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I came to Israel with an open heart.

As a Belgian citizen of Syrian origin, I traveled to Tel Aviv at the end of December out of solidarity and in opposition to growing antisemitism. I came to connect — convinced, perhaps naively, that in a…

Suppose you were in a neighborhood shopping area with your young children at 1100 in the morning and a young man on a motorcycle stops, pulls out a gun and fires into the air. Fida Nara Tabony, co-director of programs at the New Israel Fund…

On February 24, 2026 — the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — Israel announced a practical and timely step of support: the transfer of 117 mobile generators to the Kyiv region.

The announcement was made by…

The past week has been a wake-up call for those of us who care deeply about Jewish Peoplehood, the future of Israel-Diaspora relations, and Jewish pluralism here in Israel. But the story of the chaos we’re seeing unfold – from the Supreme…

The other week we went to a concert at the Jerusalem Theater, produced and introduced by Astrith Baltsan, a well-known Israeli pianist and lecturer. She welcomed three musicians: a flutist, an oboist, and a cellist. Each played some…

A society can produce an Exodus without Egypt — not through borders and overt force, but by quietly altering the conditions under which someone can still feel “at home.”

Israel is currently an unusually sharp laboratory of a mechanism…

After many years of engaging in bilateral diplomacy with successive US administrations and Congress, as well as public diplomacy with the American people, I had a unique opportunity to experience the multilateral arena.

Last week, I was…

I can think of no better intro for my first Times of Israel Blog post than this: at the Avishai Cohen show at Blue Note Tokyo, everyone tip-tapp-head-bopping and a Japanese man enthusiastically yelling, “Shalom” as the jazz great and his…