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Bnei Akiva

Girls on a HaShomer HaHadash pre-army service year help with livestock in the Negev hills, 2024. (Tair Malka)
August 23, 2025, 8:29 am
From Sept. 1, the storied Nahal military group will return to its agricultural roots
18-year-olds will volunteer for a pre-army service year and mixed combat-community work on Gaza border and the north to strengthen and protect communities affected by Oct. 7
By Sue Surkes
Participants in the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program, July 2025 (Alexander Muss High School in Israel)
August 17, 2025, 5:31 pm
As yet another wartime summer affects travel to Israel, Jewish youth programs are pivoting
Visits to the Holy Land can be a formative experience for Diaspora Jews, but constant travel impediments in the turbulent region force trip leaders to innovate – or go elsewhere
By Zev Stub
The scene of a fatal accident between a bus and two vehicles on Route 89 in the northern Galilee, September 29, 2021. Insert: Asher Basson. (Eyal Merom / United Hazala, courtesy)
October 1, 2021, 2:57 pm
‘They made him out to be a murderer’: Bus driver involved in fatal crash buried
Family, friends defend Asher Basson, who allegedly drove dangerously ahead of deadly collision and reportedly had dozens of driving convictions in his 55 years on the road
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
The scene of a fatal accident between a bus and two vehicles on Route 89 in the northern Galilee, September 29, 2021. (Eyal Merom / Ichud Hazala)
September 30, 2021, 1:29 pm
Before fatal crash, bus driver allegedly drove wildly to silence teen passengers
Youth group counselor says Asher Basson was annoyed by the noise and would accelerate or slow down suddenly; driver, who has dozens of prior convictions, was one of 5 fatalities
By Michael Bachner
Kids at a Dortmund Jewish Community Youth Center Hanukkah event. (Marc Neugroschel/Times of Israel)
January 12, 2018, 4:01 am
80 years after being banned by Nazis, Bnei Akiva is back in Germany — sort of
The Zionist youth movement takes on a new educational role in the face of local Jews’ hostility to the idea of emigration to Israel
By Marc Neugroschel
Illustrative image of an empty classroom. (Gloda/iStock by Getty images)
November 23, 2017, 7:24 pm
Bnei Akiva high school teachers to strike Friday
Yeshivot and Ulpanot throughout Israel to be shuttered as part of ongoing demands for wage increase
By ToI Staff
Undated photo of Bnei Akiva in Germany's winter camp (Bnei Akiva in Germany)
September 6, 2017, 7:09 pm
After 8 decades, Religious Zionist youth movement reopens in Germany
Bnei Akiva head says gaining charitable status is ‘another little victory over the Nazis and the new anti-Semites’
By JTA
Members of the Bnei Akiva youth movement memorialize fallen IDF soldier Hadar Goldin in a Purim dance choreographed by his brother on March 9, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)
March 10, 2017, 9:55 pm
Brother of fallen IDF soldier puts on Purim dance in his memory
Worldwide members of Jewish youth movement join in holiday video calling for release of Hadar Goldin’s body from Hamas
By JTA
Reggae singer Matisyahu performs at a Jewish Orthodox summer camp in Pennsylvania in August 2016 (YouTube screenshot)
August 25, 2016, 4:05 pm
Matisyahu sings at his kids’ Jewish summer camp
Artist gives surprise performance for Bnei Akiva campers in Pennsylvania
By JTA
July 14, 2016, 4:21 am
Jewish camp in California cuts session short over salmonella outbreak
Site run by Bnei Akiva will be ‘cleared and cleaned,’ the organization says
By JTA
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May waves towards the media as she arrives to attend a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, July 12, 2016. Theresa May will become Britain's new Prime Minister on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
July 12, 2016, 2:50 pm
Theresa May, Jews and Israel — 6 connections
Cameron’s successor, a vicar’s daughter, is a firm supporter of Israel, of the Jewish community… and of a celebrity Israeli chef
By ToI Staff
British Home Secretary Theresa May arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, June 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
July 11, 2016, 8:14 pm
Incoming British PM Theresa May seen as warm supporter of Israel
Cameron’s successor, set to take over this week, spoke of her ‘honor’ in celebrating Israel’s independence at Bnei Akiva event this year
By Jenni Frazer
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Hadar Buchris, who was murdered in a stabbing attack at the Etzion Junction on Sunday, November 22, 2015 (Facebook)
November 23, 2015, 2:32 pm
One smile, many tears
The murder of 21-year-old Hadar Buchris strikes a chord in the Hebrew press, highlighting the stress and sadness caused by the security situation in Israel
By Adiv Sterman
World Bnei Akiva Secretary-General Rabbi Noam Perel (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)
July 14, 2014, 7:00 pm
Bnei Akiva head to keep job after revenge call
Rabbi Noam Perel retracts appeal for ‘army of avengers’ in the wake of killing of 3 Israeli teens
By JTA
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