Category: Israel

Life changed dramatically for millions in Israel on 7th October 2023 and one of them was Inbar Haiman, a young student attending a Peace Festival in the Negev desert that weekend.   Caught up in the attack, and then kidnapped and hauled off to Gaza on a motorbike, she was one of the more than two […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An anti-war protest organized by a broad coalition of Israeli left-wing organizations in the heart of Tel Aviv was canceled after police denied the event a permit. Organizers say they will appeal the denial to the Supreme Court and make plans for an even bigger event next week. The rally, […]

TEL AVIV — It only took a few minutes from the time the rocket fire from Gaza began on the morning of Oct. 7 for Karen Tal to field her first of many phone calls and messages with terrible news. The CEO of Amal, a secular educational network whose mission is to serve Israelis of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Nine Israeli soldiers were killed, including six in one incident, during fighting in Gaza on Monday as Israel announced a new phase that officials said would be more targeted than the campaign that has devastated the enclave. The announcement — made first to the New York Times — came as Secretary of […]

KIBBUTZ HAZOREA, Israel — Fifteen young men and women, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings and to each other, dance around a bucolic field, twisting their bodies to trance music blasting through their headphones. Beyond their earphones is silence, except for the constant rumble of fighter jets taking off from Ramat David air base in the […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — One month after his fiancee was killed in the Israeli military’s Oct. 7 battle against Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri, Omer Ohana received a small bit of solace: His government passed a bill granting recognition to same-sex partners of fallen soldiers. “My love! From this day forward I am an […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli police are investigating after officers mistakenly killed a 3-year-old Palestinian girl while responding to a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint near the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev. The attack outside Jerusalem on Sunday injured a soldier in Israel’s Border Police, and comes amid a spike in violence in the West […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — After Oct. 7, Michael Kahana joined hundreds of his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in signing an open letter condemning Hamas and expressing support for Israel and its right to self defense. But the psychology professor wanted to do more. So Kahana sent an email to the 340 signatories on the letter, […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Daniel Ozeri found himself returning to the worst moments of his life on a recent Sunday — not inside his own mind, but inside a Tel Aviv convention center. Ozeri was in Expo Tel Aviv, a sprawling complex in the city’s north where the Nova music festival — which ended […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Amichai Oster, 24, an Israeli-American touring the United States after his service in an Israeli combat unit, was observing Shabbat and Shemini Atzeret at a Salt Lake City Chabad when Hamas attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7.  “Of all the terrified faces on the morning of October 7th, I remember Amichai’s anguished features […]