2020 is a year unlike any other in so many ways. For young British Jews, it sadly means no Israel Tour, no Birthright, no Onward Israel and, perhaps, no Israel family summer holidays. We used to have resource centres, libraries and books.

Today, we have the internet and it is jam-packed with ways that you can find the most amazing things about Israel.

Jewish News, in partnership with UJIA, has put together a selection of the most comprehensive collection of all things Israel – over these pages you’ll find a taster; the full directory is available at www.jewishnews.co.uk.

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It will be updated over time, to remain a resource for you, your family and our community.  

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Contents

1. Geography

•  Jerusalem
• Tel Aviv
• Jaffa
• Masada
• The Dead Sea
• Eilat
• Galil
• Deserts
• Beach
• National Parks
• Sunsets
• Virtual tours
• Art Galleries
• Israeli Artists
• Museums

2.  History of Israel

• The Israel Museum
• Biblical History and Ancient Israel
• Other Israeli Museums & Resources
• Main Israeli Document & Video Collections
• Pre-State Zionists
• Shoah
• The Creation of Modern Israel
• Famous Politicians
• Wars
• The Jewish People
• Historian’s Perspective

3. Politics

• The President of Israel
• Knesset

4. Culture

• Journalism
• Sports
• Music
• Theatre
• Film
• Israeli TV
• Opera
• Authors
• High tech/Start up Nation
• LGBTQ+
• FOOD

5. Media

• Podcasts & broadcasts
• Lectures
• Books

6. Synagogues and Yeshivot

• Orthodox
• Non-Orthodox
• Yeshivot and Seminaries

7. Israeli Universities Online Programming

 

Geography of Israel 

 

• The Spielberg Archive – State of Israel: Cities
• Fly over Israel from Haifa to Eilat just 7 minute

Jerusalem

 

• Virtual Tour of Jerusalem
• The Old City of Jerusalem: A Magical City of Splendor 
• Mamilla Avenue: A Walk of Art 
• Mahane Yehuda Market: Taste Israeli Culture 
• 1970s Jerusalem | Israel | Magpie | 1970’s

• Yesterday.Today.Forever – Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem
• Jerusalem Day 2020 
• Jerusalem (May 1967 British Film before 6 Day War)
• Jerusalem (1920-1939 British Film) 
• Western Wall Cameras – watch the Western Wall in real time 

• Return to Scopus 1967 
• The New-Old Jerusalem – how Jerusalem once looked
• Hebrew University of Israel on Scopus 
• 7 Things you probably didn’t know about  Machane Yehuda market 
• Cruising Israel – Mahane Yehuda 
• Yom HaZikaron: Who is Buried at Mount Herzl?

• Maps in the National Library in Jerusalem
• JLM2U – a partnership between the Jerusalem municipality, Jerusalem Development Authority, East Jerusalem Development Company, and an Israeli travel startup, this site is a must visit for anyone wanting to get under the skin of this complex city
• Tower of David – Virtual tours of Israel – but in VR!
• City of David
• Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
• Jerusalem – a City Disunited. Opening symposium with Dr. Hillel Cohen
• Western Wall Tunnels Tour 

Tel Aviv

 

• Free fun things to do in Tel Aviv with the entire family
• The ABCs of Tel Aviv
• Shopping at Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market
• 10 best places to eat at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv
• A delicious experience at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market
• Sarona Market: The Heart and Soul of Urban Israeli Indulgence 

• Tel Aviv – 100 years in 15 minutes 
• Tel Aviv – Hatikvah Market
• The White City
• Nahalat Binyamin Arts & Craft Fair 
• Strolling along the Tel Aviv Port

• Student made guide to the Port in Tel Aviv
• Neve Tzedek: An Artsy Oasis in the Heart of Bustling Tel Aviv
• A walk around Rothschild Boulevard Tel Aviv, old and new architecture

• Postcard from Israel – Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv
• Postcard from Israel – Florentin, Tel Aviv
• Markets of Tel Aviv Guide
• Tel Aviv’s Colorful Levinsky Market

 

Jaffa

• Jaffa: A Port City Dream 
• Jaffa’s Flea Market area guide
• A Jaffa Night – Virtual Journey by tourguide Julian Resnick
• Cruising Israel – Shuk to Chic tour of the Jaffa Flea Market

 

Masada and The Dead Sea

• Masada 
• Masada 360 – available in mobile or VR format
• The Dead Sea – The Lowest Place On Earth 

• The Dead Sea: The Mind and Body Soar in the Lowest Place on Earth 
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum 

Eilat

• The Eilat Dolphin Reef 
• Eilat: Wet and Wild Adventure 
• Eilat
• Eilat + 
• Timna Park: An Exhilarating Desert Adventure 

Galil

• The Sea of Galilee – A Journey of Spiritual Discovery
• Safed – Where Mystical Meets the Worldly
• Galilee: Israel’s Great Beyond

• Rosh Pina: The Galilee’s Secret Pastoral Tourist Hotspot
• Old Acre: Journey in the Crusaders’ Footsteps 
• Haifa: Beauty that Inspires 
• Nahariya Israel Most Beautiful Video 2017
• Unistream:  Unistream’s mission is to improve Israeli society by training underprivileged Israeli teens in entrepreneurship and leadership, in both the business and social arenas. They make the Start-up Nation accessible for all teenagers no matter background or socio-economic status. 
• UJIA has a long standing partnership with the Unistream Center in Julis. See here and here to learn more about how this organisation is creating the next generation of Israeli innovators and entrepreneurs. 
• Dror Israel: Dror works through a variety of urban and traditional kibbutzim across Israel and UJIA is an active partner in a number of Dror kibbutzim, facilitating their important mission.

