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Tel Aviv light rail opens – $5 billion

Transportation Minister Miri Regev led a dry run for journalists of Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail on Aug. 16.

Specter of Leo Frank accusation rises again on X

A “community note” saying that Leo Frank, the victim of an anti-Semitic lynching in 1915, was guilty of raping and murdering a young girl appeared and disappeared...

‘Bella!’ aims to restore legacy

Bella Abzug, the feminist who burst into Congress battling for equal rights in 1970, was often caricatured in the media of her time. She was labeled “belligerent”...

Woman killed two days after father and son killed

An Israeli woman was killed and her driver injured in a terrorist drive-by killing outside Hebron on Monday, Aug. 21, the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the...

Jewish campers return to Ukraine

Ramah Yachad, a Ukrainian Jewish summer camp, celebrated its 30th anniversary last year in exile, having relocated to Romania following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...

In a first, Saudi appoints PA envoy

Saudi Arabia appointed its first-ever envoy to the Palestinian Authority on Aug. 12, in the midst of ongoing negotiations with Israel and the US about what would be a...

As the Dead Sea economy rises, its survival sinks

Noam Bedein is the latest activist to confront a problem that has bedeviled Israel — how to save this ecological marvel and tourist attraction that is being depleted...

Pickleball craze heats up — big time

Widely considered the fastest-growing sport in America, pickleball is a sort of condensed court tennis and pingpong hybrid that has attracted millions of new fanatics...

Pittsburgh killer sentenced to death

A jury has given the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter a death sentence, handing down the maximum punishment for the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history.

Gift — or loaner?

Donald Trump says he will return a set of ancient oil lamps to the Israel Antiquities Authority.