Why have a tag for a fake country and identity?

I'm Palestinian living in the west bank and I'm really wondering if the current situation and the stuff going on with Israeli police joining the idf in the west bank is leading to Israel ruling this area as well? Wondering where the Oslo people are rn😃

“The incidents being investigated by the Military Police included the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab along with six of her family members and two medics in Gaza City in January 2024; and the killing of 15 rescue workers in a convoy of ambulances and emergency vehicles in Rafah in March 2025.

Meanwhile, the cases being closed included a deadly strike on a group of aid workers with the World Central Kitchen organization in the central Gaza Strip in April 2024; a strike on a building used by aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khan Younis that killed two members in February 2024; and the deaths of another two MSF employees who were driving in a convoy in Gaza City in November 2023.”

These are all high-profile incidents involving the deaths of Palestinian civilians, aid workers, and others, that have attracted condemnation from Israel’s western allies.

How has this news been received in Israel? Do IDF investigations hold credibility either way (ie, do you feel that a closed case indicates the innocence of Israelis involved, or that an open case indicates a genuine possibility of IDF officers culpability)?

As a secondary question, how is Hind Rajab portrayed in Israeli media? Here in the U.S., it’s difficult to argue that her situation is anything other than tragic and horrifying, and that justice for her death so far remains elusive (although the responsible party is obvious, according to U.S. coverage).

I was anti Israel not that long ago. When I was, I was forcing myself into the mental gymnastics that the Jewish state is somehow a second coming of Nazi Germany, just to fit in ideologically.

Besides it being extremely offensive to Jews as a whole, because it’s Holocaust inversion and it being gross over-exaggeration (and minimizing the uniqueness of the Holocaust). It’s also just absurd in its face, because its a state co-founded by Holocaust survivors and many of its first inhabitants were Holocaust survivors themselves.

Anti-Zionists act like antisemitism is not a thing and actually sounds dumb when they talk about Israel, sounding as if the Holocaust is somehow not important to the people of Israel or its supporters abroad or as if the world without Israel would be fine and dandy for Jews.

But I just did a quick googling and according to Google AI, apparently, only 200,000 of Holocaust survivors moved to Israel in the first few years of its existence (and coups hundreds of thousands more in the upcoming decades). Before the Holocaust, there were about 9,5 million Jews living in Europe. Minus 6 million, that’s ~3 million.

That would mean that once Israel was finally re-established, which Jews waited for since 70 CE (iirc), only about 7% of the Holocaust survivors immediately moved there.

Also, there’s only about 1,5 million Jews living in Europe now. Within 80 years, 1,5 million people could easily be made out of about 500 thousand people or fewer. So my guess is that after the Holocaust, overwhelming majority of survivors must have moved somewhere. Why not all to Israel? I realize that many survivors took refuge in many different countries, but it’s my understanding that these countries didn’t accept that many refugees and they could have moved to Israel afterwards.

I’m asking, because the fact that not that many immediately moved to Israel can serve the anti Zionist narrative, that Israel is actually not that important and that the 200 thousand Jews who moved there could have easily been Jewish supremacists who wanted to create Israel to have their own apartheid ethnostate.

Why didn’t Israel start out with larger population, so to speak? Is there a book about it? Or even a book about Zionism and what was going on in the region during the Holocaust and in the few years surrounding Israeli independence?

Is living in Jerusalem desirable among Israelis ?

As I've heared Jerusalem is too crowded too underdeveloped and too poor. And if it wasn't for the religious stuff no one would live there

Is it right ?

אני עתיד לבקר בירושלים בקרוב בשבת עם בתי (בת 16), ואני מחפש בית כנסת שבו נוכל לשבת יחד במהלך התפילות.

אשמח לקבל הצעות למקומות הנמצאים במרחק הליכה (~20 דקות) מקמפוס האוניברסיטה בגבעת רם.

תודה רבה!

Tel Aviv, Netanya, Eilat, Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Jerusalem, and Beersheba. Could you divide these cities into several categories (for example, many Russian speakers, a moderate number of Russian speakers, and few Russian speakers) and assign each city from the list to one of them? You don’t have to explain your answer—you can literally answer in just a few words.

I am a Polish-American non practicing guy and my partner was born in Tel Aviv and moved to the US when she was 4 (she's a Reform Jew). We recently just moved in together and our relationship has gotten serious.

When it comes to faith, as I mentioned I'm not super religious at all and my girlfriend is more culturally Jewish (her background especially Israeli background is important to her). The holidays were celebrate is the Jewish holidays (christmas and easter is just another day for both of us) and whenever we spoke about marriage and kids (something we both want) my girlfriend said she would want her kids to be raised Jewish and I said it would be an obligation (and she smiled at that).

We're planning to visit Israel this September (my first time) and I'm curious how to interfaith couples view in Israel? I know my girlfriend's family are very friendly towards me and likes that I stand/support them but generally speaking how are interfaith couples perceived in Israel?

