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An El Al airplane carrying members of an Israel Defense Forces rescue team is given a "water salute" upon departing Miami on July 11, 2021. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

Israel Defense Forces rescue team leaves Surfside to salutes and serenades

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA July 12, 2021
Israeli tank being transported
Posted inNews

Israel said it sent ground troops into Gaza. It may have been a trick.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 14, 2021
Sulaiman Khatib (far right) rebuilding with Combatants for Peace activists near Hebron. (Photo/Tatyana Gitlits)
Posted inBooks

Palestinian peace activist chooses Bay Area writer to tell his life story

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 5, 2021May 6, 2021
Syrian air defense batteries respond to Israeli airstrikes on military targets on the southern outskirts of Damascus early on Nov. 20, 2019. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Israel strikes Iranian, Syrian targets on Golan Heights and near Damascus

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 18, 2020November 18, 2020
Writer Ari Bornstein holds up an Israeli flag in Jerusalem.
Posted inLocal Voice

Why I am leaving the Bay Area and enlisting in the IDF

Ari Bornstein by Ari Bornstein July 21, 2020June 4, 2021
San Francisco native Cole is spending Passover on base. (COURTESY FIDF)
Posted inNews

Passover lockdown in Israel cuts ‘lone soldiers’ from Bay Area off from family

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2020April 13, 2020
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, May 4, 2019. (JTA/Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
Posted inNews

Israeli fighter planes strike Hamas military compound in northern Gaza

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA December 2, 2019
(From left) Rebbetzin Aidel and Rabbi Chaim Zaklos, Ashriel Ashush, Maayan Kline and 9-year-old dog Benzi. (Batya Sackville)
Posted inNews

An Israeli couple, a hero dog, and a van that wouldn’t start

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen November 20, 2019November 26, 2019
Israeli soldiers at a staging area in southern Israel, near the border with the Gaza Strip, Nov. 13, 2019. (JTA/Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel-Gaza cease-fire holds, despite smattering of additional rockets from Gaza

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA November 14, 2019
five men in army uniforms stand on a set of train tracks facing the camera
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Yom Kippur ’73: Local doctor shares stories and photos from the front lines

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 3, 2019September 28, 2022

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