Sam Sokol Sam Sokol is a Jerusalem-based journalist who covers Israel for JTA. Recent Stories Jan 13, 2021 Remember that Israeli town named after Trump? It's still happening. Dec 16, 2020 Israeli health officials struggle with vaccine skeptics Dec 3, 2020 Giuliani continues Soros comments in WhatsApp messages to JTA Nov 24, 2020 Kosher hotels and authoritarianism Oct 23, 2020 Journalists attacked covering pandemic in Israeli Orthodox communities Aug 21, 2020 Can you visit Israel during the pandemic? The rules keep changing. Jul 30, 2020 Why a growing bipartisan protest movement is rocking Israel Jul 13, 2020 The agony of the Covid-19 obituarist Jul 6, 2020 Israel had the pandemic under control — until it didn’t Jun 29, 2020 Meet the Orthodox woman tasked with mending ties between Israel and Diaspora Jun 2, 2020 Hundreds of Israelis protest the George Floyd killing in Tel Aviv May 14, 2020 Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back Apr 2, 2020 The coronavirus hasn’t stopped immigration to Israel — but quarantine awaits Jan 30, 2020 On the streets of Ramallah, Palestinians shrug at Trump’s peace plan Jan 23, 2020 'Completely false': historians react to Putin's remarks on Holocaust in Jerusalem Jan 22, 2020 How Israel is getting dragged into Europe’s Holocaust memory wars Jan 14, 2020 Why isn’t the Soleimani killing changing Jewish security around the world? Dec 19, 2019 Suspect in Beverly Hills synagogue vandalism arrested in Hawaii Dec 18, 2019 3 Jewish schools in LA spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti Dec 17, 2019 Black Hebrew Israelite leader condemns Jersey City shooting Next Page