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Gabriella Jacobs

Jun 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

The real Hunger Games take place in Israeli supermarkets

Which is the best supermarket for an olah on a budget? This is a topic on which I have, through extensive and occasionally traumatic experimentation, become something of an expert. Throughout my time here I've cycled through Shufersal (online and...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:59 PM

Making Aliyah After 50: What Actually Changes

Moving to Israel after fifty is not the same as moving at twenty-five, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone. That's not a warning. It's an invitation to think clearly. Because aliyah after fifty, done with proper preparation, can be one...

Jun 16, 2026, 2:46 PM

The Fixer at the Edge of History

There is a particular kind of silence that descends in the seconds after a story breaks that changes everything. Not the silence of calm. The silence of people collectively holding their breath. I know that silence well now. Since October 7,...

Jun 14, 2026, 6:07 PM

Erdogan Exposed the Lie Beneath Ataturk’s Republic

Erdogan is not the deviation that ruined a clean republic. He is the loud voice of a state tradition Ankara had long sold as Western, secular and safe. Jerusalem, Athens and Brussels now face the same mistake: the belief...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jun 14, 2026, 7:14 AM

Where and What and When is Home?

I am originally from the suburbs of Chicago, and that place will always remain beloved and, fundamentally, home to me. But as my disabilities have become more complex, the logistics of reaching and staying in my childhood home have...

Jun 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

Treasure Trove: Keren Hayesod – From a 1922 Sacrifice Bond to Today

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

This Keren Hayesod Sacrifice Bond certificate represents more of a sacrifice than a bond. Issued in 1922, it was part of a fundraising initiative “for the upbuilding of Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people” and records a sacrifice...

Jun 11, 2026, 9:30 PM

Bituach Leumi: The Israeli Safety Net You’re Paying Into

Somewhere around month three of your aliyah, you notice it. A line on your payslip. A deduction with quiet regularity landing somewhere called the National Insurance Institute. You Google it. You get a Hebrew government website. You close the tab. This...

Gabriella Jacobs

Jun 10, 2026, 2:31 PM

How to land your dream job in Israel: A guide

Wine tasting (Wikimedia commons)

What exactly is professional networking, really? In America, I always imagined it involved LinkedIn. Maybe a blazer. Certainly some degree of intentionality. You go to a conference, exchange business cards, send follow-up emails nobody reads, and slowly construct a guaranteed...

Jun 10, 2026, 8:00 AM

An apology from your American Jewish parents

Manhattan, NY, May 3, 2024 (iStock / Florida Chuck)

We raised you in exile to succeed in the culture of our oppressors. Now we need you to do the one thing we never taught you: defy us

Jun 7, 2026, 10:04 AM

Another soldier fell in Lebanon. I know his loving mother

Illustrative. A woman hugs her son. (iStock)

Stopped in my tracks by the pain of a woman who knows she'll never hug her son again, I try to do my best for my own boy, even as we argue about his shoes

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