Hailey Kops in competition. Credit: KrPhotogs Photography LLC.
In a true “Cinderella story,” 19-year-old Hailey Kops, a religiously observant athlete from West Orange, N.J., is preparing to take on the world’s finest ice skaters while proudly representing Israel at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Team Panama at the 10th Flag Football World Championship in Israel. Photo by Josh Hasten
Thirty-nine teams from 23 countries around the world gathered in Israel this week for the International Federation of American Football’s (IFAF) 10th Flag Football World Championship, hosted by the American Football in Israel (AFI) organization at the Kraft Family Sports Campus in Jerusalem.
Ora Uziel, an artist from Samaria. Bikurim helped subsidize her e-commerce website. Credit: Bikurim.
Lenny Goldberg, who immigrated to Israel back in the 1980s from New York, runs a small business out of his community of Tapuach in Samaria. Goldberg’s company, called “Luna-na,” caters to birthday parties, summer camps and other special events for children and adults alike throughout the country by providing a variety of inflatable bouncy castles and other similar entertainment play devices for his clients.
Aryeh Lightstone, former special envoy for economic normalization for the Abraham Accords and chief of staff to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Source: Screenshot.
Aryeh Lightstone, former special envoy for economic normalization for the Abraham Accords and chief of staff to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, believes that the Biden administration needs to focus on bolstering Israel’s efforts for regional peace and not rewarding the Palestinian Authority by re-opening the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem.
Friends and family attend the funeral of Eliyahu Kay, a 25-year-old immigrant from South Africa who was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem on Nov. 22, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Eliyahu (“Eli”) David Kay, 25, a South African immigrant to Israel who was murdered in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning while on his way to prayers at the Western Wall, was laid to rest in the presence of thousands of mourners at Jerusalem’s Har HaMenuchot cemetery on Monday afternoon. Thousands more watched the funeral live online.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Mohammed Younos/Shutterstock.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that a group of 15 Republican Jewish leaders from the United States paid a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in June to try to advance the Abraham Accords normalization deal between the United States, Israel and the Gulf states.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s conference in Las Vegas. Nov. 6, 2021. Source: RJC/Twitter.
About 750 boisterous Jewish supporters of the Republican Party gathered in Las Vegas this past weekend to hear from potential Republican presidential candidates, along with current elected officials, with the focus on the GOP’s goal of taking back the Congress and Senate in the 2022 midterms and the White House in 2024.
Young volunteers with the Latet humanitarian organization in Israel. Source: Facebook/Latet.
The Latet humanitarian-aid organization—the largest nonprofit organization that combats poverty and food insecurity in Israel—held its second annual virtual conference this week, titled “The Road to Resilience.”
More than 100 Israelis gathered on Agron Street in downtown Jerusalem, opposite the old U.S. consulate building, protesting the Biden administration’s announced plan to reopen it, Oct. 27, 2021 Photo by Josh Hasten.
A group of more than 100 Israelis gathered on Agron Street in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday, opposite the old U.S. consulate building, protesting the Biden administration’s announced plan to reopen it as a full diplomatic mission for the Palestinian Authority within Israel’s capital.
Construction underway at the new housing for Jewish community in Hebron. Credit: Courtesy/The Jewish Community of Hebron.
Construction has started on 31 new housing units for Jewish residents in the city of Hebron, which represents the first new major building in the “H2” section of that town in the past 21 years.