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Israel accuses pope of ignoring Hamas cruelty after he criticizes Gaza airstrikes

Foreign Ministry calls remarks ‘disappointing,’ ‘disconnected’ from reality in latest tensions between Jerusalem and the Holy...

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Inside one man’s struggle to get his cousin’s body, taken on Oct. 7, back from Gaza

Tal Chaimi’s remains are still being held by terrorists. Udi Goren has stepped up to represent the family as they beg for all the hostages,...

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Blinken acknowledges Israel-Saudi normalization unlikely before Biden leaves office

Top US diplomat voices hope Trump will be able to finalize historic deal, after until recently dangling prospective agreement as an incentive for...

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Singer Noga Erez says she’s lost international bookings because she is Israeli

‘It’s simply because I was born where I was born,’ heavily pregnant musician laments after wrapping up tour for her new album ‘The...

20.12.2024 30

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Jewish Film Fest marks Hanukkah with movies on Jewish identity, humor and resilience

Jerusalem Cinematheque opens festival with Oscar hopeful ‘The Brutalist,’ along with ‘Shtisel’ prequel ‘Kugel’ and...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 19: Day 440 – Biden and Trump teams join forces in hostage talks

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses Gaza ceasefire negotiations, Biden administration’s reckoning on Israel and Hezbollah, and its weighing of...

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‘The Bibi Files’ makes Academy Awards shortlist for best documentary

Film is one of several Israel-related movies to advance to next round of voting, including Norwegian-Palestinian documentary ‘No Other...

18.12.2024 40

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Culture minister threatens funding to arthouse theater over ‘extremist’ films

Miki Zohar asks finance minister to examine grounds for denying funds to Tel Aviv Cinematheque after showing pro-Palestinian films at Solidarity...

12.12.2024 30

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‘Broad City’ star says no regrets over previous decision not to film in Israel

Ilana Glazer says she’s glad the comedy series didn’t end up shooting an episode in Israel, though cancellation was due to 2015 violence...

10.12.2024 30

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As Jews continue to digest October 7, anthologies offer a buffet of food for thought

Female-powered collections explore life in the US and antisemitism, provide succor and hope with prayers and poems, and retell the stories of heroic...

08.12.2024 40

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Museum buys artist’s work after she shut Venice Biennale exhibit in call for hostage deal

New York’s Jewish Museum purchases artist Ruth Patir’s five-part video installation ‘(M)otherland,’ which will premiere at Tel...

07.12.2024 30

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Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film Lab launches 13th year, despite war

‘Pulp Fiction’ producer Lawrence Bender and filmmaker Joseph Cedar to teach master classes

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Inspired by Gandhi, white-clad hostage mothers silently scream in protest

In a new strategy, the Mishmeret 101 rallies are nonviolent and apolitical, with shifts of protesters revolving around families of those abducted by...

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October 7 reverberates at Israeli music awards

Annual ACUM ceremony marks 68 years with awards for veterans and newcomers

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Former hostage reflects on life post-captivity, one year after her release

Gabriela Leimberg talks about the trauma of captivity, her bubble of family and friends, and the support she feels from the Israeli nation

25.11.2024 30

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Sderot memorializes police station that was destroyed on October 7

The site of the battle now has murals, pillars that reach for the sky and recorded voices of those who called for help

24.11.2024 20

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Netta Barzilai offers some ‘Big Love’ to spread light after a year of darkness

Pop star, whose music is normally bubbly and happy, talks about her latest release, the first in English since Oct. 7 assault, after spending a long...

17.11.2024 30

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The quiet after the bloodshed: Photographer captures nature in the aftermath of Oct. 7

Gaston Zvi Ickowicz brings his views and angles of the devastated Gaza border area landscape to ‘Field,’ his solo exhibit at...

17.10.2024 50

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Kibbutz that fought off Oct. 7 terror endeavors to develop Israeli version of tequila

Kibbutz Alumim in the Gaza border area partners with experts to plant agave succulents in Negev desert terroir, hoping to produce local mezcal spirit...

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Bumper stickers of the fallen coalesce online into a mosaic of mourning

Decals of slain Israelis bearing powerful messages are appearing on cars, walls and lampposts in a new and unusual homage. Now, Stickers of Meaning...

09.10.2024 40

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A year after Oct. 7, Kfar Aza and Nir Oz are mostly empty, with residents in anguish

Residents return to visit their homes, sift through wreckage and shake their heads in disbelief that some loved ones are still held hostage in Gaza

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The way we were: Netflix’s ‘Kissufim’ an eerily prescient story of kibbutz next to Gaza

Film set in late 70s as Israel and Egypt sign historic peace treaty explores the tensions of those living in and around Gaza, and becomes a window...

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Tel Aviv art museum marks Oct. 7: ‘Take time to visit quietly, you will find light’

Institution and its ‘Hostages Square’ plaza have become focus for protests and healing; new exhibit features works showcasing responses by...

26.09.2024 60

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Director Amos Gitai pushes back against boycott call of ‘Why War’ film at Venice fest

Some 300 artists sign letter asserting that Israeli production complicit in ‘apartheid, occupation and now genocide,’ but screening goes ahead

04.09.2024 20

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Hostage families vow to bring country to a halt after unidentified bodies found in Gaza

Forum urges major disruptions Sunday to protest government ‘abandonment,’ after thousands rally for ceasefire deal; sister of hostage injured by...

