Efrat residents gather in the city’s Sukkah of Peace, October 16, 2022. Credit: Josh Hasten.
Defying possible retribution by the Palestinian Authority and others, around 20 Arabs who live under the P.A. in Gush Etzion joined with some 50 of their Jewish neighbors to break bread and get to know one another, at the traditional “Sukkah of Peace in Efrat” during the recent holiday.
Lital and Zohar Aizenberg smile at their Mi Casa Tu Casa bed and breakfast in Moshav Vered Yericho, with the city of Jericho in the background, Sept. 29, 2022. Credit: Josh Hasten.
On Friday, Booking.com, the large global online lodging accommodation service website, placed a travel warning on all of its listings—both Jewish- and Arab-owned—for properties in Judea and Samaria, including in towns under full Palestinian Authority control.
“Time Tunnel – Japan and the Jews” will be open to the public in Haifa for the next six months. Credit: Anat Charmoni.
As Israel this year marked 70 years of diplomatic relations with Japan, Haifa’s Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art last week launched a major art exhibit titled “Time Tunnel—Japan and the Jews,” displaying the work of five leading Japanese artists with a focus on the Holocaust.
A cat sits on a garbage bin overlooking the Beit Safafa neighborhood in Jerusalem, February 11, 2019. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.
The Jerusalem District Planning Committee last week advanced approval for the construction of 700 housing units in the capital city’s southwestern Givat Hashaked (“Almond Hill”) neighborhood.
Tevel Argental (right) and her counselor at Camp Simcha. Credit: Chai Lifeline.
Sixteen-year-old Tevel Argental, from the northern Israeli town of Yokneam, has been battling brain cancer since she was two years old. She has undergone multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments that have allowed her to live as best as possible under the difficult circumstances. At the same time, Tevel has been coming to grips with the death of her father, who died of a heart attack three years ago.
Enes Kanter Freedom walks to the Western Wall in Israel, there to help train kids at a youth basketball camp in Israel, August 2022. Photo by Josh Hasten. Credit: Bnai Zion.
“If you could change anything in this world, what would it be?” asked NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, while seated among 30 Jewish, Christian and Muslim, children during a break in the action at a youth basketball camp he was helping to run this week at the YMCA in Jerusalem.
American flags being hung in Jerusalem ahead of U.S. President Biden’s Israel visit, July 10, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Ahead of this week’s visit by U.S. President Joe Biden, the Israeli government has taken steps to pacify Washington by refraining from unilateral moves in Judea and Samaria.
View of the E1 corridor. Photo by Josh Hasten.
The Israeli government seems to be starting to fall in line with a request by Washington not to take any “provocative measures” in Judea and Samaria ahead of the July 13 visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to the Jewish state.
Israeli artist Marc Provisor, who spent three decades working in the field of counter-terrorism. Photo by Josh Hasten.
For more than three decades, Marc Provisor dedicated his life to keeping Israelis safe; now, he is transposing that experience onto canvas.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey visits the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, on May 30, 2022. Photo: Dudu Koren.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is in Israel this week on a five-day trade mission with a delegation from Arizona focused on business development, water technology and border security. The delegation includes Danny Seiden, the head of Arizona’s Chamber of Commerce, and Sandra Wilson, the president & CEO of Arizona Commerce Authority.