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A fire rages in the Ben Shemen Forest in central Israel on May 23, 2019. Massive fires blazed throughout the country, which is blanketed in a heat wave. Photo: Flash90

[Photo] Fire devastates Israeli community founded by Shlomo Carlebach

By Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019
A family holds a Passover seder. Photo: Nati Shohat/Flash 90

[Photo] 4 hacks to make your Passover seder more fun

By Emily Aronoff Teck, Kveller via JTA
Published April 11, 2019
View of the rubble at the site of an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 15, 2019. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 

[Photo] Dozens of Hamas targets struck in response to rockets on

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 15, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Ramat Gan, Israel, Feb. 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

[Photo] Netanyahu, in war of words over Arab-Israelis, says Israel is ‘not a country of all its citizens’

Published March 11, 2019
Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalems Old City, March 8, 2019. Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90

[Photo] Women of the Wall activists shoved, spat on at 30th anniversary event

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 8, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Ramat Gan, Israel, Feb. 21, 2019. Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

[Photo] Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption scandals, explained

Ben Sales
Published March 1, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Ramat Gan, Israel, Feb. 21, 2019. Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

[Photo] Netanyahu becomes first sitting Israeli prime minister to face criminal charges

Marcy Oster, JTA
Published February 28, 2019
Friends and family members attend the funeral of 19 year old Ori Ansbacher, in the Jewish settlement of Tekoa, on February 8, 2019. The young woman was found dead last night in Ein Yael, in the outskirts of Jerusalem, in what police are suspecting is a rape and murder. Photo Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

[Photo] Woman, 19, found dead on outskirts of Jerusalem

BY SAM SOKOL
Published February 8, 2019
Naftali Bennett speaking at a conference in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster /Flash90)

[Photo] Israeli Cabinet minister condemns joint statement on Poland’s wartime record

JTA
Published July 6, 2018
Naftali Bennett speaking at a conference in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster /Flash90)

[Photo] Poland cancels visit by Education Minister Naftali Bennett after he said he would tell Polish people ‘truth’

JTA
Published February 6, 2018
Israelis lighting candles at a memorial set up outside the Tel Aviv pub where two people were shot dead on Jan. 1, 2016. (Ben Kelmer/Flash 90)

[Photo] Tel Aviv manhunt punctures city’s sense of relative safety

Ben Harris, JTA
Published January 4, 2016
Right-wing Israelis demonstrating at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv in support of Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, while left-wing Israelis rally nearby, July 26, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

[Photo] Learning to argue on Tisha b’Av

Daniel Treiman
Published August 4, 2014
Israelis attending the funeral of Texas-born Israeli soldier Sean Carmeli at a military cemetery in Haifa, July 21, 2014. Photo: Gili Yaari/Flash 90

[Photo] For two Americans, service to Israel ends in tragedy

Daniel Treiman, JTA
Published July 22, 2014
Israeli soldiers milling around the wounded from combat in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, July 20, 2014. Photo: Flash90

[Photo] 13 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza City battle

Marcy Oster, JTA
Published July 20, 2014
Rachel Fraenkel, the mother of Naftali Fraenkel, crying over the body of her son at the joint funeral for three murdered Jewish teens in the Modiin cemetery, July 1, 2014. (Flash 90)

[Photo] At teens’ funeral, personal grief and national solidarity merge

Ben Sales, JTA
Published July 1, 2014
Israeli soldiers search around the Israeli settlement bloc of Gush Etzion in the West Bank, where three Jewish teenagers have gone missing and are feared to have been kidnapped. Photo: Flash 90

[Photo] At prayer vigils, Israelis gather in moment of unity over kidnapping

By Ben Sales, JTA
Published June 16, 2014
Head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh and senior Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmed attend a news conference as they announce a reconciliation agreement in Gaza City on April 23, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

[Photo] After peace talks collapse, experts counsel a wait-and-see approach

Ron Kampeas, JTA
Published April 29, 2014
Many Israelis, including whites, blacks. Arabs and Bedouins marched to Rabin Square in Tel Aviv during a human rights rally on 9 December 2011 marking the 63nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some 7,000 people attended the rally including a large number of Africans from the Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and other countries, many of whom walked out of Africa into Israel seeking refugee status and a better life. Photo by Dima Vazinovich/Flash90

