The Shabbat table that’s bridging Jews and Christians together in Efrat
This Friday night, August 7, eighty-five young Christian leaders will walk through the streets of Efrat as the sun sets over the Judean Hills, heading not to a hotel ballroom but to the dinner tables of dozens of Jewish families who have opened their homes for Shabbat.
A third record year of Israelis leaving. Israel has seen this movie before.
Nearly 50,000 Israelis left the country for more than a year in 2025, marking the third consecutive year of record emigration, according to a new report from researchers at Tel Aviv University.
Living history
Every generation lives through history. Every generation experiences wars, political upheaval, scientific discoveries, and social change. So what makes our generation any different? The answer is not simply the pace of events. It is their direction.
Inside Ben Gvir’s crocodile prison plan: Great crocodile of the Nile, reporting for duty
A temporary injunction issued Sunday froze National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s plan to surround Ketziot Prison with a moat of live crocodiles, which holds detained Hamas terrorists and other Palestinian security prisoners.
Israel’s week of shake and bake: An earthquake, a heatwave, and what the sages say about both
Israel spent the past several days caught between two forms of natural disturbance. A heatwave scorched the country over Shabbat, and an earthquake centered in Egypt rattled homes from Beersheba to Jerusalem two days later.
The part of recovery nobody sees
Right now, about 1.2 million people in Israel are caring for a family member who is seriously ill or disabled. Most of them earn nothing for it. Most of them go unrecognized. They do not show up in any count that matters, and the researchers who study them keep reaching for the same word. Invisible.
Beach employee searching for lost jewelry finds 2,500-year-old coin unlike any seen before in Israel
Avi Chaprak spends his days helping beachgoers in Ashdod recover rings, keys, and phones lost in the sand. About a month ago, while searching the shore for someone’s lost belongings, he turned up something considerably older.
Many Christian Arabs proud to be Israeli, Ambassador George Deek says
Israeli society gives Arab Christians a combination of “freedom, opportunity, and belonging,” which is why many of them “are proud to be Israeli,” Israel’s ambassador to the Christian World, George Deek, said at the Israel365 offices in Beit Shemesh.Â
Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple
The Sanhedrin operates on the premise that a rabbinical court has the standing to issue a psak, a binding halachic ruling, and that, in matters concerning the fate of the Jewish people, a court above is bound to follow the ruling of a court below.
Hitler’s house gets a new life as his ideology gets new followers: Nazism, Amalek, and Palestinianism
The Austrian government has remodeled an inn in Austria to discourage sick and twisted pilgrims from paying homage to the infamous man born there more than 130 years ago. But despite the attempt to give a new face to Hitler’s birthplace, the horrifying ideology is experiencing a resurgence.