The Christian who sang Hatikvah
Ruben Ramos sang both the American National Anthem and Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, under an open Tennessee sky.
The message of Nachshon: the hero of the Splitting of the Sea
The lessons are clear. Those who are blessed with the necessary talent and fortitude to do what is necessary to help a fellow Jew, whether many people or an individual, must heed the call.
Two sirens. One week. This is what they mean.
This Sunday, April 19, the evening before Yom HaZikaron begins, Israel365 is hosting a live prayer and remembrance event for believers who love Israel, called Remember and Honor.
US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks: “We’re on the same side against Hezbollah”
The meeting between Israel’s Ambassador to the US and Lebanon’s Ambassador was framed by both sides not as a negotiation between enemies seeking recognition, but as a coordinated effort to confront a shared destabilizing force that has dominated the Israel-Lebanon border for decades.
Poland’s parliament on Holocaust Day: Israeli flag with swastika instead of Jewish star
On the same day Holocaust survivors walked the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau for the annual March of the Living, a Polish lawmaker stood before his parliament, held up an Israeli flag , with the Magen David (Star of David) replaced by a swastika, and declared Israel “a new Third Reich.” The timing was not accidental.
After years of attacks on Zionism, human rights groups recognize the global significance of Israel’s Declaration of Independence
Two human rights organizations have formally recognized the exceptional global significance of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, describing it as a foundational milestone for human dignity, civil liberties, and the right to self-determination.
What I told a room full of American combat veterans in Jerusalem
A few years ago, at Ramat Rachel, a beautiful kibbutz on the southern edge of Jerusalem, the kind of place that seems almost designed for healing, I sat with a group of American combat veterans, men and women who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the Ruins of Be’eri, Israel Trains for the Next October 7
Days before Passover, with missiles still falling from Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen, heads of local security teams from across southern Israel gathered in Be’eri—one of the communities most devastated on October 7,—for an advanced training session with Magen 48.
The war with Iran is over. For orphans in Israel, the fear isn’t.
The missiles Iran fired at Israel are not an abstraction to the children at Alumim Children’s Home in Kfar Chabad. They are a memory. The ceasefire came. The fear didn’t leave with it.
Israeli judge: Korban Pesach/Paschal lamb protest is legal, not criminal
The court recognized what many prefer to ignore: the desire to restore the Korban Pesach is not fringe. It is grounded in the text, in halacha, and in the enduring identity of the Jewish people.