Grapevine

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

Grapevine, July 18, 2025: Courting controversy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee arrives to a court hearing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 16, 2025.
IMAM HASSEN Chalghoumi (right), Chairman of the Conference of Imams of France, with Dahri Nour Mouhammad, Executive Director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism.

Grapevine, July 12, 2025: Muslim empathy

 An IDF reservist kisses his child before boarding the bus, in Jerusalem, May 2025.

Grapevine: Israel-Iran: Days of yore

 IDF soldiers in a swearing in ceremony. February 27, 2025.

Grapevine: Good, nutritious food in their bellies


Grapevine: Of buses and bomb shelters

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 People check their phones in a Jerusalem bomb shelter.

Grapevine June 25, 2025: Yesteryear, today and tomorrow

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ADAM MONTEFIORE.

June 22, 2025: Crisis response

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Israeli money bills.

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.

Grapevine June 20, 2025: An Arab tragedy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG offers words of sympathy to grieving husband and father Raja Khatib.

Grapevine: Special needs at center

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Producer Lawrence Bender in Los Angeles, 2016.

Grapevine, June 15, 2025: A new era?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

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

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