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Michele Chabin
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, center, at the beginning of his meeting this week with Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. Haim Zach (GPO)
September 25, 2019, 2:04 pm
Next steps in the Israeli vote, explained
We asked some experts to help cut through the electoral fog
By Michele Chabin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a news conference Tuesday as he vowed to annex the Jordan Valley should he win the Sept. 17 election. Getty Images
September 11, 2019, 12:25 pm
Cost of living, cost of annexation
For Israeli voters, pocketbook issues collide with security, questions about democracy
By Michele Chabin
Ethiopian Israelis and white allies gathered for a demonstration to protest the killing of an Ethiopian-Israeli teen by an off-duty police officer. Michele Chabin/JW
July 10, 2019, 11:03 am
White privilege, racism collide in Israel
Ethiopian protests over police killing touch off wide-ranging debate about Israeli society
By Michele Chabin
June 12, 2019, 11:33 am
Israel’s loss of best and brightest intensifies
New study cites a growing brain drain of physicians, academics, engineers
By Michele Chabin
Meal ticket: Aloni, as Kive Shtisel, with Doval’e Glickman. The success of the show floored Aloni. Photo credit Ohad Romano
June 7, 2019, 12:58 pm
A Date With Kive
The hunky secular actor’s charedi education.
By Michele Chabin
Contra Costa Jewish Day School students present a national anthem project together with students from the Arnon School in Ramat Gan. Courtesy of Contra Costa Jewish Day School
June 3, 2019, 12:36 pm
Getting to know you
For high school students near and far, ‘twinning’ programs help close the distance between American Jews and Israelis
By Michele Chabin
Israel’s Kobi Marimi, center, rehearses ahead of the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv on May 13. Photo by Jack GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images
May 15, 2019, 12:47 pm
Songs in the key of legitimacy
For Israelis, Eurovision hits a high note; ‘we’re on the map,’ says a fan
By Michele Chabin
A banner for the Blue and White party several yards from a voting station in south Jerusalem. Photos by Michele Chabin/JW
April 10, 2019, 1:02 pm
Bibi has ‘clout,’ but not enough ‘to negotiate peace’
At the bars in downtown Jerusalem, 20-somethings cheer on their candidates with the outcome in limbo
By Michele Chabin
Shlomo Shamir, a political centrist, hopes that Benny Gantz, the founder of the new Israel Resilience party, will team up with Yair Lapid, the founder of Yesh Atid, to run in the April 9 national election. Photo by Michele Chabin
February 6, 2019, 12:07 pm
Can an Israeli center hold?
On the Israeli street, talk of a Gantz-Lapid alliance and of the stability Netanyahu offers
By Michele Chabin
A Black Friday come-on at a Jerusalem mall. Michele Chabin/JW
November 28, 2018, 12:15 pm
Buyer’s remorse over Black Friday
Israelis rue the day and what it means about their culture
By Michele Chabin
Students from the Arad Music Conservatory performed at a session on federation fundraising at the General Assembly. Arad is the sister city of Federations in both New Jersey and Delaware, and the conservatory benefits from that partnership. Photos by Michele Chabin
November 7, 2018, 2:18 pm
Partnering to spur giving
Federations’ ‘sister-city’ programs let donors see their donations at work and establish deep bonds
By Michele Chabin
November 7, 2018, 12:55 pm
Human rights groups in Israel feeling the funding squeeze
Multiple factors at play as social justice groups facing a ‘crisis’
By Michele Chabin
The northern part of the Western Wall, known as Robinson’s Arch, was proposed as an egalitarian prayer space in 2016. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images
August 29, 2018, 10:52 am
Arching toward accessibility
Approval of Kotel expansion blindsides liberal movements
By Michele Chabin
Above and right: Many of the 56,000 volunteer who glean and package produce and food for Leket, Israel’s national food bank and rescue organization, are millennials. (Courtesy of Leket)
August 1, 2018, 4:16 pm
Israel Banking On Instagram Tourism
New push to get millennial ‘influencers’ to spur their personal growth and help change the country’s image.
By Michele Chabin
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