Orit Arfa

The author is a journalist based in Berlin and author of The Settler, a novel about the aftermath of the withdrawal from Gaza. www.oritarfa.com.

Rivky Koot, praying for the victims of the collapse.

Beset by tragedy, the Jewish community offers human warmth as best asset

UNITY-GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS demonstrate outside Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked’s home in Tel Aviv earlier this week.

The new coalition and the Israeli political disruption - opinion

DIZENGOFF STREET a week before opening night.

Coronavirus: Will Israel's nightlife return to normal post-lockdown?


An American prophet in Berlin

Richard Grenell had been making the German-American relationship more open and honest than ever before and holding Germany accountable to their ethical, historical and political obligations.

Grenell, US ambassador to Germany, attends the "Rally for Equal Rights at the United Nations (Protesting Anti-Israeli Bias)" in Geneva

One single mother dispels the myths of the dos and don'ts of pregnancy

Note: This article should not be considered medical advice

THE WRITER with daughter Hanna, then three months old

Israel's coronavirus response sets a dangerous precedent

The panic over the virus has insidiously impinged on not only the freedom of movement and assembly, but on our freedom to speak out.

Israeli border policemen wearing protective gear as a precaution against the coronavirus, guard at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem

A German-Israeli love story

Author and journalist Katharina Hoeftmann opens up about leaving Germany and raising her Jewish family in Tel Aviv.

The result of a life-changing meeting in Goa, India: Katharina Hoeftmann with husband Nahum and son Ari

Can you be happy and single?

Israeli author says: Yes, and how!

ELYAKIM KISLEV: ‘You can be married and the loneliest person on earth and you can be single and feel so connected.’

An exclusive interview with Dr. Felix Klein

“I cannot advise Jews to wear the kippot everywhere all the time in Germany,” Klein said, adding that he had changed his mind on the subject.

Dr. Felix Klein, Federal Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism.

My German date and the Holocaust movie

The Holocaust movie would be the test.

DATE AND a movie? Not so fast.

The journey to Polish citizenship

“Your Polish citizenship certificate has come through – congrats! Where would you like it sent to please? And do you have this BC [birth certificate] attached ready in hard copy so we can do Step 2?”

Henryk and Hanna Arfa, the writer's grandparents, after the war

Single mothers by choice: A non-fairy tale

Israeli women who find the husband market dwindling as they reach 35 are increasingly turning to sperm banks for that ‘other half’

‘TO BE a parent in Israel is almost obligatory’: Israel’s national health insurance system offers one of the world’s most generous fertility packages.

German Jewish mother recounts murder of daughter by illegal Iraqi migrant

She never imagined she’d suffer her own brutal personal war in a peaceful Germany, but contrary to speculation, the murder did not carry antisemitic motives.

People follow a demonstration called out by the Anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Mainz, Germany, June 9, 2018, after a 20-year-old Iraqi man had admitted to the rape and murder of Susanna F., a 14-year-old German girl.