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Israel’s ‘refuseniks’: a growing number of soldiers are refusing to serve in Netanyahu’s war on Gaza

Leonie Fleischmann, City St George's, University of London The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to step up the offensive on Gaza City, despite internal and international condemnation. Amid accusations...

A Nation of Nobel Minds: Israel’s Emerging Legacy of Science and Scholarship

By Yael Stein ~ Where Israeli campus hallways resound with whine of basement brain-lab rows to roof-top observatories of physics. The whine never ceases. Unzipping proteins or constructing quantum technologies, Israeli researchers have gained...

Sweet Traditions: Israel’s Leading Holiday Desserts and Treats in Search

By Eliya Barak ~ Dinner in Israel is not an empty belly; it is celebration, history, and culture. Perhaps nowhere is that more appetitively evident...

Garden to Fork: The Inside Story of Israel’s Farm-to-Fork Revolution

By Tamar Levi ~ Down in Israel's stunning valleys and emerald hilltops, a revolution is bubbling under. Away from the chaos of city bazaars and street stalls hawking street food, there is a movement transforming quietly the way food is...

Ancient Legacy Abounds with Life: Israel’s Cultural Revival Glimmers

By Noa Koren ~ Down Jerusalem's weathered cobblestone Old City streets and down hip beachfront boulevards in Tel Aviv, Israel pulses with a cultural rhythm that can be found nowhere else on the planet. Here, hundreds of stones hundreds of centuries old that existed before the very world itself hundreds of centuries prior tell centuries-in-the-making stories—and where street art, electronic beats, modern dance, and experimental theater mix an ever-morphing modern...

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are times for soul-searching, but not on your own – community has always been at the heart of the...

David L. Graizbord, University of Arizona - Starting the evening of Sept. 15, 2023, and again the evening of Sept. 24, Jews around the...

Faith and Freedom: Unveiling Israel’s Diversity in Interfaith Harmony

By Talia Ben-Ami ~ In the hills of Galilee, a muezzin's call to prayer across a minaret becomes mixed with the chime of a local church bell, and a block or so down the...

Startup to Stardom: Israeli Innovations and Apps Alter Daily Life

By Noam Eliaz ~ Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard is circled by Bauhaus cafes and buildings, but behind glass dividers, the...

Israel’s ‘refuseniks’: a growing number of soldiers are refusing to serve in Netanyahu’s war on Gaza

Leonie Fleischmann, City St George's, University of London The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has...

Garden to Fork: The Inside Story of Israel’s Farm-to-Fork Revolution

By Tamar Levi ~ Down in Israel's stunning valleys and emerald hilltops, a revolution is...