Meet ESEK: the Israeli marketplace turning small business survival into a global movement
Its premise is simple: Israel is home to nearly 700,000 small businesses, and after more than a year and a half of war, a significant number of them are barely staying afloat. ESEK exists to help them do more than survive.
“You shall again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria”: the prophecy behind The Israel Guys
The Israel Guys, a Christian Zionist organization with a media reach spanning tens of millions of evangelical viewers, inaugurated a new visitors center in the Samaria, giving Christian supporters of Israel a permanent physical home in the biblical heartland rather than just a channel to watch from abroad.
“For Zion’s Sake”: the Catholic initiative trying to repair the Church’s relationship with Israel
“You want to be a Catholic anti-Zionist, bevakasha, please go ahead, but please do not claim to speak for the entire Catholic Church. This is your private opinion. The Catholic Church does not have an official teaching on Zionism, which means it’s absolutely legitimate to discuss it as a legitimate theological option.”
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.