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‘It’s the little things’: Israeli mother juggles war, parenthood as her husband serves

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: This article is the second in a series titled “HER,” an ongoing project by photojournalist Chen G. Schimmel, exploring the lives and inner worlds of the wives of Israeli soldiers.

A FLEETING moment of calm: Shiri and her husband share a quiet exchange in the kitchen with their child, one of the ‘little things’ that hold a family together between deployments.
Marina Ilyenko, a 38-year-old mother of two with lung cancer

Campaign seeks to help mother of two continue life-saving cancer treatment

Hazel Brief, at left, and Tali Drori pose together at a OneFamily retreat in early 2026.

Israeli mothers mourn together after their sons survived the battlefield but not their wounds

An illustration of a mother feeding a baby a bottle of formula.

What a strand of hair may reveal about the bond between mother and child


What it’s really like to be a working mother

Being a working mom, which all the guilt and challenges associated, isn't easy. But Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman wouldn’t want it any other way.

DOES EVERY working mother feel they need to be at work when they’re at home, and at home when they’re at work?

A Mother’s Day ode to the unsung COVID-19 heroes - comment

Motherhood is a combination of awesome and amazing and I am going to flush myself down the toilet if another person screams my name while I am trying to pee.

A mother takes a selfie with her first-grade daughter on the first day of school

What should we be talking about this Mother's Day? - comment

A discussion of some of the issues that affect mothers in Israel today.

A girl hugs her mother before entering her elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus disease.

Remembering my mother on Mother's Day

Our mother stays with us throughout our lives, even when we are mothers, or even grandmothers, ourselves.

THE WRITER'S mother: ‘She taught us honesty and decency, morality and ambition.’

Third pregnant woman dies from coronavirus this month

The 45-year-old COVID-19 patient, in her 39th week of pregnancy, was rushed to the Soroka Medical Center on Monday, while MDA paramedics administered life-saving treatment.

A pregnant woman sits on a bed holding her belly.

Naturally conceived quadruplets born in Israel in 1/700,000 chance

Multiple births are usually the result of fertility treatments • "Every time they brought me a baby outside, and all I could think of was 'thank God that yet another baby is okay,'" their father said

Hussan Yukov and Yemin Gavertansa's  Quadruplets born at Kaplan Medical Center

Working parents cannot survive the continued COVID-19 lockdown - comment

After we finish the homework and send it to the teacher, who responds with a “kol hakavod” and hearts and rainbows and unicorns. I want to respond with a different emoji.

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman and her 5 children

WHO reverses stance on pregnant women receiving COVID-19 vaccine

Israel has included pregnant women among those getting priority access to COVID-19 vaccines.

The COVID-19 vaccine given to medical staff at Ichilov Hospital on December 20.

MDA medic instructs husband through baby's delivery over the phone

"It was a special moment, but I hope it's a once in a lifetime experience," the new father said.

The Hodera family.

Israeli woman gives birth to twins in bathroom overnight

"It was an interesting experience," the new mother said.

Mother of the twins Natalia Birkov