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Anti-Israel activists disrupting a pro-Israel student event at Toronto Metropolitan University, November 5, 2025. (Video screenshot/X)
November 6, 2025, 11:16 am
Pro-Israel event at Toronto university ‘stormed’ by activists
Videos show Jewish students barricading themselves, bleeding from broken glass, as anti-Israel activists disrupt event hosting IDF veterans; police say several arrests made
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Ohad Naharin, center, teaching a Gaga class, the body movement concept that he created. (Courtesy Gaga)
June 5, 2025, 1:02 am
Montreal dance studio joins Israel boycott, drops classes in Ohad Naharin’s Gaga technique
The decision by Studio 303 has triggered debate among its attendees, including Israelis, who question whether boycotting the pro-Palestinian Israeli choreographer ‘misses the mark’
By Grace Gilson
Michal Harel and her husband Avital Epstein show the website they set up to help Israelis navigate a move to Canada in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, December 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Rob Gillies)
May 12, 2025, 1:08 am
Israelis fleeing post-Oct. 7 instability receive warm welcome from Jews in chilly Toronto
Even as antisemitism is on the rise in Canada, war-weary sabras are flocking to Toronto, where its large Jewish and Israeli communities are rolling out the welcome wagon
By Robert Sarner
Igal Hecht at the 'car graveyard' during filming of 'The Killing Roads' in March 2024. (Courtesy of Chutzpah Productions)
October 5, 2024, 9:45 am
In ‘The Killing Roads,’ filmmaker Igal Hecht confronts the visceral pain of Oct. 7
The powerful new documentary, its release set to coincide with the massacre’s anniversary, focuses on the Hamas slaughter on the south’s main arteries. To combat deniers, it is available for free
By Robert Sarner
Israeli-Canadian influencer and racecar driver Joshua Cartu (R), who is wanted by US authorities for alleged binary options fraud, leaves a Russian detention center in Saint Petersburg on August 24, 2024. (Olga Maltseva/AFP)
August 24, 2024, 7:40 pm
Israeli-Canadian ‘Ferrari fugitive’ released by Russia despite US extradition request
Joshua Cartu wanted by US alongside brothers on suspicion of defrauding investors of about $60 million between 2013 and 2017 in binary options scam run out of Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Members of Toronto's Jewish community escorting Eitan Cohen to school, May 17, 2024. (X screenshot)
May 19, 2024, 2:22 am
Jewish community in Toronto escorts boy to school as antisemitic bullying persists
Mother of Eitan Cohen says he was told by fellow students that they would ‘do to him what Hamas did to Israel,’ adds that he’s been pushed, kicked and had stones thrown at him
By ToI Staff
Orly Carmon, CEO of Orca Global Leadership and Networking, in her Toronto office in June 2018. (Photo by Ben Katan)
November 15, 2021, 4:36 am
Money talks: Business network unites Israeli women at home and around the globe
Former ultra-Orthodox Jerusalemite Orly Carmon’s Orca networking company is a one-stop shop for over 31,000 Hebrew-speaking professionals to share resources and practice self-care
By Robert Sarner
Vardit Ravitsky in Ottawa, 2014. (Courtesy)
July 16, 2021, 10:53 pm
Israeli-Canadian bioethicist: Return to pre-COVID normal would be wasted chance
With myriad ethical issues prompted by the pandemic, Vardit Ravitsky has emerged as a prominent voice of morality and change in Canada’s public health debate
By Robert Sarner
Ya'ara Saks on the wall surrounding Jerusalem's Old City during the first year of her masters degree studies at Hebrew University, in July 1995. (Courtesy)
January 12, 2021, 5:11 pm
Canada’s 1st Canuck-Sabra parliamentarian is Zionist and proudly pro-Palestinian
Newly-elected dual citizen Ya’ara Saks brings a distinct voice to Trudeau’s ruling Liberal Party, often contending with ire of Jewish constituents and anti-Semitism simultaneously
By Robert Sarner
RetiSpec COO Roy Kirshon, left, and CEO Eliav Shaked. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel)
November 21, 2020, 4:18 am
Israeli duo’s early Alzheimer’s detection test brings cure one step closer
Toronto-based biomedical engineers Eliav Shaked and Roy Kirshon are working on a quick, non-invasive retinal diagnostic for patients decades away from showing symptoms of dementia
By Robert Sarner
Ety Siton, left, director of the Kfar Saba branch of ERAN, also oversees the Toronto volunteers. She is pictures with Sigal Almog, co-founder of Toronto's ERAN project. (Courtesy)
February 13, 2019, 11:20 am
Israeli expats in Canada staff a Hebrew suicide hotline to serve their homeland
The ERAN crisis hotline has a branch in Toronto where trained volunteers field anguished calls from Israelis in the lonely Middle East night
By Robert Sarner
Dozens attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Eddie Ford in Toronto, Canada, January 31, 2019 (Screen grab via Ynet News)
February 4, 2019, 1:15 am
In Canada, strangers brave sub-zero temperatures for Holocaust survivor funeral
Rabbi Zale Newman says 150 people turn out in freezing conditions for Toronto burial of Eddie Ford after Facebook post asking for mourners to make up a quorum
By ToI Staff
David Levin in action while playing for the Toronto-based Don Mills Flyers in the 2014-15 season. (Courtesy)
February 15, 2018, 3:59 am
From the Land of Canaan to Canada, Israel’s first hockey star shoots for NHL
As a 10-year-old, David Levin set his sights on hockey’s big leagues. Today, his once-unlikely goal could actually be realized
By Robert Sarner
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