Dating in Israel

OKCupid launches Hebrew version, with special personalization for traditional, orthodox Jews

This new feature will include a variety of personalization questions to help find a match for users' diverse lifestyles, the company said.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
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The Great Mifgash. Pictured: Tracy Frydberg, director, Tisch Center for Jewish Dialogue at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People; Yoni Alon, Israeli Jewish Peoplehood Coalition and found er of David Cards.

The Great Mifgash: Building global Jewish connections amid crisis

The Great Mifgash used AI-powered speed conversations to unite Jewish leaders across continents in just one evening.

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Noa Barazani, Co-Founder of Hooked

This Valentine’s Day, maybe it’s time to look up

No one falls in love with a profile. They fall in love with a person standing right in front of them.

|ByNOA BARAZANI
A couple on a date

More expensive than Berlin and even Paris: Tel Aviv breaks a new cost of living record

The cost of dating in Europe has soared in recent years. Switzerland and Scandinavia are the most expensive, and Tel Aviv is also among the most expensive cities in the world.

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Ghosting, inappropriate behavior and coronavirus dating

We welcome you to submit your questions about dating, online profiles, dating etiquette, relationships and more.

MAY 27, 2020ByELANA VIVAT
IF YOUR date isn’t calling, here's what you should do.

Young Jews falling in love during the pandemic — without meeting in person

Jackie Abrams, a 20-year-old college student living in Troy, New York, chatted with 14 people in the group before she met a “really cute” guy through a Zoom chat hosted by one of the group’s members.

MAY 5, 2020ByJOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA
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Dating becomes another casualty of coronavirus

‘It's too hard to just meet strangers when you don't know where they've been… or if they have the virus,’ says one Israeli single

MARCH 23, 2020ByTARA KAVALER/THE MEDIA LINE
A PHOTO DEPICTS the ‘I Love You Wall,’ in Montmartre, Paris.

Online Dating: Everything You Need to Know

The world of online dating is bigger and more expansive than ever before.

JANUARY 26, 2020ByLEO GIOSUÈ

Fraud in the digital dating age

JWed focuses on a specific population – marriage-minded Jewish singles – but it is very successful at what it does.

NOVEMBER 18, 2019ByBEN RABIZADEH
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New JSwipe Study: Singles love Jewish holidays and want to marry Jewish

Popular dating app JSwipe released their “JSwipe Love Study 2019” on Wednesday

OCTOBER 3, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Robert Indiana's Love sculpture at the entrance of the Israel Museum

The Tel Aviv Dating Diaries

One olah hadasha navigates the Tel Aviv dating scene.

OCTOBER 2, 2019ByILANA MEHLMAN
‘SEXY THINGS, I guess’: An offending text exchange.

Lonely souls find love and win free trip to Israel

Alanna had spent years wondering where her true bashert was, and thanks to JWed, she found him.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019ByBENJY SINGER
JWed announces winner of it's free trip to Israel contest in honor of its 3,300th match

Can you be happy and single?

Israeli author says: Yes, and how!

JULY 6, 2019ByORIT ARFA
ELYAKIM KISLEV: ‘You can be married and the loneliest person on earth and you can be single and feel so connected.’

Israeli dating app users: Marriage reform needed

Poll of daters on OkCupid dislike Netanyahu and want public transport on Shabbat.

MAY 22, 2019ByAMY SPIRO
Groom Stas Granin kisses his new wife Yulia Tagil at the end of their alternative wedding ceremony in Tel Aviv. The alternative wedding ceremony was intended to demonstrate against the current situation in Israel, where the only way for Jews to get married by law is through the Chief Rabbinate.