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Teens from evacuated communities to perform with music stars at Israel Festival

Young artists will record and perform their own songs with musicians including Berry Sakharof and Karolina, as part of Music People project

17.08.2024 30

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Nominated films for Ophir prize include short docs dealing with October 7 atrocities

Nominees include dark comedies, drama about life in Bedouin city and documentaries about Hamas hostages and Nova desert rave

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Art and design on display in Haifa as creativity trumps tensions

Haifa Museum of Art features six solo exhibits of artists hailing from Israel’s north, as Tikotin Museum shows Japanese design and a sushi project...

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A mother mourns her son and daughter-in-law with the dishes that he loved

After Itay and Hadar Berdichesky were killed on October 7 at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Itay’s mother found some comfort in an Asif Culinary Institute...

29.07.2024 30

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Prominent Israeli actors protest culture minister’s planned industry reform

Film industry professionals vehemently argue against plans to fund commercial movies over arthouse fare, calling it ‘Miri Regev 2’

23.07.2024 20

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Contemporary art exhibit takes visitors to the ‘navel’ of ancient Jerusalem

‘Umbilicus’ opens in the Kishle, a former British Mandate prison and active archaeological dig, part of the Tower of David Museum

22.07.2024 20

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Family of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin dedicates new Torah scroll to his return

Scribe completes last 120 letters, each one inscribed for a remaining hostage in Gaza, while joined by hundreds of members of the family’s...

22.07.2024 10

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Be’eri’s boutique cheesemakers carry on, without Dror Or’s ‘golden hands’

Dairy originally established to make yogurt and labneh for kibbutz eventually became accomplished in artisanal cheeses, only to be decimated by the...

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Aunt says hostage niece’s return was miracle, but she’ll keep fighting until all are home

Roxanne Saar, whose niece Gali Tarshansky was held captive and nephew Lior was killed at Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, says PM’s attitude...

13.07.2024 20

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Beauty through the pain: Survivors of October 7 inked by visiting tattoo artists

12 inkers from abroad join 50 local artists to offer body art to 120 survivors, soldiers and relatives of victims of the Hamas massacre

09.07.2024 20

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Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin launch ‘Week of Goodness’

Family aims to increase kindness, good deeds and generosity in the world in order to help bring about the redemption of 116 remaining October 7...

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Jerusalem’s contemporary art festival looks at belief, in Mount Zion exhibit

Manofim, meant to have opened October 8, moves annual event to summer and brings ‘Believe’ to King David’s Tomb on historic hilltop

08.07.2024 10

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Manhattan gallerist draws empowerment from exhibition of Israeli artists

‘Every Israeli who walks in here says it feels like the art is hugging them,’ says owner of FORMah Gallery, featuring ‘The New...

07.07.2024 30

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No summer break for his family during ceaseless push for deal, says hostage’s brother

Michael Levy, older brother of hostage Or Levy, says families of captives have no choice but to keep moving forward in effort to bring loved ones home

04.07.2024 30

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‘A wounded landscape’: New photo exhibit captures life in Israel’s south, then and now

Historian and amateur photographer Dana Arieli created ‘The Photographer of Things — Southern Album,’ a new exhibit at Petach Tikva...

29.06.2024 30

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Second Tel Aviv branch of Cafe Otef creates employment for southern evacuees

Business includes shop selling Dvir Chocolates, the line of confections created by Re’im resident Dvir Karp, killed on October 7

26.06.2024 10

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Hostage families release Hamas video showing 3 sons’ abduction into Gaza under fire

In new footage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen and Or Levy are seen crammed and bloodied on flatbed of pickup truck, being driven toward Strip

24.06.2024 10

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This year’s Fresh Paint art fair ‘takes the temperature’ of Israeli society

Some 40,000 visitors expected at annual Tel Aviv art fair slated for early July, where emerging artists meet new collectors for affordable prices

20.06.2024 30

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Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan grapples with return to freedom

Meir Jan’s uncle, Aviram Meir, discusses his nephew’s physical and emotional health, his need to see his fellow hostages and the embrace...

20.06.2024 20

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Bassist Barak Mori to play blue notes at Jerusalem Jazz in memory of fallen nephew

After paratrooper Omri Ben Shachar was killed in battle in Gaza, his musician uncle wrote a piece in his memory

18.06.2024 20

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Thrilled by IDF rescue, hostages’ families say deal only way to free their relatives

Alon Gat, whose wife was captured and freed and sister remains a hostage, says ‘for the 120 people still in Gaza, we need to free them with the...

16.06.2024 20

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Bottled up by war, Judean hills vintners open anew to let visitors ‘breathe a little’

Wineries from the Mateh Yehuda region offer a month of tastings and tours with notes of melancholy and grief for those affected by the fighting and...

13.06.2024 20

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Short stories about Israelis in flux feel familiar in novelist’s latest collection

Joan Leegant’s ‘Displaced Persons’ homes in on identity, character and the Jewish experience

11.06.2024 30

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Photojournalist Ziv Koren shows the world what happened on October 7, in new exhibit

The collection of images, many graphic, of people and places since the Hamas onslaught is now showcased at the Peres Center: ‘It’s become...

10.06.2024 40

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Hostages’ families share favorite Shavuot recipes as they hold out hope for loved ones

Hostages forum releases cookbook ‘Shavuot of Longing, Their Recipes on Our Table,’ as part of fundraising efforts to secure the freedom of...

04.06.2024 30

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