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Michele Chabin

Michele Chabin is a freelance journalist based in Israel.

Banners in Jerusalem in English and Hebrew
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In Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s Jerusalem neighborhood, video proof of life sparks ‘relief, fear, urgency’

Michele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Michele Chabin May 1, 2024May 1, 2024

When Hamas released a video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old Berkeley-born Israeli held captive since Oct. 7, nowhere was the shock and relief more palpable than in the neighborhoods of southern Jerusalem […]

Israel Defense Forces soldiers operate in Gaza, Nov. 2, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
Posted inOpinion

Families of IDF soldiers live with one big fear — and countless small ones

Michele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Michele Chabin January 10, 2024January 10, 2024
Destruction in Israel after Hamas rockets strike (Photo/Israeli Consulate General - Press Office)
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Bay Area Jews in Israel describe fear, anger, resolve

Michele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Michele Chabin October 12, 2023October 13, 2023
Limor Eisner (left) received a kidney from Evelyn Hazut (right) through Matnat Chaim, an Israeli nonprofit that encourages people to donate organs while they are alive and well. (Photo/Courtesy Maknat Chaim)
Posted inNews

Why Israel has more altruistic kidney donors than any other country in the world

Michele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Michele Chabin June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
Participants on a recent Birthright Israel addiction recovery trip dance in the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo/RNS-Courtesy Israel Free Spirit)
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This Birthright trip brings Jews in addiction recovery to Israel

Michele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Michele Chabin and RNS August 15, 2022
Fireworks burst over the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square in the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the lighting of the Christmas tree, Dec. 4, 2021. (Photo/RNS-AP-Maya Alleruzzo)
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Exceptions for Birthright rankle US Christians blocked from Israel at Christmas

Yonat ShimronMichele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Yonat Shimron, Michele Chabin and RNS December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
A member of the Women of the Wall clutches a Torah scroll cover as she is surrounded by Israeli security forces holding back protesters at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo/RNS-AP-Maya Alleruzzo)
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A first: Israeli police protect Women of the Wall from Haredi protesters

Michele Chabin (Photo/Courtesy) by Michele Chabin and RNS November 5, 2021November 8, 2021

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