Heftziba

It’s the only Japanese museum in the Middle East, and the turbulent history of the collection is as inspiring as the museum itself. An unlikely and…

In Heftziba, a crowded Ethiopian neighborhood on the eastern edge of Netanya, residents are busy preparing for the coming Succot holiday. On this…

‘It is a real privilege to live in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City,” says Varda Ruth Frankel, a 22-year resident of the Jewish Quarter. “This…

Felix Tikotin lived a life that today seems almost larger than life. Born 1893 in Glogau, Germany, to a comfortable Jewish family whose ancestors are…

Democrats Abroad-Israel, the official Israeli branch of the US Democratic Party, held the first in a series of voter registration meetings on…

The Environmental Protection Ministry demanded of the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) a detailed plan for reducing coal dust from its Orot Rabin…

Newly-elected Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky will travel to Moscow on Monday to mark the opening of the new school year for Jewish learning…

Many recipes call for tomatoes or tomato products - but how many vacation outings include tomatoes? Well, at least one. Throughout July, the Prinir…

FOR YEARS now, the Hebrew tabloids have almost unfailingly dug dirt up on the Netanyahu family with regard to anything that might be remotely…

In a world intent on endlessly criticizing Israel, the Japanese Makuya are something else. At least once a year - beginning shortly after the state's…

Israeli Police investigators from the National Fraud Unit will leave for Italy on Thursday to deliver Heftzibah CEO Boaz Yona from Italy. Yona fled…

If the iconic former mayor of Haifa Abba Khoushy were alive to walk the city's streets today, would he laugh wryly or sigh in despair on his way up…

Up to 10,000 cormorants (a bird species similar to the pelican) will be stopping in Israel en route to their winter habitat in Africa. The Israel…

The last four years of Friday afternoon protests at the West Bank village of Bil'in have shown the Israeli occupation at its most robotically stupid,…

Following reports that the real estate company 'Heftziba' had gone bankrupt, police on Thursday were preparing to confront those who were planning to…

For many members of the Japanese Makuya sect who participated in their 53rd annual pilgrimage to Israel this past week, the fact that it literally…

Return of the MakuyasEvery 10 years, the very pro-Israel Makuya sect from Japan has sponsored a concert with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra - IBA…

Billionaire philanthropist Arkady Gaydamak is once again fulfilling what should be the role of government. Gaydamak, who built the tent city in…

New home sales were down significantly in most parts of the country - including in the North - even before the war with Hizbullah, according to data…

New home sales were down significantly in most parts of the country - including in the North - even before the war with Hizbullah, according to data…