Israelis line up to purchase bitcoin
Andrew Tobin, JTAJan 04, 2018
TEL AVIV — Israelis lined up Dec. 19 at the newly opened bitcoin exchange in this city to purchase the coveted cryptocurrency. Amid the store’s yellow signage, the...
Arab-Israeli woman is Rhodes Scholar
Andrew Tobin, JTADec 21, 2017
TEL AVIV — Lian Najami, Israel’s first Arab Rhodes scholar, is the kind of person who can be optimistic about just about anything — including having a needle stuck...
Sufganiyah or sfinj?
Andrew Tobin, JTADec 14, 2017
TEL AVIV — The sufganiyah is the plump, shining star of Chanukah in Israel. During the holiday season, the famed jelly doughnut poses in the windows of cafés and...
Trump’s Jerusalem ripples
Andrew Tobin, JTADec 14, 2017
JERUSALEM — Amid the global controversy over President Donald Trump’s recognition last week of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state, Israeli and Palestinian...
JNF-KKL brings in $3 billion a year
Andrew Tobin, JTANov 16, 2017
JERUSALEM — American Jews dropped nickels and dimes into the Jewish National Fund’s blue charity boxes to help Zionists build the Jewish state. More than a century...
What Palestinian unity means for Israel
Andrew Tobin, JTAOct 19, 2017
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a wait-and-see approach to last week’s Palestinian reconciliation deal. Netanyahu spoke out publicly...
Dangerous clowns — it sounds innocent, but it isn’t
Andrew Tobin, JTAOct 12, 2017
TEL AVIV — Israelis aren’t particularly amused by a recent phenomenon in their country: teenagers dressing as clowns and lurking after dark. In fact, the costumed...
Israeli factory sells 7,000 shofars a year
Andrew Tobin, JTASep 14, 2017
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778SECTION D PAGE 5 GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights — Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to blow the...
Likud: Infiltrated by the opposition?
Andrew Tobin, JTAAug 31, 2017
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under investigation for corruption, has often claimed that his left-wing political enemies are out to get him....
A ‘forest kindergarten’ in Mitzpe Ramon
Andrew Tobin, JTAAug 10, 2017
MITZPE RAMON, Israel — It sounds like a Jewish mother’s nightmare: a preschool class held outdoors in the desert. But parents in this remote Israeli town drop off...
