Jaffa

Japon: Sushi supreme in Jaffa - restaurant review

Combine a visit with a walk along the coast just outside the hotel and a browse through the lobby, which boasts the remains of a Crusader fortress, and you’ve got a perfect night out in Jaffa.

Extraordinary sushi.
ORPHANED LAND, celebrating 35 years.

Heavy metal peace in the Mideast: Orphaned Land frontman asks if unity through music can survive

A teacher was assaulted on Yefet Street in Jaffa by an unidentified assailant on January 1, 2026.

Rabbi attacked in Jaffa: Police investigating possible nationalist motive

A HOLOCAUST survivor reunites with her lost dog, Charlie, in Jaffa, December 28, 2025.

Jaffa police reunite 85-year-old Holocaust survivor with lost dog


Policeman accused of shooting MDA volunteer claims 'self-defense,' Mayor Huldai laments event

The fatal shooting during Saturday, which involved an off-duty police officer, resulted in the death of Jaffa resident and MDA volunteer Yaakov Tukhi.

 Police crime scene tape

This new exhibit in Jaffa features works created by people with mental and physical disabilities

With pieces from 25 artists, the modest, well-lit gallery was filled with oil and acrylic on canvas, drawings, mixed media, sculptures and even digital media pieces.

 JAFFA’S ART Salon Gallery is hosting works by 25 special artists.

Grapevine, March 24, 2024: Star attraction

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 SUSPENDED GOVERNMENT spokesman Eylon Levy (right) and HonestReporting Executive Director Gil Hoffman speak with Begin Heritage Center CEO  Paul Gross (left) in Jerusalem on Wednesday night.

Veteran guitarist, vocalist Amir Lev returns to an old favorite

All together now: Perhaps Amir Lev’s inaugural orchestral two-step will lead to more of the same further down the rocker’s long and winding road.

 AMIR LEV: I felt this project could connect me to my roots.

Israeli reservist forced to sell business as reserve duty stretches over 100 days

Store owner Gal Anav announced the liquidation of his business in a facebook post amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas.

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of a downwards-trending graph (illustration)

A wartime 'Anna Karenina' at Gesher Theater - review

Director Rimas Tuminas has a genius for abbreviating complexities into simple movements.

Neta Roth as Kitty and Miki Leon as Levin in 'Anna Karenina.'

The Drimer sisters mount a theatrical rescue mission for their father in new show

That play was Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience in which four actors analyze the nature of theater and then both insult their audience and praise its “performance.” 

 ANAT (L) AND Nurit Drimer with Amir Meyuhas (standing) in ‘Good Place Where All is Bad.’

Latvian singer Alise Kante stars at this year’s Jaffa Jazz Festival

Alise Kante followed suit some time ago and has taken Fitzgerald’s lead and run with it into all sorts of areas of musical pursuit.

 JAZZ VOCALIST Alise Kante interprets The Carpenters.

Artist Avner Sher’s new exhibit ‘For Ever’ opens at the Jaffa Museum

All the installations at the show are dominated by colors: red, white, black, and brown. 

 AVNER SHER and his new exhibit ‘For Ever’ at the Jaffa Museum.

Luxembourg-based Israeli saxophonist Shauli Einav to perform in Jaffa

Saxophonist Einav, who currently resides in Luxembourg, after previous lengthy sojourns in the US and France, is coming over here to perform all six numbers from the Nelson work.

 SAXOPHONIST SHAULI EINAV is performing tonight in Jaffa.