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Nearly three million Israelis face food insecurity, including one million children, report finds

A report from the National Insurance Institute (NII) shows a slight improvement in access to food across Israel, but it also shows that geographical and economic food inequality persist.

'THERE IS such a big supply of food and so many hungry people; the problem is in the distribution and in the method of getting it out there.’
 The Nova Festival Massacre Memorial Site at Re’im Parking Lot

Nova Festival memorial attracts 7,000 daily visitors

 JUST 16 years old, Israel guard Omer Mayer will suit up for the blue-and-white Under-18 team this weekend in the group stage of the European Championship.

Israel’s Under-18 squad ready for its turn

The reading room of the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem

National Library of Israel to put 300 workers on unpaid leave


Government employees earn 75% more than Israeli average; senior doctors among highest earners

The highest average wages were paid out to Israeli state-owned firms, starting with the ports in Haifa, where workers earned NIS 28,790 per month.

Shekel money bills

Police detain Gideon Levy of Ha'aretz in Samaria

Levy and a photographer were taken in for questioning at the Samaria subdistrict under suspicion of violating the ban on entering area A and for attacking soldiers.

IDF soldiers at a temporary checkpoint in the West Bank [File]

National Lottery withdraws Landau Prize to poet Yitzhak Laor

Widespread protests on social media arose against the pronouncement to award the prize to Laor due to complaints he had sexually assaulted numerous women, over several years.

Yitzhak Laor

A Fresh Perspective: Simply put - The Right does good, the Left does bad

The Right is still trying to fix the various economic problems that plague Israel due to the socialist policies with which leftists have led the country since its inception.

Netanyahu and Herzog

Grapevine: Celebrating in sign

BGU was recognized for its exceptional support offered to students and staff members who were called up for active reserve duty during the war in Gaza this summer.

Yonatan Roshfeld

City Notes: Gov’t approves 1st stage of investment plan for Druse, Circassian communities

A roundup of local stories, from Tiberias to Tel Aviv to Beersheba.

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver join young immigrants from around the world in dedicating the Beit Brodetsky Center for Young Immigrants in Tel Aviv.

Likud attacks Liberman for willingness to align with Herzog

Likud says voting for Liberman will help the left wing win the election.

Avigdor Liberman and Benjamin Netanyahu

Liberman open to coalition with either Herzog, Netanyahu

Foreign minister says he was being talked into forming an alternative government till the very last minute.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman gives a statement to the media at his Jerusalem office December 2

Book Review: Finding optimism in tragedy

Anita Diamant’s fictional heroine could be anyone’s Jewish grandmother.

Anita Diamant

Lots of fun Hanukka options

Here are some entertaining ways to spend the holiday in Israel’s national parks and the outdoors.

The festival of the Maccabees in the Binyamin region.