Nepal

Nepal Chabad evicted from Jewish center over landlord's antisemitism fears

The Chabad emissaries moved out and are looking for a new home, but the Rebbetzin wrote that it was difficult to leave the house where they had built their life's work.

An Israeli Jew worshipper prays during a Passover ceremony in Kathmandu on April 14, 2014. Jewish travellers in Asia came together to celebrate the Passover Seder in Nepal.
Cityscape skyline of Nepalese capital Kathmandu with the Himalaya snow capped mountains in the background.

Israeli tourist in Kathmandu says he was assaulted with metal club due to his nationality

Israelis stranded in Nepali snowstorm.

Rescue teams working to save Israelis trapped in Nepali mountain blizzard

Participants at a gathering of Asia-Pacific envoys at Kibbutz Be'eri to honor foreign workers slain in October 7 attacks, Oct. 26, 2025

Asia-Pacific envoys honor foreign workers killed in Oct 7 attacks


Nepal authorities recover bodies of 20 out of 22 people on board crashed aircraft

The aircraft was on a 20-minute flight before losing contact with the control tower.

 THE IDF evacuates an injured person on a  stretcher for transport via helicopter to a  hospital, in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015.

Nepal plane missing with 22 people on board, teams head site of fire

Police official said a land rescue-and-search team had been sent to the area near Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest peak.

  Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, tail number 9N-AET, in Simikot, Nepal December 1, 2021. Picture taken December 1, 2021.

Passover: What was your most unique Seder? - opinion

‘For the shankbone, they had a part of a leg of some animal – complete with fur!’

 KATHMANDU: LOTS of coleslaw.

Flood deaths in India and Nepal cross 150

Some 42 people have died in the last week in the southern Indian state of Kerala, according to a statement from the chief minister's office.

Israeli firefighters sit in a rescue boat as they search for people at a parking lot that was flooded following heavy rainfall in Ness Ziona, November 21, 2020.

Grapevine October 6, 2021: The American component in Aliyah Bet

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Arjun Ghimire, Itsik Kamilian, Snjan Shakya, yitzhak Eldan

Grapevine September 24, 2021: More to Jewish culture in Poland than is generally realized

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MICHAL HERZOG, President Isaac Herzog, Avraham and Israel Maidanchik and Avraham's son.

Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, seven missing in Nepal

The Bhutan villagers, who had been collecting cordeyceps, a fungus used in medicine, were sleeping when the floodwaters hit just after midnight.

A stream runs through the Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan, December 14, 2017.

Floods, landslides kill 40 in Nepal, many missing

"We are searching for eight people who are still missing," said Kishore Shrestha, a senior police official.

Israeli aid to Nepal

Mount Everest closed to climbers over coronavirus fears

Nepal has confirmed just one case of the coronavirus - a student studying in China on a trip home - out of 450 people tested.

Light illuminates Mount Everest (C) during sunset in Solukhumbu district, also known as the Everest region, in this picture taken November 30, 2015

Meet the Ambassador: Anjan Shakya wears her gentle determination well

Nepal’s ambassador to Israel is anxious to bring Israeli medical know-how and technology back home.

President Reuven Rivlin welcomes Ambassador Dr. Anjan Shakya of Nepal