Deserts 

• Israel is Beyond Belief – Desert
• Negev – Action Fun in the Israeli Desert 
• A tourist’s guide to Mitzpe Ramon – the Negev desert town
• Midburn – For 6 days, a temporary city is set up in the Negev desert
• Ben Gurion’s Desert Home 
• Beit Hashanti: 
  • UJIA has had the pleasure of partnering with Beit Hashanti to provide engagement opportunities for young British Jews on Israel Tour. Click here to see more about what Shanti House has been up to during COVID-19

Beach 

• Israel beaches – the best beaches to tan on the coastline
• Best Beaches In Israel
• Tel Aviv Beaches 2018 4K Drone
• Israel’s top 10 beaches

• Sixteen Glorious Tel Aviv Beaches
• The Beaches of Tel Aviv
• “When is a beach more than a beach” – Tour guide Julian Resnick 

National Parks

• Virtual tour of some of Israel’s many national parks 
• 5 of the Best National Parks in Israel to Visit

Sunsets 

•  The most spectacular places to see the sunset in Israel

Virtual tours from Tour Guides

• Boker Tours – Preview: A taste of a virtual tour in Jerusalem 
• Moshe Gold – online tours and lessons daily during Covid – star guide
• Traveling Israel –  great videos that give you a real insight into visiting Israel. Not classic tours, more of the real country.
• Sergio & Rhoda – lesser known sites and stories from across Israel
• Julian Resnick – storyteller and guide to Israel and the Jewish world
• Muki Yankelowtiz developed a sensory journey around Israel. Israel: Sounds & Visions. Created by Reshet
• City of David – Tours of Biblical Jerusalem | City Of David – lots of video clips and content of Biblical tours and archeology
• Tour guide Joel Meyer

Art Galleries

• Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Gutman Museum of Art
• The Ralli Museum of Latin American Art in Caesarea 
• Ilana Goor Museum:in Jaffa
• ​The Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod
• Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Virtual Tour

Israeli Artists

• 10 talented Israeli artists making their mark on the world’s canvas 

Museums

• Hebrew Music Museum
• Madatech – Israel National Museum of Science, Technology and Space 2.0
• Joseph Bau House 

• The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv
• Fine Art & Doll Museum, Arad – https://www.facebook.com/371227106349479/videos/723609847777868/
• What’s Up?” The observatory of Eilat and the Arava – https://www.facebook.com/israel.astronomy.stargazing/videos/555815581161856/

History of Israel

 

The Israel Museum

• The Israel Museum offers virtual tours and other activities on their website 
• Upcoming Exhibitions
• Past exhibitions 

Biblical History and Ancient Israel

 

• City Of David – City of David Virtual Tours list
• Interactive Ancient Jerusalem Map – highlighting different parts of Ancient Jerusalem.
• Interactive Jerusalem Panoramic View – “Jerusalem, mountains surround it”- From the rooftop of the “Overlook” in the City of David, one can reflect upon Jerusalem’s landscape as it has developed over the years
• Interactive Jerusalem Virtual Tour – learn about all the different points in the City of David
• City of David Time Line | City Of David – The City of David timeline maps historical developments that took place in the city during various periods, based on sources and archaeological finds. 
• Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
• Josephus: The Wars of the Jews – translation by W. Whiston
• Time Out – Ancient Israel – the oldest archeological sites and attractions

Other Israeli Museums & Resources 

• Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center 
• Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum
• Aden Jewish Heritage Museum  – devoted to the history of the Jewish community of Aden) 
• Beit Hatfutsot (Diaspora Museum/Museum of the Jewish People) – UJIA has proudly partnered with a number of organisations in Israel that support its Ethiopian-Israeli population. Every year on our Israel Bar and Bat Mitzvah Program, families visit Beit Hatfutsot to learn more about Operation Moses (Ethiopian Jewry’s Aliyah). Learn about how BH brought the Ethiopian-Israeli story to life here

• Academy of the Hebrew Language – history of Hebrew, new words and Eliezer Ben Yehuda
• The Jewish Virtual Library 
• Israel Exploration Society 
• Israel Antiquities Authority
• Rockefeller Archaeological Museum

Main Israeli Document & Video Collections

Israel National Archive – 32 million pages

The National Library of Israel

Zionist Archives

Pre-State Zionists

Theodor Herzl

• Theodor Herzl: The Zionist Dream of a Jewish State
• Theodore Herzl | Israel State Archives
  

  Theodor Herzl
• The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Theodor Herzl – Father of the Jewish State
• The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Theodor Herzl – A Living Portrait
• Theodor Herzl: A life in quotes
• Khan Academy, Theodore Herzl and the Birth of Political Zionism 
• The Herzl Archive – from the Zionist Archive 
• Herzl Museum on Mount Herzl

