In Israel, activists and families push for stiffer sentences for child sex abusers
A movement for greater accountability gains traction.
An Israeli woman was murdered by her husband. It sparked a national reckoning over domestic violence.
The murder sent chills throughout the country, including among the thousands of women who had turned to Raz for relationship guidance online.
In Israel, some Netanyahu detractors are refusing vaccinations
In Israel, it is the left-wingers who view the coronavirus as a conspiracy theory, an inversion of American politics.
American Muslims Brought to Israel To Help Them Understand — Not Agree
Alejandro Beutel bowed his yarmulke-covered head and pressed his hands and forehead into the 2,000-year-old stones of the Western Wall. After slipping a note into one of the cracks, Beutel whispered a prayer and cried.
Is Palestinian Model City Sugar-Coating the Israeli Occupation?
Bashar Masri is not your typical billionaire real estate developer.
Israel's Fax-Friendly Bureuaucrats Shift to Email at Last
Years of public complaints about the slow-moving Israeli bureaucracy seem to have finally reached someone in charge — maybe they were being sent to the wrong fax number.
At 92, Shimon Peres Is Very Much Alive — and Busy as Ever
Last month, rumors flooded the Internet that former Israeli President Shimon Peres was dead. True to form, the man who tirelessly trumpets his country’s high-tech sector took to Facebook to clear the air.
New Year's Day Rampage Punctures Tel Aviv Bubble
Until Friday, this city had been largely untouched by the recent wave of near-daily attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians.
Foreign Workers Now Teach Jews How To Farm — on the Kibbutz
Say goodbye to the historic image of Zionists getting down in the dirt to cultivate the land. Nowadays, the vast majority of kibbutz farmworkers are foreigners.
Tattoos Reign in Israel — Jewish Law or No
Hamutal Song is never ignored as she walks the streets of Israel with ‘you rock my world’ tattooed on her chest. But she is not as much of a rarity as one might think.