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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Israeli Jews

Demonstrators gather on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv to protest against the government and call for early elections and a deal to release hostages held by Hamas, April 6, 2024. (Ben Cohen/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
April 11, 2024, 7:01 pm
Poll: Israelis remain pessimistic on future of country’s security, democracy
Israel Democracy Institute survey finds majority don’t believe government will last until 2026; 84% of Jews say Israeli policy strengthened Hamas over the years
By ToI Staff
Screenshot from a video clip of a rocket landing in Holon, Israel, May 11, 2021, that circulated on social media. (Screenshot)
May 12, 2021, 1:33 pm
TikTok, Twitter videos bring images of Israel-Gaza conflict home to US Jews
But some say snippets on social media don’t paint a complete picture, leading viewers to assume the worst about Israel or to think it’s not vulnerable to rocket attacks
By Shira Hanau
Dozens of Jewish figures had enormous impacts on the 2010s. (Getty Images/Photo illustration by Grace Yagel/via JTA)
January 4, 2020, 2:09 am
After a tumultuous decade, these are the Jews who defined the 2010s
From Angela Buchdahl to Volodymyr Zelensky, they steered us, stirred controversy, and had the biggest impact on Judaism and the world
By JTA
Some of the top stories of the 2010s. (Illustration by Avi Katz/ Times of Israel)
December 31, 2019, 9:11 pm
LISTEN: TOI reporters on the past decade — and its impact on our future
From the environment to Iran, attacks on US Jews to Israel’s cutting-edge tech scene, correspondents speak about what’s unfolded — and what’s in store in the years to come
By ToI Staff
A person with a flag of Israel hugs another person in front of a synagogue in Halle, Germany, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
December 30, 2019, 11:50 pm
Top 10 Jewish stories of 2019: From rising anti-Semitism to Tiffany Haddish
Uplifting and unnerving, this year holds a number of milestones — both good and bad — for world Jewry. Here are some that reverberate
By JTA
Christmas preparations in the northern Arab-Israeli city of Nazareth, December 20, 2019. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
December 25, 2019, 4:34 pm
Israeli Jews flock to Jesus’s hometown Nazareth to catch a ‘European’ Christmas
For some Jews visiting the northern Arab-Israeli city, traveling abroad has whetted their appetites for the Christmas cookies and carols now easily found closer to home
By Nathan Jeffay
Religious Israelis protest against Tel Aviv municipality Shabbat bus service outside the home of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv, December 14, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 15, 2019, 8:56 am
Hundreds protest Shabbat buses outside Tel Aviv mayor’s home
Religious Israelis, including rabbis and Tel Aviv deputy mayor, demand that Ron Huldai nix project and stop ‘breaching the status quo’
By ToI Staff
A Shabbat minibus drives through central Tel Aviv on November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
December 14, 2019, 4:54 pm
16 arrested in Bnei Brak during protests against new Shabbat buses
Several dozen demonstrate near major road connecting Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva, attempt to block throughway
By ToI Staff
Dina Kraft interviewing Sami Saadi, co-CEO of Tsofen, in Nazareth, November 2019, for the 15th episode of her Hadassah podcast, 'The Branch.' (Courtesy Mitchell Coopersmith)
December 11, 2019, 2:33 am
A veteran reporter examines Jewish-Arab relationships in ‘The Branch’ podcast
Dina Kraft talks to pairs of Jewish and Arab friends, colleagues, and workmates for a Hadassah project
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Dignitaries lead the 53rd annual Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue in New York City, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
November 11, 2019, 9:34 pm
A new book explores the ties that no longer bind the Jews. It’s a good start
Daniel Gordis peels back some of the surface layers of the divide between Israeli and American Jews to reveal a deeper chasm of identity and history
By Haviv Rettig Gur
An Arabic-language campaign poster of Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and MK Gadeer Mreeh is seen outside a campaign event in Shfaram on August 26, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 14, 2019, 12:31 pm
Arab Israelis, Jews consider voting across ethnic lines
Some Arab voters say they’ll back Blue and White to defeat Netanyahu, while Jewish supporters of Arab parties see their votes as necessary to stop ‘the antidemocratic current’
By Majeda El Batsh and Clothilde Mraffko
Dr. Andrew Rehfeld (courtesy of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
August 9, 2019, 6:04 pm
First non-rabbi head of Reform seminary says it’s time to redefine liberal Jewry
Before deciding on direction he will take flagship Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Andrew Rehfeld visits all four campuses to listen and learn
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jewish people take part in the priestly blessing ceremony during the Passover holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
September 8, 2018, 11:43 pm
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, figures show 14.7 million Jews around the globe
Jewish population growth rate remains far below global average; Israel’s 6.6 million Jews is world’s largest community; but Diaspora still has more Jews, with 5.7 million in US
By ToI Staff
A picture taken from the Mount of Olives shows the Old City of Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock shrine in the center, on December 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
August 13, 2018, 7:49 pm
Support for two-state solution at lowest in nearly 20 years — poll
43% of Palestinians and Israeli Jews back the two-state solution; last year, the Palestinian figure was 52% and the Jewish figure was 47%
By Adam Rasgon
Naomi Chazan
July 4, 2018, 1:21 pm
Naomi Chazan
One Jewish people; two Jewish worlds
It’s not that Diaspora Jewry isn’t Zionist, but that they would run the Jewish state in a very different way
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