Birthright Israel to lower its age limit back to 26
By Andrew Lapin
Five years after raising the age limit for Israel tour participants, Birthright Israel is reverting to a policy of funding free trips...
Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees have landed in Israel, and thousands more could follow
By Shira Hanau
Around 300 Ukrainian Jewish refugees landed in Israel Sunday, among them some 90 orphans between the ages of two and 12, in...
The new Florida? Record number of US retirees relocate to Israel in 2021
By Larry Luxner
A few weeks ago, Joel Tenenbaum, 81, and Marilyn Berkowitz, 84, arrived in Tel Aviv on an El Al flight from New...
Amnesty International releases report accusing Israel of apartheid
Amnesty International has become the latest human rights organization to describe Israel’s activities in relation to Palestinians as “apartheid” when it released a special...
Two medical advancements in Israel worth noting
By Maayan Hoffman
Technology aims to make more livers available for transplantation
For the first time in Israel, donor liver machine perfusion (MP) was performed before...
This young US immigrant in Jerusalem is telling Israel’s story to the world
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tamar Schwarzbard is grateful for getting to tell Israel’s story to the world every day—not through lectures or opinion columns, but via...
Is the Biden-Bennett honeymoon over? Here are 6 US-Israel issues that are raising tensions
“Behind closed doors” is a phrase that crops up a lot in conversation with senior U.S. and Israeli officials these days. That’s the place...
Some Americans are moving to Baltimore’s sister city 9 miles from Gaza
By Linda Gradstein
When people ask Nechama Greenfield why she and her husband chose to move just nine miles from Gaza in June, less than...
A journalist breaking Orthodoxy’s biggest sexual abuse stories says he wishes he didn’t have...
In March 2021, reporting by Haaretz journalists Aaron Rabinowitz and Shira Elk revealed allegations of sexual abuse against Yehudah Meshi-Zahav, the founder of Zaka,...
Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier for women to get abortions
By Shira Hanau
As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s...
