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Haifa (Wikimedia Commons/Piotr Musioł)
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Haifa’s lesser-known queer history tells its own story

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 3, 2025November 3, 2025

While often overshadowed by Tel Aviv’s reputation as Israel’s queer capital, Haifa has quietly nurtured a vibrant, complex LGBTQ+ legacy of its own. From its feminist history to its mixed […]

Walking through Jerusalem's Old City shuk in May are (from left) Mila Lazarevsky, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Noelle Bonner and Meron Foster. (Photo/Dan Garon)
Posted inUncategorized

What I learned about San Francisco from visiting Israel with Mayor Breed

David Kaufman by David Kaufman June 14, 2023
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) with Israel's Deputy Consul General Matan Zamir.
Posted inNews

Mayor London Breed heading to Israel for 50th anniversary of S.F.-Haifa Sister City relationship

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 5, 2023May 12, 2023
Josh Cohen when he was a student at UC San Diego. (Photo/Courtesy UCSD Athletics)
Posted inSports

How local soccer phenom Josh Cohen went from underdog to Israeli Footballer of the Year

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher December 2, 2022December 5, 2022
"Hide and Seek" by Oded Balilty, part of the "Spaces in Turmoil" exhibit. (Photo/Courtesy of the artist and Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv)
Posted inCulture

Rare chance to ‘tour’ two art exhibits in Haifa, SF’s sister city

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 11, 2021
The Haifa Municipal Band playing in the 1933 Bikurim parade. (Photo/ GPO via Wikipedia)
Posted inShavuot

When Haifa was party central at Shavuot

Rachel NeimanISRAEL21c logo by Rachel Neiman and ISRAEL21c May 27, 2020
(From left) Israel's S.F.-based consul general Shlomi Kofman, SFPD Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin and City Engineer of Haifa Ariel Waterman (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inCulture

From Bay to Bay: Pier 27 periscope brings Haifa into view, live

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 1, 2018June 11, 2018
Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp arrive in Haifa in 1945, 12 years before Lili Naveh would arrive there with her mother, also a Holocaust survivor.
Posted inIsrael at 70

I was 3 when we left the sorrow of Poland to run free in Haifa

Lili Naveh by Lili Naveh April 8, 2018April 9, 2018
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at Stanford University School of Medicine (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inNews

Stanford, Haifa hospitals announce cooperation agreement

by JTA March 12, 2018
Mayor Ed Lee looking out over San Francisco's sister city of Haifa, Israel, in April 2016 (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

Bay Area Jews mourn Mayor Ed Lee

by Rob Gloster December 12, 2017

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