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JTA – Israel’s High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by Israeli expatriates seeking to vote in the 27 October elections after discovering that they had been excluded from...
JTA – Café Basimta, the Jerusalem coffee shop that became a flashpoint in the city’s long-running dispute over Shabbat observance, will stop opening on Saturdays beginning this...
JTA – The discovery this week of the sunken arms ship the Altalena, which almost sparked an Israeli civil war just one month after the State was created...
JTA – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday posted what he described as his personal phone number and invited Israelis to contact him with their questions...
JTA – The remains of Yehuda Katz, the last Israeli soldier still missing from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have...
JTA – Vandals broke into a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem over the weekend, damaging the building and artwork and tearing down Pride flags displayed by the...
JTA – The plaza that became the centre of Israel’s campaign to bring home the 251 captives Hamas seized on 7 October is now formally called “Hostages Square”, establishing a...
JTA – When Iris Meiri-Snir moved from Israel to northern Italy last month, she gave up a job she loved, proximity to her children and grandchildren,...
JTA – An animal welfare group’s appeal to an Israeli court is delaying plans to surround a high security prison for Palestinians with Nile crocodiles. The...
JTA – 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,...
JTA – For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the 50th anniversary was less a celebration of one of Israel’s most mythologised military operations than a...
JTA – More than five decades after Israel’s only World Cup appearance, the Israel Football Association (IFA) says it has no intention of trying to leave Europe for...
JTA – Ben & Jerry’s Israel operation has come up with a flavour that doesn’t leave much to interpretation. Called Milk and Honey, a nod to the biblical description of...
JTA – A raucous crowd of football fans filled the narrow strip of grass between Tel Aviv’s music centre and Bloomfield Stadium, home to the Maccabi and...
JTA – As alternative Eurovision events gathered momentum across Europe in protest of Israel’s participation in the famously schmaltzy singing contest, Israeli candidate Noam Bettan, fresh...
JTA – 6A sweeping new Israeli report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led 7 October attacks and against hostages in Gaza concludes that the crimes formed part of...
JTA – For years, critics and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alike have seen Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a model for his politics. Netanyahu long called Orbán a...
JTA – When Varda Morell stands by her son’s grave in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery this Memorial Day, the official ceremony unfolding nearby will barely...
JTA – A week into the ceasefire in the Iran war, Israelis have settled into their old normal ‒ sort of. “Is anyone else completely struggling with the...
JTA – When news broke that Israel might gradually reopen schools in areas considered safe enough, Yael Daniel, a mother in Bat Yam in the missile-hit...
JTA – Smartphones have become as essential as shelters for Israelis riding out Iran’s missile attacks, with internet traffic up 25% since the war began on...
JTA – Spirits ran high inside a large public bomb shelter in the Israeli coastal city of Jaffa, with loud chatter, singing, and greetings of “Happy...
JTA – Natalie Silverlieb’s go-bag looks a little different from the last time she ran to the bomb shelter with Iranian missiles incoming. Since last summer, she has...
JTA – In playgrounds around Tel Aviv it’s no longer unusual to meet a child who splits time between two homes, not because their parents divorced, but because they...
JTA – In the weeks after Hamas’s 7 October attack, religiously charged videos started circulating on social media. Dozens of young women posted videos of themselves...
JTA – At one of Kiryat Gat’s main shopping complexes, United States army camouflage does everything but blend in. American troops in fatigues move between shawarma...
JTA – Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square”, wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting the candles to mark the beginning...
JTA -Standing inside a mass protest in Habima Square to demand an end to the war in Gaza, Roy Rieck said the atmosphere felt more charged...
JTA – When Israeli strikes hit Iran on 13 June, it wasn’t only nuclear sites and senior Iranian commanders that were taken out, a covert army...
JTA – It was after 02:00 by the time I finally fell asleep after yet another siren sent us scrambling to the safe room in our...
JTA – When Haviva Ner-David entered the Muslim-majority city of Tamra, about 15 miles (24km) from her kibbutz in the Lower Galilee, she was surprised to...
JTA – The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it...
JTA – At Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living, Maggie Megidish and her daughter, Ori, a released hostage, stood among a delegation of survivors...
JTA – As she watched a cascade of seemingly conflicting news reports about the three highest-profile Israeli hostages, Noam Nisim didn’t know what to think. First,...
JTA – The trees abutting the road leading to Biriya Forest, a nature preserve in northern Israel, at first resemble spruces turning autumnal shades of red,...
JTA – “They are in our hands,” Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on the huge screen that was broadcasting the tense release of the...
JTA – Eyal Golan sat at a table flanked by two citrus trees in his parents’ garden in the pastoral community of Porat, a makeshift office...
JTA – The commander of a small Israeli military drone unit in Gaza was on a routine reconnaissance mission with his team in an apartment in...
JTA – Katie Silver had already mastered volunteering and racing to safe rooms when she hopped on another Israeli wartime trend. Silver, a Pilates instructor in...
