Red Flowers for Remembrance
The flower known as “Blood of the Maccabees” has become the symbol for Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism.
The flower known as “Blood of the Maccabees” has become the symbol for Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism.
The pivotal month of April throughout the history of the Holocaust, in pictures and texts presented by Yad VaShem.
A long-lost movie, now restored, documents Jewish life in Ottoman Palestine, including Passover at the Western Wall and a holiday gymnastics exhibition.
An exhibit of ancient and antique pots and pans looks at Jewish cooking traditions and family life.
On Election Day, patients at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center were able to exercise their right to vote – fitting testament to a visionary pioneering doctor after whom the hospital is named.
Election day 2015 is almost here, outcomes are uncertain, critical issues are at stake and our fate hangs in the balance… but it’s not the first time things have been this way.
History buffs can make history — or at least write it — by adding new entries to Wikipedia Israel in a new contest launched in honor of Women’s History Month.
The custom of drowning out Haman’s name with noise-makers has been around since medieval times but there are always ways to update an old tradition.
Israeli election 2015 videos have gone viral, generating interest at home and internationally. Hard to believe that only a few decades ago, our campaign ads were local affairs, broadcast on one sole channel.
Artists, illustrators and cartoonists pay homage to the work of the late Dudu Geva, whose motley crew of characters included Tel Aviv’s unofficial mascot and the Israeli everyman.
It’s strange not to be at the ICC Jerusalem, the convention center so long identified with the Jerusalem International Book Fair.
The Keren Kayemet-Jewish National Fund isn’t tree planting this year but continues its greening work — even while the land rests.
Humorist Ephraim Kishon’s essays, movies and plays skewered Israeli society, cleverly and lovingly, in ways that still ring true decades after they were first written.
Oh for the days when Israeli and Lebanese beauty queens were able to link arms, dance and be photographed without controversy.
This unusual weather event was especially exciting for the country’s native-born ‘Sabras’ who had never before seen real snow.