When the bullets of the terrorists pierced the pure hearts of Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee, they had hoped to pierce our hearts as well. They didn’t understand that we as a people are unstoppable. Less ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Efrat Council head Dovi Shefler. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Efrat Council head Dovi Shefler says construction is already ...

Efrat, West Bank -- "Get down, Yoni, we're being shot at!" yelled Mrs. Schwartz to her son on the ground floor of their house. Yoni complied. After several minutes of laying low with his mother and ...

Recently, my neighbor, a soldier in the IDF, took me up to the northern slope of Dagan hill in Efrat to show me the efforts that he and other volunteers, both young and old, make to keep the land as ...

The Talmud (Sanhedrin 37a) teaches that if a person saves a life, it is as if he were responsible for saving an entire universe. There is an apocryphal story of a child who was drowning in the sea and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Open pool horizontal. (photo credit: Shmuel Fittous) “I love the new Efrat pool, and I am extremely grateful every day. I feel ...

With the issue of abortion in the headlines with a leaked U.S. Supreme Court document seeming to indicate that the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision may be overturned, Israel National News interviewed ...

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Shlomo Riskin said that, should Israel’s Chief Rabbinate attempt to dismiss him as chief rabbi of Efrat, ostensibly because of disagreements over who has authority over Israeli ...

Born in Haifa, Israel, as a daughter of Jewish Iraqi new comers, singer Efrat Alony studied composition, arranging, jazz singing and classical singing in Israel ( Rimon), Berlin, Germany ( ...