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One of Israel’s most prominent construction companies created a new standard of living: “It's like we're all building something together—not just our homes, but a whole community.”

One of Israel’s most prominent construction companies created a new standard of living: “It's like we're all building something together—not just our homes, but a whole community.”

During the time of the First Temple, Sukkot was considered the most important holiday – with the Torah referring to it simply as 'the holiday' and historian Josephus describing it as the 'most holy and important feast'

Scholars have come up with various alternatives to the religious theory for the origin of the huts, from families moving into the fields during harvest season and living in the huts to them once serving as housing for pilgrims coming to Jerusalem for the harvest festival

Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs, during Sukkot, Jews shake a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs, a few willow twigs and a citron fruit as part of the daily prayer service – but why and where did this begin?

The Netanya Municipality has begun an NIS 100 million project for a new bypass road, aimed at easing severe traffic jams in the eastern part of the city that impact residents' quality of life.

The Netanya Municipality has begun an NIS 100 million project for a new bypass road, aimed at easing severe traffic jams in the eastern part of the city that impact residents' quality of life.

Demand for housing in Israel will remain tight 'even if a simultaneous war erupts with Iran, Yemen, Hamas and Hezbollah,' real estate executive Ronen Jaffa predicts. 'Only increasing supply will influence prices'

A strategic distribution of ultra-Orthodox housing in Israel's Negev offers a rare opportunity for a dual solution: a response to the Haredi housing shortage and a significant advance in the area's development

Israeli court petitions give the impression that admissions committees for small towns were created to keep Arabs out of Jewish communities. Yet most of those being rejected are Jews

Many millennials and even Gen Zers in Israel are realizing that they can't afford to buy an apartment where they live, but they can buy an apartment for investment purposes in a more peripheral area

While the state hinders the development of Bedouin communities in the Negev, a quarter of the building plots in a new neighborhood in Be'er Sheva were purchased by Israeli Arabs and Bedouins migrating to the metropolis

Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzhak Elgarat was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, has been hunger striking for 17 days in an effort to rouse the public to join the battle for the hostages. He fears for his brother's life

German defense exports to Israel once enjoyed total public consensus, but amid legal concerns over Israel's conduct in Gaza and reports that Germany has frozen its arms shipments, the issue is now cause for controversy

When the U.S. threatens to suspend arms sales to the IDF and, at the same time, it has deployed batteries of air defense systems across Israel because of a lack of local interceptors, the boundaries of Israeli independence are being tested

Qatar PM: No Gaza truce talks for weeks; IDF: Over 95 launches fired from Lebanon at Israel ■ UNIFIL says Israeli tank shot at one of their southern Lebanon watchtowers ■ No Gaza cease-fire talks for weeks, Qatar's PM says ■ Israeli strike on Nabatieh municipality building in Lebanon killed 16, ministry says ■ U.S. envoy to UN says 'food and supplies must be surged into Gaza, immediately' ■ Gallant says Israel will negotiate with Hezbollah 'only under fire' ■ U.K. mulls sanctions against far-right ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, PM says

Brig. Gen. Yuval Bazak grasped long ago that Israel was moving toward a broad regional confrontation, but the defense hierarchy didn't heed his warnings. On October 7, he lost his son in the war that he foresaw

According to the DOT, this $4 million penalty is the largest ever issued against an airline for civil rights violations.

Five members of Kibbutz Kfar Azza are still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. This Sukkot, their friends are refusing to forget or abandon them: 'The whole country needs them back so that Israel can be whole again'