Modi'in

Fedrik: Modi'in's upscale restaurant becomes kosher - restaurant review

About five years ago, with the change in the local demographic, the restaurant became kosher under the supervision of the Hevel Modi’in Rabbinate.

|ByDEBBIE LAMPERT
The highlight of the Fedrik menu is the meat dishes, says the writer.
ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country.

Millions of Israelis, including 900,000 children, live in poverty, NII report for 2024 shows

Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

|ByAVIHAI CHIIM
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Modi'in closes a street: Ten buildings to be built in a row

Construction company Ran-Or won another tender this week from the Israel Land Authority, to expand its project to a row of ten buildings along a single street.

|ByOFER PETERSBURG
Palestinian Assembly for Liberation calls for anti-Zionist protest at a yeshiva in Queens, New York City, January 8, 2026.

'We support Hamas:' Activists protest Israeli real estate expo at Queens synagogue

Anti-Israel activists rally in Queens, calling for "intifada" in protest of an Israeli real estate event at a local yeshiva, accusing the Israeli company of "ethnic cleansing" and land theft.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Herzog lauds education system at opening of new school year

“We have a wonderful education system,” said Herzog as he lauded pre-school principals and their assistants for preparing the youngsters in their care for their first day in school.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli president Isaac Herzog and his wife visit first graders at the Inbalim school in Modi'in Maccabim Reut on the first day of the new academic year, on September 1, 2021

Ikea invests $22.5m. in 'buy now, pay later' company Jifiti

The fact that this is Ikea's first investment in an Israeli company is a huge honor that underscores the added value that Jifiti brings to the industry as a whole.k

AUGUST 31, 2021ByZEV STUB
Jifiti's co-founders.

First visual arts gallery in Modi'in opens with eye-opening exhibition

The exhibition “Beauty Salon,” curated by Nitza Perry, is meant to explore the different meanings of beauty in our current cultural moment.

JULY 20, 2021ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘MOUNTAIN OF Lamborghini’ by Alina Orlov.