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Culture editor Jessica Steinberg joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (Orit Pnini)
August 19, 2026, 2:20 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 19 – Former Hamas hostage fulfills a dream at Nir Oz
Culture editor Jessica Steinberg on Sagui Dekel-Chen’s performance of 9 songs composed in captivity, new films documenting October 7, 2023, and an ongoing boycott of Israeli artists
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jessica Steinberg
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September 8, 2025, 8:49 pm
Akiva headlines United Palace concert to open YU’s fall semester
Affiliated with Yeshiva University and its alumni network, the event features Idan Raichel and is one of the most exciting musical nights in recent memory for NY’s Jewish community.
Singer-songwriter Idan Raichel on piano with released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on April 29. 2025 (Screengrab: YouTube)
May 3, 2025, 11:51 pm
Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen sings with Idan Raichel
Kibbutz Nir Oz resident speaks about sense of hope and loss experienced by his community, during performance of Shalom Hanoch’s song ‘Children of Life’
By Jessica Steinberg
DJ Daniel Vaknin at the 'We Will Dance Again' concert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, May 16, 2024. (Courtesy of Leora Kimmel Greene)
May 24, 2024, 2:00 am
Matisyahu, Idan Raichel headline MIT concert for post-October 7 Jewish unity and joy
Top Israeli and US artists including Five for Fighting flock to May 16’s ‘We Will Dance Again,’ attended by nearly 1,500 in a show of resilience amid widespread adversity
By Rich Tenorio
Irit Lahav sits at her temporary home in Kiryat Gat on February 14, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 4, 2024, 4:37 pm
Their dovish hopes clipped, some Gaza border residents make peace with becoming hawks
Civilians who followed Hamas into Israel to loot and vandalize communities on October 7 showed their true faces, says one Nir Oz survivor who no longer sees conciliation as possible
By Canaan Lidor
Idan Raichel (left) and Emma Shapplin at the 2019 duet in Tel Aviv; Shapplin returns to Tel Aviv on January 31, 2022 (Courtesy YouTube screen grab)
October 27, 2022, 2:23 pm
French crooner Emma Shapplin plans return concert
Singer will perform in January in Tel Aviv
By Jessica Steinberg
A photo of the socially distanced audience at an Idan Raichel concert in Tel Aviv September 12, 2020. (Screengrab: YouTube)
September 13, 2020, 9:31 am
Idan Raichel plays to 1,000 socially distanced fans at Tel Aviv concert
Audience remains seated and masked while divided into groups of 20 in order to maintain Health Ministry regulations
By ToI Staff
Idan Raichel played a concert onstage, and alone for the Zappa Group, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as the clubs offered free, online concerts of well-known Israeli musicians (Zappa Group)
March 17, 2020, 6:11 pm
Israeli promoters and theaters go online to offer at-home entertainment
Zappa and Keshet are creating daily concerts, while theaters are digging into their archives to provide hours of online shows
By Jessica Steinberg
Eden Alene, Israel's 2021 Eurovision representative and winner of the reality show 'The Next Star,' during the final in Neve Ilan studio near Jerusalem on February 4, 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
March 4, 2020, 11:38 am
Israel picks its 2020 Eurovision entry, sung in four languages
‘Feker Libi,’ co-written by writer of 2018 winning entry ‘Toy,’ will be sung in English, Hebrew, Amharic and Arabic by Eden Alene, the first Ethiopian-Israeli to compete in contest
By Michael Bachner
The planned stage of Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Eurovision 2019)
April 15, 2019, 4:14 pm
Gal Gadot, and maybe Madonna, headed for Eurovision
Tel Aviv planners want to show European tourists and song contest visitors that Israel ‘is awesome’
By Jessica Steinberg
French songstress Emma Shapplin will perform with Israeli singer Idan Raichel on April 27, 2019 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Emma Shapplin)
March 10, 2019, 4:01 pm
Emma Shapplin returns to Tel Aviv for one night
The French songstress will perform with Idan Raichel next month
By Jessica Steinberg
Amanda Borschel-Dan speaks upon receiving the B'nai B'rith award in Jerusalem, on July 7 2016. (Screen capture)
July 8, 2016, 9:23 pm
Times of Israel’s Jewish world editor receives B’nai B’rith award
Amanda Borschel-Dan says she has come to see Jews as ‘one big family,’ stresses importance of dialogue between Israel and Diaspora
By ToI Staff
Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, July 29, 2014 (Ron Sachs)
July 4, 2016, 1:11 am
Ron Dermer to speak at B’nai B’rith journalism prize ceremony
Public invited to Jerusalem event Thursday for awards to TOI’s Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer
By ToI Staff
Idan Raichel, at the launch of his latest album and his first solo work (Courtesy Lior Keter)
December 3, 2015, 12:34 am
Idan Raichel gets personal in his first solo album
The world music keyboardist and vocalist sings about his kids and his life in ‘At the Edge of the Beginning,’ on sale Wednesday
By Jessica Steinberg
Workers Union chairman Yair Frommer speaking to foreign diplomats outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on Monday, March 31, 2014. (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
December 2, 2014, 11:48 pm
Politicians, diplomats struggle to improve foreign service
At launch of new Knesset caucus, Foreign Ministry reveals that Iran invests much more in its international relations than does Israel
By Raphael Ahren
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