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Conflict
As Netanyahu and Khamenei face off, what’s the end game?
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Conflict & Justice
‘We need to fix the country’: Israelis ponder a post-war future 
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A crowd gathers in what's become known as Hostages Square in central Tel Aviv, Feb. 11, 2024.
Israel-Hamas war
Most families of Israeli hostages want their loved ones returned home but some say it’s more important to defeat Hamas first
A sticker reads “Impeachment Now!” with a photo of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu with a bloody hand on his face
Israel-Hamas war
Israelis answer ‘battle cry’ to return to anti-government protests
Activists from the Standing Together Movement play drums at a demonstration.
Israel-Hamas war
Standing Together leaders discuss attempts to open Jewish-Arab dialogue amid Gaza war
An empty shabbat table is set in front of the Tel Aviv Museum to symbolize over 200 missing Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
How the hostage crisis is changing Israel
protest
Conflict & Justice
Israel’s ‘judicial coup’ protests are going strong. They still might fail.
Palestinians inspect their house which was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Aug. 8, 2022. 
As Israel-Palestinian truce holds, Gaza power plant restarts
A white ambulance is shown from the front with several people wearing military fatigues and carrying weapons standing nearby.
Top of The World
Gang riot in Ecuador prison leaves more than 100 dead, dozens injured
A supporter of US President Donald Trump waves Israeli and US national flags on the day of the U.S. presidential election, in Carmiel, northern Israel, Nov. 3, 2020.
Foreign policy
Amid US-UAE arms deal and US election, Israelis wonder how balance of power in region might change
Two men wearing tank tops and face masks protest and wave blue and white Israeli flags in a big crowd
COVID-19
Israelis protest against new COVID-19 measures that restrict protests
People wear face masks as they shop in a main market in Jerusalem, Israel, July 16, 2020.
COVID-19
Israel considers a second lockdown as coronavirus cases surge
Commodities containers are seen at Shahid Rajaee harbor
Cybersecurity
Iran-Israel cyberattacks threaten unofficial rules of engagement
Rachel Gutman says she votes partly because she wants to have a voice on American foreign policy in Israel. 
Israel’s Democrats Abroad cast their votes in the US primary election
Shamshiri, a Persian restaurant in South Tel Aviv, Israel. 
After Soleimani’s death, Persian Israelis are caught between two homelands
Pnina Tomano-Shata spoke at a town hall meeting for Ethiopian Israeli voters in the town of Or Yehuda ahead of Israel's national election on September 17, 2019.
‘They need to stop killing our kids’: Ethiopian Israeli lawmakers tackle police brutality
A black and white photo showing a man in a pilot's uniform with a mustache looking at a camera among a crowd of people.
Capt. Michel Bacos, Entebbe hijacking hero, dies at 95
Two up close portraits of white men with short hair cuts competing for prime minister.
Global Politics
For the first time in a decade, Netanyahu has a serious challenger
red light district
Women & Gender
This Israeli Facebook group is a lifeline for women caught in a cycle of prostitution
Gaza boy pushing wheelchair water
Conflict & Justice
Gaza’s water crisis is ‘a ticking time bomb’
American student Lara Alqasem, 22, appears at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel October 11, 2018. She wants to study at Hebrew University. But Israeli authorities are questioning her politics.
Conflict & Justice
She wanted to study at Hebrew University, but Israel is blocking her
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands at a podium speaking during a news conference in Tel Aviv.
Israel says Iran lied on nuclear arms, pressures US to scrap deal
Teklit Michael dreamed of running in the London Olympics. But his country, Eritrea, jailed him. So he fled to Israel.
Conflict
A life of statelessness derailed this Eritrean runner’s hopes to compete in the Olympics
Director Ziad Doueiri poses during a photocall for the movie "The Insult," at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on August 31, 2017. The film won Best Actor for Kamal el-Basha’s role. When he returned to Lebanon, Doueiri was detained by author
Arts
This Lebanese filmmaker is getting global acclaim, but back home he got arrested
Brkitay Gebru wakes every morning at dawn to care for her children. Her husband took off in February and she hasn't heard from him since.
Justice
This Eritrean woman found out her husband had abandoned her when she couldn’t find her bank card to pay rent
Brkitay Gebru with her sons, Tariki, 4, and Natanael, 3, in the courtyard of their building where immigrants from Eritrea and other countries rent rooms in Tel Aviv.
Economics
A program that pays African migrants to leave Israel is breaking up families
Mendy Cahan in his library, Yung YiDish, at Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station.
Culture
He calls Yiddish a language of life — so translating Oscar-winner ‘Son of Saul’ was an especially dark experience
Ziyad Abul Hawa came home one day to find this note about "an Arab" — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie next to it.
Conflict
He came home to find a note about ‘an Arab’ — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie.
