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Luke Tress
Luke Tress
Luke Tress is a video journalist and tech reporter for the Times of Israel
Ethiopian-Israelis protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square against police violence toward their community, January 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 30, 2019, 11:03 pm
Clashes as thousands of Ethiopian-Israelis rally against police brutality
Demonstration by community and its supporters follows deadly shooting by police of Yehuda Biadga, 24, in Bat Yam; after riot, 6 officers injured, 11 arrested
By Luke Tress and TOI staff
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter with her son, Roy, December 9, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 16, 2019, 12:09 pm
The mom who beat the odds, and the bureaucrats, to become Israel’s top runner
Kenya-born Lonah Chemtai Salpeter’s career was hamstrung by illness, bad luck and her adopted home’s refusal to give her citizenship; now she holds more records than she can count
By Luke Tress
Grass carpets southern Israel following winter rains after arson attacks from Gaza decimated the area during the hot summer months, November 28, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)
November 28, 2018, 9:47 pm
With winter rains, green returns to scorched Gaza periphery
After a summer plagued by hundreds of arson attacks, southern Israel’s flora is beginning to bloom again
By Luke Tress
Hundreds attend a rally protesting violence against women, in Tel Aviv on November 25, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
November 25, 2018, 10:47 pm
Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv to protest violence against women
Citing at least 20 murders this year alone, demonstrators demand government take action to halt domestic abuse
By Luke Tress
Southern residents protest in Tel Aviv over lack of security for communities in the south living under the shadow of Hamas rockets and attacks. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
November 15, 2018, 8:59 pm
Hundreds from rocket-battered south protest against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
In demonstration outside Defense Ministry, protesters block traffic and scuffle with police as they call for PM to resign over truce deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip
By Luke Tress
A snake catcher holds a coin-marked snake he pulled from the Western Wall, October 31, 2018. (Facebook screenshot)
November 1, 2018, 6:16 pm
Snake emerges from Western Wall cracks, halting prayers
Harmless coin-marked snake’s capture prompts speculation of its portent by internet commentators
By Luke Tress
Eva Deutsch at home in New York, August 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 10, 2018, 10:47 pm
From WWII partisan to modern art painter: A survivor’s story in living color
Eva Deutsch Costabel survived a brutal, little-known chapter of the Holocaust for Manhattan’s painting scene. A lifetime of artwork depicts her struggles on the way
By Luke Tress
Salamandra Zone's B-Air unit fits on top of elevators and purifies air during emergencies. (YouTube screenshot)
October 9, 2018, 10:49 am
Skyscrapers should look to elevators as escape routes, Israeli startup says
Salamandra Zone’s B-Air system provides clean, cool air to elevator cabs during fires, keeping residents alive and safe
By Luke Tress
A mosquito, released by Senecio Robotics and marked with a fluorescent powder, identified in the wild after its release. (Courtesy)
October 8, 2018, 2:18 pm
Mosquito ‘love bombs’ to combat deadly epidemics
Israeli startup Senecio Robotics plans to mass produce and disperse sterile mosquitoes to halt spread of malaria, Zika, other fatal diseases
By Luke Tress
Physician Chaim Arias arrives in Israel on an aliyah flight, August 15, 2018. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
August 16, 2018, 11:57 am
Israel’s newest doctors hope to make an impact on overburdened medical system
Amid a shortage of medical professionals and resources, latest immigrants from North America are eager to help fill the gap
By Luke Tress
House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
August 5, 2018, 6:19 pm
Congressman still showing off bogus pro-Israel award from Sacha Baron Cohen
On his website, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania touts his medal from the nonexistent ‘Yerushalayim Television’
By Luke Tress
People wear kippas at a demonstration in Berlin, April 25, 2018. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
April 28, 2018, 11:42 am
Berlin activists to distribute 10,000 kippas in city’s parks on Sunday
Individuals will wear the skullcaps on their own, experience vulnerability of being Jewish in Germany, organizers say
By Luke Tress
Eritreans mark Easter in south Tel Aviv, April 7, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
April 8, 2018, 2:05 pm
Under threat of deportation, Eritreans mark Easter in Tel Aviv
Members of Orthodox church, under pressure at home and in Israel, come together in makeshift house of worship for their ‘biggest holiday’
By Luke Tress
Hussein Jabar, a hotelier from Abu Ghosh who legally purchases all of Israel's leavened goods each year for the duration of Passover. (Courtesy)
March 28, 2018, 6:00 pm
Meet the Arab Israeli who buys all of Israel’s hametz
Hussein Jabar can afford a down payment for the nation’s leavened goods every Passover, but somehow never manages to scrape together the whole price
By Luke Tress
Asylum seekers protest a government deportation plan in Tel Aviv, March 24, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
March 24, 2018, 8:55 pm
Over 20,000 rally in Tel Aviv in support of asylum seekers
Protest takes place ahead of court deadline this week for government decision on deportation plan; minister says job migrants will be sent away, kids and war refugees can stay
By TOI staff and Luke Tress
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