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Jessica Steinberg

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Kibbutz marks 80 years of Shavuot song and dance with pioneering artworks

Northern kibbutz hosts expansive exhibit inspired by the pre-state work of choreographer Leah Bergstein and composer Mattityahu Shelem for the harvest...

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Aviv Geffen hosts Art Garfunkel in Tel Aviv, calls for end to war

83-year-old sings beloved ballads together with his his son James and rocker Geffen

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‘600 days of failure’: Thousands join nationwide rallies urging hostages’ release

At Hostages Square protest, freed captive Iair Horn recalls fear of death while in Hamas captivity; 62 protesters arrested after storming Likud party...

29.05.2025 30

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‘Abandoned, forgotten’: Relatives of 58 hostages held in Gaza mark 600 days since Oct. 7

Captives’ loved ones rage against government as protesters across the country call for hostage deal and new elections, almost 20 months after...

28.05.2025 20

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Daily Briefing May 26: Day 599 – Netanyahu, AG and High Court edge closer to crisis

Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses latest in the Shin Bet chief saga; health editor Diana Bletter reviews what hospitals have learned from...

27.05.2025 20

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Kusama infinity room joins Tel Aviv museum’s permanent display

Installation was included in Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s massive 2021 retrospective at Tel Aviv Museum of Art and is now returning home

26.05.2025 10

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Fresh Paint fair brings new Israeli art to potential collectors

Six-day Tel Aviv art event introduces artists and their works to new audiences with everything for sale

26.05.2025 20

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Daily Briefing May 25: Day 597 – As IDF increases Gaza strikes, ex-hostages share fears

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses reports of 9 siblings killed in IDF strike, hostages’ fears during said strikes, managing aid in Gaza and...

25.05.2025 20

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Film offers elegant, intimate look at architect who designed Israel’s Supreme Court

Filmmaker Yael Melamede examines the work and life of her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede, in ‘Ada: My Mother the Architect’; decries ‘loud, silent...

24.05.2025 30

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Israeli director Nadav Lapid says new film is response to country’s ‘blindness’ on Gaza

‘Yes’, which premiered at the Cannes festival, follows artist tasked after Oct. 7 with changing national anthem’s theme from Jewish...

24.05.2025 30

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Kan audio drama wins bronze at NY Festival Radio Awards

‘October Sixth’ tells six Israeli stories of the day before the October 7 Hamas attack

24.05.2025 20

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Keshet romcom about wedding planner comes to Netflix Israel

‘Save the Date’ gets second season and sales in Greece, Germany and other markets

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Daily Briefing May 22: Day 594 – Shock after 2 Israel embassy staffers killed in DC

Political correspondent Tal Schneider on Jewish museum shooting, PM’s first press conference in months; legal reporter Jeremy Sharon reviews...

22.05.2025 20

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Ex-hostage Emily Hand, 11, urges Netanyahu: ‘Go make a deal now, because this can’t go on’

‘Our hearts have been held captive [in Gaza] for far too long,’ says freed captive; fellow Be’eri resident, whose father was...

22.05.2025 50

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Sami Rohr prize awarded for novel about Jewish life in Soviet Union

Writer Sasha Vasilyuk wins 2025 Jewish literature prize for her debut book, ‘Your Presence Is Mandatory’

21.05.2025 50

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Andrey Kozlov drew in Hamas captivity. Now he’s painting his story

Kozlov was rescued by the IDF in June 2024; he hopes to exhibit his artwork in New York and Israel

19.05.2025 30

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Hapoel Jerusalem soccer club memorializes Hersh Goldberg-Polin in 100th year logo

Sports association kicks off centennial year with new image featuring devoted fan who was murdered in Hamas captivity

16.05.2025 10

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Israeli opera star who sings about chocolate heads to Carnegie Hall

Nofar Jacoby, who is bringing her voice to New York’s famed venue, loves using Instagram to put her voice directly in audience’s ears

16.05.2025 40

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Hostages, flamingos and the politics of Jerusalem stone to feature at DocAviv fest

Annual documentary film festival hosted at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque will screen dozens of movies about Israel and the world

15.05.2025 30

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Parents of released hostage Edan Alexander thank Trump and Witkoff, not Netanyahu

Yael and Adi Alexander make statement at Tel Aviv hospital 24 hours after son’s release, urge PM and government to seize opportunity and negotiate...

13.05.2025 8

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New exhibition recreates ex-hostage’s Nova jewelry stand

More than a dozen Israeli artists bring contemporary works to the 07SH10AH23 exhibit in Tel Aviv

10.05.2025 30

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Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod to host jazz pianist, Berber singer and Ethiopian saxophonist

Musicians Omri Mor, Abatte Barihun and Aziz Ozouss to tour Israel in in a month-long concert series.

10.05.2025 20

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Daily Briefing May 7: Day 579 – Trump cuts deal with Houthis, leaving Israel out in cold

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses latest on Yemeni group, aid plan for Gaza, hostages’ families’ hopes ahead of Trump regional visit and...

07.05.2025 10

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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa pan censorship after UK shows canceled

Longtime musical collaborators says they were forced to call off concerts due to credible threats on the venues and audiences

06.05.2025 20

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Art fair to take place in little-known Israel Electric compound

Fresh Paint, Israel’s largest art event, to brings visitors to Kremnitzky Technical Center, east of Ayalon Highway

06.05.2025 20

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International Court of Justice throws out Sudan genocide case against UAE

ICJ says it ‘manifestly lacked’ jurisdiction to rule, points to ‘reservation’ stipulated by United Arab Emirates against countries suing each...

