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Theia Chatelle

A crowd gathers to listen to Oren Pesso and his daughter Renee perform at Hatachana Park in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2026. (Theia Chatelle/JTA)
July 25, 2026, 4:44 am
In Israel’s scorching summer, school’s out, surf’s up… and fears of war are returning
After several weeks in which Iran has targeted multiple other Middle East countries, concern grows that it could soon hit out at Israel again
By Theia Chatelle
Long lines of secular customers gathered to patronize Cafe Basimta in Jerusalem on Shabbat, July 18, 2026. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
July 24, 2026, 7:03 am
Jerusalem cafe symbolizes secular defiance – until people learn it’s run by Jews for Jesus
One of few coffee houses in the city center to open on Shabbat, Cafe Basimta draws rowdy Haredi protesters and tenacious customers – many of whom find the new revelation grounds for concern
By Theia Chatelle
Yosef, Henry and Joseph Hamra in front of the US Capitol in 2025. (Courtesy Syrian Emergency Task Force via JTA)
July 22, 2026, 4:30 am
As Israel urged caution, these Syrian Jews lobbied the US to lift sanctions on Syria
Unlikely alliance between son of Palestinian refugees and Jewish cantor drives campaign to give second chance to new government — and let exiles visit their former home
By Theia Chatelle
Controversial 'looksmaxxing' influencer Clavicular is seen on the beach in Tel Aviv in July 2026. (Screenshot/Kick)
July 13, 2026, 4:12 am
Controversial ‘looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular cuts divisive path across Tel Aviv
After he refused to apologize for appearance with group singing ‘Heil Hitler,’ Braden Peters’s presence in the Jewish state divides and confuses many Israeli social media activists
By Theia Chatelle
Medical staff relocate NICU babies to an underground parking area converted into a treatment ward at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, after missile fire from Iran, June 8, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 9, 2026, 2:50 pm
‘Third time within a year’: Israelis weather yet another wartime flare-up under Iranian fire
Hospitals shift wards underground, schools close on short notice as conflict-seasoned locals fall back to routines they know all too well
By Theia Chatelle
Illustrative: Americans outside the Israel Museum wait for a glimpse of President Donald Trump's motorcade on May 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
May 27, 2026, 3:16 am
A stronger shekel has become a pressing problem for Americans building lives in Israel
Drop in purchasing power hits expats who’ve maintained financial ties to the US, while weakened dollar also affects exporters and nonprofits, who receive much of their funding from abroad
By Theia Chatelle
A mother and child sit at the entrance to a tent in the shelter. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
April 25, 2026, 5:37 am
Sheltering in Tel Aviv’s bus station, foreign workers face unique plight in wartime
Hundreds of third-country laborers are forced to pitch tents in a squalid space beneath the depot, highlighting the challenging conditions faced by a fast-growing sector
By Theia Chatelle
Yael Ben Cnaan helps a customer with a bouquet on the morning before Passover at her store Bishvil Flowers in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2026. (Theia Chatelle via JTA)
April 2, 2026, 1:24 pm
Israelis spend Passover under shadow of Iran war, as businesses cling to survival
Yael Ben Cnaan struggles to keep Tel Aviv flower store afloat during what is meant to be peak period; Finance Ministry says economy losing at least 4.3 billion shekels per week
By Theia Chatelle
People injured in a Hezbollah missile strike on Kiryat Shmona arrive at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, northern Israel, March 23, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 27, 2026, 12:01 pm
As Hezbollah rockets fall, emergency medics in the north work double shifts
Working together around the clock, Druze, Christian and Jewish volunteers of Magen David Adom tend to the wounded near the Lebanese border, praying this war will be the last
By Theia Chatelle
Mayor of Netu’a Yoav Cohen (left) poses with a worker at the moshav’s central chicken farm. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
March 20, 2026, 7:16 am
Traumatized by their last evacuation, many in Israel’s north are staying put despite renewed danger
Residents ‘don’t have it in them to leave again,’ says one regional official, as fatigue from 16 months of displacement and economic turmoil supersedes concern over renewed Hezbollah fire
By Theia Chatelle
A man wearing a wolf costume with his daughter dressed as Little Red Riding Hood shops at a stall in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, which was operating at limited capacity because of the war with Iran, during Purim in Jerusalem, March 4, 2026. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
March 4, 2026, 7:52 pm
Jerusalem marks a wartime Purim a day later than most, a tradition born in what is now Iran
With special status as a walled city during the time of the megilah story, the Israeli capital celebrates Shushan Purim with costumes, feasting and periodic runs to the bomb shelter
By Theia Chatelle
Pedestrians run for cover in central Jerusalem following sirens warning of incoming missiles from Iran, on February 28, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 1, 2026, 7:57 am
Sirens, shelters and an empty Old City: Jerusalem rattled on day 1 of war with Iran
Eerie silence settles over capital on Shabbat leading up to Purim holiday, as residents hunker down under ballistic missile fire and speculate about a conflict of biblical proportions
By Theia Chatelle
Jewish Ukrainians line up to receive aid distribution in Kyiv in the fall of 2025. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
February 24, 2026, 12:55 pm
After 4 years of war, Ukraine’s Jews face increasing sirens, shortages and uncertainty
On the grim anniversary of the Russian invasion, those in the Jewish community who haven’t fled meet in shelters to light Shabbat candles, while elderly rely on intermittent aid packages
By Theia Chatelle
Jewish men near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 23, 2025, 4:26 am
Annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Uman clouded by arrests of yeshiva students in Israel
Crackdown on draft dodgers amid Gaza war adds additional challenge for pilgrims visiting Hasidic sage’s grave in Ukraine, where the airspace remains closed due to the conflict with Russia
By Theia Chatelle
US-based Syrian rabbi Yosef Hamra tours the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Bab Sharqi district, on February 19, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
September 4, 2025, 10:24 am
In Damascus’ abandoned Jewish Quarter, final 5 Jews want to flee as expats yearn to return
A tour of the former hub of Syrian Jewry reveals a dim domestic view in stark contrast to that of the community’s diaspora, who see glimmers of hope in the new post-war government
By Theia Chatelle
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