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Weaving home hospitality into Birthright trips forges new bonds between young Israelis and Diaspora...

Sponsored By Michele Chabin JERUSALEM – When Jack McCormack signed up for a Birthright trip several months ago, he looked forward to visiting Israel’s holy, historical...

This is the secret to how Israel’s leading technology institute manages to drive so...

Sponsored By Renee Ghert-Zand In the century or so since its founding as Israel’s first university, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has acquired...

Some Israelis are still traumatized 2 months after the deadly violence between Arabs and...

Sponsored By Renee Ghert-Zand Given the torrent of news developments in Israel since its brief war with Hamas in May —...

Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish athletes to watch

JTA   From left: Alex Klineman, Jemima Montag, Eli Dershwitz, Diego Schwartzman, Maru Teferi, Linoy Ashram, Ezra Frech and Anat Lelior. (Getty images)   By ...

Benjamin Netanyahu replaced as Israeli prime minister after 12 years in office

By Ben Sales anf Shira Hanau After 12 years, seven elections and three corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel. Netanyahu,...

With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer

Sponsored By Michele Chabin JERUSALEM – The elderly grandmother had a fever and felt weak, despite the antibiotics her family doctor had prescribed...

What is Hamas, the group Israel just agreed to stop fighting in Gaza?

Israel just ended an 11-day military campaign in Gaza. Who was it fighting? The conflict, which began last week and is ending with a ceasefire...

An American rabbi-turned-Israeli-lawmaker is being sued for sexual harassment

The American-born former Israeli politician Dov Lipman was once a rising star of Yesh Atid, the political party whose leader was tasked last week...

TikTok and Twitter videos bring images of Israel-Gaza conflict home to American Jews

For some Americans watching the escalating violence in Israel and Gaza in recent days, the most striking image from the conflict came in a...

The fighting in Gaza, Jerusalem and across Israel, explained

By Ben Sales and Ron Kampeas Rocket attacks in Israel. Airstrikes in Gaza. Violence in Jerusalem’s holiest sites. Protests across the city. It feels like Israel...