Now enlisted in a wide range of volunteer activities on the home front, participants in a pre-army program - alongside some from abroad - say it's a 'once in a lifetime' experience

What had looked to be an uneventful academic year for international students has turned into a whirlwind of evacuations, head counts, and open-ended delays

Signatories say Netanyahu's plan to extend sovereignty to parts of West Bank 'threatens Palestinian human rights and endangers Israeli security'

Unsure of what's in store this fall more Americans delay matriculation hoping to 'ride out the wave' of the pandemic touring and studying Hebrew -- but may not gain entry to Israel