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Michele Chabin
IDF soldiers delivering food to Israeli Arabs for Ramadan. According to polls, Israelis believe the coronavirus crisis has brought Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs closer together. Idf.il
June 3, 2020, 2:39 pm
Into the Brave New Post-Covid World
By Michele Chabin
Israeli students at the Orot Etzion school in Efrat wear protective face masks as they return to school in early May. Gershon Elinon/Flash90
June 3, 2020, 2:33 pm
A Reopening Riddled with Anxiety
Israelis caught between ‘letting society live’ and fear of moving too quickly to end the lockdown.
By Michele Chabin
The large stone building in Abu Dis that — according to the never-adopted Beilin-Abu Mazen peace plan of the 1950s — was supposed to be used as the Palestinian parliament is empty, its walls covered in graffiti. Photos by Michele Chabin
February 12, 2020, 11:35 am
‘Imagine living next to Paris but being isolated from Paris’
Life in the shadow of Israel’s security barrier in the would-be Palestinian capital.
By Michele Chabin
Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Kohelet Policy Forum conference in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2020. - Netanyahu today warned Israel would strike a "resounding blow" if attacked by arch foe Iran, as regional tensions spike after the US killing of military commander Qasem Soleimani. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
January 8, 2020, 12:23 pm
Israel bracing after Suleimani killing, but for what?
Iran vows retaliation, although attacking its neighbor is seen as unlikely
By Michele Chabin
Efrat Oppenheimer, director of family philanthropy for JFN Israel, left, and Maya Natan, JFN Israel’s executive director. “People aren’t born philanthropists but they can grow into it,” Natan says.
November 14, 2019, 12:20 pm
Nurturing ‘A Family Context’ For Israeli Giving
Jewish Funders Network working to cultivate philanthropy in the Jewish state for ‘the long run’
By 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
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