The news you might never hear about from Israel.
This is not fake news. An Arab girl and a Jewish boy play chess in a tournament as a Druze girl looks on. Credit: Olga Volkov
I love posting hopeful news from Israel. My article appeared in Times of Israel here.
Amid the war against Hamas, 132 chess players ranging in age from 9 to 78 competed in the Israeli Open Championship from January 21…
Mothers grieving for their soldier sons.
I wrote this article for The New York Times in 2007 and I feel compelled to repost it. Hamas’ brutal massacre of men, women and children on October 7 left 1,200 dead and some 235 people dragged across the border where many of them are still being held hostage. The death toll for soldiers killed fighting ISIS-like terrorists is 225. So I was thinking of all the grieving mothers …
I wrote the…
“This is a fight between good and evil, between light and darkness, between truth and lies.”
Adi Kikozashvili, the sister of Hamas hostage Shlomi Ziv by his photograph in Nahariya, Israel
Here’s my article that appeared in Times of Israel here.
Adi Kikozashvili says the only reason she can go on with her life is because it is what her older brother would want her to do.
That brother,…
More than 120,000 people in Northern Israel are refugees, evacuated because of continual attacks by Iran-led Hezbollah terrorist fores in Lebanon.
Here’s my article from The Jerusalem Post about the more than 120,000 refugees within Israel who have been evacuated from the northern border with Lebanon because of Iran-led Hezbollah attacks.
When Karin Nathans Gefen was evacuated with her children from Kibbutz Matzuva on October 18 due to possible attacks by Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon, she said that the “worst thing of all” was the…
During the holiday season, it’s good to find a spark of light.
Here’s a tiny shimmer of hope in a very dark time during the Israel-Hamas War. At this group home for young people with special needs, a Muslim young woman and a Jewish young man share a special friendship. From my article in Times of Israel, which you can read here. By the way, Times of Israel, published in Israel, has up-to-date news you won’t see in most other media sites.
When the…
Writing my life story during the war
The war between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and Iran and Syria continues. Meanwhile, I wrote this piece for the Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade Daily. You can read it here where there are other writers on the war or continue here.
My library books are long overdue.
I took them out from a kibbutz library near where I live in the Western Galilee, a few weeks before the…
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This article originally appeared in The Times of Israel here.
Snir Dayan has fought for Israel on the streets of New York City and on social media. And now, the 29-year-old has left behind his successful New York business to return to Israel to fight once again in the Israeli Army.
Dayan was watching the news at midnight on October 7 and saw that there had been a Hamas invasion from Gaza. At…
In the early morning on my bike ride delivering coffee to Israeli soldiers, I ran into Daniel Shkolnik. He’ll be 80 in a few months. My husband and I met him in the early 2000s when he worked at Café Carter in the nearby town of Nahariya. He used to grind our coffee.
In August, 2006, Hezbollah—Iran’s proxy terror army—fired Katyusha rockets into Nahariya. The rockets hit the store, with Danny…
Why we will never let Islamic terrorists destroy the spirit of the Jewish people.
Here’s an update on Hamas’ war against Israel and a spark of light in the middle of all this darkness! If you want to read the article on the Times of Israel website, look here. The Times of Israel is one of the best sources of news.
Every morning at dawn, I ride my bicycle to deliver coffee and tea to the soldiers stationed along the beach near where I live in Israel’s Western Galilee. I’ve…
The Hezbollah terror army, backed by Iran, now has more than 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed in Israel’s direction. All brought to Southern Lebanon under the watch of UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon. And they call themselves “peacekeepers.”
Meanwhile, as we wait for a war to break out at any moment, here’s my article on what it’s like to live in Israel’s Western Galilee…