Ra'anana

'Time to come home': Seven families from New York's Persian Jewish community make aliyah together

“We’re running on fumes, but exhilarated,” Jordan, one of the new olim (immigrants) and a father of six girls, told The Jerusalem Post at the airport.

New immigrants from Great Neck New York's Persian Jewish community arrive at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. August 11, 2026.
View of Savidor train station in Tel Aviv, May 21, 2026; Illustrative.

Man seriously injured after being struck by train at Ra'anana South Station

Skinny Pasta brand pop-up at Renanim.

First store and new hummus start-up: Skinny Pasta expands

Skinny Pasta

First outlet store and pop–up complex for Skinny Pasta at Renanim Mall


Torah meets tech in Israel’s main party town

Religious people do not want to do a program that is all business, and the secular community does not want to simply sit and learn Torah all day.

Volunteers of United Rescue/United Hatzalah Colombia in action in Cartagena

Bat Ella is back!

Bat Ella joins us once again, this time with celebrated Israeli composer-pianist Guy Mintus, to bring us an exciting multicultural orchestral fantasy.

Bat Ella is back!

Thousands of Masa participants celebrate start of year in Israel

More than 2,500 attendees enjoyed a special performance by Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai at Israel's largest-ever single gathering of diaspora Jews working and volunteering in Israel.

Masa Chairman Eli Cohen, Masa CEO Ofer Gutman and Masa participants pose with Netta Barzilai.

Sukkot: Embracing uncertainty

‘The knock on the door was different from every knock before it. I’ll never forget it’

‘DICK AND Jane’s safe world disintegrated in the 1960s.’

A proud Knesset

Israeli society is inherently liberal and progressive when it comes to social issues.

Revelers at Tel Aviv’s 2016 LBGTQ Pride Parade

A taste of Paris

Carrousel in Ra’anana is a gastronome’s paradise

Carrousel

First Pride parade held in Raanana

The central Israeli bedroom community of Raanana held its first Pride march.

Israel Pride Parade

Green fields

It was a perfect setting – the Ra’anana park with a fountain playing, green fields as far as the eye can see and the promise of a healthful meal.

Sasha

Non-residents buying more Israeli apartments

Franchi CEO Marcello Incellini said he expects that foreign residents will purchase about 1,200 apartments in Israel in 2019, worth some NIS 4 billion.

Israeli star architect Irma Orenstein helped design the most expensive apartment ever sold in Israel

An Israeli restaurant in a beautiful Raanana setting

The restaurant must be in one of the most beautiful settings in Israel. It’s actually inside the Ra’anana Park, just next to the lake and surrounded by flower beds and tall shading trees.

Mandarin, Ra’anana