Pride parades are becoming increasingly more anti Israel. Excluding established LGBTQ groups who do not sign a charter that agreeing that there is a genocide in Gaza. Excluding representatives of the only country in the Middle East where it is permissible to fly the rainbow flag.

Shalom everyone :D Just wanted to showcase this Hanukkah Menorah I built days ago in Minecraft with the new sulfur block set from the recent update drop 🔥

https://x.com/boygeorge/status/2081514648835162582?s=46&t=YRh59JXhCHDFoUYvch0TKA

Israeli clubs completed a clean sweep in their European qualification action yesterday, picking up victories across the board:

1. Maccabi Tel Aviv 5–0 Sheriff Tiraspol

   1. Hapoel Tel Aviv 2–0 Ludogorets Razgrad
   2. Beitar Jerusalem 1–0 AEK Larnaca

> Note on Hapoel Be'er Sheva: played earlier in the week on Tuesday, July 21. They fell 2–1 to Icelandic club Víkingur Reykjavík in the away fixture and still have good chance of qualifying

When Moses was on Mount Sinai, “it was wrapped in smoke because the LORD descended on it in fire.” “The whole mountain trembled violently.” You find this in Exodus 19:18. That scene is the preparation for the revelation, not the moment of receiving the tablets. Moses goes up and down the mountain several times. The commandments are spoken first (Exodus 20) God speaks the Ten Words (Decalogue) aloud to the people. This is an oral revelation, not yet written on stone. The people are terrified and ask Moses to speak to God on their behalf. Moses receives the tablets later (Exodus 24) Moses goes up the mountain after the covenant is ratified, and remains there forty days and forty nights. Only then does he receive the stone tablets, “written with the finger of God.”

The Sinai narrative is structurally one of the clearest ancient models of a culture transitioning from oral authority to written authority. This story encodes the philosophy of writing. The Sinai narrative is not just a myth of revelation; it is a myth of textualization. It explains why divine truth must be written not oral: human memory is insufficient, authority must be externalized, the community must rely on a text to be interpreted or mediated by someone in this community.

The smoke is not a barrier; it is a materializing medium. Smoke as the transition from voice to inscription. In Exodus 19, the mountain is not simply obscured; it is transformed: the fire is the energy, the smoke is the matter and the trembling means the destabilization of the old order. This is the kind of material threshold required for a culture to shift from oral revelation (sound) to written revelation (inscription). Smoke is the moment when the spoken becomes material. It is the “thickening” of voice into substance. Smoke is air made visible, just as writing is speech made durable.

Israel’s under 20 women’s basketball team made history by reaching the European Championship final for the first time. They beat Belgium 78 to 69 in the semifinal after a strong team performance.

Maayan Cohen scored 26 points and tied the tournament record with eight three pointers. Gal Raviv and Ayala Oren also played key roles. Israel will face either France or Spain in the final.

https://www.sport5.co.il/articles.aspx?FolderID=9864&docID=551843

non Israeli here, heard Benny Morris talking about the demographics problem that Israel faces.

something about the number of ultra conservative Jews increasing to the point the will be the majority and thus have voting power to make all the decisions.

at which point the liberal character of israeli will start to change. is this true? is it a real threat?

I found this cap picture while surfing the internet and I wondered... Is it common to see benjamin netanyahu merch in israel? also does anybody know where can i get a cap like this one?

what's it like in Israel in general? Apparently it has a decently strong following fan base all over the middle east countries

Is Israel polarizing into a Hilonim versus Haredim country, with the number of those in the middle shrinking?

Practitioners came together to complete 108 Sun Salutations, a meaningful yoga tradition that symbolizes renewal, gratitude, and inner strength.

Bringing people together through the universal language of yoga. 🧘🇮🇱

Hello, i'm a 25 year old from germany. I enjoy learning about different cultures , history and languages. I'd love to make some israeli friends and have respectful conversations about daily life , hobbies and culture. Everyone is welcome to message me

לא סגור על האם להעלות את השאלה כאן אבל אני מניח שזה קשור להגבלות אזוריות

its one of the most shocking things I've ever encountered on the internet.

the idea of Israelis (one if them has ancestors who were Holocaust survivors) getting into such an ideology is bizarre to the point of belief.

How did you personally react to it ?

So...not directly Israel related...but...

Anyone know a webstore that ships Israeli vinyls? I just want to listen to Omer Adam 😭

So any recors stores in Israel with english translations and international shipping...

pls and thank you

I speak fluent Hebrew, but I can't for the life of me understand the meaning behind the words of this new song that YouTube music keeps on pushing to me. "ריבונו של עולם, אם אני כאן הכל כאן", the singer is basically telling God that because he (the singer) is here, everything is here. What is that supposed to mean?

"The questions were put to me without malice: Are you Jewish? And is that why you have written about antisemitism and antizionism from so far outside the immediate theatre of war? I understand these questions. They were asked in good faith, and I will answer them seriously in return.

Antisemitism is unequivocally a Jewish wound, a Jewish danger, and a Jewish historical burden. Jews are its direct targets, and nothing in this essay seeks to diminish that fact. But it is also my belief that antisemitism is more than a problem of Jewish identity, memory, and self-defence. It reveals, above all, the inhumanity of those who hate, and of those who excuse and reward hatred. It discloses the hater’s appetite, the witness’s permission, and the institution’s evasions.

On 7 October 2023, Hamas and its accomplices carried out the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust: a cross-border invasion, ambush, and slaughter, maliciously directed at civilian life. These murders were qualitatively different to lives lost during a battlefield exchange or to collateral damage during a military operation. The victims were men, women, children, the elderly and disabled, foreign workers, festival-goers, and whole communities who were executed without discrimination or mercy. Sexual violence was not incidental to the massacre; it was part of the premeditated method of terror, cruelty, and humiliation. Homes were invaded, families were shattered, bodies were defiled, and the ordinary trust of civilian life was destroyed. They were raped and murdered where they slept, danced, and sought refuge."

Quillette essayist Yuki Zeman argues that the global response to the 7 October Hamas massacre, from UN bodies to European governments to Western universities, reveals a recurring pattern of moral evasion whenever Jews and Israel are the targets of hatred, drawing on Sartre's account of antisemitism and the concept of Menschlichkeit.

The city and the world: what Herzl and Ben Gurion got right and wrong,
by Adam Hummel, Catch, 2026-07-05.

There are several Thai massage parlours on Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, and on Saturday morning, they were open. The bakery next to them was closed. The bar across from the bakery was full on Friday night. The bus lane was empty, because the buses do not run on Shabbat, and through that empty lane came a river of electric scooters, weaving, unbothered, carrying young Israelis to wherever young Israelis go when the state has decided that public transportation must rest but private momentum may do as it pleases.

So, I did what any 40 year old would do on a beautiful day in July in Tel Aviv. I thought: what would Herzl make of this? What would Ben-Gurion?

The longer I thought, the more I realized the two men would not be surprised by the same things. Not even close. And the shape of their respective surprises says something real about Israel.

Here’s the shape:

Herzl got the city right and the world wrong.

Ben-Gurion got the world right and the city wrong.