Christmas in israel

Christians in Israel: Nazareth tops Israel’s Christian cities as Christmas arrives

Israel's 184,200 Christians mark Christmas as CBS data reveals a community with remarkable education rates and deep roots across Nazareth, Haifa, and Jerusalem.

People enjoy a Christmas festival at the New Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, December 22, 2025.
Christmas in Nazareth

Christmas returns to Nazareth, marking a gradual revival of the city's Christian tourism

THE WINTER Dreams exhibit at the Botanical Gardens

Christmas in Jerusalem: Take a last-minute trip to the Holy City for some much-needed festive cheer

 The service of the Royal Hours of Christmas at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Friday, January 5, 2024.

Orthodox Christians in Israel mark holiday as war in Gaza rages on


A female Jewish parachutist in Ezekiel’s army

Zionist leader Haviva Reik returned to burning Europe to help save her brethren.

Haviva Reik

Welcome visitors

Seeing the excitement of Christian visitors to the Holy Land can help Israelis rekindle the warmth of their own attachment to the land.

Leaders from the National Baptist Convention of America visit the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ Neveh Michael Children’s Home in Pardes Hanna this week.

Greek Patriarch praises Rivlin for defending minorities and condemning violence

Theophilos III and President Rivlin spoke spoke at a New Year reception with different Christian denominations in Israel.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN meets with senior Greek Orthodox cleric Theophilos III in Jerusalem

Recipe: Christmas cookie secrets from Galilee Orthodox Christian Church

Traditional delicacy spices up the season.

Baking cookies with the women of the Rameh Orthodox Christian Church.

Netanyahu sends a 'very merry Christmas' greeting to Israel's Christians

Despite the increase in violent attacks in recent months, Christmas celebrations took place across the country, mostly without incident.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wishes Israel's Christians a very merry Christmas.

Ministers and MKs wish Christians in the IDF a Merry Christmas

The lawmakers also wished Father Gabriel Nadaf luck and thanked him for his work to bring more Israeli Christians in the IDF.

Ayelet Shaked

Conflict in the psyche

Psychologist Alon Gratch attempts to analyze the Israeli mind – and finds it seriously lacking

Inside the mind

Borderline Views: Ensuring religious freedom in Israel

It is high time the government also made it clear that those people who desecrate Muslim and Christian sites in Israel are the full equivalent of anti-Semitic hooligans, terrorists.

A rabbi and a sheikh at a prayer session for Muslims and Jews in Gush Etzion.

Daniel Gordis is partly right, but also very wrong

"Those same lovers of Israel will scream 'anti-Semite' ...against anyone who suggests using economic leverage against the Israeli government to persuade it to change its policies."

A man waits for the start of the evening's speeches at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington

Grapevine: Reading their writes

President Reuven Rivlin addresses the United Nations in New York