 Ze’ev Jabotinsky

• • A Modern-Day Moses? Ze’ev Jabotinsky 
  • Judean Marching Song
  • Ze’ev Jabotinsky: A story of a Leader
  • Rethinking Jabotinsky – 2014 talk featuring two scholars exploring the life and legacy of Jabotinsky

Chaim Alosoroff

• Who was Chaim Alosoroff? from Tour Guide Julian Resnick  
• The Goebbels Connection: Romantic Mystery Behind the Arlosoroff Assassination
• Haavara Agreement

Ahad Ha’am

• Jewish Virtual Library, Ahad Ha’am Biography
• Jewish Virtual Library, full text of “The Jewish State and the Jewish Problem”
• 3 minute overview of Ahad Ha’am and Cultural Zionism
• YIVO: Ahad Ha’am’s Cultural Zionism

Eliezer Ben Yehuda

• Revival of Hebrew
• Ben-Yehuda – whole section at the Academy of the Hebrew Language covering his life and work, journalism and the Hebrew Language committee.

Joseph Trumpledor

• Hebrew document about Trumpeldor including archive footage
• 3 minute overview of Joseph Trumpeldor

The Yishuv & development post Balfour Declaration

• The development of an Hebrew Culture – Interview with Professor Anita Shapira – The Jewish Community (Yishuv) in Palestine Under British Mandate, 1921-1939 
• Hillel Cohen – Writing “Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1929” 
• The Munich Agreement as History and Analogy – Prof. Shlomo Avineri 
• 100 Years since the Balfour Declaration- lecture by Prof. Shlomo Avineri 
• Balfour 100 panel featuring Tim Marshall, Prof Sir Lawrence Freedman, Baroness Neville-Jones & Stephen Pollard: JW3-TV: The Balfour Declaration, 100 Years On

Shoah

• The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Witnesses of the Eichmann Trial
• The Trial of Adolf Eichmann – Documentary
• Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center 
• Tom Segev – Holocaust Living History Workshop — Library Channel 

• The Life and Work of Simon Wiesenthal with Tom Segev
• Tom Segev – “The Holocaust and the Shaping of Israel” 
• “Antisemitism and the Holocaust” – Yehuda Bauer 
• Was Rescue a Realistic Possibility During the Holocaust? (Yehuda Bauer) 
• Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century – Yehuda Bauer 
• The 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann trial – Lecture by Prof. Hanna Yablonka – Part 1
• The 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann trial – Lecture by Prof. Hanna Yablonka – Part 2
• Historian Saul Friedländer: The Holocaust and its Importance in 2016
• Yad Vashem – Holocaust Education Video Toolbox

 

The Creation of Modern Israel

• Israel Won its War of Independence
• Independence Hall
• Eretz Museum

• The Eliyahu Golomb Haganah Museum
• The Ayalon Institute
• Yad La-Shiryon At Latrun – Full Guide – Travel Israel
• Ammunition Hill forty years later
• Palmach museum

Famous Politicians

 

David Ben Gurion

• Israel’s 1st Prime Minister – Who are you Ben Gurion?
• Ben Gurion House videos
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Celebrating David Ben Gurion: A 20th Century Statesman
• Ben-Gurion Desert Home | Ben-Gurion Desert Home
• “A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion” with Tom Segev October 14, 2019 
• Anita Shapira “Ben Gurion: Leadership and the Shaping of History” Part 1 – Lecture 
• Anita Shapira “Ben Gurion: Leadership and the Shaping of History” Part 2 – Q&A 
• The Ben Gurion Exchange Part III: Why Ben Gurion Matters Today: Shmuel Rosner and Anita Shapira 
• On David Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel 
• Video – View Jewish Lives editors Anita Shapira and Steven J. Zipperstein discussing the father of modern Israel with The New Yorker editor David Remnick at the 92Y in January 2015.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhM4GnSK8QI&list=PLAFDF2EC3FADE2FF3&index=7&t=0s – David Ben Gurion talking with PM Uno of Burma

 

Moshe Sharrett

• Off-Broadway play about pre-state Palestine goes online
• Yaakov Sharett – Rise & Fall of Moshe Sharett
• Moshe Sharett | Prime Minister’s Office
• Moshe Sharett

Abba Eban

• Abba Eban addresses British Delegation to Tel Aviv
• Mike Wallace Interview with Abba Eban | C-SPAN.org

Moshe Dayan

• Israel | General Moshe Dayan interview | This Week | 1973
• Moshe Dayan interview | General Moshe Dayan | Israel | Middle East | This Week | 1972 
• Short Interview with Moshe Dayan

Golda Meir

• Israel | Golda Meir interview | Prime Minister interview  
• British TV interview with Golda Meir 
• The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Line of Life with Golda Meir

 

Menachem Begin

• The Menachem Begin Heritage Center Museum
• Menachem Begin
• Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• Nobel Lecture
• Menachem Begin, Guerrilla Leader Who Became Peacemaker: New York Times obituary

Yitzchak Rabin

• The Yitzhak Rabin Center
• Yitzhak Rabin Center | The Archives
• The Sound of a Legacy: Music and Yitzhak Rabin
• Memorial day events | Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day Events 
• The Life and Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
• https://www.jewishlives.org/video Panel with President Bill Clinton, author Itamar Rabinovich, Prime Minister Rabin’s daughter Dalia Rabin, and Brookings EVP Martin Indyk.

