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A religious boys’ high school in Efrat grapples with war losses

Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School in Efrat has had three recent alumni from the same class fall in Gaza fighting, along with two parents of current...

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Tel Aviv area schools return to distance learning, partial classes as war resumes

Home Front Command directive only covers Friday and Saturday; unclear if status will continue into next week; area schools returned to being open less...

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Book publisher sends thousands of sacred texts to IDF soldiers

Koren Jerusalem creates special wartime compact edition of the Book of Genesis, with foreword written from the frontlines

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In Tel Aviv, displaced families bring Israeli flavor to American-style Thanksgiving

Local Orthodox Union-affiliated group matches Gaza-area evacuee families with English-speaking immigrants for festival of turkey and gratitude. ToI...

23.11.2023 20

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Citing antisemitism abroad, Jewish students stream to Israeli university as war rages

Though many academic programs have delayed their start dates, Reichman University opens its English-language tracks for an unexpected influx of...

22.11.2023 10

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Archaeologists find earliest evidence of mass weapons production in Stone Age Israel

Huge caches of uniformly designed sling stones from 7,200 years ago indicate organized production of missiles, the earliest evidence of warfare in the...

22.11.2023 10

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Schools in Tel Aviv permitted by municipality to fully reopen, but not all can

Many students in central Israel have not been in school full-time since September, before the Sukkot holiday

21.11.2023 10

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Schools in Tel Aviv permitted to fully re-open on Tuesday

Many students in central Israel have not been in school full-time since before the Sukkot holiday in September

20.11.2023 6

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At an exclusive Cyprus retreat center, Supernova rave survivors get help to move on

Traumatized party-goers receive fully subsidized five-day holistic therapy experience including yoga, spa treatments and group sessions; there is a...

13.11.2023 20

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Citing security concerns, ministry halts schools’ Holocaust education trips to Poland

Organized visits to concentration camps, viewed as a rite-of passage for Israeli teens, had recently been renewed after a three-year pause

12.11.2023 10

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Israeli charity aims to provide it all for soldiers, including mobile laundry and spas

With a special orientation towards reserve soldiers and evacuee families, the Klal Yisroel Organization also wants to bridge the religious-secular...

11.11.2023 50

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Cowboys of the wild West Bank: The visiting US volunteers who ‘own guns, love Israel’

The Christian Zionist group behind the recent viral images of American farmhands now in Israel eschews tourist sites in favor of agricultural work

10.11.2023 20

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Israeli universities step up to support students in reserves, war effort

As the Israel-Hamas war continues and with the academic year on hold, Israel’s major universities have all announced multi-million shekel emergency...

07.11.2023 20

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Twice evacuated from war zones, Ukrainian children wait for the battles to end

KFAR CHABAD – A missile alarm sounds. Students and staff at the Or Simcha youth village jog past the petting zoo into the open bomb shelter, where...

07.11.2023 20

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Study: Nearly 50% of Israeli citizens volunteered during first weeks of war

The eruption of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7 saw nearly half the Israeli population engaged in some form of volunteer work during the first two...

03.11.2023 30

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Located near Sderot and now shuttered, Sapir College community looks to the future

The campus of Sapir Academic College, which lies just south of the town of Sderot, was spared scenes of death and destruction by the Hamas terrorists...

01.11.2023 20

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Limited in-person classes held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, as ministry tightens rules

Schools in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, among other cities, are returning this week to partial operations, the Home Front Command announced on Saturday,...

29.10.2023 20

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In-person schooling to resume across much of Israel on Wednesday

Schools throughout much of Israel will be able to open as normal starting on Wednesday, including those in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, according to...

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Waiting for reservists to be released, university classes delayed until at least Dec.

The academic year for Israel’s universities will not begin until after those who have been called-up for IDF reserve duty during the ongoing war...

25.10.2023 20

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School system grapples with unprecedented challenges during wartime

As Israel enters its third week of war against Hamas, the state educational system is grappling with an unprecedented and quick-changing situation,...

23.10.2023 10

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At an IDF base in the Golan, off-duty reserve soldiers cut loose with BBQ and music

They let us — the musicians — into the IDF base in the Golan Heights easily enough. We pull right up to the gate and the young guard comes out,...

23.10.2023 10

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Government initiative helps Jewish day schools worldwide cope with war challenges

As soon as the scope of the horrific Hamas assault on October 7 became clear, and as Israel shifted to being a country at war, officials at UnitEd, an...

