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The new online edition of the UK Jewish Charity Guide has just been launched. Co-edited by Edgware’s Sharon Graham and Netanya’s Alan Gold, it covers Israel, the arts, culture, sports, education, health and welfare, disability, human rights, mental health, religion and more.

Tel Aviv University announces its new International MA in Jewish Studies, a dynamic program, in English, studying Jewish civilization from antiquity to the present. It includes Biblical studies, Jewish and Semitic languages, Jewish history, culture, literature and thought.

Even as Hezbollah target Kiryat Shmona, Israel plans to rehabilitate the northern city. It will re-open its airport to commercial flights. Also, Tel-Hai College, now merged with the MIGAL Research Institute, will relocate to the city and be upgraded to the University of Kiryat Shmona and the Galilee.

The shelter inside Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station has been renovated and staffed by volunteers who entertain the children of residents who don’t have their own shelters.

Iran built a vast network of tens of thousands of cameras to control dissent on the streets. Israel highjacked them turning them into a targeting tool. The infrastructure authoritarian states build to make their rule unassailable, also makes them visible and vulnerable.

Israel's Bedouin community rushed to support over 100 people wounded after an Iranian missile destroyed residential buildings in Dimona and Arad. Sager Abu Srehan, vice principal at the Amal Reut School, explains why.

Two years after suffering serious injuries in combat in the Gaza Strip, Idan Amedi (star of Israeli TV hit Fauda) has resumed active reserve duty in the IDF. He has also launched a new concert tour on Feb 18 at Tel Aviv’s Homegrown Hall.

Samoa has announced plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem next year, becoming the latest Pacific Island nation to establish a diplomatic presence in the Israeli capital. Diplomatic ties have expanded in recent years, thanks mainly to Israel’s international aid agency, MASHAV.

Two weeks into the war with Iran, Israeli high-tech companies continue to recruit hundreds of employees, even under fire, with a net annual increase of 5%. Tech investment for Q4 2025 was 45% higher than 2024. Tech firms are increasing their workforce in Europe, despite political challenges.

Holocaust survivor Charlotte Roth, 96, arrived in Israel nearly 80 years after liberation from the Nazis. Born in Czechoslovakia, she survived Auschwitz and a death march. She has 9 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren, many living in Israel.