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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

17.08.2024 30

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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...

08.08.2024 40

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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...

17.07.2024 40

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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

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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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Hostage mother Einav Zangauker wins New Israel Fund award for courageous leadership

The single mother from Ofakim will receive the NIS 100,000 Truth to Power award for her efforts leading a public movement to secure the return of the...

29.05.2024 30

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Uncle of hostage learns lobbying and legislation, in effort to bring nephew home

Almog Meir Jan was taken captive on October 7; his uncle, Aviram Meir, now spends two days a week at the Knesset

29.05.2024 50

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Novelist John Irving cancels long-awaited Israel visit due to COVID-19

Author was coming for the Jerusalem Writers Festival and to work on the final chapter of his latest book, ‘Queen Esther,’ set in 1980s...

26.05.2024 60

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Cafe Otef begins pop-up project, where displaced southern residents can feel at home

With 1st branch belonging to Netiv Ha’asara a runaway success in Tel Aviv, 7 are planned in total, each telling stories and selling specialties...

25.05.2024 50

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Jewish American widower channels post-Oct. 7 Israeli grief in new film

Influencer and producer Rob Mor reflects on loss, his Judaism and how to process death

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Short student film is only Israeli entry in this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Young director Amit Vaknin fears anti-Israel protests after Tel Aviv film school enters her first film, ‘It’s Not Time for Pop,’ into...

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Life’s pain and beauty on show at Tel Aviv’s 26th DocAviv

Annual documentary film event offers week of screenings of works from Israel and around the world

15.05.2024 60

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Young Israeli filmmaker’s first feature chosen to compete at Tribeca Film Fest

‘Come Closer,’ debut work of Tom Nesher, daughter of Israeli director Avi Nesher, to feature at prestigious New York film festival

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‘Every day is Memorial Day’ for bereaved siblings of October 7 victims

Brothers and sisters talk about what their lives have been like since their loved ones were killed — at the Supernova rave, in Sderot and in the...

13.05.2024 100

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UN chief urges ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza, release of hostages

In address to donors’ conference, Guterres calls for ‘surge’ in aid to Strip, predicts ‘long road’ ahead to reverse...

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October 7 echoes in a documentary about an Israeli agent seeking redemption

‘Telling Nonie’ brings together an aging Israeli operative with the daughter of the Egyptian lieutenant colonel he helped assassinate in...

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Teen musician gets national platform to perform song she wrote for teacher killed Oct. 7

Yaara Cohen will sing ‘Grapefruit Tree’ at a pre-Memorial Day event at the National Library, in memory of Shlomi Mathias, killed with his...

09.05.2024 70

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‘They did it all so easily’: Ex-hostages recount chilling details of Oct. 7, captivity

Chen Goldstein-Almog tells of her daughter’s murder after terrorists found her IDF uniform at their Kfar Aza home; freed hostages speak of...

08.05.2024 100

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Daughter of elderly hostage says captives have become pawns during ongoing war

Sharone Lifschitz, whose father, Oded, 83, has been held hostage since October 7, believes he would have been home if government had ‘played its...

07.05.2024 40

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Protesters block roads, demand halt to Rafah push after Israel rejects Hamas proposal

Families of captives and other demonstrators gather in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere to accuse Netanyahu of ‘abandoning the hostages,’...

07.05.2024 70

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Hostage’s niece tells their family’s Holocaust and Oct. 7 stories

Jerusalemites gather for a different kind of Zikaron Basalon, as Tamar Pearlman hopes family’s story of survival will help Alex Dancyg withstand...

06.05.2024 90

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US giving us more attention than Israeli leaders, says brother of hostage Keith Siegel

American-born Lee Siegel says he regularly attended anti-government protests last year, but now only attends rallies solely focused on captives’...

02.05.2024 20

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TV series about Israelis in Berlin gains potency in wake of October 7

Dramedy ‘Berlin Blues’ tells story of Yonah and Talya, a typical Israeli couple trying out life in Germany

27.04.2024 30

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Passover celebrants urged to set a seat for a hostage, use a Haggadah of hope

A variety of projects have been created to help people mark this festival of freedom despite war, hostages and bereavement

20.04.2024 20

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Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents contemplate Passover with their son in captivity

Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin talk about how the Iranian strike offered an opportunity for the Jewish state to realign with allies even as anti-Israel...

19.04.2024 20

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