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Sam Sokol

Sam Sokol is a Jerusalem-based journalist who covers Israel for JTA.

Omer Yankelevich, the first haredi Orthodox woman to hold a Cabinet position in Israeli government, poses for a picture in the Israeli parliament, April 29, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Noam Revkin Fenton-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Meet Omer Yankelevich, the Orthodox woman tasked with mending the frayed ties between Israel and the Diaspora

by Sam Sokol and JTA June 29, 2020
Chaya Lev addresses the crowd at a protest in Tel Aviv against the killing of George Floyd, June 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Sam Sokol)
Posted inNews

Hundreds of Israelis, angry with police violence at home, protest the George Floyd killing in Tel Aviv

by Sam Sokol and JTA June 2, 2020June 2, 2020
Israeli first- to third-graders social distance and bring doctor’s notes at the entrance to their Jerusalem school, May 3, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘The entire system got confused’: Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back

by Sam Sokol and JTA May 14, 2020May 14, 2020
Joel and Tsipporah Adelman before their flight to Israel, where they say they are going a bit “stir crazy” in quarantine. (JTA/COURTESY ADELMANS)
Posted inNews

The coronavirus hasn’t stopped immigration to Israel — but quarantine awaits

by Sam Sokol and JTA April 2, 2020
A named named Maher stands outside a juice shop in Ramallah, Jan. 30, 2020. (JTA/Sam Sokol)
Posted inNews

On the streets of Ramallah, Palestinians shrug at Trump’s peace plan

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 30, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Historians call Putin’s speech at global Auschwitz commemoration ‘completely false’ and ‘ridiculous’

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
An aerial view of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Dec. 17, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Moshe Shai-Flash90)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

With Holocaust summit in Jerusalem, Israel gets dragged into Europe’s memory wars

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 22, 2020January 22, 2020
Protesters in Indian Kashmir shout slogans against the United States and Israel as they hold posters with the image of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq, Jan. 3, 2020. (JTA/Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Iran has retaliated against Jewish targets before. But the Soleimani killing isn’t changing Jewish security around the world.

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 14, 2020
Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills. (Wikimedia/Glenn Francis CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inCalifornia

Suspect in Beverly Hills synagogue vandalism arrested in Hawaii

by Sam Sokol and JTA December 19, 2019
American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Photo/Wikimedia-Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inCalifornia

3 Jewish schools in LA spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti days after Beverly Hills synagogue vandalized

by Sam Sokol and JTA December 18, 2019

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