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![Or Garti takes a selfie with her campers at Camp Ben Frankel.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Campers-1200x675.jpg)
An ‘American Dream’: How 18 Israeli kids spent their summer at Camp Ben Frankel
BY MOLLY LEVINE, JEWISH LIGHT INTERN
• Published July 24, 2024
![Family members of Israeli hostages held in Gaza meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, D.C., July 22, 2023. (Israeli Government Press Office)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Hostage-families-1200x675.jpg)
Netanyahu meets with hostage families in DC as pressure mounts for a deal
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published July 23, 2024
![Stella Levy, shown in 1970, commanded the IDF Women’s Corps for six years. Photo by Fritz Cohen, Israeli National Photo Collection, CC BY-SA 3.0](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/JULY19-stella-levy-1200x800.jpg)
This week in Israeli history: July 18-24
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, ISRAELED.ORG
• Published July 18, 2024
![Israeli and Palestinian Jerusalem Youth Chorus advances on ‘America’s Got Talent’ with performance of ‘Home’](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot2-1.jpg)
Israeli and Palestinian Jerusalem Youth Chorus advances on ‘America’s Got Talent’ with performance of ‘Home’
PHILISSA CRAMER, JTA
• Published July 17, 2024
![Yitzhak Yifat (center) and other Israeli paratroopers reach the Western Wall in Jerusalem, June 7, 1967. Photo by David Rubinger/GPO.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1967-photo-1200x675.jpg)
Paratrooper at center of iconic Six-Day War photo dead at 81
David Issac, JNS
• Published July 7, 2024
![El Al planes are seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on Dec. 31, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/06-17-2024-El-Al-1200x800.jpg)
Public outcry prompts El Al to backtrack
Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA
• Published June 17, 2024
![The Jewish public building discovered in Lod. Aerial photo by Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jewish-Revolt-1200x675.jpg)
Evidence of last Jewish revolt against Rome found in Israeli street
Published June 16, 2024
![Elliot Brandt, speaking at AIPACs 2019 conference in Washington, D.C. (Screenshot)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-7.48.57-PM-1200x667.webp)
AIPAC taps its No. 2, Elliot Brandt, to be its next CEO
Ben Sales, JTA
• Published June 4, 2024
![An El Al Airlines plane is seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Dec. 31, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/Getty Images)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/K6kVFO_6-1200x596.jpeg)
Israel to require American visitors to apply in advance for electronic travel authorization
Ron Kampeas, JTA
• Published June 2, 2024
![Missouri lawmakers move forward with measures expressing solidarity with Israel](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Missouri-Capitol--1200x675.jpg)
Missouri lawmakers move forward with measures expressing solidarity with Israel
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 8, 2024
![A flag of Israel was seen on the railroad tracks in KL Birkenau during the International March of The Living, April 28, 2022. (Wojciech Grabowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Yom-HaShoah-1200x675.jpg)
How Yom HaShoah is being marked seven months after Oct. 7
Jacob Gurvis, JTA
• Published May 5, 2024
![A long exposure picture shows Iron Dome firing interception missiles, as seen from the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on May 16, 2021. Photo by Avi Roccah/Flash90](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/main-pic-4-1520x855-1-1200x675.jpeg)
Everything you need to know about Israel’s Iron Dome
By Naama Barak, Israel21c
• Published April 17, 2024
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