06.05.2025 20

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Daily Briefing May 6: Day 578 – Israel strikes Yemen port in response to Houthis’ attacks

ToI founding editor David Horovitz discusses IAF strike on Yemen, reservists’ return to Gaza, debate over Oct. 7 state commission and Steve...

06.05.2025 20

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Hostage’s father struggles to speak again in effort to bring his son home

Tal Kuperstein, recovering from a stroke that followed a serious car accident, is pushing himself to do everything he can to get his captive son Bar...

06.05.2025 40

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‘Eretz Nehederet’ makes poignant remake of Israeli rap song

Satirical sketch show borrows Jimbo J’s new work ‘White Sail’ for a litany of all of Israel’s recent troubles

04.05.2025 10

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Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen sings with Idan Raichel

Kibbutz Nir Oz resident speaks about sense of hope and loss experienced by his community during performance of ‘Children of Life’

04.05.2025 10

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A (fake) tree grows in Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art

‘The Garden’ juxtaposes fake flora and fauna with real trees and vegetation to explore urban nature

01.05.2025 20

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Daily Briefing Apr. 29: Day 571 – Fake news may be muddying hostage talks

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses negotiations, what’s next in Syria and ,comments from Biden aides; political reporter Sam Sokol reviews latest...

29.04.2025 30

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Daily Briefing Apr. 27: Day 569 – Legal wrangles at ICC, shark attack in Hadera

Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses latest on war crimes case, and that of Ronen Bar; reporter Sue Surkes reviews Hadera shark attack and...

27.04.2025 30

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Families of ‘Beautiful 6’ murdered hostages organize evening of song, unity

Israelis of all stripes invited to gather in memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Or Danino and Alex Lubanov,...

27.04.2025 20

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Former hostages, survivors and the bereaved walk together in March of the Living

Channeling horrors of the Holocaust on the march through Auschwitz, President Herzog says the ‘return of the hostages is a universal human imperative’

25.04.2025 60

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Hostage families join Holocaust survivors ahead of 2nd Auschwitz march since Oct. 7

Former captive Agam Berger and survivors of Oct. 7 onslaught among 8,000 participants who tour Holocaust death camp ahead of Thursday’s annual March...

24.04.2025 40

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Documentary digs up story of Polish village that butchered its Jews after Holocaust ended

It took filmmaker Yoav Potash 10 years to describe the events of once peacefully coexisting Gniewoszów, with the help of residents, survivors and a...

22.04.2025 20

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Award-winning show about comic who was jailed as a teen comes to Netflix

22.04.2025 30

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NBA player, Oct. 7 folk hero to be honored on Independence Day; singer declines

Yardena Arazi, lamenting wartime division, says she won’t join ‘Rachel from Ofakim,’ Deni Avdija, and 10-year-old Israel advocate at...

21.04.2025 10

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Pope makes Easter appearance, deplores rising world antisemitism and deaths in Gaza

Emerging from convalescence, pontiff, who missed most Holy Week events, sits in wheelchair on balcony of St. Peters Basilica as traditional Urbi et...

20.04.2025 20

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Daily Briefing April 20: Day 562 – Hostages’ families in anguish as PM says no deal

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz discusses Netanyahu’s statement, the progress of US-Iran nuclear talks, and the latest on...

20.04.2025 30

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African artifacts, digital designs and angler art on display in Haifa

Haifa Museum of Art and National Maritime Museum showcase new artists, as well as older works from their own collections

20.04.2025 20

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Daily Briefing Apr. 17: Day 559 – Hostage talks continue as US and Iran keep speaking

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses latest in negotiations led by Ron Dermer, response from Hamas and what the next round of US talks with...

17.04.2025 30

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Hostage’s parents say Witkoff ‘cried’ at video of him, PM didn’t know he was wounded

Parents of Matan Angrest, after meeting with US envoy last week, tell silent protesters Netanyahu ‘isn’t fighting’ for the release of their...

15.04.2025 10

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Daily Briefing Apr. 15: Day 557 – Tariffs, a tech brain drain and manna from Sicily

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel discusses US tariffs and the war’s effect on the tech industry; archaeology reporter Rossella Tercatin reviews the...

15.04.2025 20

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Bernard-Henri Lévy to open Writers Fest, Book Forum in Jerusalem in May

Jerusalem Prize to be awarded to French author Michel Houellebecq, who has written about France becoming Islamic

15.04.2025 50

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‘#Nova’ film, about Oct. 7 atrocities, arrives on Prime Video

The documentary chronicles the Hamas massacre at the desert rave, using footage taken by festival attendees and by the terrorists themselves

14.04.2025 10

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Fifth season of ‘Fauda’ to star award-winning French actress

Mélanie Laurent will appear in Israeli drama’s upcoming season, set to premiere in early 2026

14.04.2025 10

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Ex-hostage Agam Berger will perform at Auschwitz during March of the Living

Former captives and their families, alongside relatives of current hostages and Oct. 7 victims, set to join 80 Holocaust survivors, marking 80 years...

11.04.2025 30

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Daily Briefing Apr. 10: Day 552 – US pushes Iran diplomacy, with a military threat

Times of Israel editor David Horovitz on upcoming nuclear talks, Trump’s thoughts on hostages and Hamas, and IAF reservists who say prioritize the...

10.04.2025 10

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