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(JNS) - After the shivah mourning period, everyone goes home. Friends return to work. Family members go back to their own lives. The steady stream of visitors slows, the meals stop arriving, and the house gradually grows quiet again. But children still need to be picked up from school. Homework still has to be done. Laundry piles up. Dinner still has to be made. For hundreds of Israeli women widowed since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and the war that followed, that is when the...
(JNS) - By lunchtime on Tel Aviv's Pinsker Street, it is hard to imagine that this was once the scene of one of the most devastating missile strikes of the Iran-Israel war. Cafes are full. Diners sit under the shade of mature trees. Cyclists and scooters weave through the traffic. The neighborhood has regained much of its familiar rhythm. But midway down the block, the illusion ends. Two damaged buildings still stand behind fencing, their broken windows and scarred façades a reminder that,...
(JNS) — When AFEKA Racing lines up on the starting grid in Belgium this September, the team’s solar-powered car will carry more than batteries and photovoltaic panels. A Magen David will be emblazoned on the vehicle, alongside the racing number 18, symbolizing chai (“life”). For the engineering students behind the project, the markings are a deliberate statement that they are proud to compete openly as Israelis. “We see ourselves as an Israeli team representing Israel,” Dan Herman, head of Tel...
(JNS) — Nobody was entirely sure the ceremony would take place. Organizers had quietly filmed a full dress rehearsal days earlier in case renewed fighting with Iran made a live public event impossible. A fragile ceasefire with Iran and Lebanon was holding—barely. Last year’s ceremony was canceled due to wildfires in the Jerusalem hills. This year, thousands arrived from across the country, determined not to miss the event. What followed was one of the most emotionally charged Independence Day ceremonies in recent memory—a sweeping, two-hou...
(JNS) - A team from the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites arrived in early April in a small Upper Galilee community where the sounds of air-raid sirens and explosions had become routine amid weeks of sustained rocket fire. Despite the U.S.-brokered 10-day ceasefire with Lebanon that went into effect on Friday, residents of Israel's north continue to face uncertainty as security conditions evolve. For many children in the region, daily life has unfolded largely within bomb shelter...
(JNS) - The siren went off at 8:17 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, in the northern Israeli city of Safed-a nationwide alert warning Israelis of the start of "Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury," the joint Israel-U.S. offensive against Iran's current regime. Julia Marzouk, 15, from Chicago, woke in a panic. She couldn't find her shoes. So she ran-barefoot, heart pounding-down to the shelter. "I felt completely confused," she said. "I asked questions in my head about what was going on. I had never experi...
(JNS) - Since Gadi Moses's release at the end of January 2025, after 482 days in captivity in Gaza at the hands of Islamic Jihad, his daughter Moran has been struggling to keep up with him. The 81-year-old hostage returned with an energy that defies both his age and his ordeal, driven by a renewed determination to help rebuild his beloved Kibbutz Nir Oz. "He has no brakes," Moran said wryly, told interviewer Racheli Avidov and an intimate audience at the Valley Train Heritage Site in Kfar...
