With the hostages coming home, we are reading, seeing, and experiencing their stories of immense bravery in the most horrific conditions. From refusing repeated calls to convert to Islam to ...

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Ofer Gitai, community manager at Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the hardest hit communities on October 7, cautiously welcomes the announcement of a deal. “We are extremely excited, but also vigilant, and will ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

A dispute between garbage truck drivers and a major landfill site in southern Israel is threatening to overwhelm numerous cities with household waste, as transit collection sites say they are ...

Years ago, a rabbi I greatly admire confided in me how he worried that an Israeli government with Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm might lead to the destruction of the Jewish people. His concern ...

Today’s guest columnist is Richard Friedman. I hugged her as soon as I saw her. This friend, a Birmingham Christian woman in her 20’s, had just come back from Israel. She’d been there during the June ...

On the eve of the Jewish New Year, we have thoughts from Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi at Central Synagogue in New York. Her new book, "Heart of a Stranger," is about her journey to becoming the first ...

At Rosh Hashanah, we count the years since God created the world, this year being the year 5,786 (give or take a few billion years!). While this is a season of joy and community gathering, the New ...

Visby, Sweden: There was a time during Israel’s early years when the then-properly named Israel Defense Forces would never have participated in the genocidal destruction of Gaza and Gazans on the ...