Other Israel-Related Sites

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News from Israel

Security Issues

  • The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office: English / Hebrew
  • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s military forces: English / Hebrew

Israeli Politics

  • The Israeli Likud party home page: English / Hebrew.
  • Dry Bones, by Yaakov Kirschen, is one of Israel’s premier political cartoons.

Research and Policy Institutes

  • The Jabotinsky Institute conducts academic research and maintains archives and a museum regarding the life and works of Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.
  • The Herzl Institute is a Jerusalem research institute concentrating on Jewish political thought, the history of Zionism and other related fields.

The Settlements

  • The Jewish community of Hebron provides information on the city where the Jewish Patriarchs once lived.
  • Ma’aleh Adumim, the largest city among the “Jewish settlements,” is located just east of Jerusalem. (This is a private web site run by Jacob Richman. The official site is in Hebrew.)
  • Ariel is a large town in Samaria, home to 20,000 residents and 10,000 students at Ariel University.
  • Mitzpeh Yericho, located in the Judean desert, 20 km east of Jerusalem.
  • The Golan Heights are the strategic hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee on the border with Syria.

Prisoners of Conscience

Activist Groups – Israel

Activist Groups – United States

Learn Hebrew

  • Hebrew Dictionary Online is a great place to learn Hebrew words. Sign up for their Hebrew Word-a-Day Mailing list.
  • Instant Hebrew is a new online course that teaches people to read Hebrew in just 2 hours.
  • Learn Biblical Hebrew — possibly the most useful online Hebrew course in the world.
  • Hebrew Verbs — probably the best site we know of for learning Hebrew verbs, with full conjugations (including audio) for hundreds of verbs.
  • Learn Hebrew Phrases with Audio: Free site with 1,215 Hebrew phrases and sentences with Audio pronunciations, Nikud (vowels), and English translations and transliterations.
  • My-Hebrew-Dictionary.com: Learn Hebrew with pictures and audio.

Miscellaneous

  • The Sefer Torah Recycling Network has found a number of out-of-use sifrei Torah in need of repair, fixed them, and donated them to settlements and synagogues in Israel.
  • Computer Jobs in Israel — Home of Jacob Richman’s famous email list that posts available high-tech jobs in Israel. If you are looking for a computer job in Israel this is the place to start, even if you live abroad.
  • Binyan Shalem — an institution that helps bring the beauty of traditional Jewish weddings to secular Israeli couples. (Hebrew site)
  • The Holy City Prayer Society is a nondenominational monotheistic prayer service in Jerusalem.
  • iFire.co.il is an Israeli site with product reviews for gadgets and electronic devices. (Hebrew site)
  • Yad Vashem is the Holocaust remembrance museum in Jerusalem.
  • Shalach Manos — Send Purim gift baskets (Misloach Manot) to Israel.

Israel/Jewish Internet indexes