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Noah Efron

A face made for radio

Oct 27, 2026, 1:32 AM

These elections are not a fork in the road

Hiking in nature in the Lower Galilee, northern Israel, December 20, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

As we fret that the wrong outcome could spell catastrophe for Israel, it's worth remembering what has happened here over the past 3 years

Feb 26, 2026, 4:02 PM

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Today, the war ended. Today, everything begins.

On the shloshim of Ran Gvili, the last of Israel’s hostages to come home, the nation stands at a historical hinge, mourning and rebuilding at once. We’ve been here before

Oct 5, 2025, 6:37 PM

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Place for everyone inside a giant sukkah in Tel Aviv

The 'Israeli Sukkah' in years past (Courtesy)

The 'Israeli Sukkah' reflects a century-old vision of a thriving Judaism open to different voices, perspectives and ways of doing things

Apr 25, 2025, 6:55 PM

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What I saw in Hostages Square on Yom HaShoah

The audience at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Yom HaShoah, April 23, 2025 (Paulina Patimer via Bring Them Home Now)

A Holocaust survivor's stories of being saved by the kindness of others gave me new insight into how to navigate our current ordeal

Jan 5, 2025, 4:20 PM

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I am from there: Unpolished songs for a raw nation

Singer Yehudit Ravitz receives a lifetime achievement award during the 2022 ACUM Awards ceremony for Hebrew Song near Tel Aviv on September 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

A new album from beloved singer Yehudit Ravitz forgoes perfect vocals for a sound that’s in perfect sync with a painfully sober Israel

Oct 8, 2024, 11:57 AM

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A holy Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square

Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, October 7, 2024 (Noah Efron)

Should gender-separated prayers be allowed in Tel Aviv's famed public space? This year calls us to ask a different question

May 27, 2024, 3:27 PM

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In death as in life, Yael Dayan is an inconvenient Israeli

File - Yael Dayan at her home in Tel Aviv on February 2, 2019. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Dayan spent her life making the country a more decent place, which may be why the world press stayed silent on her passing

May 13, 2024, 6:04 PM

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It is still Yom Ha’atzmaut

Israeli flag flown at the Fort Budapest IDF outpost in the Sinai throughout the Yom Kippur War, currently preserved in the Israeli Armored Corps museum at Latrun. (PD, Israeli Armored Corps museum)

Independence Day 2024 may not be a time for celebration, but it is a time to see all there is here to celebrate

Feb 20, 2024, 1:07 PM

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What Israel’s local elections mean right now

A woman wearing a large Israeli flag walks through the Carmel market in Tel Aviv. December 31, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

The choices voters make about how to live with their neighbors will augur a new contract for life at the national level

Oct 24, 2023, 4:04 PM

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These 3 American rabbis are the voices I trust right now

Rabbi Sharon Brous of Ikar in Los Angeles, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of the Central Synagogue in Manhattan, and Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, NY (YouTube screenshots from their Shabbat sermons delivered on October 14, 2023. Montage by The Times of Israel)

Rabbis Buchdahl, Brous and Timoner forged, with their words, a path between 'tribal brotherhood' and 'universal otherhood'

About Me

Noah Efron is Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo and chair of the municipal Committee on Pluralism and Committee on Environment & Sustainability. Efron hosts TLV1's 'The Promised Podcast', widely considered the most important contribution to Jewish culture since Maimonides. He founded and teaches in the Graduate Program on Science, Technology & Society at Bar Ilan University. Efron's written lots about the intertwine of science, technology, religion and politics.

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