Levinsky Market
Global Politics
To average Israelis, the problem with the Iran deal is ‘politics, not people’
Yigal Amir's wife, Larisa Trimbovler, with their son, Yinon from the documentary, Beyond the Fear. Amir got married and fathered a son after he went to prison for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Conflict
A controversial documentary shows the family life of the man who killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Etgar Keret's new memoir is "The Seven Good Years."
Books
How a kid persuaded a skeptic to show a little optimism
Tagel, Tair and Liron Haim, the three sisters that make up A-WA.
Music
Israel says A-WA — “Yes!” — to singing Yemeni sisters
A part of "Galilee Landscape."
Arts
Meet the man who broke into a museum — to hang his artwork
Ofer Portugaly on piano, and his wife Iris (standing next to him), started an Israeli gospel choir in 1999 after a trip to Nigeria. Here, they appear with part of their 15-member ensemble on Israeli TV.
Arts
A gospel choir in Israel? Why not?
Enas Shalodi's home in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood was demolished last month by Israeli authorities. Her son rammed the family car into a light rail stop in Jerusalem in October, killing two people.
Global Politics
Palestinians feel helpless as their homes are destroyed — at Israeli government orders
A woman holds up a placard during a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square.
Conflict
After he criticized the Gaza-Israel war, a young Israeli and his girlfriend face isolation
Flights from Israel had partially resumed Friday, but there were still plenty of cancellations. The FAA ban on flights to Tel Aviv left many Israelis feeling claustrophobic and isolated — even if only for two days.
Conflict & Justice
The US flight ban left Israelis feeling cut off from the world
Israeli Yasha Marmer protests against his country’s operation in the Gaza Strip, holding a poster that says “stop the war” in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
Conflict & Justice
Anti-war voices in Israel face threats and violence
Conflict & Justice
Companies are tapping into a desire by some tourists to get up close and personal with war zones
Mati Milstein and Lihi Yona celebrate their wedding July 11. They planned the wedding months in advance, but had to scramble to adjust the party to the realities of war.
Conflict & Justice
Life goes on in Israel, even if it means dodging rockets at your wedding
Boys carry their surfboards ashore on a Tel Aviv beach after their lesson was cancelled following a rocket from Gaza that was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defense system.
Conflict & Justice
While the conflict in Gaza flares, Tel Aviv remains ‘in a bubble’
People pray next to the bodies of eight Palestinian members from the al-Haj family from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medics said the relatives were killed in an early morning air strike carried out by Israel that destroyed at least
Conflict & Justice
In attacking Israel, Hamas might be trying out a back-to-basics strategy
Palestinians in Gaza City gather around the remains of a car which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday.
Conflict & Justice
Israel and Hamas seem to be moving toward all-out war
Israel’s largest bus company plastered buses with big ads featuring the #BringBackOurBoys slogan.
Conflict & Justice
Bring back our boys, whoever they are
Balkan Beat Box
Arts, Culture & Media
How Middle East sounds drive Jason Derulo’s ‘Talk Dirty’
Balkan Beat Box
Arts, Culture & Media
How Middle East sounds drive Jason Derulo’s ‘Talk Dirty’
Dudu Tassa at his concert last week in Tel Aviv playing songs from his album "Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis."
Arts, Culture & Media
An Israeli rocker sets a modern groove to his Iraqi grandfather’s Arabic music
Dudu Tassa at his concert last week in Tel Aviv playing songs from his album "Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis."
Arts, Culture & Media
An Israeli rocker sets a modern groove to his Iraqi grandfather’s Arabic music
The Fernsehturm television tower, featuring Berlin's largest and most well-known disco ball.
Arts, Culture & Media
For Israelis, Berlin is one big, alluring disco party
"I’m the pharmacist at Azza Pharmacy. Thanks."
Lifestyle & Belief
Dearest parking cop, please don’t give me a ticket
Global Scan
In Ukraine, telling the sides apart isn’t always easy
Rose Fostanes
Arts, Culture & Media
A Filipina caregiver in Israel rockets to fame on X-Factor
A narrow tunnel inexplicably flanked by metal claws deep inside Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station.
Arts, Culture & Media
You want scary? Check out Tel Aviv’s Twilight Zone of a bus station
Health & Medicine
Israel has a smart idea – and it’s all about brains
Amos Oz in his Tel Aviv apartment. His bestselling memoir, "A Tale of Love and Darkness," is on the bookshelf behind him, translated into more than two dozen languages.
Arts, Culture & Media
Amos Oz is still writing after all these years — and waiting for his Nobel Prize
Arts, Culture & Media
Israeli-born Ethiopian Jew embraces ancestry in her music
Global Politics
Tel Aviv offers insights as Boston prepares permanent memorial to Boston Marathon victims
Business, Economics and Jobs
New bus line serves Palestinian workers — but not without controversy
Lifestyle & Belief
American rabbi elected to Israeli Knesset with hopes of bridging sectarian divide
Israeli left trying to build support from Occupy Tel Aviv crowd