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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Uriel Heilman

Uriel Heilman

Military vehicles and cows are common sights in the Golan Heights, but are usually not seen together. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
May 7, 2024, 11:04 pm
Covering Israel’s war-torn north is an exercise in dodging danger
With the constant threat of missile fire from Hezbollah terrorists, life takes on a surreal quality as soldiers, checkpoints, warning sirens and evacuees become the new normal
By Uriel Heilman
Hermon CEO Refael Nave has been on military reserve duty since the outbreak of Israel's October 7 war. He's also a member of the security squad in his hometown of Neve Ativ, in the foothills of the Hermon, pictured here on April 4, 2024. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
April 21, 2024, 6:20 am
Israel’s canceled ski season reveals how war is wreaking economic hardship in the north
The only place in Israel to get regular snow, Mount Hermon had 400,000 visitors in winter 2022-23; under threat of Hezbollah rocket fire this year it saw the number plunge to zero
By Uriel Heilman
Roi Wolf, at computer, a sergeant in the Israeli army, processes would-be vaccination recipients while Kaisar Kabha, director of the Basma regional council, checks their identity documents. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
April 29, 2021, 7:07 am
In Bartaa, on West Bank border, only Israelis eligible for vaccine… in theory
With huge disparities in Israeli and Palestinian vaccination campaigns, citizens of this mixed village technically differ in eligibility, though in practice the line is blurred
By Uriel Heilman
Incoming vice president Kamala Harris send out a Hanukkah message with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, December 10, 2020. (YouTube screenshot)
January 20, 2021, 2:35 pm
Biden, Harris and their families are making Jewish history on Inauguration Day
Incoming US administration has plenty of firsts, holding distinctions for oldest president and first woman and person of color VP. Here are some of their milestones for the Tribe
By Uriel Heilman
Illustrative: A woman stands with her son during a Yom Kippur service hosted by the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, during the coronavirus pandemic, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at the Dezerland Park drive-in theatre in North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
October 28, 2020, 1:55 am
United States of Anxiety: New fears have American Jews questioning the future
A pandemic, financial insecurity, rising anti-Semitism and fear for the demise of US democracy have many asking if the golden age of American Jewry is over
By Uriel Heilman
Food pantry volunteers work outside at the Jewish Federation of Kansas City amid the adoption of new pandemic-era health-and-safety protocols by Jewish institutions around the country. (Courtesy of JFGKC via JTA)
September 1, 2020, 3:21 am
COVID-19 has been buffeting American Jewry for months. What lies ahead?
Pandemic sees hundreds of synagogues shut, Jewish organizations slash budgets and staff, community centers emptied, day schools go online and summer camps cancelled
By Uriel Heilman
New Rochelle resident Lawrence Garbuz, lower right, was the first patient diagnosed with coronavirus in New York. He's still recovering, but now he's home with his family. (Stan Weiss via JTA)
June 2, 2020, 1:42 am
In New Rochelle, where NY outbreak began, my parents’ community longs for normal
As virus forces synagogue and schools closed, Jewish residents of New York suburb cope with virtual services, charity initiatives, drive-by parades and volunteer doctors
By Uriel Heilman
Rabbi Norman Lamm, inset, helped rebuild Yeshiva University into the flagship of Modern Orthodoxy during his nearly three decades as its chancellor. (Lamm photo: Yeshiva University; library photo: Wikimedia Commons)
May 31, 2020, 8:56 pm
Rabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University, dies at 92
YU president for nearly 30 years, prolific author, and pulpit rabbi strived to find a centrist position for Modern Orthodoxy between the secular and religious worlds
By Uriel Heilman
Jewish men pray while social distancing outside a closed synagogue in the coastal city of Netanya, April 23, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
May 15, 2020, 11:32 pm
Update: How COVID-19 is hitting Jewish communities around the world
While Israel has fared fairly well during the pandemic, Jews in Britain, New York area have suffered significantly high death tolls from the virus
By Uriel Heilman
Illustrative: Religious Jewish men pray while keeping a distance from each other outside their closed synagogue in Netanya on April 23, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)
May 6, 2020, 3:30 am
From New York to Milan, how coronavirus is hitting Jewish communities worldwide
While Israel, with 238 dead, has virus largely under control, Jewish rate of death is exponentially higher in parts of Diaspora where COVID-19 is having devastating impact
By Uriel Heilman
Dr. Elli Rosenberg at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Courtesy Elli Rosenberg via JTA)
March 20, 2020, 3:21 pm
‘I’m stepping into the unknown’: Meet an Israeli doctor on virus front lines
Elli Rosenberg, internist at Soroka hospital who volunteered to head its coronavirus unit, talks about challenges, how to avoid contagion and how patients are coping emotionally
By Uriel Heilman
The author is tested for coronavirus while under quarantine in Israel. (Courtesy/Uriel Heilman)
March 7, 2020, 5:34 am
My family is among 80,000 Israelis living in quarantine. Here’s what it’s like
Coping with confinement involves scared delivery drivers, visits from friends, calls from the health authorities and a fear of returning to the outside world
By Uriel Heilman
Visitors at the Hermon, Israel's only ski area. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
February 29, 2020, 8:01 am
Welcome to Mount Hermon, Israel’s only ski mountain. It shuts down when it snows
15 miles of hairpin turns make the 5,400-foot ascent too treacherous during inclement weather, but when the resort opens, Israeli and foreign tourists flock to see the white powder
By Uriel Heilman
During a 2006 visit to the Jordanian capital of Amman, JTA’s Uriel Heilman underwent some invasive security checks when he visited the Israeli Embassy there. (Uriel Heilman)
July 26, 2017, 3:26 am
The time Israeli security strip-searched me at their embassy in Jordan
Following Sunday’s attack at the Israeli mission in Amman, veteran reporter recalls the day he faced invasive scrutiny there
By Uriel Heilman
Charles Lindbergh, wearing helmet with goggles up, in an open cockpit of an airplane at Lambert Field, St Louis, Missouri, 1923. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images via JTA)
June 9, 2016, 8:30 pm
‘America First’: Trump doubles down on a term that makes many Jews queasy
GOP candidate ignores anti-Semitic history associated with the term, insisting it stands for conservative economic values
By Uriel Heilman
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