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A Healing Ink event, in New York City, February 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2026, 9:14 pm
Inking over scars: Victims of terror attacks in Israel get tattooed in New York
‘More beautiful than it was’: Advocacy group Healing Ink tattoos survivors, family members as part of a therapeutic process
By Luke Tress
(L-r) Maine Democratic US Senate hopeful Graham Platner alters his chest tattoo so it no longer resembles a Nazi symbol, October 22, 2025; US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 9, 2025. (Screenshot via X; Kent Nishimura/Getty Images via JTA)
October 24, 2025, 6:49 am
Bernie Sanders ‘absolutely’ sticking by US Senate candidate after Nazi tattoo revelation
Progressive Jewish senator says Maine’s Graham Platner went through ‘dark period in his life,’ hits out at media for asking about the SS tattoo that has since been altered
By Andrew Lapin
Part of a tattoo reading 'Yeshua,' Jesus' name in Hebrew, and another reading 'Deus Vult' can be seen on the arm of Pete Hegseth in a video he posted to Instagram in May 2020. (Instagram video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 16, 2024, 8:03 am
Trump Pentagon pick flagged in 2021 as potential insider threat for extremist-linked tattoo
Hegseth’s fellow service member sent warning over ‘Deus Vult’ bicep tattoo linked to white supremacists; Fox host previously said was unfairly labeled as extremist for chest marking
By TARA COPP, Michelle R. Smith and JASON DEAREN
New York Mets' Mark Vientos reacts after hitting a two-run walkoff home run during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, September 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
September 15, 2024, 4:12 pm
New York Mets player stumps fans with botched Hebrew tattoo
Mark Vientos’s shirtless celebration reveals ink that seemingly refers to New Testament verse
By ToI Staff
Hostage mothers, activists and Knesset members protest at the Knesset, marking nine months of their captivity, on July 8, 2024. The banner reads, "A mother never gives up." (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2024, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing July 9: Day 277 – Tension in Knesset as coalition swerves
Knesset reporter Sam Sokol reviews Monday, when a hostage’s brother is tossed from a meeting, Ben Gvir and Shas trade insults, and Naftali Bennett considers a return to politics
By ToI Staff
Lucas Cunio, older brother of hostages David Cunio and Ariel Cunio, with his freshly tattooed arm at an Artists 4 Israel event at Jerusalem's Botanical Gardens on July 7, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
July 9, 2024, 12:00 pm
Beauty through the pain: Survivors of October 7 inked by visiting tattoo artists
12 inkers from abroad join 50 local artists to offer body art to 120 survivors, soldiers and relatives of victims of the Hamas massacre
By Jessica Steinberg
A '7.10' tattoo on the hand of an evacuee from Kibbutz Erez. (Lior Yosefi)
January 31, 2024, 1:01 pm
More than skin deep: Israelis who inked October 7 on their bodies as a living memorial
As they mourn loved ones and grieve the worst terror attack in the country’s history, many turn to tattoos to keep close the memories of those they lost
By Amy Spiro
Client Kimberly sits at NAAMA Studios, a tattoo removal clinic in Marylebone, London, on December 14, 2022, shows her tattoo picturing US singer Kanye West (Isabel INFANTES / AFP)
December 17, 2022, 7:59 am
UK studio offers removal of Kanye tattoos after antisemitic comments
Owner says about 100 people got in touch about free offer and 2 were selected; Second Chance program previously aimed at those with tattoos connected to gangs, toxic relationships
By Sylvain PEUCHMAURD
Stamps ostensibly used to brand prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, put up for sale at a Jerusalem auction house (Screen grab)
February 10, 2022, 3:18 pm
Yad Vashem: ‘Auschwitz tattoo stamps’ likely not used on Jewish prisoners
But Holocaust memorial, in report for court on a controversial sale, notes it ‘cannot be determined with absolute certainty’ that dies weren’t used on Jewish inmates at Nazi camp
By ToI Staff and AFP
Stamps ostensibly used to brand prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, put up for sale at a Jerusalem auction house (Screen grab)
November 3, 2021, 3:08 pm
Court freezes Jerusalem sale of Auschwitz prisoner tattoo stamp set
‘Such an evil item can’t have an owner,’ Holocaust survivors’ group argued; Yad Vashem protested sale as ‘morally unacceptable’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Stamps ostensibly used to brand prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, put up for sale at a Jerusalem auction house (Screen grab)
November 2, 2021, 3:05 pm
Auschwitz prisoner tattoo stamp set goes on sale at Jerusalem auction house
Yad Vashem condemns sale by ‘greedy traders,’ says there may be a need for legislation; auctioneer defends sale
By ToI Staff
Healing Ink, a project of Artists 4 Israel, provides free tattoos to those injured in terrorist and antisemitic attacks. (Dillon Meyer)
August 22, 2021, 2:43 am
Healing Ink offers free tattoos to those affected by Tree of Life shooting
The initiative brings local artists and ‘heavy hitters’ from around the tattoo world together on October 3-4 to help victims of the 2018 synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh
By David Rullo
Kitty Hart-Moxon shows her and her mother's Auschwitz tattoos, for BBC documentary 'The Holocaust : A Story of Remembrance' (Screen grab)
August 7, 2021, 10:42 am
Tattoo that Auschwitz survivor cut out of her arm features in new UK exhibition
Kitty Hart-Moxon, 97, says most die with their tattoos, but hers will ‘be there forever’; also, she’d had enough of ‘silly questions’ when asked if it was boyfriend’s phone number
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Soldiers train in Kitzbuehel, Austria on January 23, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
June 21, 2021, 9:12 pm
Austrian soldier in trouble for pics of swastika tattoo on testicle
29-year-old serviceman previously received suspended sentence for posting online pictures of Nazi World War II memorabilia
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Pope Francis talks with Lidia Maksymowicz, a Holocaust survivor, who was prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, before leaving San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican for his weekly general audience, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
May 26, 2021, 4:59 pm
Pope kisses Holocaust survivor’s Auschwitz tattoo
Lidia Maksymowicz says she and pontiff ‘understood each other with a glance’ as Francis silently embraced the 80-year-old Polish citizen
By AP
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