The local Likud party branch in Ra’anana organized a demonstration against the Remembrance Day event.

Facing both October 7 and Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, bereaved families sought to make space for shared grief — and insist on a different path forward.

Despite advance warning that right-wing activists were planning to protest outside the ceremony, there was only a small police force, including only one patrol car, when the violence began

With many bereaved families from the Gaza war, several have joined the Israeli-Palestinian Forum. Many will attend online, as the joint Memorial Day ceremony – held at a secret location due to far-right threats – seeks to show that Israelis and Palestinians can share both pain – and hope

Controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian event honoring the slain on both sides continues to grow, even in the shadow of the October 7 massacre and ongoing war in Gaza

I write these words from the deepest pain a human being can endure. Over the past year, I’ve lost 160 members of my extended family – men, women and children. All of them were civilians.

Rami Elhanan is Israeli, and Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. They live near each other but exist in separate worlds.

Around 23% said that friends or family members tried to convince them to cease their peace work, and 22% cited military restrictions as a major hindrance.

Feminism has long celebrated the victories of “firsts” – the first woman to lead, to land a spacecraft, to break barriers built by patriarchy. These are not small feats. But what happens when feminism becomes fluent in ambition and silent in agony?