 

Shimon Peres

• The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation
• Peres Center for Peace & Innovation | The Israeli Innovation Center
• Peres Center for Peace & Innovation | His Life’s Journey
• Peres Centre for Peace & Innovation | Shimon Peres Archive
• President Shimon Peres – Be My Friend For Peace (Noy Alooshe Remix Video)
• Tribute to Shimon Perez z’l after his death: JW3-TV: A Tribute to Shimon Peres

 

Ariel Sharon

• Tom Segev: Beyond Sharon and Arafat 
• Israel – Utopia and Reality: 60 Years On (2007) – Shlomo Avineri | Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies 

Ehud Barak

• Ehud Barak – My Country, My Life, live from JW3: Ehud Barak: My Country, My Life

Wars

Overview

• The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Alma’s Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 

1956 War (Sinai)

• • The Suez Crisis of 1956 – Professor Vernon Bogdanor

1967 War (Six Day War)

• Here’s how the Six-Day War Changed the Map of the Middle East | History
• Jerusalem | Six Day War | Middle East Conflict | Israel | Palestine | This Week | 1977  
• VIDEO: Israel and the 1967 War with Tom Segev (Conversations with History) 

1973 War (Yom Kippur War) 

• Interview with General Shlomo Gazit
• Israel – Yom Kippur War – 1973
• Shimon Peres – Israel – Palestinians – 1974 
• Yasser Arafat and Ezer Weizman interview | PLO Leader & Israeli General|1978 
• The Yom Kippur War: When Israel Almost Fell | Part 1
• The Yom Kippur War: How Israel Turned the Tide | Part 2

The Jewish People

 

• Staying Indoors? Visit Beit Hatfutsot From Home
• IMPACT Israel Fellowship
• Educational Seminar MAKOMISRAEL – Israeli President’s Residence
• i24news sits down with Prof. Anita Shapira – Zionism, HIstory, Connotations and Meaning
• Prof. Shlomo Avineri – Challenges of 2017: Israel in a Changing World 
• Fathom – Fathom Forum | Professor Sammy Smooha: ‘Israeli Democracy in Comparative Perspective’
• Mick Davis and Isaac Herzog in conversation about the future of Israel-Diaspora relations: JW3-TV: Mick Davis & Isaac Herzog in Conversation
• In Conversation – Anat Hoffman on civil rights and equality in Israel 2020: JW3-TV: Anat Hoffman in Conversation
• Natan Sharansky live in conversation with Mikhail Friedman from JW3 on Israel, Diaspora etc: JW3-TV: Mikhail Fridman and Natan Sharansky in Conversation
• Dreams and Realities of the Zionist Revolution with Professor Uriel Reichman, Founder of IDC Herzilia: Dreams and Realities of the Zionist Revolution

 

The Arab community in Israel and Shared Society Initiatives

• Prof. Anita Shapira: The Arab Minority in the Jewish State
• A “Jewish and Democratic State” and Issues of National Security – “Prof. Sammy Smooha, professor emeritus and Israel Prize laureate, stated that the Jewish and democratic state does not meet the needs of the Arab minority.”
• INSS research into relations between the Jewish majority and Arab minority in Israel
• Taub Center briefing on Arab citizens in the education system and in the workforce
• Givat Haviva shared society programme
• Aravrit – joint Hebrew-Arabic writing system

• List of films by or about Arab citizens of Israel
• “In Between” film review
• Biography of Emile Habibi, famous writer
• Article about Arab TV presenter Lucy Aharish
• Roots – online seminars and panel discussions on Co-existence   

Historian’s Perspective 

Different historians offer varied perspectives and the ones we highlight below are just a few of Israel’s most prominent historians. We do not endorse any of their conclusions but hope that you will find reading them useful to aid your understanding. If you feel we have missed out any other important historians, please be in contact.

Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians: The Derailed Debate on 1948

• Benny Morris (1948, Arab-Israeli conflict)
• Tom Segev 
• Dr. Anita Shapira – founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, professor emerita of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, and former head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University.
• Hillel Cohen (Mandate period)
• Yuval Noah Harari: Official Website – (whilst Harari’s work is not about Israel specifically, he is probably the most famous Israeli historian working today) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | Talks at Google – Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19’s Impact on Humankind
  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  (Author:Daniel Naber/Wikipedia)
• Yehuda Bauer (Shoah)
• Hanna Yablonka (formation of Israeli society) 
• Shlomo Avineri (Zionist/official history) 
• Saul Friedländer (Holocaust) 
• Prof. Motti Golani (Mandate and state building)
• Professor Dina Porat (Shoah)
• Sammy Smooha (Ashkenazi-Mizrachi divide)

• Ofer Aderet (Haaretz History correspondent)
• Martin Kramer (history and politics of the Middle East)
• Efraim Karsh (Israeli history)
• Yoav Gelber (history of the IDF)

 

Politics

 

The President of Israel

• Israeli Hope
• Tour of Beir HaNasi – The President’s Residence
• ‘Four Tribes’ Speech to the 15th Herzilya Conference | 2015

