Grapevine

A potpourri of items about people and events in Israel and the Jewish world.

Grapevine: Iran was discussed

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US Ambassador Mike Huckabee addresses the media outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025.
 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG offers words of sympathy to grieving husband and father Raja Khatib.

Grapevine June 20, 2025: An Arab tragedy

 Producer Lawrence Bender in Los Angeles, 2016.

Grapevine: Special needs at center

  PANAMANIAN AMBASSADOR to Israel, Ezra Cohen, presents his credentials to President Isaac Herzog in this file photo.

Grapevine, June 15, 2025: A new era?


Grapevine: Ahad Ha’am is back

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Happy anniversary (illustrative).

Grapevine, June 4, 2025: A serial revolutionary

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PASTOR GREG LAURIE addresses attendees at the dedication of an armored ambulance at the Tower of David Museum

Grapevine: True shofar blower

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Holding the Torah that was carried by IDF chief rabbi Shlomo Goren in the 1967 Six Day War, during a ceremony with 75 Torah scrolls from around the world in memory of the soldiers killed in the 2014 Operation Protective Edge and in Israel’s wars, at the Western Wall, 2015.

Grapevine, May 25, 2025: Resilience in the face of racism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

L-R) DANNA AZRIELI, Yeshayahu Menat, and Galit Gal

Grapevine: Huckabee's here

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US Ambassador Mike Huckabee addresses the media outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025.

Grapevine, May 23, 2025: They also see

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 AT THE ceremony celebrating the new Dahan Gate (L-R): Bar-Ilan U. President Prof. Arie Zaban, Dr. Zipora Schorr, Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg, Shlomo Zohar, Bar-Ilan CEO and Senior Deputy President Zohar Yinon, and Rector Prof. Amnon Albeck.

Grapevine, May 18, 2025, Man of the moment

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 RINA IDAN (from left), Miriam Druck, Dr. Ilana Kwartin, Rozita Pnini, Orly Carmon, Hagit Zehavi, Hila Frish.

Grapevine, May 16, 2025: Generous gift to the University of Haifa

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 SHARON HESKIA and Avi Levi.

Wines of strength and grace

Shiloh Winery blossoms in a time of turmoil

Yossi Kransdorf, manager of the Visitors’ Center, attends to guests at the Shiloh Winery.

Grapevine, May 14, 2025: All in the family

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 VAN JONES (center), a CNN political commentator, attends a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2022

Grapevine, May 11, 2025: It’s all academic

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FROM LEFT: Sam Halabi, Liora Ofer, and Yona Yahav.