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Noah Efron

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Apr 25, 2025, 6:55 PM

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'

Oct 8, 2023, 5:24 PM

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Now, in the awful quiet of this moment

Israelis donate blood at Magen David Adom emergency services in Jerusalem, following an unprecedented attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Just before the retaliation and recriminations, it's worth noting three things we’ve discovered in this tragedy

Sep 27, 2023, 12:33 AM

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There was magic too: Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv, 5784

Illustrative: People ride bicycles, walk and gather on the empty streets in Tel Aviv, on the eve of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv. September 24, 2023. (Omer Fichman/Flash 90)

In Habima Square, hundreds joined a hastily organized Ne’ila prayer service with no divisions, just astonishment

Apr 25, 2023, 6:06 PM

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The prayer Kobi Oz sings to his grandfather is a prayer for Israel

At a live performance on a Tel Aviv rooftop, I look around me, and people’s cheeks are damp with tears

About Me

Noah Efron is a member of Tel Aviv-Jaffa's City Council, representing the green party, Hayarok Bamerkaz, and chair of the municipal Committee on Pluralism and Committee on Environment & Sustainability. Efron hosts TLV1's 'The Promised Podcast'. He is also chair of the Graduate Program on Science, Technology & Society at Bar Ilan University. He's written lots about the intertwine of science, technology, religion and politics. His biggest regret is that he is not NORA Ephron.

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