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Wine Talk: The journey continues

Adam Montefiore recounts 50 years shaping Israeli wine, from pioneering oak barrels to international awards.

|ByADAM MONTEFIORE
Successful service: Presenting the Yarden Award for Wine Service with Segev Yerovam (C) to Avi Ben Ami (R).
PROF. YIFAT MERBL. Just last year, she received the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Research in the Promising Researcher category, which is given to scientists for groundbreaking or innovative research that has the potential to advance the health of mankind

Israeli scientist makes ‘Nature’ journal’s top ten list of shapers of science in 2025

‘Peptide detective’ Weizmann immunologist Prof. Yifat Merbl was recognized for a new hidden immune mechanism.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
NEOT SEMADAR has a dazzling desert view

Kibbutz Neot Semadar: Israel's desert oasis quenches thirst for tranquility, nature’s raw beauty

Neot Semadar’s large variety of tours and workshops offers something for everyone. Perhaps this unconventional community has found the balance it was looking for after all.

|ByAUDREY LYNN LEINOFF
PRIZE-WINNING composer Lior Navok.

Israeli Lior Navok wins prestigious Engel Prize for Ukraine war composition

Navok describes his 10-minute orchestral piece, 'Blue, Yellow, Smoke,' composed during the early days of the Russia-Ukraine War, as trying to 'capture the melancholic mood of war.'

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ

National Book Awards defends lifetime award for influential Black publisher of antisemitic book

“Even if the books’ quality did not disqualify Coates from a National Book Award, one would expect that the antisemitism would,” the Jewish author and journalist Mark Oppenheimer recently wrote.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Ta-Nehisi Coates at the University of Virginia during the MLK Celebration 2015

What makes this 47 sqm Tel Aviv apartment so remarkable to win a prestigious award?

Architects Baranowitz + Kronenberg received the 2024 FRAME Magazine award for their exceptional design of a compact 47 sqm apartment in Tel Aviv.

NOVEMBER 3, 2024ByWALLA! HOME, DESIGN
Irene Kronenberg and Alon Baranowitz

LG wins big at IDEA 2024 with 23 design awards, including two gold medals

LG strengthens its design leadership with 23 awards at the 2024 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).

OCTOBER 16, 2024ByWALLA! HOME, DESIGN
LG Comfort Kit

Herzog to honor civilian heroes of October 7 with highest civilian award

Herzog decided to initiate the new awards after hearing from families and witnesses of the extraordinary heroism of people who tried to rescue others from Hamas.

OCTOBER 9, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Isaac Herzog speaks on Israel's judicial reform on February 12, 2023

Documentary on the Nova festival massacre wins German TV Award

Those who had seen the film include survivors of the festival attack as well as US congresspeople from both major parties.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
The Nova Massacre Scene

Come Closer: A tale of love, loss, and redemption - review

Tom Nesher’s directorial debut follows Eden's emotional journey after her brother’s tragic death, blending beauty with heartache.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from Tom Nesher’s ‘Come Closer.’

Train theater production gets British honor

The Train Theater's ‘Once Upon a World’ has been nominated for The Offie

AUGUST 28, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Wartime films get Ophir Award nominations 

The Ophir Awards will be presented at a ceremony on September 16 in Tel Aviv.

AUGUST 15, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
‘THE BOY,’ ‘Come Closer,’ and ‘Highway 65’ with Idan Amedi and Tali Sharon, are up for Ophir Awards.

Founding chief rabbi of West Bank's Efrat receives lifetime achievement award

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin received a lifetime achievement award during the Saad Conference earlier this month.

AUGUST 11, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Founder of the Ohr Torah Stone Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, and the founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, received a lifetime achievement award at the Saad Conference on August 1. 

Awarding the first Castel Prize in memory of artist Zeev (Laszlo) Kun

Zeev Kun and his artwork will endure, enriching us for decades and centuries after his death.

JULY 21, 2024ByALEK D. EPSTEIN
Zeev Kun in his studio with Alek D. Epstein.