Eli Ashkenazi

Eli Ashkenazi is a reporter for Walla .

A member of a northern Israeli community's emergency response squad; illustrative.

'We are being abandoned': Northern Israel emergency response squads denounce reduced mobilization

Fatal blow to the Israeli mango industry

Mango season opens with a 70% collapse in yield – and prices will soar

A jackal is seen at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, on September 03, 2022.

Suspected rabid jackals attack campers, leaving 11 injured including child bitten on face


Pride flags vandalized across Israel over weekend, police launch probes

In Jaffa, police launched an investigation after receiving a report of an individual seen tearing down LGBT flags displayed at the Clock Tower Square.

Pride flags are seen near a beach in Tel Aviv ahead of the city’s annual Pride Parade scheduled for next week, June 6, 2026.

'His life's mission': Former Tel Aviv city engineer, architect Israel Goodovitch, dies at 92

Goodovitch was born in Haifa in 1934. He studied at Tichon Hadash, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture, and earned a master’s degree from the University of Tokyo.

Israel Goodovitch walks during the Big Brother "VIP" reality show final at Neve Ilan studio, June 16, 2015.

Last remaining survivor of 1929 Hebron massacre passes away at 100

Yitzhak Ben Hebron was about four years old at the outbreak of the riots that led to the massacre, and managed to escape the violence through the window of the Avraham Avinu Synagogue.

An officer of the Palestinian Police stands guard outside the Hebron Yeshiva (school for Talmudic study) in the aftermath of the Hebron massacre in Mandatory Palestine, 1929.

Tel Aviv serial killer Mohammed Halabi dies in prison due to medical condition

Halabi's killing spree was discovered on October 20, 1989, during the holiday of Sukkot. In total, his victims included two men, one Jewish and one Arab, and five women, both Jewish and Arab.

 A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020.

Hundreds of kilos of protected plant seized by Israel Nature and Parks Authority in Golan

In a separate operation in the Menashe region, an Israel Nature and Parks Authority inspector seized additional sacks containing approximately 6 kilograms of akoub and about 25 kilograms of hyssop.

Some of the bags seized, including the Gundelia tournefortii - which is in danger of extinction due to over-harvesting.

Between shelter and coffee, Eisenkot says Dahiya doctrine falls short - analysis

Gadi Eisenkot calls for decisive action against Hezbollah, warning Israel must act fast to secure the north.

 MK Gadi Eisenkot holds a press conference after announcing his resignation in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025.

Twenty-year-old man shot dead in Nazareth, Arab sector death toll in Israel hits 48

The Magen David Adom team that responded to the incident was forced to pronounce him dead at the scene. 

Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.

Northern Israeli moshav head decries 'performative' cabinet meeting in Kiryat Shmona

Davidi said the ministers’ arrival in the north, more than two years after the war began, amounts to “a certificate of poverty” for the government.

Residents of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona check missile attack damages at the city's Central Bus Station and Mall, Kiryat Shmona, Northern Israel on November 27, 2024.

Five arrested, later released in renewed probe into long-missing soldier Guy Hever

The police received new information, according to which there was suspicion that some of the detainees were involved or had knowledge of details related to Hever's disappearance.

Guy Hever

Israeli farmers protest Smotrich's proposed dairy reform, warn of 400 farm closures

Hundreds of farmers blocked roads nationwide, warning that proposed dairy reforms would shutter farms, undermine food security, and create dangerous reliance on imports.

Farmers and dairy farmers protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's proposed reforms, January 5, 2026.