Chaim V’Chessed is pleased to relate that today, the US Embassy reversed last week’s announcement. Effective immediately, the Embassy has reinstated emergency passport appointments for newborns.
In recent months, it has been extremely difficult to obtain appointments for passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBA) for US citizens in Israel. Disappointingly, on Friday, March 10, the Embassy announced changes to a new system that basically closes the only avenue available to those with newborn children seeking to travel to their native United States for Pesach.
Chabad photographer Dov Ber Hechtman presents a gallery of photos of the scenes of Purim in Yerushalayim.
In December 2022, Eylon Levy, international media advisor to the President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog, and his friend Yakov Ashkenazi, visited the Tel Lachish National Park and chanced on a small potsherd with some inscribed letters. The Aramaic inscription on the fired potsherd reads “Year 24 of Darius,” dating it to 498 BCE.
US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides revealed Monday evening that the 27-year-old man who was killed in a terrorist shooting attack on Route 90 between the Dead Sea and Jericho earlier today was an American citizen.
A Chabad mother driving with her children on her way to Yerushalayim was stoned by Palestinians Thursday, shattering a window with a stone that miraculously landing on an empty seat.
Over 230 boys and girls from across Europe arrived today Thursday for a unique and exciting Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall
A Latin papyrus with a detailed paycheck of a Roman legionary soldier, dated to the year 72 CE – during the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans (66-74 CE) – was discovered at Masada and sheds light on the pros and cons of enlisting as a soldier in the Roman Legion.
Two Israelis, a six-year-old child and a man in his 20s, were killed in a car-ramming terrorist attack at the entrance of the Israeli neighborhood of Ramot in east Jerusalem.
A unique bead made from pure gold and dated to at least 1,600 years ago was uncovered at the sifting project at the Archaeological Experience in the Emek Tzurim National Park in Eretz Yisroel.
Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national EMS organization, and Hatzolah Air, an American aviation organization that provides emergency medical air transport, have formed a partnership that will put MDA’s flight paramedics aboard Hatzolah Air and MDA Medevac helicopters to provide medical evacuations in Israel.
At least five people were killed and several others were injured in a shooting attack on a synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday evening.
The Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered elements of the city’s fortifications and an intriguing carved hand imprint as they dug along Sultan Suleiman Street, between the Damascus Gate and the Lions’ Gate.
A fine bronze coin, dating from the second year of the Bar Kochba Revolt (133 CE), was discovered in the Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological excavations carried out with the help of volunteers in four caves in the Nahal Darga Nature Reserve.
The Pool of Siloam, located at the southern end of the City of David, and within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, is an archaeological and historical site of national and worldwide importance. According to the Bible, the pool was first built in the 8th century BCE in the reign of King Hezekiah, some 2,700 years ago, as part of Jerusalem’s water system:
The story of the dreidel (spinning top for Hanukkah games) begins with the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation directed by Eliran Oren in 2020–2021 at the Neve Yamin site, near Kefar Saba in the Sharon region, prior to the construction of an industrial area.
Hundreds of thousands of families in Tel Aviv-Yafo are exposed to the light of 156 central Chanukah menorahs that illuminate the city.
