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Jessica Steinberg

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Community leaders honored in inaugural Women of Iron awards

Eighteen women celebrated at event that also was tribute to late photographer Laura Ben-David

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Daily Briefing Jan. 4: Day 821 – Will Spain’s Israel boycott set precedent for other countries?

Diaspora Affairs reporter Zev Stub discusses Spanish embargo and Israeli immigration stats; reporter Diana Bletter reviews life in Kiryat Shmona and...

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Tel Aviv exhibit joins Jewish concepts to role-playing games

‘Roll of Destiny’ is the latest on display at Neve Schechter Gallery, with six original games employing Jewish ideas

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HBO Max streaming to launch in Israel this month

The Warner Bros. Discovery service arrives as company signs acquisition deal with Netflix

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Daily Briefing Jan. 1: Day 818 – Coalition, Haredim and judiciary on massive collision course

Political reporters Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel discuss government clash with High Court over ultra-Orthodox school funding, finance minister’s...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 28: Day 814 – Will $35 billion gas deal with Egypt hike electricity costs?

Daily Briefing Dec. 28: Day 814 – Will $35 billion gas deal with Egypt hike electricity costs?

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel reports on natural gas agreement; archaeology reporter Rossella Tercatin discusses ancient Holy Land trinkets and...

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Nominees reverse decision to boycott culture minister’s alternate film awards

Nominees reverse decision to boycott culture minister’s alternate film awards

8 film professionals had refused to participate in new ceremony until producer Moshe Edery promised to work with Culture Minister Miki Zohar to...

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Exhibit brings visitors back to Tel Aviv’s Shalom Meir Tower

Exhibit brings visitors back to Tel Aviv’s Shalom Meir Tower

Pop-up event fills empty office high-rise’s raw, industrial space

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Hundreds join Ran Gvili’s family to demand return of last hostage: ‘We don’t forget’

Hundreds join Ran Gvili’s family to demand return of last hostage: ‘We don’t forget’

Slain police officer’s mother Talik says he’s being ‘abandoned,’ urges no progress in ceasefire until his return; weekly...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 25: Day 811 – Initial Knesset vote on contentious Oct. 7 probe bill sparks anger

Daily Briefing Dec. 25: Day 811 – Initial Knesset vote on contentious Oct. 7 probe bill sparks anger

Political reporters Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol discuss planned Oct. 7 inquiry, Haredi ire over civil marriage vote, PM loyalist on Qatargate, and...

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Israeli director sees Oct. 7 drama ‘Stay Forte’ as his personal war against Hamas

Israeli director sees Oct. 7 drama ‘Stay Forte’ as his personal war against Hamas

Doron Eran says his fictionalized film about hostages Yotam Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samar Talalka, accidentally killed by the IDF, is his way of...

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Concert of former captive Alon Ohel sells out in hours

Pianist’s one-night show features him with headliner Israeli musicians

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Shiri Bibas’s sister lights parents’ menorah on reserve duty in Gaza

Dana Silberman Sitton, whose parents, sister and young nephews were killed by Gazan terrorists on and after October 7, looks for the light on Hanukkah

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Nazareth’s classical Christmas concerts return home

Nazareth’s classical Christmas concerts return home

Polyphony’s Liturgical Festival brings together musical performances by Arabs and Jews

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Adeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life’s complexities

Adeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life’s complexities

The cookbook author and celebrity chef discusses her latest book, ‘Zariz,’ optional toppings for a streamlined sheet pan latke board, and...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 14: Day 800 – Ceasefire tensions escalate after top Hamas commander is killed

Daily Briefing Dec. 14: Day 800 – Ceasefire tensions escalate after top Hamas commander is killed

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses phase 2 of Gaza truce, latest on Lebanon; reporter Sue Surkes reviews a desalination channel to the...

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Father of last hostage Ran Gvili: ‘Hard for me to accept condolences until I see his body’

‘He didn’t think twice, he went and fought,’ says Itzik Gvili as family holds Kabbalat Shabbat gathering in Hostages Square; father of...

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Harrowing footage shows 6 hostages lighting Hanukkah candles 8 months before execution

Families of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino, and Alex Lobanov approve release of videos filmed by Hamas...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 797 — Final Columbia antisemitism report reveals classroom aggressions

NY correspondent Luke Tress discusses the final task force report on the campus that spawned student encampments during the Hamas war, and...

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Movies on non-Zionist ‘Maus’ creator among diverse features in capital’s Hanukkah film fest

Jerusalem Cinematheque’s annual Jewish Film Festival, running Dec. 13-18, captures Jews’ varied voices, including two docus on Art...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 10: Day 796 – Knesset debate on Haredi draft bares PM’s closed-door efforts to pass bill

Deputy diplomatic reporter Nava Freiberg on PM’s upcoming US trip and his defense of Israel’s global standing; political correspondent...

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Spurning Ophir Awards, government announces alternate film awards ‘to tell our story’

Culture Minister Miki Zohar sets state-run ceremony for December 30, in response to Israeli Academy of Film giving its top prize to ‘The...

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‘One of ours’: Officials bid farewell to Sudthisak Rinthalak as his body flown home

Israeli and Thai ambassadors pay tribute to agricultural worker who was killed on Oct. 7 and whose body was taken to Gaza, as his remains are finally...

