Ayelet HaShahar

I can barely hear Shlomo Ra’anan over the din of the diesel engine. It’s the day after Yom Kippur and Ra’anan, who lives with his family in Rehovot,…

Flora and Moshe Yehiya, whose festive 80th birthday party I attended recently, were my first Jerusalem neighbors. They lived with their 10 children…

The Iranian nuclear threat serves as a handyreminder to the Jews of Israel that we are bound by a common fate. Forthose of us willing to live without…

Dana and Rivky planned the meeting for a cafe. Dana, a university student, and Rivky, a teacher in a very religious high school, had begun studying…

There's a sea-change taking place in Eilat. Since it was first recognized as a city in 1959, Eilat, with its glitzy, Las Vegas-like aura, has traded…

The whole world is against us, goes an old Jewish joke, and now we've joined in. That witticism came to mind while reading headlines in the Hebrew…

I recently received by e-mail a short Kol Yisrael radio interview with Michal Elboim, of blessed memory, taped several months before her death.…

Five terrorists, including the Islamic Jihad leadership in Bethlehem, were killed in two clashes with the IDF in the West Bank on Wednesday. In the…

An earthquake that shook Israel 10 days ago damaged some 700 archeological artifacts displayed in a museum at Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar in northern…

The IDF was handed an official order from the Knesset Tuesday - no more smoking on military bases or other security institutions, effective…

Most people would be satisfied with coining a phrase. Hagashash Hahiver (literally The Pale Tracker) minted an entire treasury. Simply called…

Listening to the new Bruce Springsteen album, Magic - which is topping the US charts and rightly being hailed as something of a return to form - I…

To reach the office of Ayelet Hashahar, drive to the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, beyond a cluster of yeshivot and the bountiful numbers of…

Water has been a major concern in Israel for generations, both as a result of the country's limited resources and because agriculture, a mainstay of…

MK Yitzhak Levi (NU/NRP) announced on Wednesday morning that he was prepared to support the release of his daughter's killers in return for kidnapped…

MK Yitzhak Levy (NU/NRP) announced on Wednesday morning that he was prepared to support the release of his daughter's killers in return for kidnapped…

MK Yitzhak Levy (NU/NRP) announced on Wednesday morning that he would prepared to support the release of his daughter's killers in return for…

A six-year-old girl drowned Monday in a swimming pool near the reception grounds at Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar in the Upper Galilee, Zaka reported.…

J. went into the 1973 Yom Kippur War with a profile of 97, the highest the army allocates. He came out of it with a 45 for psychological reasons, and…

When Tal-Or Cohen, 15, of the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy (MJBHA), a Jewish high school in Rockwell, Maryland, insisted that her school mission…