Knesset 

• Official Knesset page
• Virtual tour of the Knesset with Google maps 
• Jeremy’s Knesset Insider | Your Israeli Knesset Center – Polls & Analysis

The following parties are represented following the March 2020 election (see wikipedia for their history and more details – we could have included pages on each but focus on bringing you some recent videos in English)

Party Logos

 Parties, Seats and Leader(s):

Likud – 36 – Benjamin Netanyahu

Yesh Atid coalition with Telem 13 + 3 – Yair Lapid  and Moshe Ya’alon

Israel Resilience Party – 15 – Benny Gantz

Joint List – 15 -Ayman Odeh

Shas – 9 – Aryeh Deri

United Torah Judaism – 7 – Yaakov Litzman

Yisrael Beiteinu – 7 – Avigdor Lieberman

Yamina – 6 – Naftali Bennett

Labor Party – 3 – Amir Peretz

Meretz – 3 Nitzan Horowitz

Derekh Eretz – 2 – Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Hauser – 

Gesher – 1 – Orly Levy

 

Culture

Journalism

 What are Israel’s leading English language journalists saying? 

 

Times of Israel

• David Horovitz, Founding Editor
• Haviv Rettig Gur, Senior Analyst
• Jacob Magid, Settlements Correspondent 
• Raphael Ahren, Diplomatic Correspondent
• Judah Ari Gross, Military Correspondent, 
• Stuart Winer, Breaking News Editor
• Raoul Wootliff, Political Correspondent
• Avi Issacharoff, Middle East Analyst 

 

Jerusalem Post

• Jeff Barak, Former Editor-in-Chief
• Anna Ahronheim, Military Reporter
• Eytan Halon, Business Reporter
• Lahav Harkov, Senior Contributing Editor
• Gil Hoffman, Chief Political Correspondent
• Seth J. Frantzman, Op-ed Editor & Middle East affairs analyst
• Liat Collins, Editor of The International Jerusalem Post
• Yaakov Katz, Editor of The Jerusalem Post

HAARETZ  

• Chemi Shalev
• Allison Kaplan Sommer
• Anshel Pfeffer
• David Rosenberg

 

I24 – News in English

• Tracy Alexander (@talexander_i24) 
• Calev Ben David – I24 Diplomatic Analyst 
• Eylon Levy
  

  Eylon Levy
• Emily Frances 
• Ayman Sikseck 
• Sarah Coates  – I24 Newsdesk
• Jeff Smith – I24 Daily Dose

 

Other Israeli news in English  

• Subscribe to BICOM updates – BICOM Newsletter Signup
• Subscribe to Fathom weekly emails – Fathom Journal
• ynetnews – Homepage
• https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/israel (includes e.g. Ben Caspit in English)
• Israeli national broadcaster daily news in English  

 

Israeli think tanks with English content to subscribe to:

• INSS: Home Page
• Israel Democracy Institute – The Israel Democracy Institute
• Reut Group | EN – From Vision to Reality
• Taub Center | Social Policy Studies in Israel  

  

People to follow on Twitter

• Ruth Marks Eglash, Gil Hoffmann,  Anshel Pfeffer, Raphael Ahren,  Dan Shapiro, Dahlia Scheindlin, Raoul Wootliff, Mairav Zonszein, Rushdi Abualouf, Gershon Baskin, Lara Friedman, Mike Omer Man, Raf Sanchez, Noga Tarnopolsky, Neri Zilber, BICOM, Lahav Harkov, Ben-Dror Yemini, Amichai Stein, Rabbi Uri Pilchowski, Nurit Ben (@NuritBen). Sarah Tuttle-Singer, at The Blogs, Gershon Baskin – living and working for peace

Other Key Institutions in Israel

• Army (IDF) – Israel Defense Forces
• Diversity in the IDF
• The IDF response to Covid-19
•  How the IDF is Fighting Covid-19 (IDF/Ministry of Strategic Affairs) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTQ-FtDkWRUZxI8W4YZbDZQXya9C6iRQ/view

•  Hadassah Medical Center – Medical Treatment in Israel, Jerusalem 
• EL na Refa la – beautiful new rendition here shown at Hadassah with all their healing work
• Supreme Court of Israel

• British Embassy, Israel/FCO: Celebrating 70 years of partnership with a cool contest! Celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations between Israel the UK with this competition from the British Embassy – UK in Israel
• Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – headed by Ambassador Dore Gold, this independent think tank provides in depth articles, lectures and videos on Israeli Security, Regional Diplomacy, and International Law.

• Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research – founded by Mayor Teddy Kollek in 1978, this local think tank has a global reach. With innovative thinking around the economic development of Jersualem, shared spaces in the city and sustainability.
• Van Leer Institute – The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (VLJI) engages in innovative interdisciplinary research and has a deep commitment to the public. Research themes – Globalisation and Sovereignty; Sacredness, Religion and Secularisation; Science, Technology and Civilisation; Think Feminism; Liberal thought and beyond; and Integrated Governance

Learning Hebrew

• The world’s best way to learn Hebrew – Is Duolingo right for you?
• Learn Hebrew online | Free Hebrew lessons – Loecsen
• Learn Hebrew for Free: 42 Resources and Classes to Learn Hebrew Online (fluent in 3 months)
• How to Learn Hebrew (My Jewish Learning.com)
• Learn Hebrew (Rosetta Stone)
• Online | Ulpan Bayit – אולפן בית (Ulpan Bayit Hebrew School)

 

Sports

Football

• Israeli Football Association

Israeli Premier League

The Big Four and some memorable performances versus British clubs

Hapoel Tel Aviv

• Hapoel Tel Aviv 1 – 4 Leeds United (Leeds won 5-1 on aggregate) 
• BBC SPORT | UEFA CUP | Hapoel stun subdued Chelsea
• Chelsea 1 – 1 Hapoel Tel Aviv(Hapoel win 3-1 on agg ) | Football

Maccabi Haifa

• Europe Scene
• SPORT | Football | Champions League | Maccabi maul Man Utd
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/5255220.stm
• BBC SPORT | Football | Europe | Maccabi H 1-1 Liverpool (agg 2-3)

Maccabi Tel Aviv 

• Maccabi Tel Aviv 0-4 Chelsea – Ben Haim was sent off after 40 minutes…

Beitar Jerusalem 

• Only match against English side was Wimbledon in the Intertoto Cup and 0-0 they did play Rangers and lost 5-3 in 1998/99 in first round of UEFA cup

Current League Table

 

Notable Israelis to have played in the Premier League:

Yossi Benayoun:

PL Teams – West Ham (2005-07); Liverpool (2007-10); Chelsea (2010-14); Arsenal (loan, 2011-12); West Ham (loan, 2012); Queens Park Rangers (2013-14)

Tal Ben Haim 

PL Teams – Bolton Wanderers (2004-07); Chelsea (2007-08); Manchester City (2008-09); Sunderland (loan, 2009); Portsmouth (2009-12); West Ham (loan, 2010-12); Queens Park Rangers (2013); Charlton Athletic (2014-15)

Ronny Rosenthal 

PL Teams – Liverpool (loan, 1990); Liverpool (1990-94); Tottenham Hotspurs (1994-97); Watford (1997-99)

Basketball

• Israeli team success in europe
• Maccabi Haifa Basketball
• Players from Israel in the NBA
• Amare Stoudemire top NBA star – plays in Israel

Olympics

• Israel Olympics | About
• 2020 Tokyo Olympics
• Tel Aviv Olympic Experience 

 

Music

 

• Israeli promoters and theaters go online to offer at-home entertainment 
• Israeli Hits: 100 most viewed Israeli songs
• Israel Top 40 Music Charts
• Top 10 Israeli artists you need to be listening to 
• Zappa in your living room – recordings of what were live concerts during isolation by top artists
• Eurovision – TOP 10:Eurovision Entries from Israel – Eurovision Song Contest 

• Music of Israel
• Koolulam – experience music like never before with Israel’s inspiring social music initiative on their website and their YouTube
•  David Broza: David Broza & Friends – Yihye Tov Live 12/22/2018 Symphony Space, NYC 
• East Jerusalem West Jerusalem

• Ehud Banai    
• English – EB=MC² – A New Album
• Aviv Geffen  – Aviv Geffen Official Facebook Page
• Esther Ofarim 

Naomi Shemer

• The Archive and Estate of Naomi Shemer –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxzR9Z-kG6Q
• Jerusalem of Gold: Naomi Shemer’s eternal song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7oiZdXnHhA&feature=youtu.be
• Shlomo Artzi 

Arik Einstein

• Arik Einstein: Six essential songs 
• Kids Sing Arik Einstein Songs to Celebrate Hebrew – Your News From Israel

Chava Alberstein

• Chava Alberstein and the orchestra  – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZlFCT5xbcc 

Yehoram Gaon – http://yehoramgaon.co.il/ 

• Tribute to Yehoram Gaon 
• President Rivlin and Famous Israeli Singer Yehoram Gaon
• Matti Caspi
• Ofra Haza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuh1-jDi7Qw

Hadag Nahash

• • Hadag Nahash Youtube 
  • Hadag Nahash facebook 

Idan Raichel

• The Idan Raichel Project:
• Idan Raichel Concert online JAFI75 

• Shalom Hanoch – http://shalomhanoch.co.il/
• Shotei Hanevuah  – Shotei Hanevua – Home
• Arkadi Duchin- http://www.arkadi-music.com/ 
• Yehudit Ravitz  – Yehudit Ravitz
• Amir Benayoun – http://www.nevelasor.co.il/ArtistAbout.aspx?ar=7 
• Mosh Ben Ari – Mosh Ben Ari
• Rita Osef
• Ariel Zilber – אריאל זילבר
• Teapacks (Tipex) – טיפקס – Home 
• Moshe Peretz  – משה פרץ – העמוד הרשמי – Home
• Kaveret – Kaveret
• Static and Ben El Tavori – Static & Ben El Tavori
• Mashina – משינה — האתר הרשמי

• Habanot Nechama – Habanot Nechama
• Muki  – Mooki (singer)
• Eviatar Banai – אביתר בנאי – האתר הרשמי 
• Mechonat HaZman – Subliminal and Hatzel https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75828802547?pwd=L0NLOTRyMkdPMnljM01xOWVNMHRWUT09
• Subliminal – The Shadow (rapper) (Hatzel)
• Karolina  – Music Karolina
• Avraham Tal – Avraham Tal
•  Rita – Rita (Israeli singer) 

 

Theatre

Habima – Israel’s national Theatre – https://www.habima.co.il/

 

Robbie Gringras: A Native Mancunian, Robbie has lived in Israel for over 20 years. He is at the forefront of developing Israel education for each new generation. He is publishing short theatrical stories during the lockdown called Tales from the Hill. His articles and blog is required reading for anyone interested in how to engage young people with Israel.

