It can be hard to breathe - when the trucks upon trucks upon trucks of AID - ARE SENT - INTO GAZA - ALL THE TIME - and are LOOTED ON CAMERA - BY HAMAS TERRORISTS - the ones who RAPED us, MURDERED us and continue to TORTURE us. The ones who are LYING to you. USING you. LAUGHING at you. And yet - they've won.

"You can feel the death here," said my roommate of a few days, as we passed each other at the Nova Festival site, after each exploring it on our own for about fifteen minutes. A casual remark said without any emotion, on a beautiful sunny day at around 5pm - the time of day where you have to be careful which side you take a picture from, as one way will face the shining sun as it gets ready to set, and the other will give your shot exquisite lighting.

Our hearts break and bleed blood orange, yet our screams are heard and scrolled past.

Out of 250 faces of strangers all over Tel Aviv, Itay's was the one that leaped off the page and straight into my heart.

"So much for 'Never Again,'" said Lena Kosinovsky in a text to me last Saturday, as we shared the thoughts so many of us did about how...

It must take a minute to digest that he is home – that after 16 months of horror and agony – that her father came back to her family alive.

I imagined IRAN listening to this, and my blood went cold. My heart stopped beating.

These girls were the eyes of Israel. They were tasked with watching the border with Gaza - that's it - and they saw this attack was coming.

It is difficult for me to contemplate what could be going through these women's minds as I write this at 7:23am in Charlotte, North...

What must it be like to be laid to rest after all you've been through? The 98 days alive in Gaza - and the 326 days not?

I fell in love with Israel because I fell in love with its people.

I think we did at least. It depends on which channel you turn on here in Israel. On one, it said "Nasrallah chu-sal." Ma ze chu-sal?...

"Thank goodness I am here," has been my predominant thought since returning to Israel last Monday. This is despite losing my Israeli...

I made it back to Israel, despite the constant warnings on my phone of escalations with Hezbollah, and now a declaration of a Third...

The cursor has been blinking below these six names and faces. I haven't known where to begin because there are so many emotions swirling,...

This is the story of Alon Ohel, based on my interview with his mother in Israel in February of 2024. I heard Alon's piano playing on the...

For Israelis and those of us paying attention, today's move by Hamas was predictable. On the day Israel dropped its flyers in Arabic into...

We are bound in our love for each other and our rich past, entwined in our current struggles and standing as one in a vow for our future.

As I watched the young people at this beautiful event celebrating Shani through her artwork, I could only imagine their struggle to cope with such trauma - not just from the loss of Shani's incredible love and spirit - but to have to come to terms with her violent end.

Michael said he would get Or home - even if he had to turn the world upside down - and Michael did it - with the help of countless miracles.