More than 4,500 teens from North America and Israel gathered last month for an outdoor festival that some have described as “Israel’s teen Coachella.” Part music festival, part celebration and part networking event — featuring a musical performance from Noam Bettan, the runner-up in this year’s Eurovision competition — the group of high schoolers came together […]
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A rejuvenated Benjamin Netanyahu returned home to Israel Thursday from Washington, having crossed off everything on his diplomatic shopping list. Grinning photo op with U.S. President Donald Trump? Check. Iran still a top priotiry? Check. Conciliation with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and conflict with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani? Check and check. Meetings with […]
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Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take direct aim at the country’s handling of settler violence in the West Bank — warning that unchecked attacks now pose a threat to Israel’s security and to Zionism itself. […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s leadership with “the 1930s,” escalating a showdown between the two leaders as Netanyahu plans to visit the city in the coming weeks. The Israeli leader made an evocative reference to the period when the Nazis took over Germany in a Fox News interview […]
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Despite all odds, a small town of 29 families in Israel’s south is poised for major transformation. Located in the Negev desert, the town of Sheizaf plans to expand to 100 families in the coming years. With strategic investment through its Housing Development Fund, Jewish National Fund–USA is helping address the infrastructure gaps that often […]
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WASHINGTON – Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yair Lapid, the leader of his opposition, are in Washington, ostensibly to attend the funeral of one of the staunchest pro-Israel American politicians, Lindsey Graham. They are also, as Lapid made clear in an appearance Monday at the influential Atlantic Council think tank, launching a bruising […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday, as the American leader is weighing whether to expand his bombing campaign against Iran or to find a diplomatic resolution regarding the Straits of Hormouz and the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Israel fears that Trump is going to negotiate a premature […]
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TEL AVIV — Oren Pesso, a Tel Aviv performance artist and the frontman of the avant-garde musical group Jilber and the Cats, opened his performance on Friday at HaTanacha Park in Tel Aviv with a difficult question. “Do you want the heat or the war? You have to pick one,” he called out to the crowd, […]
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JERUSALEM — Jerusalem’s premier soccer team made an unusual announcement last week: It would give a new cafe free advertising on players’ uniforms for the coming season. Cafe Basimta was facing harassment from haredi Orthodox protesters who wanted it to close on Shabbat, and Hapoel Jerusalem said it wanted to send the message that Jerusalem […]
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Shorty, the aptly named 4-foot-8-inch medical clown, stood between two young patients riding coin-operated toy cars in the lobby of Tel Aviv’s children’s hospital, alternately blowing and eating bubbles as the children giggled. Between mouthfuls, Shorty asked the girl’s mother why her daughter, about 6ֿ, was in the hospital. A tonsil operation, the mother said, […]
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