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One of the VIP tours set up with staff at the Israel Museum on the occasion of its reopening following the extended coronavirus closure (Courtesy Israel Museum)
August 28, 2020, 1:00 pm
Israel Museum offers capsule tours led by staffers during reopening
Following months of coronavirus closure, the country’s largest museum seeks creative ways to bring visitors back
By Jessica Steinberg
The "pinched fingers" emoji, as shared on social media by Emojipedia, January 29, 2020. (Twitter screen capture)
January 31, 2020, 12:03 am
Israelis can finally use an emoji to tell each other to pipe down
‘Pinched fingers’ is one of 117 new symbols approved by Unicode Consortium for inclusion this year in our digital communication
By ToI Staff
A video installation shows the image of a man with the emoji of a blue hart reflected on an ancient Egyptian plaque engraved with Hieroglyphs, at the exhibition "Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing from Hieroglyphs to the Emoji" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
December 21, 2019, 4:47 pm
Israel Museum exhibit explores the emojis of ancient Egypt
In recent years humans have found themselves one again communicating through pictograms, thousands of years after the invention of ancient hieroglyphics
By Claire Gounon
Sefaria is letting the public vote on which of these two emoji possibilities they prefer. The organization will submit the winning image for consideration as an official emoji. (Sefaria)
June 5, 2019, 6:09 am
It’s time for a Torah emoji, and this organization is working to make it happen
Online Jewish library Sefaria trying to get new graphic approved to reach more young people, give scholarship a friendlier face
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative - Emoji use on a smartphone. (Mlindri, Getty Images)
May 28, 2019, 2:18 pm
European rabbis want Jewish emojis with kippot
Judaism should have equal representation, Conference of European Rabbis urges international emoji-regulating body
By Paul Shindman
(Illustration by Lior Zaltzman via JTA)
October 17, 2018, 6:02 am
Apple adds cream cheese to its bagel emoji after complaints
New emoji has a plumper, doughier look and a pat of cream cheese
By Josefin Dolsten
A video installation displaying relationships between people as part of 'Eye to I,' a new Youth Wing exhibit at the Israel Museum (Maya Smira and S. Hashemi, Iran-Israel/Collection of the artists)
July 17, 2018, 6:18 am
Kids learn to look people in the eye at new Israel Museum exhibit
Youth wing’s ‘Eye to I’ focuses on ways to bring one’s real self to relationships and encounters, with strangers and loved ones
By Michael Harel
Facebook adds balloons and confetti when wishing "mazel tov" (Screenshot: Facebook)
May 4, 2018, 8:31 am
Saying ‘mazel tov’ on Facebook brings on the confetti
Positive key words, including congratulatory Hebrew phrase, activate ‘Text Delight Animations’
By Josefin Dolsten
A Crossing Authority agent takes a military boot out of a slipper from a shipment that was bound for the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom Crossing on October 8, 2017. (Screen capture: Defense Ministry)
October 8, 2017, 3:18 pm
Israel: Hamas tried to smuggle army boots to Gaza in shipment of emoji slippers
Defense Ministry’s Crossing Authority finds military footwear camouflaged as emoji-covered slippers, says they were en route to terror group
By Judah Ari Gross
Screenshot from The Emoji Movie trailer.
August 4, 2017, 12:18 am
Police seek man seen masturbating during ‘Emoji Movie’
Suspect in New Jersey movie theater matches description of ultra-Orthodox man
By ToI Staff
The Bible for millennials (Bible Emoji/Twitter)
June 2, 2016, 4:20 pm
The greatest story ever told… by emoji
Shrinking the character count with cyber-icons might help lure ‘the heathen tweens to God,’ says one blogger
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett talks to Channel 2 in an interview segment aired on June 2, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)
June 2, 2016, 1:49 pm
Bennett: ‘I’ll topple the government’ to prevent a Palestinian state
Interior minister Deri: Home front woefully unprepared for war; Israeli civilian helicopter overflies south Lebanon
By ToI Staff
An emoji of two men holding hands
From the WebFebruary 13, 2016, 1:03 am
Indonesia wants gay-themed emojis removed
BBC: Homosexuality is legal in world’s most populous Muslim state, but ministry wants social media to respect ‘religious values and norms’
A synagogue is among new faith-focused emojis released with Apple's newest operating system. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2015, 3:05 pm
Apple puts faith at your fingertips
With its new operating system, Apple releases new religion-focused ‘ideograms’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Some of the Emojews created for Latet's holiday donation campaign (Courtesy Latet)
September 17, 2014, 4:32 pm
Emoji for the Jews
Food organization Latet creates a new holiday app for fundraising
By Jessica Steinberg
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