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Idele Ross

Jun 24, 2025, 9:46 PM

Say Cheese The routine rushed morning conversation with my Yafo-living daughter and mother of three, takes place as she stands on line at the supermarket. “Ima, last night, one of the Iranian missiles hit a building in Petach Tikva, around the...

May 2, 2017, 11:14 AM

My uncle, the torch-lighter (and not one of the Americans)

So who knew? I met my Great-Uncle Nachum for the first time the other day. It was a modest plaque on the wall of the synagogue on the campus of the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind acknowledging his founding of...

About Me

Idele Ross has been in Israel for over 50 years. She was a broadcast journalist with Kol Israel's English Service for almost 40 years. Today, she is a freelance writer and sometimes translator as well as an activist with Co-Housing Israel (CHI), a group working to establish affordable, cooperative housing communities for folks 60+ in Israel.