Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is a freelance journalist and Emmy-nominated producer based in Tel Aviv. Her work as a writer, reporter and producer has appeared in The New York Times, The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, The Miami Herald, The Forward, PBS, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and MSNBC, among other news outlets. After graduating with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Yardena worked for The Miami Herald, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, and received an Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports.

David Ben-Gurion, flanked by the members of his provisional government, reads the Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall

Facing hostility, American Muslims take a lesson on Zionism

Refugee Seder at the Holot Detention Center.

Flight to freedom?

Arrivée d'immigrants ukrainiens à l'aéroport Ben-Gourion le 22 décembre

Une chance d’être juif…


The privilege of being Jewish

For Jewish refugees in war-ravaged Ukraine, the help from Jewish communities abroad has made an immense difference in their lives in the old country, and their decisions to move to a new one.

Ukrainian immigrants disembark from a December 22 flight from Kiev

Fleeing civil war, thousands of Ukrainians take refuge in Israel

Founder of IFCJ, Yechiel Eckstein, paid for Monday’s flight, which he intends to be the first of many. "This is a historic day not just for the olim themselves but for the people of Israel."

Over two hundred new olim arrive on flight of IFCJ aliya initiative

Le dernier kibboutz

Comment un kibboutz est resté fidèle aux rêves de ses fondateurs, malgré le chant des sirènes du capitalisme

Le dernier kibboutz

The last living kibbutz

How one kibbutz has managed to stay true to its founding dream, despite the movement’s warm embrace of capitalism.

A tractor is seen in the date fileds of Kibbutz Samar.

Vive la France?

Against the backdrop of rising anti-Semitism in Europe and France in particular, French Jews are coming to Israel in record numbers to make new lives for themselves, undeterred even by the rocket fire from Gaza.

A French and Israeli flag are seen during a 2001 demonstration in Paris.

Forgotten residents?

Jews living in Arab neighborhoods who were attacked during the recent riots claim they are neglected by police.

Batya Kayman with her husband and children at the park in French Hill, which overlooks Shuafat Refugee Camp.

Testing the boundaries of art and conflict

How an art organization founded by an Israeli entrepreneur, an Israeli economist and a Jewish American museum director is helping to support Palestinian artists.

‘The Wedding Night’ by Dina Mattar.

Du noir au blanc

Jusqu’à présent, le gouvernement a très peu aidé les hommes et les femmes qui quittent le monde ultraorthodoxe à s’intégrer dans la société laïque

Haredim

Du noir au blanc

Jusqu’à présent, le gouvernement a très peu aidé les hommes et les femmes qui quittent le monde ultraorthodoxe à s’intégrer dans la société laïque

Haredim

Between secular and haredi worlds

Until now, there has been little government support to aid the integration of citizens leaving the haredi fold for a secular life.

Secular patrons at a Jerusalem cafe.