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Holocaust film ‘Among Neighbors’ causes uproar in Poland’s political right

Yoav Potash’s award-winning documentary about murderous Poles in the post-war period stirs nationalist outrage

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Celebrated Israeli painter’s grandchildren get their turn at the easel in Eilat exhibit

Curator Céline Avrahami’s ‘Face to Face’ brings photographs by Michal Rubin and paintings by Gidi Rubin, descendants of artist...

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Iran files charges against marathon organizers after women runners flout hijab law

Hundreds of women seen without veil running at Kish island’s race as Tehran tries to crack down on increasingly ignored modesty laws;...

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Major Saturday night events transition from hostage rallies to anti-government protests

At Friday evening event to welcome Shabbat, family of last remaining hostage Ran Gvili insists that Israel refuse to move ahead with the Gaza peace...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 7: Day 790 – Israel and Lebanon hold rare direct talks as conflict brews

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses talks in Naqoura, PM’s remarks about hilltop youth, and last-minute cancellation of sanctions on...

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Father of hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak: ‘I always worry about him, I pray for him’

Family says it wants to bring his body home to Thailand to be buried with traditional ceremony; brother says he feels guilty for encouraging him to...

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Medical aid group urges countries to take in tens of thousands of Gazan patients

Doctors Without Borders says current intake is ‘drop in ocean,’ pace of evacuations has slowed in recent months despite ceasefire; warns...

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Kibbutz Bar’am curator returns to local museum amid tense calm on northern border

Avi Ifergan opens three new exhibits at the Bar-David Art and Judaica Museum, anticipating visitors to the collective community on the Lebanese border...

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Daily Briefing Dec. 2: Day 788 – PM invited to White House for unprecedented fifth time

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on a potential Netanyahu-Trump meeting in DC, where discussions will presumably focus on stalled Gaza ceasefire...

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‘Tehran’ lead Niv Sultan stars in whodunnit about COVID hotel murder

Seven-episode contemporary drama set at Dead Sea reimagines classic Agatha Christie mystery

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Inaugural TV summit brings ‘Mad Men’ creator Matthew Weiner to Jerusalem

Jerusalem Sessions aims to create collaborative efforts during three-day meetup of Israeli and international television professionals

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Weekly hostage support rallies in Tel Aviv to end, family of slain captive says

Ran Gvili’s family announces Friday afternoon ‘Kabbalat Shabbat’ events instead, as it ‘adjusts to new reality’ of only...

02.12.2025 20

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Dror Or of Kibbutz Be’eri, beloved father and cheesemaker, buried alongside his wife

Family eulogizes couple as ‘people of freedom and light, of spirit and creativity,’ assails political leadership for evading...

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Freed hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana heads home from rehab, 6 weeks after release from Gaza

Surviving captive greeted by cheering students and drummers, says he dreamed of home in the two years he was held by terrorists

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Father of Ran Gvili, one of two remaining hostages, to speak at possible final Tel Aviv rally

Hostages forum indicates Saturday event may be last as it narrows activities to support 2 families, says rallies don’t serve current situation...

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Daily Briefing Nov. 27: Day 783 – US mulls Muslim Brotherhood sanctions, excludes allies Turkey, Qatar

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses Trump’s executive order examining the Islamist group in some Arab countries, GHF closing shop, start of...

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Fashion designer Elie Tahari outfits injured IDF servicewomen

Brand cofounded by Israeli-American hosts several female Israeli troops at Miami fashion show, including soldier shot 12 times: ‘An extension of...

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‘Everything is soaked’: Rain floods Gaza tents, amid efforts to ramp up aid

Displaced Palestinians say Hamas indifferent as 13,000 tents damaged, cesspits overflowing; UN says Israeli restrictions on shelter supplies hampering...

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Israeli orchestra accused of robbing Arab heritage with release of Umm Kulthum video

Firqat Alnoor, featuring both Jewish and Arab musicians, plays late Egyptian icon’s song to mark 50th anniversary of her death

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Berlin art exhibit in former Nazi bunker explores Jewish experience after October 7

Works by ‘Maus’ cartoonist Art Spiegelman, ousted Putin apparatchik-turned-gallerist Marat Gelman and others take aim at labels pushed on...

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Daily Briefing Nov. 24: Day 780 – After killing of Hezbollah #2, IDF preps for retaliation

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on Hezbollah’s military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai, rise in Hamas terrorists over the ‘Yellow...

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Hostages Forum to shut offices; volunteers and funds made available to last 3 families

With ceasefire in place, official says families will decide on next steps; sister of remaining captive says she understands: ‘You can’t...

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Daily Briefing Nov. 23: Day 779 – Hamas wants the ceasefire, but doesn’t want to disarm

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses terrorist officials’ visit to Cairo and his own visit to the US CMCC center in Kiryat Gat, and...

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‘We’re ready for him to come home,’ says sister of deceased hostage Ran Gvili

Shira Gvili says the wait for the body of her brother, a police officer and one of the final three slain hostages held in Gaza, feels interminable

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Rosalia’s new album soars with Hebrew verses and sacred imagery

Songs in ‘Lux’ include verses in 13 different languages, delve into female saints and how they’re seen in different cultures

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Daily Briefing Nov. 20: Day 776 – Court butts heads with coalition on Oct. 7 probe, draft dodgers

Tol editor David Horovitz discusses the justices taking the government to task for not setting up a state commission of inquiry, and for failing to...

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‘Now I’ve got the mic’: Kevin Spacey’s song-and-dance comeback gets warm Tel Aviv welcome

Actor repeatedly refers to last eight years of his life, after he was accused by dozens of sexual misconduct, during show that looks back on his...

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