Israeli current events

1,300 US Maccabiah members pampered at Kfar Maccabiah

Members of the American delegation enjoyed dozens of facilities and sports fields in Kfar Maccabiah for training ahead of the games.

 1,300 US Maccabiah members pampered at Kfar Maccabiah.
ALON LOTRINGER and Victoria Hanna are two of the artists featured at this year’s Jerusalem Jazz Festival.

Sixth annual Jerusalem Jazz Festival to go online amid coronavirus

Jerusalemite designer and bar owner Daniel Nahmias

Making it in Jerusalem

Feminity meets the tensions of war at the new Wilfrid Israel Museum exhibition.

City notes: Art, art, art


Emmys, enemies, and heroes

Newcomers and fan favorites flood the small screen.

Game of Thrones

Grapevine: An Oscar for Yad Vashem twice over

Britain’s new ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey

City Notes: Acre property taxes to remain the same next year

Paragliding (illustrative).

TA Police Chief Bentzi Sau to be acting national commissioner

Sau to begin as acting commissioner on July 1, when Inspector General Yochanan Danino leaves office.

Yochanan Danino and Bentzi Sau

Firefighters battle blaze at chemical factory near Dimona

One firefighter fell sustaining light injuries and an employee took ill from breathing in noxious fumes.

Fire in Dimona factory

Free speech or sexual services: Will Ashley Madison get to build its brand on TV, radio?

Issue set to go to High Court on August 3.

Ashley Madison online advertisement

Search team finds body of missing Israeli trekker Or Asraf in Nepal

Asraf is the sole Israeli victim of the earthquake which has killed more than 7,000 in Nepal.

Or Asraf, the missing Israeli hiker, seen here in Nepal

ZAKA: Search team finds documents connected to Israeli trekker missing in Nepal

The documents linked to Or Asraf were found in an area where a large avalanche occurred after the quake, ZAKA spokesman says.

Or Asraf, the missing Israeli hiker, seen here in Nepal

Jewish-Druse partnership and cooperation stems back to Biblical era says Rivlin

Rivlin says that he would like to see members of the Druse community integrated into all aspects of Israeli endeavor.

President Reuven Rivlin

12-year-old Israeli girl killed in boat fire while on vacation in Thailand

Girl was only one of 114 people aboard not to be rescued.

Fire on ferry in Thailand which killed 12-year-old girl