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Dani Aloush (Courtesy)
September 28, 2025, 9:49 pm
Dani Aloush, 52: Electrical engineer dreamed of living in Thailand
Accidentally killed while working near the Gaza border on October 9, 2023
By ToI Staff
Shavuot celebrations in Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan in 1945 (Credit Yaakov Rosner/KKL-JNF archive)
June 1, 2025, 1:00 pm
Kibbutz marks 80 years of Shavuot song and dance with pioneering artworks
Northern Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan hosts expansive exhibit inspired by the pre-state work of choreographer Leah Bergstein and composer Mattityahu Shelem for the harvest festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Netanel Divker at the Royal Hotel near the Dead Sea on March 5, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 13, 2024, 2:38 pm
At Dead Sea hotels, lasting mental, physical traumas delay homecoming for some evacuees
Despite challenging conditions, some displaced have rejected government incentives to return, citing lingering security concerns, while others still have no homes to go back to
By Canaan Lidor
The Knesset cut a ribbon for new solar panels on March 29, 2015. But the Jerusalem Municipality gets poor marks for solar provision on existing facilities according to an index of local authorities launched on August 8, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 9, 2023, 1:52 pm
Some wealthy towns lag behind poorer ones in using solar energy potential – index
Energy Ministry launches online ranking system, which focuses on dual-use systems where panels are added to existing facilities
By Sue Surkes
The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project’s multilingual Omer counter highlights Jewish linguistic diversity by presenting each of the 49 days in a different language or dialect. (HUC-JIR via JTA)
April 7, 2023, 11:17 am
New project translates ritual Omer counting to 49 Jewish languages
On each of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, researchers will post recitation in different language, including Ladino, Yiddish and more obscure tongues like Judeo-Georgian
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Young students in Beitar Illit simulate the Passover Seder on March 20, 2023 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 2, 2023, 12:38 pm
For 117,000 Israelis with Pesach-related names, the holiday never ends
Alongside 112,000 Moshes, there are 1,4290 Pesachs; 3,795 Nisans and even four Matzas
By Canaan Lidor
Police at the scene where a man was shot and seriously injured while driving in a motorcade that was making its way to a wedding, near Omer, in southern Israel, on December 2, 2022 (Flash90)
December 3, 2022, 9:54 am
Hours before his wedding, man shot and seriously injured near southern town
Shooting suspected to be revenge for murder of Lakiya woman in family feud
By ToI Staff
The scene of a suspected double murder at the entrance to the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, November 4, 2019. (Magen David Adom)
November 7, 2019, 9:12 pm
Judge said to feel threatened after shooting in which relatives were killed
TV report says suspects were spotted scoping out Naser Abu Taha’s home in the southern town of Omer days before deadly attack
By ToI Staff
The oversized xylophone that was made and placed in a public space by Matan Saad, pictured here, along with other members of Beersheva's placemaking volunteers, and then broadened into a playground by the city, as part of the efforts to change the look and feel of the southern city (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 24, 2018, 5:51 am
In Beersheba, pioneering locals spearhead desert city’s urban renewal
The capital of the Negev is a fount of neighborly spirit, with locals, recent BGU grads, and immigrants gathering together to make a difference
By Jessica Steinberg
A plume of smoke rises from the remains of a building west of Gaza City that was targeted by the Israeli Air Force in response to a rocket attack that hit southern Israel earlier in the day on August 9, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 9, 2018, 6:29 pm
After Gaza rocket hits Beersheba, IDF levels an alleged Hamas HQ
As high-level security cabinet convenes to discuss violence in south, Israeli jets flatten five-story building near Gaza City the army says was used by Hamas internal security
By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon
A police officer inspects a crater caused by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that struck an open field north of the city of Beersheba on August 9, 2018. (Israel Police)
August 9, 2018, 4:00 pm
Beersheba targeted by rocket attack for first time since 2014 war
Projectile strikes open field outside the southern city, shattering a ceasefire that lasted approximately two hours
By Judah Ari Gross
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
May 4, 2018, 3:41 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Why counting the Omer matters
The weeks after Passover signify how to serve God independent of His overwhelming presence
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
April 27, 2016, 8:27 am
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Sefirat HaOmer: What really counts
The struggle for moral behavior only makes sense after you realize that there is more to life than meets the eye
Egged bus (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
April 28, 2014, 5:22 pm
Bus company halts ‘Omer tracker’ electronic service
The Egged firm cancels program after receiving complaints it catered to religious population
By Aron Dónzis
A sign warns potential swimmers of dangerous conditions at an unauthorized beach in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
June 29, 2013, 5:26 pm
Infant, 60-year-old man die in unrelated drownings
Three other near-drownings reported across the country as summer recreation takes its toll
By ToI Staff
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