Rank and File Two Israeli Students Named as Rhodes Scholars

Plus, David Zwebner reveals Ashkelon's secret South African history, and nominations now being accepted for two prestigious awards for immigrants

Israel's Culture Minister Doubles Down on Threatening Poetry, Dissenting Theater

'I will continue to insist that venues supported by public money shall not give the stage to lovers of shaheeds [martyrs] and subversives,' said Regev

Gal Gadot and Husband to Produce American Adaptation of Hit Israeli Series 'Malkot'

'Malkot,' or 'Queens,' focuses on women from a crime family and their attempts to rehabilitate the family 'business' after the men are killed by a rival crime syndicate

From mid-America to Mideast, Photographer Alec Soth Faces Death in Tel Aviv Exhibit

The PHOTO IS:RAEL exhibition takes the star photographer back 20 years to his acclaimed project 'Sleeping by the Mississippi.' In an interview he explains why he always believed he was Jewish – and why he'll never take pictures in Israel

'Maybe I Don't Have Any Home': What This Palestinian Author Found After Returning to Her Ancestral Homeland

Fida Jiryis, a writer born in Beirut to Palestinian parents in voluntary exile, now lives in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Her unique, near but unfamiliar voice is one of dozens in a new collection of Palestinian prose in Hebrew

Opinion Why the Most Fiercely anti-Zionist Rabbi in the World Just Visited Israel

The tens of thousands who thronged to welcome the head of the Satmar Hasidic court weren't really celebrating his 'triumph' over the Jewish state at all

Nepotism, Debts and Scared Playwrights: Greatest Drama of Israel's National Theater Is Backstage

Habima has suffered from a chronic crisis for the last 30 years. But a debt of $22 million, actors who aren't being paid and criticism against the artistic quality of its productions threaten its future

Rank and File: Comedy for Koby Has an All-star Lineup

Plus, The Israel Association of Writers in English presents an original one-act play in Ramat Gan and Voices Israel launches its 45th poetry anthology in Netanya

Israel Prize-winning Designer Behind Iconic Logos of El Al, Habima, Dies at 85

Dan Reisinger designed hundreds of symbols, stamps, army badges and medals, calendars, wall reliefs and more. His 'Let My People Go” poster from the late 1960s became a symbol of the struggle for Soviet Jewry

Court Lifts Gag Order on Police Probe of Israeli Singer Eyal Golan's Partner

Earlier, Haaretz filed a request to release for publication the suspicions that Peretz had sex with an underage girl

My Daughter Persuaded Me to See Louis C.K. in Tel Aviv — and He Killed

Comeback tour sees disgraced comedian finally address the sex scandal in the only way he knows how. But should he enjoy the last laugh?

Can the World's Most Famous Anti-war Painting Help Inspire Coexistence in Israel?

Magasin III opened in an Arab-majority residential area of Jaffa two years ago, confusing locals and exciting art lovers who flocked to see works by international artists. Now it stages its most ambitious work, with a large nod to Picasso's 'Guernica'

The 18-year-old Israeli Who Turned Her Pout, and a Brain Injury, Into Big Business

Aline Cohen’s face is plastered across billboards, her cosmetics range sells in Israel’s biggest drugstore chains, and her mom and dad call her ‘Boss.’ Oh, and she’s achieved all of this at the age of 18 after overcoming a life-threatening injury

Rank and File Octogenarians Are Staging a Robbery in Haifa

Plus, an Early Childhood Educators Conference in Tel Aviv and parallel events in Israel and Australia to mark the 40th anniversary of Netzer

'Greater Satisfaction' Than Sex: BDSM Becoming Increasingly Dominant in Israeli Nightlife

Changing from Britney Spears to a more fitting soundtrack and attracting party-goers from all walks of life, more and more Israelis are no longer bound to taboos on sex practices that involve domination and pain

How a Small Kibbutz Museum Got a Hold of 18 Paintings of the Great Chaim Soutine

A new exhibition is showcasing 18 works by the influential Jewish painter, who also left a mark on Israeli artists – some of whose works are on display

The Digital Matchmakers of Israeli Art

Art Source, the online platform created by two enterprising Tel Aviv curators, offers a whole new art-purchasing experience geared to our global, social media times

Attorney General Condemns Nixing Film Screening on Lawyer Defending Palestinians

Deputy attorney general says cancellation 'violates freedom of expression'; culture minister called for the cancellation of the showing of 'Lea Tsemel, Advocate,' which she claims glorifies terrorists

Once Homeless in Addis Ababa, Now Headlining Tel Aviv’s Sigd Festival

Melaku Belay grew up in Addis Ababa without parents and living from hand to mouth. Now he is returning to Israel to perform with one of the best traditional Ethiopian music and dance troupes in the world

Israel Approves Film Fund in West Bank — for Jews Only

The new regional funds are a result of policy change by Culture Minister Miri Regev who says the initiate will diversify 'the range of voices in Israeli society'

Humans of the Holocaust: An ‘Upbeat’ Project for Millennials

Erez Kaganovitz, a grandchild of Shoah survivors, explains how his new photoblog and exhibition aims to increase awareness among young Americans

Opinion Tomorrow Won’t Be Good

Rank and File Flash Mob to Descend on Jerusalem to Dance For Kindness

Plus, 100 Thousand Poets for Change meet in Tel Aviv (some of them, anyway) and the wide-ranging Jewish influence on Broadway

Psychoanalyst, Haaretz Contributor Carlo Strenger, Dies at 61

His 1999 book 'Individuality, the Impossible Project' became a bestseller, garnering praise from leading colleagues around the world for his research into the creation of the self

'Tel Aviv Was Built With Raw Materials From Nazi Germany'

Two parallel exhibitions in Tel Aviv and Dessau tell the strange story of an agreement between early Nazi Germany and the Jewish leaders in Mandate Palestine

Rank and File Folk Concert in Jerusalem Pays Tribute to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

Plus, return of the Jerusalem Poetry Slam and a financial workshop for immigrants marking 10 years in Israel

Under Scrutiny, Israeli Municipality Walks Back on Gender Segregation at Kids’ Show

Haifa had planned two performances of children's play, one for girls and one for boys

When You’re Palestinian, American and Jewish, Life — Like Your Art — Is Complicated

Jordan Nassar grew up in New York, where he internalized his Palestinian ancestors’ dream of returning to the homeland. With a new exhibition in Tel Aviv, the artist explains why he feels part Israeli and won’t advocate for either side of the conflict

‘Our Boys’ Missed an Opportunity to Be a Truly Important Series

Focusing more on the murderers’ psychological motivations than on the nationalist and ethnic conflicts prevents the series from making a pointed political statement