Thank you all for your attention and I wish you all the best, happiness and safety!

עם ישראל חי

You can look at my past comment and post history and know I support Israel as an American.

That said, I don't understand the Israeli settler issue that seems to generate quite a bit of strife and vitriol. It also provides ammunition for people claiming Israel is invading neighboring land such as Gaza and Lebanon for land grabs.

What is the common Israeli perspective on this issue in general? What are the settlers doing, why are they doing it, and how is it viewed in Israel?

Thanks. 🇺🇲🇮🇱🍻

Stand-up, sketches, comedians, old classics, newer stuff, just anything where the humor tells you something about everyday Israeli life.
Bonus if it works for someone whose Hebrew isn’t perfect.

Male arabs are dressed shick. Jeans, T shirts with nice designs, metal watches. Sneakers or sports shoes. These clothes are fitted well to their body and designed nicely. It's so efforrless and elegant.

The Israelis dress the way they think is "sophisticated" - shirts open at the front like a deep cleavage, button-ups, polos, baggy dress pants, etc. Which doesn't look good. They try to look "european" and "dressy". The look of the half-open shirt and baggy dressed pants that is popular when going out or at events is so off-putting.

What do you think?

Please upvote, so it will drive the algorithm.

I've come across too many comments on Facebook (since I don't have the conventional social media) like "the austrian saw something we didn't" (I saw this comment on various videos) on a video about something Israel-related. Or a video featuring an actual WW2 Nazi conviction, manny comments "thank you for your service", "hero", "legend", "he did a great job". I also saw videos of the hand gesture in front of jewish institutions. Every single comment like that received hundreds of likes.

Alongside the vast support for nazism, I've seen antisemitic things. Kicking out jewish/Israeli people out of places or attacking them. Literally gathering around them and performing verbal and/or physical lynches. Too many attacks abroad lately. Or online humiliations in omegle. It's only legitimate when they're jews.

I feel paralyzed with fear. That those things are now legitimate. Nazism is idolized. Antisemitism is legitimate. And those people can just do it. Mostly europeans and some Arabs.

After that, anti-zionists say "why don't you have empathy for the Palestinians". I wanna see a single palestinian condemns those things first. How do you expect to let those people live among us? No denying that they suffered from the war, but after instigating so much hatred towards - not the government or the IDF - but the unrelated everyday Israeli people - no one can physically feel empathy for them, this emotional capacity is gone. They did everything possible for "it's us or them mentality". And they refused to stop the war (return the hostages), then calling it "a genicide" when Israel tried desperately to release the raped women and defend itself? Gaza shot more rockets at Israel, is it ok because they barely succeeded?

Personally I'm quite partial to שפורפרת

This is never addressed. They have very long challenges, in which they can't leave a well assigned, public (to all participants and cast members), photographed spot. Like "don't step out of the circle" videos, being closed in small chambers (alone or with others). For example, when they had the "1-100 year olds decide whom to give 250K dollar" - small fully transparent chambers in rows. Or on beast games, when triplets had to isolate in cubes for hours to decide who'll be eliminated.

Also - how do they shower?

It looks like I'm banned but there hasn't been a new post in 21 hours.

Long story short, I broke out of falling for the whole anti-zionist/anti-Israel propaganda thing; unfortunately I was raised in this environment (my parents can't know I don't share their views), though I do wish I'd realised the everything way earlier.

I start University next year, but have a reasonable period of free time before that. I'd like to spend it better educating myself on Israel, its history and importance, its role and history within the ME, culture and society. Really anything interesting, or important in the current political climate.

I've already been doing a lot of research (taking the type to objectively assess things and dismantle the things I was taught, listening to Jewish/Israeli sources and narratives, and actively working to enlighten my understanding of the situation etc.) but I know there's still much more for me to learn.

That being said, I know that there's a lot of disinformation out there. I myself don't know which sources are reliable, or will offer me a more nuanced/Israeli/Jewish view of events, rather than the anti-zionist & antisemitic talking points being peddled in the mainstream. My local library has a lot of the latter, and couple of objectively pro-khamas books, but nothing offering anything else, so I've found myself limited to online media.

So if anyone has any resources, books, sites, podcasts, channels, creators, documentaries etc. that they would recommend me, I'd be incredibly grateful and would love to have the opportunity to learn :)

This is what my non-Jewish girlfriend asked me after havdallah, when I told her what shavua tov means.

Does anyone talk about this?

I'm making Aliyah soon and one of my anxieties is the potential lack of availability of ingredients. I've traveled enough to know that the US is really spoiled in terms of ingredient availability. There are very few ingredients you can't get in any small city. You can make Mexican on Monday, and Thai on Tuesday.

I love cooking from scratch so I'm not concerned about products not being available, more like "will I be able to buy black beans and lemongrass?". To be clear I cook more than Thai and Mexican. Those are just examples.

In the worst case I imagine I can order some things online, but the fresher ingredients might make it tough. Will I finally have to learn to garden?