22.10.2023 10

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On gap year between high school and IDF service, students find purpose during wartime

Eden Mimoun, 18, a gap year student in the northern Golan, was shaken awake early on the morning of October 7. “My roommate woke me up and said...

21.10.2023 30

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Taibe bike shop torched after Arab Israeli owner donates bikes to Jewish kids

As his bicycle shop in the central Arab Israeli town of Taibe was being looted and torched in the early morning hours of Saturday, business owner Alaa...

18.10.2023 10

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As Israel-Hamas war intensifies, schools move to remote learning on Sunday

As Israel intensifies its war footing, teachers are also being called up to their own reserve duty — on Zoom. That’s how Hagit Babad, principal...

15.10.2023 40

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At impromptu Tel Aviv vigil, accidental documentarian covers war’s ‘little stories’

American tourist Eli Katzoff stumbled onto a moving, candle-lit vigil in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square Thursday night. As a professional filmmaker, he...

13.10.2023 20

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Sgt. First Class Yosef Malachi Guedalia, 22: ‘A very gentle, sweet person’

Sgt. First Class Yosef Malachi Guedalia, 22, of the Duvdevan commando unit, was killed in action on Sunday near Kfar Aza. Guedalia was born and raised...

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Shoppers empty supermarket shelves despite pleas not let the war cause panic

Supermarkets nationwide were crowded with shoppers attempting to stock up on essentials Monday night and Tuesday, spurred on by a notice from military...

10.10.2023 50

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As Hamas war rages, personal firearm activists see surge in interest

As the 2023 Israel-Hamas war continued into its third day, and with the widely distributed and traumatic images of Hamas terrorists operating freely...

10.10.2023 50

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Schools to stay closed, universities delay semester start by week

Schools nationwide will remain closed for several more days, the government announced Sunday, as the country girded for a drawn-out battle against...

08.10.2023 10

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After shock Gaza attack, Israelis step up to provide aid. Here’s how you can, too

A spontaneous outpouring of grassroots support for Israelis under fire has quickly developed in response to the ongoing, unprecedented terror...

08.10.2023 8

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11 Thai nationals taken hostage by Hamas; Thailand PM: ‘They are innocent’

The Foreign Ministry of Thailand said Sunday that 11 of its nationals had been abducted during the fighting in southern Israel and presumably brought...

08.10.2023 20

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American Jewish groups offer bipartisan support to Israel after assault from Gaza

Soon after news broke in the United States of Saturday’s shocking early-morning multi-pronged assault by Hamas terrorists, American Jewish...

08.10.2023 30

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In ‘Fioretta,’ a father and son Euro road-trip into 500 years of Jewish family history

“Fioretta,” the lusciously shot Jewish genealogical documentary by Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory, is clearly a labor of love, filmed...

07.10.2023 20

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Establishing dialogue outposts nationwide, activists seek to hash out Israel’s rifts

A religious Jewish man, kippah on his head and ritual fringes flying, arrives at a table set up by democracy activists in the streets of the northern...

05.10.2023 10

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Israel finishes 6th overall at European Baseball Championships

Israel’s National Baseball team finished in sixth place in the 2023 European Baseball Championship, a biannual tournament that Israel is set to host...

02.10.2023 20

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Unique Byzantine Psalm inscription in New Testament Greek discovered in Judean Desert

A rare inscription paraphrasing part of Psalm 86 in the Greek used in the New Testament has been unearthed by a team of Hebrew University...

27.09.2023 30

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Rare bronze mirror found in 2,300-year-old grave of Greek courtesan in Jerusalem

A cave containing the remains of a young woman who was likely a courtesan during the Hellenistic period has been discovered near Hebron Road in...

27.09.2023 40

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First recorded evidence of Yom Kippur depicts day of affliction as sectarian struggle

The earliest known written record of Yom Kippur observance can be found in the Dead Sea Scroll known as “Pesher Habakkuk,” according to...

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After 80 years, hat shop in old garment district still has Tel Aviv covered

Yael Menahem was in desperate need of sun protection after forgetting her new hat on the train. It was a sweltering Tel Aviv afternoon and she, an...

23.09.2023 40

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In the major West Bank settlements, anti-judicial overhaul rallies gather steam

Ma’ale Adumim is one of the larger settlement cities in the West Bank and has a very active chapter of National Security Minister Itamar Ben...

17.09.2023 30

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On ancient hajj route, Muslim sorcerers likely used ‘magic’ items to banish evil eye

A collection of unusual objects accidentally discovered decades ago along an ancient pilgrimage route in southern Israel were likely used by...

13.09.2023 40

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