Independence Day 2025: 77+1 reasons I love Israel - opinion
Ahead of Israel's Independence Day, Barbara Sofer presents her annual list of things she loves about the Jewish state.
Israel's representative to the Eurovision Song Contest, Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the deadly October 7 2023 attack by Hamas on the Nova festival in Israel's south, sings on a stage in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on January 23, 2025.(photo credit: ORTAL DAHAN ZIV/KESHET 12/VIA REUTERS)