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Jessica Steinberg

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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This Passover, count butterflies or see portraits of northerners who are finally back home

This Passover, count butterflies or see portraits of northerners who are finally back home

Ideas of places to go during the springtime holiday, with plenty that’s free and open to the public

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Released hostage Agam Berger joins orchestra that once played for her release

Released hostage Agam Berger joins orchestra that once played for her release

Freed captive and violinist plays in Jerusalem with the Lu Yehi Orchestra, an intergenerational, multicultural team of professional and amateur...

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What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!

What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!

Son Alon Ohel has shrapnel in his eye but endures with other fellow captives. Now, ahead of Passover, Idit says the entire Jewish nation must...

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Daily Briefing Apr. 8: Day 550 – Surprises for prime minister during DC trip

Daily Briefing Apr. 8: Day 550 – Surprises for prime minister during DC trip

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman reviews Netanyahu’s carefully planned visit to Hungary and his last-minute journey to the US for a meeting...

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Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99

Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99

The former Nazi secretary was handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in...

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Fashion exhibit looks at design as symbol of hope during World War II

Fashion exhibit looks at design as symbol of hope during World War II

Holon Design Museum launches ‘Heroines,’ a look at World War Two-era designers who leaned on fashion, as well as Holocaust items

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New graphic novel focuses on fictional kids who lost fathers on October 7

New graphic novel focuses on fictional kids who lost fathers on October 7

‘Echoes of October’ has 4 child narrators, from Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Toronto and Daliyat al-Karmel, each tell tragic story from onslaught; most...

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Be’eri artist and gallery director finds clarity in temporary home, art and family

Be’eri artist and gallery director finds clarity in temporary home, art and family

Sofie Berzon Mackie fled her kibbutz on Oct. 7 as terrorists torched the community’s art space. She spent months living in a hotel room and hopes to...

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Hostages’ families yearn and mourn in new Passover Haggadahs

‘I have to hold onto something that gives me hope,’ says hostage Nimrod Cohen’s mother, who illustrated a children’s Haggadah

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Daily Briefing Apr. 2: Day 544 – Ex-hostages speak their minds about IDF in Gaza

Daily Briefing Apr. 2: Day 544 – Ex-hostages speak their minds about IDF in Gaza

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses comments made by Amit Soussana, Yarden Bibas and others on national platforms, and the growing number of...

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Yemen’s Houthis claim they downed another American drone as US strikes pound country

Yemen’s Houthis claim they downed another American drone as US strikes pound country

Trump promises ‘real pain’ for Iran-backed rebels, who say they used a ‘locally manufactured missile’ to shoot down 16th, $30-million MQ-9...

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Artist calls for salvation in show at Bat Yam museum

Artist calls for salvation in show at Bat Yam museum

Ester Schneider salvages furniture legs and arms to create tabernacles and a sukkah in her solo exhibit, ‘Hoshana’

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Daily Briefing Mar. 31: Day 542 – IDF tells Gazans to leave Rafah, Trump threatens Iran

Daily Briefing Mar. 31: Day 542 – IDF tells Gazans to leave Rafah, Trump threatens Iran

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz discusses Gaza, Iran and the rise in rhetoric, as reporter Sue Surkes describes challenges facing...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 29: Day 540 – Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like hostages’ only beacon

Father of released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen reflects on his son’s sense of rebirth, the struggle to bring him home, and the continuing sense of...

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What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages’ only beacon

Father of released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen reflects on his son’s sense of rebirth, the struggle to bring him home, and the continuing sense of...

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Album of raps composed by Oct. 7 hero, Aner Shapiro, released by family

Album of raps composed by Oct. 7 hero, Aner Shapiro, released by family

Clip of ‘Headstart’ features Aner’s best friend, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, singing the song in the car

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Daily Briefing Mar. 27: Day 538 – Knesset passes judicial selection law, what now?

Daily Briefing Mar. 27: Day 538 – Knesset passes judicial selection law, what now?

Times of Israel editor David Horovitz discusses the details and effects of the judicial appointments process law, the protests that aimed to stop it;...

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Iran-backed terror chiefs taunt Israel, remain defiant ahead of Quds Day

Iran-backed terror chiefs taunt Israel, remain defiant ahead of Quds Day

Hamas official says war has not broken Palestinians’ will; Houthi chief vows attacks to continue, while Hezbollah leader insists ‘no room for...

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Berlinale-winning documentary about hostage family gets global sales deal

Darren Aronofsky-produced ‘Holding Liat,’ on an Israeli-American family fighting for their loved ones’ release from Gaza captivity, shows the...

