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Hannah Senesh
Julie Robertson painted a mural of Hannah Senesh in downtown San Diego. (Courtesy of Robertson)
October 5, 2019, 7:47 pm
Why a Japanese-American artist painted a mural of Nazi fighter Hannah Senesh
Christian artist Julie Robertson learned about one of the country’s national heroes earlier this year during a trip to Israel, says she was struck by her bravery
By Josefin Dolsten
Lexi Rabadi stars in the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene's one-woman show, 'Hannah Senesh (a play with music and song).' (Victor Nechay/Properpix.com)
July 29, 2019, 4:28 am
Spy/poet Hannah Senesh brought back to life in one-woman show in New York
Running till August 18, play by David Schechter launches Folksbiene’s 104th season with rare English production, alongside the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s huge Auschwitz exhibit
By Jordan Hoffman
A screen capture of the January 29, 2018 episode of 'Eretz Nehederet' (Keshet)
February 3, 2018, 11:11 am
Netanyahu pans satirical TV show over sketch that upset Holocaust survivor
PM says Eretz Nehederet showed ‘lack of values’ with skit lampooning Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, asylum seekers
By TOI staff
Dov Lipman
April 27, 2017, 1:19 pm
Dov Lipman
We need education, not felafel
If you want Diaspora Jewish kids to connect with the land, you mus teach them that Israel is the home of all Jews
Mural of Abraham Joshua Heschel by Solomon Souza in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, February 25, 2016. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
February 29, 2016, 10:53 am
Young artist turns Jerusalem’s market into gallery of famous faces
Mahane Yehuda comes to life on the Sabbath as colorful murals of historical and contemporary figures appear on shops’ closed shutters
By Renee Ghert-Zand and Luke Tress
US President Barack Obama, right, with then Israeli president Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the grave of Theodor Herzl during Obama's visit to Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
October 16, 2015, 1:52 pm
For Israel’s early leaders, burials were all about location
A new book by historian Doron Bar examines the tradition of reinterring bodies in the Zionist homeland
By Jessica Steinberg
IDF Paratroopers on board a C-130 Hercules, equipped with gear pouch and ready to be linked to a static line in the plane on January 17, 2012 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
January 19, 2015, 7:05 pm
59 years after last combat use, why do Israel’s paratroopers need new chutes?
The IDF is introducing the Stork, a US-made parachute that’s safer, can carry more weight and affords a gentler landing. But who jumps out of planes in modern warfare anyway?
By Mitch Ginsburg
Uniform graves, regardless of rank or distinction, at Mount Herzl (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)
May 5, 2014, 8:27 am
On Mount Herzl, with the keepers of the graves
A look at how the national military cemetery was founded, how it has changed, and how its staff strives daily to ease the unending pain of the bereaved
By Mitch Ginsburg
DF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks during a ceremony at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak, marking Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
April 28, 2014, 12:06 pm
How to report on the Holocaust
The Hebrew press marks Holocaust Memorial Day with news, poems and politics
By Yossi Nachemi
Regina Spektor eating dinner on the steps of the Caesarea ampitheater before her show Saturday night (Courtesy Regina Spektor Facebook page)
August 25, 2013, 6:51 pm
Spektor and Hart bring out the fans
Two musicians play to adoring audiences at ampitheaters in Jerusalem and Caesarea
By Jessica Steinberg
Hannah Szenes dressed as a Hungarian soldier on Purim (Wikimedia Commons)
September 2, 2012, 1:50 pm
Long-lost Hannah Szenes poem comes to light
‘Hora to an exiled girl’ emerges 68 years after the author was executed by a Nazi firing squad
By Aaron Kalman
The harbor shoreline of Caesarea (photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash90)
June 28, 2012, 2:35 pm
Dallying with Dali in Caesarea
Take a 48-hour trip to the land of Roman ruins, blue waters, world champ windsurfers and modern art
By Jessica Steinberg
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