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Koby Mandell Foundation

Comedian Liz Glazer is part of the 2025-2026 Comedy for Koby tour of Israel. (courtesy)
December 30, 2025, 5:06 pm
Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer: ‘Israel is the reason I exist’
Soon in Israel for the annual Comedy for Koby tour, the former law prof — the wife of a female rabbi — explains why she is the very last person to call to find out What Matters Now
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Actress Rebecca Sykes, center, during a recent rehearsal of 'The Blessings of a Broken Heart,' the book by Sherri Mandell that's being performed by Theater and Theology in Jerusalem, in January 2022. (Courtesy PR)
January 14, 2022, 2:04 pm
Podcast: Bereaved mothers portray mourning and renewal in Koby Mandell play
A conversation with writer and mother Sherri Mandell, along with director Yael Valier and actress Rebecca Sykes, about their production of ‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’
By ToI Staff
Allan Havey (left), Elayne Boosler and Avi Liberman in Tel Aviv ahead of the December 2016 Comedy for Koby tour (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 9, 2016, 11:52 am
Comics aren’t just funny, they’re nice, too
A conversation with Comedy for Koby comics Elayne Boosler, Allan Havey and Avi Liberman on tour in Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Elayne Boosler, one of the premier female comedians in the US, will be in Israel with the upcoming Comedy for Koby (Courtesy Elayne Boosler)
December 5, 2016, 1:22 pm
Some more comedy for Koby
The twice-annual tour kicks off on December 6, with visiting comedians Elayne Boosler, Allen Havey and Tom Cotter
By Jessica Steinberg
Lisa Robins in 'The Blessing of a Broken Heart' at The Braid in Santa Monica, California, on February 18, 2016 (Zachary Andrews)
February 23, 2016, 9:01 pm
From grief to healing, LA play chronicles journey of bereaved Israeli mother
‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart,’ adapted from Sheri Mandell’s memoir of her son’s unresolved murder, offers universal hope
By Lisa Klug
Shmuel Benalal was killed in a Mali terror attack on Friday, November 20, 2015.
November 21, 2015, 4:59 pm
Family of Israeli killed in Mali terror attack ‘stunned’ by death
Shmuel Benalal, 60, from Tzur Hadassah, described as a talented educator, a ‘man you couldn’t help but love’
By ToI Staff
Malian security forces evacuate a man from an area surrounding the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako on November 20, 2015. (AFP/Habibou Kouyate)
November 21, 2015, 11:46 am
Israeli killed, another rescued in Mali attack — Foreign Ministry
Shmuel Benalal was among 27 slain when Islamist gunmen stormed Radisson Blu in Bamako in early hours of Friday
By ToI Staff and Avi Issacharoff
Sherri Mandell
February 9, 2015, 3:19 pm
Sherri Mandell
The day Brian Williams betrayed my family
After her son’s murder by terrorists, the now-disgraced US broadcaster used manipulation to discredit settlers
Seth and Sherri Mandell with Koby in the months before his death (photo credit: Courtesy the Mandell family)
From the WebJune 22, 2014, 4:50 pm
Kidnapped teens revive a mother’s intimacy with loss
NY Times: After abduction, Sherri Mandel, whose son Koby was murdered by terrorists in 2001, relives the terrible aftermath of the tragedy
File - Avi Liberman on stage in Comedy for Koby. (Photo credit: Yissachar Ruas)
June 5, 2014, 3:32 pm
Stand-up for a cause
Now in its seventh season, Comedy for Koby continues to make sides split — and wallets open — for victims of terror
By Debra Kamin
The four comedians of Comedy for Koby: Ralph Harris, Wayne Federman (seated), Dennis Regan and Avi Liberman (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 26, 2013, 11:55 pm
Easy laughs for visiting comedians
Jerusalemites gather for jokes at Comedy for Koby, the annual fundraising tour for the Koby Mandell Foundation
By Jessica Steinberg
Sherri Mandell
December 26, 2012, 10:32 am
Sherri Mandell
10 ways to help Newtown’s grieving families: from a mother who knows
Every person has something to give to a person in pain
Avi Liberman performs at Comedy for Koby. (Yissachar Ruas)
October 10, 2012, 8:13 pm
Jokes about the Holocaust? Maybe. But no F-bomb, and ‘Goddammit’ is out of the question
Avi Liberman, host of the biannual ‘Comedy for Koby’ shows, muses on the gentle art of doing stand-up for Israeli Anglos, and makes a pitch for some new financial backers
By David Horovitz
August 27, 2012, 7:38 pm
Muslim hotel owner, found guilty of discrimination, condemns anti-Semitism
Owner of California facility will also donate to two pro-Israel organizations after illegally shutting down IDF fundraiser
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