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Participants on a Birthright Israel program (Courtesy of Birthright Israel via JTA)
March 24, 2026, 2:42 am
Study: Birthright travelers look different after Oct. 7 — but the effect remains the same
Researcher finds that people who signed up for Birthright but did not participate became less connected to Israel and their own Jewish identity – but the converse is also true
By Andrew Lapin
Bereaved mother Galit Dan speaks at the Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony marking two years since the October 7, 2023, massacre, in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park, on October 7, 2025. (Benny Rutloy/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
October 8, 2025, 4:44 pm
As October 7 and Sukkot coincide, Israelis struggle to reconcile grief and joy
Communities and individuals struggle over how – and when – to mark one of the Hebrew calendar’s most festive holidays, now also one of its darkest days
By Deborah Danan
Participants on a Green Horizons hike in Israel, in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Green Horizons)
October 4, 2025, 11:49 am
With Israeli youth at a crossroads after Oct. 7, some turn to hiking to help find their path
As Israel reels from unprecedented trauma, young people are finding strength and meaning on the country’s trails where recent horrors are put in perspective within the history of the Land
By Tania Shalom Michaelian
Right-wing and left-wing activists protest and clash at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, ahead of the Jerusalem Day Flag March, May 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 2, 2025, 8:39 pm
Israelis lament, and cling to, societal divides on a holiday mourning ancient disunity
Increasingly riven by the ongoing war in Gaza, secular and religious, left and right are all mourning on Tisha B’Av – but for vastly different reasons
By Deborah Danan
Bruria Wiesel Adini studies resilience as the head of the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine at Tel Aviv University’s School of Public Health. (Courtesy via JTA)
July 2, 2025, 3:42 am
Between COVID, Oct. 7 and Iran, how much can Israelis take? A trauma expert finds out
After studying Israeli resilience under war, Prof. Bruria Adini recommends the government encourage social cohesion through transparency and rebuilding of trust
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ziv, a military reservist who expects to be called up again and who lost a friend at the Nova massacre, skates to relax. (Deborah Danan/ JTA)
August 6, 2024, 10:31 am
Israelis navigate normal life amid danger and anxiety from war and Iranian threat
Daily routine continues amid a multifront conflict that’s affected major population centers since October 7, as locals live with the ‘new normal’ even while new dangers loom
By Deborah Danan
Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of 'Sonora.' (Ulysse Payet)
April 6, 2019, 1:29 pm
Traditions and cultures collide in half-Jewish, half-Palestinian writer’s novel
First published in 2017, Hannah Assadi’s ‘Sonora’ is in the spotlight again after the author made The National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’
By JP O’ Malley
Ben Avrahami, second from left, standing, participating in a hike with other members of IAC Mishelanu at the University of Massachusetts. (Courtesy of IAC Mishelanu UMass Amherst/via JTA)
October 9, 2017, 4:32 am
Where Israeli-American students go to speak Hebrew and connect with their roots
Focused on cultural and national identity rather than religious, IAC Mishelanu is an on-campus home away from home for US-based Sabras
By Josefin Dolsten
Jeremy Rosen
August 11, 2017, 6:44 pm
Jeremy Rosen
Embarrassed to be Israeli?
Despite those who hide their nationality or religion, but he feels greater optimism for the Jewish future than ever
Sally Abrams
June 25, 2017, 2:46 pm
Sally Abrams
Love of Israel begins at home
Why touring the holy land should not be a ‘one-and-done’ bucket list item, but a place to return again and again
Palestinians queue in front of the Interior Ministry branch in East Jerusalem, July 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
June 2, 2017, 2:35 am
Reality drags more East Jerusalem Arabs toward quiet Israeli citizenship
Stigmatized by Palestinians as capitulation to Israeli rule, an Israeli passport eases travel, work and assures residence in capital
By Shatha YAISH
Israelis celebrating on Independence Day in Jerusalem on April 23, 2015. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2017, 5:41 pm
Israel is world’s 11th-happiest country, but…
Separate poll finds that about one-third of Israeli Jews would move abroad given the opportunity; Jewish state places above US (14th), Germany (16th) and UK (19th)
By Jacob Magid
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