 

Film 

• SERET –  Israeli TV & Film festival which has a mix of both paid for films and free events including Q&As in English with some top Israeli film and tv directors, actors etc – https://www.jw3.org.uk/search?for=seret%20
• UKJFF

Israeli TV 

• 6 Films From Israel You Can Catch On Netflix 
• Ten of the best Israeli shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon! 
• Here’s All The Israeli Entertainment You Can Stream

Opera & Dance

• http://www.israel-opera.co.il/eng/
• Articles about the opera scene in Israel 
• https://www.music-opera.com/en/venues/tel-aviv-the-opera-house.html
• Special live performance from Ka’et Ensemble, one of Israel’s top dance ensembles: JW3-TV: Ka’et Ensemble
• Batsheva Dance Company – best known for their dance interpretation of the Pesach song Echad Mi Yodea as featured in the 2018 film 7 Days in Entebbe (available on Netflix), which creates the thrilling musical backdrop of Israel’s heroic rescue mission. The Company is one of the leading contemporary dance groups in the world.  

 

Poetry

• Most belovedly do go to Dr Rachel Korazim’s website where her Recorded Poetry Classes are one of the best resources on offer Recorded Poetry Classes from Dr Rachel Korazim | Windows to Israel through Literature |

Zelda:

• • Watch Clip  – Zelda: A simple Woman – also access to full movie 
  • Poems by Zelda

Yehuda Amichai

• A Celebration of Yehuda Amichai
• Yehuda Amichai (poet) – Israel
• Nathan Alterman (poet) – Israel
• Chaim Nachman Bialik (poet) – Israel
• Rachel (poet) – Israel

Authors

Amos Oz

• An Evening with Amos Oz 
• Amos Oz with Jonathan Wilson 

 

David Grossman

• A Conversation with David Grossman 
• David Grossman: To the End of the Land 

 

• ISRAEL STORY | Ancient Land, Modern Tales

High tech/Start up Nation

 

Business

• UK Israel Business – conferences and business events
• A Tech State of Mind
• Israeli Unicorns
• How Two Israeli Startups Are Changing Retail
• Peres Center for Peace & Innovation | The Israeli Expo 

LGBT+

 

• LGBTQ bars, tourism, and events
• LGBT olim group – learn all about Israel’s LGBT community
• ISRAEL: LGBT HISTORY
• LGBTech | Tech and Business Network of LGBT+ Professionals

Food & Drink

• Tel Aviv Street Food
• Delicious Blog 
• In search of Israeli cuisine
• Kishorit is a kibbutz in the Western Galillee that provides a home for life for adults with special needs.
• UJIA had the privilege of being involved in building Kishorit’s winery, which beyond providing job opportunities to its members and a revenue stream for the kibbutz, produces award-winning, kosher wine.

 

• Top 6 Best Israeli Restaurants in London

Take away Israeli food in London:

Kosher

• Florentin, NW11 – deliveroo – Florentin delivery from Golders Green   
• Hummus Bar, NW4 (kosher) – deliveroo – Hummus Bar delivery from Hendon
• Sami’s Hendon (kosher) – deliveroo – Sami’s Hendon delivery from Hendon
• Aviv (kosher) – deliveroo – Aviv Restaurant delivery from Edgware 
• Pita – Pita delivery from Golders Green – Order with Deliveroo 

Not Kosher 

• Melabes (vegetarian) – deliveroo – Melabes delivery from Kensington
• Falafel Feast (vegetarian and vegan) – finchley central – Home | FalafelFeast
• Mill Hill Park –  MILL HILL PARK RESTAURANT delivery from Mill Hill 

Those Israeli dishes we love

Shakshuka

• Dr Shakshuka – Dr. Shakshuka in Jaffa, Israel by Cooking for Bachelors® TV
• Best Shakshuka in Israel
• 26 Reasons why Shakshuka is the perfect food 
• How to make Shakshuka
• Tale of the Table – The History of Shakshuka

Falafel

• ELAL – Best Falafel in Israel 
• Birthright Israel – How to offer the perfect falafel 
• TLV1 – A lesson on how to order your falafel
• Homemade Falafel Recipe
• History of Falafel  

Hummus

• Top 10 Hummus bars in Israel
• Hummus in Jerusalem
• Hummus recipe 
• The love affair between Israel and Hummus

