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Gabriella Jacobs

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Daily Briefing June 22 — ‘A cease between fires’: Living on Israel’s northern front

Daily Briefing June 22 — ‘A cease between fires’: Living on Israel’s northern front

Health reporter Diana Bletter discusses life along Israel’s northern border under intermittent Hezbollah attacks, as well as Israeli breakthroughs...

22.06.2026 40

The Times of Israel

Gabriella Jacobs

Why I keep reading Amos Oz

Why I keep reading Amos Oz

Whenever I tell someone I’m reading Amos Oz, the reaction is almost always, “Why? He’s so depressing.” Or, “Oz? He might be a good writer,...

22.06.2026 40

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Gabriella Jacobs

The real Hunger Games take place in Israeli supermarkets

Which is the best supermarket for an olah on a budget? This is a topic on which I have, through extensive and occasionally traumatic experimentation,...

17.06.2026 50

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Gabriella Jacobs

How to land your dream job in Israel: A guide

What exactly is professional networking, really? In America, I always imagined it involved LinkedIn. Maybe a blazer. Certainly some degree of...

10.06.2026 50

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Confessions of Israel’s Least Enthusiastic Domestic Tourist

There is a certain type of person who, upon moving to a new country, throws herself into learning its geography, its neighborhoods, its hidden...

31.05.2026 60

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Daily Briefing May 29 – What are the costs of Orthodox Judaism in the Diaspora?

Reporter Zev Stub details the steep expenses carried by US Jewish communities and describes what immigrants globally seek when buying homes in Israel

29.05.2026 50

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Shavuot here and there

By the time you read this, Shavuot may have passed, and I will hopefully still be asleep recovering from it. Shavuot may honestly be the only holiday...

27.05.2026 40

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Daily Briefing May 22 – National security and Israel’s climate crisis

Reporter Sue Surkes on the closure of the Climate and National Security Forum and Climate Intelligence Forum, a new initiative to help those living...

22.05.2026 70

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Daily Briefing May 15: Art on trial from Venice to Jerusalem

Culture editor Jessica Steinberg on anti-Israel protests at the Venice Biennale, a new theater production about the Adolf Eichmann trial and Yaacov...

15.05.2026 90

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Café culture: Part of the Zionist dream

The best part of this week was Jerusalem cafés. On Monday, I met an old friend along the Mesila. For anyone who hasn’t walked there recently, the...

08.05.2026 80

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Daily Briefing May 1 – Mediterranean meltdown: Energy policy in hot water

Reporter Sue Surkes discusses an unusual Syrian bride, how Israel’s lack of sustainable energy is a security risk and her recent visit to a new baby...

01.05.2026 100

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Conversational Heblish. Passable?

What qualifies someone as an olah chadasha? Last week I suggested it might involve paperwork, perseverance, and a teudat olah (that still hasn’t...

30.04.2026 80

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Misrad Hapanim: Diary of an Olah

What qualifies someone as an “olah chadasha”? Is it deciding to move to Israel? Actually making the move? Living through culture shock, language...

24.04.2026 80

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Gabriella jacobs