Isabel Kershner

1 week ago | arabalears.cat | Isabel Kershner

El van capturar mentre fugia del festival de música Nova, una festa rave amb milers d’assistents a prop de la frontera amb Gaza. Uns dies després d’haver estat segrestat, segons explica ell mateix, va començar a parlar amb Déu. Va fer vots. Va començar a beneir el menjar que li donaven. I va fer peticions, algunes de les quals creu que van ser escoltades. “Busques alguna cosa on agafar-te, on aferrar-te”, va dir Shem Tov en una entrevista recent a casa seva a Herzliya, al nord de Tel-Aviv.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Isabel Kershner |David Sanger |Ephrat Livni |Qasim Nauman

Current time inJerusalem12:59 p.m. June 18 PinnedUpdated June 18, 2025, 5:58 a.m. ETIsabel KershnerDavid E. Sanger and Isabel Kershner reported from Jerusalem. Israel said its warplanes struck more nuclear and missile targets in Tehran early Wednesday, as President Trump raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East by calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” and suggesting that the United States could join the Israeli campaign against Iran’s nuclear program.

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Isabel Kershner

Each morning, Shelly Shem Tov would enter her son’s empty bedroom and recite Chapter 20 from the biblical Book of Psalms, an ancient plea for deliverance. All the while she was unaware that her son, Omer Shem Tov, happened to be uttering the very same verses of Psalm 20 — “May the Lord answer you on a day of distress.”He had adopted the same daily ritual about 130 feet underground, alone, in a Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip. Omer Shem Tov was 20 when gunmen seized him during the Oct.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Isabel Kershner

An Israeli stuck in Berlin who was running out of his daily medication. Two sisters in a Barcelona hotel searching for locals who might host them. Families unexpectedly separated between Tel Aviv and London. Facebook groups for Israelis abroad have been abuzz with pleas like these as tens of thousands of travelers who left the country before it started its assault on Iran find themselves stranded overseas.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Isabel Kershner |Natan Odenheimer |Michael Shear

PinnedFarnaz FassihiIsabel KershnerNatan Odenheimer and Israeli fighter jets and drones unleashed destruction and death across parts of Iran on Friday night and into Saturday morning in an attack on Tehran’s nuclear sites and military leadership. The strikes prompted a retaliatory barrage of missiles from Iran, resulting in the deaths of at least two people in Israel and the injury of dozens.