Ra'anana

English-language book clubs across Israel keep Anglo women on the same page

“Some members of our group have lived in Israel for 40 years and they could read the books in Hebrew, yet they love to come to our group. It’s very important to all of us.”

WOMEN AT a meeting of the Jerusalem Barnard Book Club.
Passengers at Tel Aviv Savidor Central Railway Station, September 24, 2026.

Israel Railways to reduce service in central Israel 'during peak hours only' for planned work

EDAN LESHEM, the former top-ranked Israeli professional tennis star, will help organize Friday’s Sharsheret Israel Tennis Tournament in Ra’anana, returning to the courts where his tennis journey began as a child.

From Ra’anana around the world and back: Edan Leshem takes a swing for Sharsheret - interview

Israeli daycare-aged children (illustrative). March 24, 2026.

Three Ra'anana daycare aides arrested on suspicion of abusing toddlers


Hilarious Hebrew - a story of two Ra'anana veterans

They can have a good laugh at these misadventures and chose to take in stride even the more frustrating roadblocks to their absorption.

ITZIK, 78,  AND VIVIENNE, 76,  MARON FROM CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA  TO RA’ANANA, 2000

The meat eating experience of Pikhana

The restaurant has a television screen which shows a constant stream of meat cuts in all their gory glory as well as images of chefs preparing them for cooking.

Meat without borders

Hebron: The power of one

A look at the man who made it his mission to strengthen our connection with the City of our Fathers.

EALLAN HIRSHFIELD outside the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Psychology: Embarrassing moments

Many years ago, I worked with a mom around her almost four-year-old’s lack of interest in toilet training.

Embarassing moments

The limits of tolerance

There is a legitimate, legal, even laudatory need for intolerance in certain situations – and chief among them is the assault on Israel.

‘WHEN WHOLE nations – like the Japanese in World War II – are involved, everyone is a legitimate target until the threat is neutralized. Pictured: Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces Paratroopers, 1942.

Ra’anana's Pastaria: Pasta, pizza & a whole lot more

While Pastaria does a great trade in pizzas from home-made dough and every variation on pasta, we decided to go more for vegetable options for the first course.

Pasta, pizza and a whole lot more

Torah meets tech in Israel’s main party town

Religious people do not want to do a program that is all business, and the secular community does not want to simply sit and learn Torah all day.

Volunteers of United Rescue/United Hatzalah Colombia in action in Cartagena

Bat Ella is back!

Bat Ella joins us once again, this time with celebrated Israeli composer-pianist Guy Mintus, to bring us an exciting multicultural orchestral fantasy.

Bat Ella is back!

Thousands of Masa participants celebrate start of year in Israel

More than 2,500 attendees enjoyed a special performance by Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai at Israel's largest-ever single gathering of diaspora Jews working and volunteering in Israel.

Masa Chairman Eli Cohen, Masa CEO Ofer Gutman and Masa participants pose with Netta Barzilai.

Sukkot: Embracing uncertainty

‘The knock on the door was different from every knock before it. I’ll never forget it’

‘DICK AND Jane’s safe world disintegrated in the 1960s.’