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This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein (left), March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP); Former prime minister Ehud Barak in an interview with Channel 12 news aired on February 12, 2026. (Screenshot/Channel 12)
February 12, 2026, 11:57 pm
Ehud Barak: I regret ever meeting Epstein, should have used ‘more thorough judgment’
In interview, ex-PM says staying at apartment owned by sex offender wasn’t illegal; hoping for ‘tall and slim’ Russian girls to migrate to Israel was ‘unsuccessful choice of words’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024 in Aachen, western Germany. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
February 7, 2026, 6:20 am
Leading rabbi says he rejected mass Russian conversion plan mulled in Epstein audio
After ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak heard backing engineering demographics, exiled Moscow chief rabbi reveals former minister asked him about matter, says it sounded ‘extremely racist’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The 'Lord of the Sounds' orchestra with mostly Ukrainian musicians will perform January 10-20, 2026, in Israel (Courtesy)
January 11, 2026, 10:32 am
‘Lords of the Sound’ orchestra back for 2nd tour amid wartime boycott
Ensemble, made up mostly of Ukrainian artists, performing 11 concerts across Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Bible Lands Museum director Risa Levitt shows 'Kuma,' the illustrated scroll made by Eitan Rosenzweig, a soldier killed on November 22, 2023, in battle in Gaza, currently on exhibit in the Jerusalem museum through Summer 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 18, 2025, 4:53 pm
Historical imagery, magical letters capture the imagination in Bible Lands exhibits
Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum extends its archeological focus with two new exhibits, one connected to October 7 and the other to the Hebrew alphabet
By Jessica Steinberg
Lihi Lapid (Vardi Kahana)
April 7, 2024, 6:43 pm
Author Lihi Lapid asks what happens when a mourning mother can’t remember her son
Novel ‘On Her Own’ marks a major milestone in the writer’s career, and paints a poignant portrait of Israel that provides much-needed insight to international readers at this time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
File: Former Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh attends a panel discussion as part of the Artificial Intelligence Journey (AIJ) forum, in Moscow on November 9, 2019. (Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/AFP)
August 10, 2023, 6:11 pm
Israel-based founder of Russian tech giant Yandex slams ‘barbaric war’ in Ukraine
Although entrepreneur Arkady Volozh moved to Israel in 2014, he says he must accept ‘share of responsibility for Russia’s actions’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A Hebrew Bible at a synagogue in Jerusalem, July 14, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 17, 2023, 1:10 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 17: What Sweden’s Jews have to say about the aborted Bible burning
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on potential new ties with Africa and President Herzog’s trip to the US; Diaspora reporter Canaan Lidor on chief rabbi’s chastisement of Ben Gvir
By ToI Staff
Russian-speaking recent immigrants to Israel tour the Samaria Regional Council in the West Bank in 2023. (Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli)
July 10, 2023, 12:10 pm
Government ends fast-tracked immigration option for Russians, drawing criticism
Former Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky laments move, which Aliyah and Integration Ministry attributed to low demand for service despite massive increase in immigration
By Canaan Lidor
Then-Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in an undated photo distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)
April 21, 2023, 11:00 pm
Israel ends expedited immigration track for Russians and Belarusians fleeing war
Immigration Ministry will maintain fast-tracked program for Ukrainians and special cases, but says it wants to focus on absorbing the massive wave of people who arrived last year
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Russian immigrants attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the major wave of aliya from the former Soviet Union to Israel, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 17, 2022, 4:48 pm
Data shows most recent immigrants from former Soviet Union aren’t considered Jewish
Survey embraced as justification by opponents of Law of Return’s ‘grandchild clause’; critics allege bigotry
By Judah Ari Gross
Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on September 7, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 8:48 am
Israeli’s Russian wife and son denied entry at airport as family flees Russian draft
Border authorities at Ben Gurion Airport put David Eventov’s wife, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and son on a plane to Turkey; ‘Nobody saw her as a person,’ he says
By ToI Staff
Russian immigrants attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the major wave of aliya from the former Soviet Union to Israel, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 2, 2022, 4:48 pm
Israel approves NIS 90 million for absorbing immigrants from Russia amid Ukraine war
Funds to go toward housing, employment, education and health services for new arrivals, as Israel sees most significant immigration wave from Russia since USSR’s collapse
By Tobias Siegal
Violetta Ryabko (far left, with hat and sunglasses) and husband Vasily Yablokov (standing, second from right), join lawmaker Alon Tal (standing on right), Greenpeace Israel director Jonathan Aikhenbaum (seated, center), and other activists, at a Greenpeace protest against Israel's policy on natural gas in Jerusalem, on September 20, 2022. (Greenpeace)
September 25, 2022, 11:50 am
How to do the holidays with zero waste, with an online guide
Violetta Ryabko, author of Greenpeace-produced brochure, who moved to Israel from Russia: ‘I want to contribute something good to this country’
By Sue Surkes
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on podium right, welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, on podium left, with military honors for a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, September 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
September 14, 2022, 2:04 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 14: Why Lapid got vague in Berlin; West Bank’s newest settlers
Political correspondent Tal Schneider gives a mixed review of PM Lapid’s trip and delves into the rise of Israeli arms exports; settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon on Arab violence
By ToI Staff
Then-Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in an undated photo distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)
August 11, 2022, 12:00 am
Amid war, Israel sees threefold increase in immigration from Russia and Ukraine
12,175 immigrants arrived from Ukraine and 18,891 from Russia over five-month period
By ToI Staff
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