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Right-wing activists attend a rally calling for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
September 28, 2026, 6:29 pm
Board of Peace official: Extremist views in Israel impeding effort to deradicalize Gaza
Official from US-controlled panel overseeing Gaza rebuild expresses alarm over widespread support in Israel — trickling down from politicians to youth — for ‘encouraging migration’ of Palestinians
By Jacob Magid
Rabbi Ralph Genende, left, at an solidarity event following the Bondi Beach terror attack, in Melbourne, December 2025. (Courtesy)
September 4, 2026, 8:07 am
Australian Jews and Muslims still hang hopes on fragile dialogue after Bondi attack
Leaders say relations between communities at all-time low as antisemitism spike since Oct. 7 raises concern hatred is being normalized. A tenacious few refuse to let interfaith talks die
By Nomi Kaltmann
A delegation of imams and Muslim community leaders from France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK meet with President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on July 7, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
July 7, 2025, 10:26 pm
Group of Europe-based imams visits Israel, bearing ‘message of peace’
Delegation meets President Herzog; will spend a week touring the country, and meeting military, political and religious authorities, victims of October 7
By Rossella Tercatin
Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (center) and US President Donald Trump's Middle East adviser Massad Boulos (right) at an iftar dinner at Israel's embassy, in Washington, DC, March 24, 2025. (Israel Embassy in the United States)
March 26, 2025, 10:07 am
Israel’s US embassy hosts interfaith Ramadan iftar dinner
Representatives from Gulf states glaringly absent amid ongoing war; Muslim leaders at event denounce Hamas and other extremist groups
By Lazar Berman
Jacob Monty joins Rabbi Peter Tarlow at the podium during a 'Chicanukah' event at Holocaust Museum Houston on Thursday, December 19, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)
December 22, 2024, 6:50 am
Rare Christmas, Hanukkah overlap opens up opportunities for interfaith engagement
In Houston, Latino and Jewish communities come together for ‘cross cultural holiday celebration,’ while around the world, Chabad plans to hold 15,000 public menorah lightings
By David Crary
Lior Sternfeld (Via X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 25, 2024, 1:14 am
US-based Israeli professor says he spoke with Iran’s president at interfaith meeting
Lior Sternfeld says he gave a copy of his book to Pezeshkian, who knew he was Israeli; transgender rabbi, fringe anti-Zionist Haredi group also participated in event
By ToI Staff
An interfaith Ramadan Iftar organized by the Interfaith Encounter Association in Jerusalem, April 4, 2024 (Tali Webber, courtesy)
April 8, 2024, 8:12 pm
At interfaith Ramadan iftar in Jerusalem, breaking fast under the shadow of war
Members of the Interfaith Encounter Association share a meal and find common ground through religion in a bid to send a message of coexistence and unity
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Participants in a Hands of Peace summer program posing for a group photograph. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Hands of Peace, Wikipedia)
December 6, 2023, 2:45 am
US-based summer dialogue program for Israeli and Palestinian youth announces closure
After 21 years, Hands of Peace says its shutting down due to funding shortages; alumnus Naama Levy is being held hostage in Gaza
By Iddo Schejter
Rabbi Marc Schneier, right, and Imam Shamsi Ali (AP Richard Drew, via JTA)
November 20, 2023, 12:57 am
Rabbi, imam try to help NY Jewish, Muslim students find common ground. It doesn’t go well
A meeting at Queens College led by interfaith partners Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali exposes deep splits between the two communities amid Israel-Hamas war
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Cooks employed by the Islamic Charitable Society prepare portions of the daily 'iftar' (fast breaking) meal for Palestinian orphans and families in need, in the West Bank city of Hebron, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on April 12, 2022. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
April 20, 2023, 7:54 pm
Israelis, Palestinians share kosher Ramadan iftar meal in West Bank ‘to end hatred’
Initiative by ‘Roots’ advocacy group brings two sides together at home near Gush Etzion settlement bloc, honors Palestinian who rescued Jewish family from rock attack
By AFP and ToI Staff
Rick Sopher and his wife Carol planting a date palm in Medina (Courtesy of the Sophers and the Jewish Chronicle)
March 27, 2023, 7:00 pm
Jews plant palm trees in Medina, Saudi Arabia, in rare interfaith gesture
A local landowner invited a British delegation to add to his grove, in what some view as a sign of growing religious openness
By Canaan Lidor
Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, September 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
September 12, 2022, 3:59 pm
Pope to appeal for peace in Kazakhstan; Russian Patriarch Kirill won’t be there
Francis will attend a conference attended by Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Shinto and Jewish leaders and promote ‘the peace for which our world is thirsting,’ he says
By Nicole Winfield and KOSTYA MANENKOV
Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Karim al-Issa, the head of the Muslim World League, speaks at the Nimrah Mosque in Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, July 8, 2022. (SPA -- Saudi state news agency)
July 10, 2022, 2:58 am
Saudi cleric known for Auschwitz visit, interfaith dialogue gives main hajj sermon
Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa speaks of Muslim obligation to bring hearts together; Israeli commentator says Saudis’ choice of ‘Zionist imam’ is ‘significant signal’
By ToI Staff
Religious leaders from around the world hold a solidarity event in Chernitski, Ukraine, on April 12, 2022. (Elijah Interfaith Institute)
May 1, 2022, 6:27 pm
Religious leaders bring ‘message of hope’ to war-torn Ukraine
Israeli rabbi, American Jewish philanthropist, Chabad rabbi put on interfaith event in Chernivtsi with a message from the pope
By Judah Ari Gross
Chairman of the Samaria regional council, Yossi Dagan (second from left) pictured with local Palestinian figures at an Iftar meal, on April 5, 2022. (From the Facebook of Yossi Dagan/used under clause 27a of the copyright law)
April 7, 2022, 9:15 pm
Ramadan meal brings together unlikely group of Jewish settlers and Palestinians
Chairman of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan hosts local Palestinian leaders for Iftar break-fast in rare display of coexistence
By Michael Horovitz
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