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Tzfat Tzunset: When The Heavens Open
A fiery Galilee sunset over Mount Meron signals the season’s first long-awaited rain, captured from Tzfat just moments before the storm broke.
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'Chillin' and Killin' Me By Degrees' - Music
Digging through some old, raw recordings, I recently stumbled across a folk blues song I wrote and recorded when the pain of just getting through a day…
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'War & Bees': Hezbollah Rears Up & IDF Strikes; Hamas' dastardly body 'Bait-and-Switch'
The war enters a complex new phase. We report on the heartbreaking discovery that returned bodies were not hostages, the IDF's forceful retaliation; and…
Nov 4
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Training the Eye to See Beyond The Grime - Photography
The Tel Aviv light was harsh, the air dusty, the glass imperfect. Yet the scene holds: converging lines of track, freeway, orange strip lights against…
Nov 7
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New Queens, New Beginnings: Beekeeping Days in the Galilee
Ever wondered how a hive makes a new queen? In this Neshikha field video, Miri and Dave head out to our two apiary sites near Tzfat to split strong…
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The Bloody Hands of Ramallah: What Those Grammy Pins Really Mean - Reporter's Notebook
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'Whoreray for Hollywood!'
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Blood Ties and Broken Truths: A Family Memory for the Ninth of Av - Podcast
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Chaos: Terrified Hezbollah to Terror Minions: 'Throw Away Anything Electronic!' - Update & Videos
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Life on the Border: The Delicate Sound of Hammers and Distant Artillery - ZoomCast
Even as new homes take shape near Gaza, another front ignites in the north - and every family feels the pull of both - and the weight of the search for…
Oct 26
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The Month of Quiet: Light and Renewal Over the Galilee - Photography
On the eve of Heshvan, we met above the Kinneret — Miri, our children, our granddaughter — at an eatery that had endured falling rockets and rising…
Oct 22
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Life on the Border: We Planned to Celebrate. Then the War Came Roaring Back - ZoomCast
We were ready to talk about renewal: 20 hostages freed; the first wedding at Kibbutz Nirim. By the time we went on air, that hope had vanished under…
Oct 21
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After the Hostages: Israel’s Expanding War Map
As the hostages recover, Hamas is under pressure to return the remaining Israeli bodies; Syria re-aligns with Moscow; Hezbollah tries rebuilding under…
Oct 17
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Simchat Torah and the Question: Have We Learned to Be Wiser?
From the retreating hornets to the hostages coming home, a fragile relief sets in. We rewind the Torah; now we must ask if we'll read it differently…
Oct 15
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Israel’s Mixed Emotions: Joy and Mourning as Hostages, But Few Victims, Return
Israel breathes again - and grieves again - as freed hostages reunite with family, and as Hamas breaks the ceasefire deal, releasing only four of 28…
Oct 14
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The Kinetic City—From Missing Peace To All Shuk Up - A Tel Aviv Photo Trek
From the energy of the streets to pockets of deep reflection. The chaotic, abstracted "Stutter in the City" alongside a serene figure "wrapped inside my…
Sep 30
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J’Accuse: The Betrayal - Zoomcast
When London, Ottawa, Canberra, and Paris bow to Islamist appeasement, they do not recognize a state — they declare war on the Jewish nation.
Sep 21
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The Bloody Hands of Ramallah: What Those Grammy Pins Really Mean - Reporter's Notebook
A pin at the Grammys may look like harmless symbolism. But for Israelis who lived through the Second Intifada, To wear that symbol today is not…
Sep 17
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Honey-Cured Gravlax: From Beehive to Holiday Feast - The Beekeepers Table
Watch as Neshikha and friends transform raw salmon with gin, honey, sugar, salt, and herbs into a festive gravlax that’s part art, part flavour…
Sep 15
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'Je Suis Charlie' — Both of Them: Op-Ed
From Paris to Utah: When Free Speech Is Met with Bullets; Kirk reportedly accepted an invite to visit Israel in January to keynote a conference…
Sep 11
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24 Years After 9/11: A Reporter’s Memory, A Writer’s Question
I covered 9/11 live from The Jerusalem Post newsroom, then walked Jerusalem’s streets to gather reaction. Two decades on, I still ask: did we ever truly…
Sep 11
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