Israel Independence Day, known in Hebrew as Yom Ha’atzmaut, honors the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948. On midnight of May 14 of that year, the country's founders read aloud and signed the ...

8:47 a.m. Oct. 17, 2023: An earlier version of this article implied that Israel has controlled the Gaza Strip. Israel has controlled its border with Gaza, but not the territory itself. Kobi Danan’s ...

Some Israeli folk dances are based on musical traditions from all over the world that are centuries old, but the dances also continue to evolve as today’s participants keep adding new music and new ...

Danny Pollock's interest in Israeli folk dance blossomed in childhood. At age 10, he would sit patiently as his mother took lessons, observing her movements. Then one day as he sat watching, the ...

Israeli Organizers say social media attacks and damage to venue by activists led local authorities to cancel planned music ...

What connects Jaipur and Jerusalem? Delhi and Tel Aviv? Hyderabad and Haifa? India and Israel share strong military and strategic ties and are important trade partners, but another connection is ...

It is not every day one “sees” President Donald Trump and First Lady dancing it “YMCA.” But that is what happened on a recent episode of “Rokdim Im Kokhavim” — the Israeli version of “Dancing with the ...

About 30 people meet weekly on Monday nights for the Israeli dance group at the Starlight Ballroom Dance Studio in Metairie. This is a picture from their Halloween celebration. (Courtesy of Elliott ...

(JTA) — When Ita Skoblinski learned that a favorite dance studio in Montreal was boycotting a movement style that originated in Israel, she wasn’t sure what to think. An Israeli designer who moved to ...

A student dance company from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has cancelled its participation in a festival in Scotland over security concerns. The students were scheduled to dance during the ...

‘The Last Stylebender’ – a curious nickname for a professional MMA fighter, yet arguably one of the most accurate monikers in UFC history. Ahead of his long-awaited return to action at UFC Fight Night ...

Kobi Danan’s Hollywood nightclub Sound is a home base for Israeli dance music expats in Los Angeles. Danan, who is Israeli, has lived in L.A. for two decades but cherishes the close-knit circle of ...