try to kill him. On Oct. 7, when I drove from Tel Aviv to the Gaza border area in order to save my family […]

At the beginning of the year, there were 98 Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza, all but four taken when Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. A ceasefire deal that included an exchange of hostages and prisoners resulted in the release of 38 — 33 who were agreed upon under the terms of the deal, […]

A 17-year-old Israeli girl who was critically injured in a terror attack last week has died of her wounds. Yahli Gur was one of more than a dozen people wounded when an attacker rammed his vehicle into a bus stop roughly midway between Tel Aviv and the northern port city of Haifa. She was hospitalized, […]

One month ago, President Donald Trump made two statements about territories adjoining Israel: The first was that the United States would take over the Gaza Strip. The second was that, “over the next four weeks,” Trump would have an announcement about Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Those four weeks are up on Tuesday, the […]

An Israeli man was killed in a stabbing spree in Haifa in what Israeli authorities are treating as a terror attack. The attack on Monday happened one day after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire formally expired and tensions threatened to escalate in the region. Israel announced over the weekend that it would stop all entry of aid […]

TEL AVIV — For his funeral, Tsachi Idan’s family chose a place that was sacred to him: Bloomfield Stadium, home to the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team. A VIP season-ticket holder, Idan often attended games with his daughters before Oct. 7, 2023, when he was abducted and his older daughter Maayan murdered during Hamas’ attack […]