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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

09:27
Police raid municipal building in central Israel, arresting several officials including mayor
09:19
Soldier killed in land mine blast posthumously promoted to corporal (Haaretz)
09:18
Islamist militants release seven Egyptian police kidnapped in Sinai (Reuters)
09:17
Five arrested in connection with deaths of two girls in Bedouin town; father at large (Haaretz)
07:25
IDF releases name of soldier killed in land mine blast: Roee Israel Alfi, 19, of Gan Yavne (Haaretz)
06:51
FBI names Benghazi suspect, officials say not enough evidence yet for arrests (AP)
05:50
North Korea sends top Kim Jong-un aide to Beijing (Reuters)
04:48
Biden: Jewish leaders drove gay marriage changes (AP)
03:26
Pentagon asking congress for $450 million for Guantanamo prison (AP)
02:11
U.S. Senate panel backs arming Syrian rebels (Reuters)
01:36
Serbia-Kosovo normalization talks to continue Wednesday (DPA)
01:09
UN: Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan, reason yet unclear (AP)
23:13
Iranian election committee approves eight presidential candidates (Reuters)
22:15
Car bomb near Sunni mosque in west of Baghdad kills 11, says police (Reuters)
21:14
Bodies of two young girls, aged 3 and 5, found near Arad, Israel Police investigating (Haaretz)

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Jewish High Holy Days

Sukkot

Malka Spigel

Israeli singer living in London creates beautiful small art

Talented and unpretentious Malka Spigel comes out with CD that, although not complex per se, reveals pleasant variegated threats within a uniform weave.

By Ben Shalev | Sep 30, 2012 | 11:55 AM

Ben Helfgott. Led the U.K. Olympic weight-lifting teams in 1956 in Melbourne.

A decade after the Holocaust, Ben Helgott lifted weights at the Olympics. What came next?

'After surviving the Holocaust, I decided to spend my adult life fostering the love of people for one another, says Helgott at 82.

By Asher Weill | Sep 30, 2012 | 11:32 AM

Roofs in Matan and Hableh

The rise and fall of the red roof: Israel's white picket fence

Once a symbol of the ideal Israeli home, slanting red tile roofs are gradually being supplanted by clean modern flat contours, although they still make a statement in the West Bank.

By Oren Eldar | Sep 30, 2012 | 11:06 AM

Canadian businessman Seymour Schulich

Hey big spender: Canadian billionaire Seymour Schulich wants to donate sooner not later

With his usual disregard for political correctness, Schulich talks about why he is giving $100 million to endow a Canadian-Israeli scholarship fund, modeled on the Rhodes scholarship.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Sep 30, 2012 | 10:49 AM | 3

The Church of Scientology’s new center in Israel.

Breaking out of Scientology’s iron grip

The Church of Scientology opened its gleaming new center in Jaffa with great fanfare last month. But the notoriously secretive organization does not appreciate when its members ask too many questions, as some have found out.

By Danna Harman | Sep 30, 2012 | 09:39 AM | 2

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Rosh Hashanah

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Israeli family takes pomegranate wine to heady heights

Israelis have perfected the art of making pomegranate wine for a high-end market. A tip: You can't start from pomegranate juice.

By Amiram Cohen | Sep 21, 2012 | 08:23 AM

Upside-down apple cake.

Jewish New Year table: The apples of our eye

There's no sweeter way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah than with these festive and delicious desserts.

By Limor Laniado Tiroche | Sep 16, 2012 | 02:16 AM

Any scholars wishing to study his work must travel abroad.

Could Yehuda Amichai's priceless archive have been kept in Israel?

A few years before his death in 2000, one of Israel's leading poets clandestinely arranged for the sale of his personal and literary materials.

By Moshe Mossek | Sep 15, 2012 | 08:53 AM

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Opinions and Blogs

Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz / Jewish World blogger

The no-net challenge

Yael Miller / Jewish World blogger

High Holy Days relief

Rabbi Joel Seltzer / Jewish World blogger

What my one-year-old taught me about Simhat Torah

Rabbi Michael Knopf / Jewish World blogger

Dancing with ourselves on Hoshanah Rabbah and Simhat Torah

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Yom Kippur

The Western Wall plaza during Selichot prayers.

WATCH: Prayers at Jerusalem's Western Wall and selichot, ahead of Yom Kippur

By Reuters | 09:33 AM

Wordplay: Regrets, he's had a few

By Michael Handelzalts | 09:22 AM

Of prostitutes and prophets

By Tali Artman-Partock | 08:44 AM

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