[Photo] Bill on Israel’s African migrants has their advocates crying foul

By Ben Sales, JTA
Published December 2, 2013
Ultra-Orthodox Jews at the American Center in Jerusalem watch the televised acceptance speech of U.S. President Barack Obama on Nov. 7. Photo Miriam Alster/Flash90

[Photo] As Obama takes second term, Israelis wonder what the future holds

BY BEN SALES, JTA
Published November 7, 2012
The wife of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and their 6-year-old sons Arieh and 3-year-old son Gabriel, mourns at the funeral of her family in jerusalem. Rabbi Sandler and his sons were killed together with 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego a few days ago when a gunman shot and killed the four at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. March 21, 2012. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90/JTA

[Photo] Compassion for two tragedies, worlds apart

By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published March 28, 2012
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[Photo] Funerals for victims of shooting in Toulouse, France

Nati Shohat
Published March 21, 2012
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[Photo] Funerals for victims of shooting in Toulouse, France

Miriam Alster
Published March 21, 2012
The wife of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and their 6-year-old sons Arieh and 3-year-old son Gabriel, mourns at the funeral of her family in jerusalem. Rabbi Sandler and his sons were killed together with 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego a few days ago when a gunman shot and killed the four at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. March 21, 2012. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90/JTA

[Photo] Thousands attend funeral in Jerusalem for Toulouse victims

JTA REPORT
Published March 21, 2012
Gilad Shalit Returns

Gilad Shalit Returns

flash90
Published October 19, 2011
Young israelis seen near tents set up on Rothschild Avenue in Tel Aviv. Fed up with high housing prices around the country, hundreds set up tent city, vow to stay until government presents a solution. July 26 2011. Photo by Liron Almog/Flash90. 

[Photo] Housing protests roil Israel as tent cities pop up

By Dina Kraft, JTA
Published July 27, 2011
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[Photo] Five years on, Shalit’s imprisonment an open wound for Israel

Miriam Alster
Published June 26, 2011
Noam Shalit, father of kidnapped israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, sits unerneath a banner depicting his son, and late kidnapped soldier Ron Arad (R), in a protest tent set up in support of Gilads release outside the Prime Ministers residence in jerusalem on June 02, 2011. Former Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Muhammad Basyuni claimed that a deal for the release of Shalit would be announced within a few hours. The Prime Ministers Office responded saying no breakthrough had been made in the continuing talks for Shalits release. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

[Photo] Five years on, Shalit’s imprisonment an open wound for Israel

By Linda Gradstein, JTA
Published June 26, 2011
Arab demonstrators marking the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba hold Palestinian flags as they approach the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, between Syria and Israel, May 15, 2011.

[Photo] With border breaches, has the Arab Spring reached Israel?

By Uriel Heilman, JTA
Published May 16, 2011
Stone-throwing Palestinians clash with Israeli troops near the Kalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, May 15, 2011.

[Photo] West Bank Palestinians marking Nakba Day encouraged by Arab Spring in their fight against Israel

By Dina Kraft, JTA
Published May 16, 2011
Chaim Amsellem, left, speaks with fellow Shas Party member Avraham Michaeli during a plenum session in the assembly hall in the Israeli Knesset, Feb. 15, 2010. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/JTA)

[Photo] Challenging orthodoxies, Shas maverick seeks to put Israeli haredim to work

By Leslie Susser, JTA
Published December 20, 2010
Father and son look at their house in Ein Hod, near Haifa, that was burned down in the fire that ravaged the Carmel Forest, Dec. 5, 2010. (Meir Partush/Flash90/JTA)

[Photo] After Israel’s deadly fire, mourning, vows to rebuild and finger pointing

By Marcy Oster, JTA
Published December 7, 2010
At least 40 Israelis have been killed in a forest fire in northern Israel described as out of control, Dec. 2, 2010.

[Photo] After Israel’s deadly fire, mourning, vows to rebuild and finger pointing

By Marcy Oster, JTA
Published December 2, 2010
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