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Negev vintners visit Spanish wineries to talk grapes and tourism

Negev vintners visit Spanish wineries to talk grapes and tourism

Trip sponsored by Merage Foundation as part of effort to establish region as agritourism hub

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Daily Briefing Mar. 25: Day 536 – Govt, high court and AG face off on Shin Bet chief

Daily Briefing Mar. 25: Day 536 – Govt, high court and AG face off on Shin Bet chief

Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon discusses legalities of firing Ronen Bar and probe into police as archaeological reporter Rossella Tercatin discusses...

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French Jewish group seeks distance from Israeli confab drawing far-right leaders

French Jewish group seeks distance from Israeli confab drawing far-right leaders

CRIF umbrella group stresses invites for Jordan Bardella, Marion Marechal to attend Jerusalem antisemitism event came from Israeli authorities, noting...

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No spring chickens, aging dancers add wrinkle to new ensemble

Group of performers over the age of 40 set to premier original work, ‘Four Fathers,’ at Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv

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For hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal, a film imagines salvation through all things Japanese

22-year-old anime fan planned on traveling to Japan before he was abducted by terrorists on October 7, 2023; his story is now the subject of...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 19: Day 530 – US fully supportive of Gaza strikes, but Trump stays silent

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses White House support for Israel’s strikes, the latest on US hostage envoy Adam Boehler, and US payments to...

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‘They’re not just posters, they’re people’: Freed hostages urge deal to save those left behind

Families fear resumed war could be fatal for loved ones; Sasha Troufanov asks ‘why are we abandoning them’; Yarden Bibas say he’s...

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Historical imagery, magical letters capture the imagination in Bible Lands exhibits

Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum extends its archeological focus with two new exhibits, one connected to October 7 and the other to the Hebrew...

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Columbia med school professor and poet reflects on October 7 grief

In ‘A Prayer of Six Wings,’ psychiatrist Owen Lewis grapples with the traumas of the Hamas atrocities

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Daily Briefing Mar. 16: Day 527 – Haredi groups help yeshiva students dodge draft

Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses the issue of ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions amid current budget debate and his ongoing investigation into...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 13: Day 524 – Is Steve Witkoff the only hope for a hostage deal?

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz discusses how to save the talks on freeing the hostages, the March 31 budget deadline, and Trump’s...

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‘Eretz Nehederet’ cast and Hanan Ben Ari sing for hostage Alon Ohel

The singer plays a yellow piano, symbolizing the struggle to free the hostages held in Gaza, and dedicates a song to the budding pianist

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Still upright at 85, John Cleese to bring sit-down comedy to Israel

Co-creator of Monty Python, ‘Fawlty Towers’ and other comic hits — who touted his 2019 appearance as the last chance to see him alive — to...

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A mourning rabbi looks to hostage son, slain in Gaza, for direction as he pushes for a deal

Before he was murdered in captivity, Ori Danino helped fellow hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, in acts of heroism that color how his father...

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Haifa, Jerusalem pizzerias make 50 Top Pizza list for Asia-Pacific region

Haifa’s NeoPolitan takes 25th spot and new entry of the year award and Jerusalem’s La Piedra is at 37 on the prestigious pie guide

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Israeli hit show ‘Fauda’ to start filming fifth season

The team goes abroad for a private mission in episodes of the action series that will premiere early next year

10.03.2025 10

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Daily Briefing Mar. 10: Day 521 – Israeli banks gain in war, El Al gets company on NY route

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel discusses lenders’ profits, Israir’s new TLV-NY plans; reporter Diana Bletter analyzes allegations against IDF in Gaza...

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Oct. 7 bereaved father draws his hope, sadness and criticism in daily caricatures

Moshe Shapiro, father of hero Aner Shapiro who died protecting Nova partygoers in roadside shelter, seeks his own rehabilitation through a familiar...

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After Oct. 7, Israel’s new National Library helps a resilient nation turn the page

The $225 million building opened to the public just days after the Hamas atrocities – and has become an unexpected source of unity for a diverse...

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Daily Briefing Mar. 5: Day 516 – Arab states plan for Gaza, are frustrated with PA

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses former hostages at Trump’s address to Congress; an Arab summit opposing the president’s plan; and the role...

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Anu Museum introduces pilot program for veteran immigrants

Institution to host discussion circles in English, Russian, French and Spanish about the ongoing challenges of immigration

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Daily Briefing March 3: Day 514 – Freed hostage Eli Sharabi is all business with PM

Zman Yisrael founding editor Biranit Goren discusses the deadly Haifa terror attack, a former hostage’s strength, and the Oscar that went to...

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Freed hostage Emily Damari undergoes surgery on hand shot on October 7

Mandy Damari, the former captive’s mother, said her daughter was ‘sewn up like a pin cushion’ by Hamas

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Daily Briefing Feb. 27: Day 510 – 4 more hostage bodies arrive home, after Bibas burial

Times of Israel editor David Horovitz discusses national response to the return of the bodies of hostages, expectations for phase 2 of the hostage...

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