History food

• Israeli food – how did we get here? 
• Israel’s Biblical diet

Restaurants

• Best Restaurants in Jerusalem
• Best Restaurants in Tel Aviv
• Best Restaurants in Haifa
• Best Restaurants in Be’er Sheva
• Best Restaurants in Netanya
• Best Restaurants in Rishon L’Zion
• Best Vegan Restaurants in Israel 
• Best Pizza in Israel
• Best Shwarma in Israel
• Israel food guide

Israeli recipes during lockdown – Restaurants/Food/Recipes/ Culinary/Markets/Celebrity chef

• 10 mouthwatering dishes of Israel you should really try
• 10 Best Israeli Food Recipes | Your Israeli Food Guide
• 67 Israeli Food Recipes You Need To Try
• 10+ of the Israeli Food Recipes on The Feedfeed
• Top 9 Israeli Food Blogs
• 10 Foods from Israel You Should Know About That Aren’t Hummus
• Israeli Recipes
• 10 Israeli Condiments Everyone Should Be Using
• Israeli Halvah Recipe
• Six delicious dishes for Passover

 

Masa Israel Journey

Masa Israel Journey offers the widest variety of programmes in Israel. With internships, study, tech, teaching and volunteer opportunities all over Israel lasting between five and twelve months.

 

Gap Year (Programmes in between Secondary School and University) 

Why Spend a Gap Year in Israel?

• Bnei Akiva Hachshara – a 9 month Modern Orthodox programme. Split into two – Kivun (Taste of study, volunteering, Jewish History), Torani (Studying at one of the most reputable modern orthodox Yeshivas or Seminaries) 
• Shnat Netzer – a 5 month Progressive Jewish programme with LJY & RSY-Netzer. With aspects of studying in Jerusalem, volunteering in Haifa and some optional add ons. 
• Noam Drachim – a 5 month Masorti Jewish programme. Programme components include volunteering, hiking and studying at the Machon
• FZY Year Course –  a 9 month Pluralist programme. The programme consists of portions volunteering in Tel Aviv/Yafo, studying in Jerusalem and a special interest period. 
• Habonim Dror Shnat – a 9 month socialist and culturally Jewish programme. With opportunities to spend time on Kibbutz, a chance to go to South Africa and Poland, communal living and volunteering
• Aardvark Israel – a 5 or 10 month programme based in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. You can tailor make your gap year experience to suit your individual needs. Has study, internship, academic, volunteering and special interest options. 
• Bina Gap Year – is a 10-month experience that combines communal living with Israelis, experiential learning, hands-on volunteering, travel, and leadership training – with tracks in Tel Aviv and Haifa!
• Masa Year of Service – A 10 month programme together with Israelis on the Sherut Leumi programme, where you volunteer for 32 hours a week in a personalised option. 
• Big Idea – a year of intensive hi-tech training, social impact, and a one-of-a-kind Startup Nation experience! BIG IDEA Tech Hub is the ideal choice for anyone looking to boost their career in hi-tech, affect social change, and experience the vibrant Israeli lifestyle through field trips, tours, and interaction with Israelis. 

Media

 

Podcasts & broadcasts 

 

As everyone spends lot more time indoors, you may need something to occupy your time. Why not check out some of these podcasts?

• While you may not be able to get on a plane and be whisked-off to Tel Aviv, you can tune into TLV1, and its six podcasts.  Stay in touch with the bustling city, Israel and the Jewish World.:
• Israel Story –  Israel Story or Sipur Israeli is an Israeli prime-time radio show, and audio podcast. Israel Story produces episodes in both English and Hebrew. The Hebrew show, which began production in 2013, is broadcast on Galey Tzahal, Israel’s national Army Radio station.
• Israel Policy Pod – Podcasts from the Israel Policy Forum team and featured guests helping you unpack developments from Israel and the regions from Israel 
• The Promised Podcast  is a weekly discussion with contemporary Israeli music.
• Kol Cambridge  by Israeli tourguide and former mazkir of FZY Sam Green showcases the talent and range of Israeli musicians, past and present.
• Israel in Translation explores Israeli literature in English translation.
• Streetwise Hebrew is a bite -size podcast showcasing Modern Hebrew and its slang.
• Tel Aviv Review gives long form interviews with scholars, writers and thinkers.
• WhyWhyWhy! show is people sharing true stores about misadventures in Israel.  
• The Jewish Story (https://elmad.pardes.org/topic/the-jewish-story/) offers content to deepen the relationship with Israel.
• Two Nice Jewish Boys   is a weekly Israeli podcast in English. Naor and Eytan offer you a glimpse of Israel and the interesting people there
• Jewish Journeys (www.jewishjourneys.info)  brings in educators like Jeremy Leigh and Julian Resnick to do virtual Jewish experiences, including a session ‘Jews, Plagues and Places’ 
• DataPoint from the Taub Center, Israel’s premier social policy study centre. Delves in depth into lesser known stories from Israel’s society and economy.
• Hadiyun (BICOM weekly podcast)
• Haaretz Weekly
• INSS podcast (mostly in Hebrew but has some content in English)
• Israel Story  – Israel Story or Sipur Israeli, is a radio initiative that brings high quality, long-form non-fiction content to, and about, Israel.
• Fault Lines Podcast – The Forward – engaging debate between Danny Gordis and Peter Beinart

Lectures

• Caricatures on Coronavirus from the Developing Middle East with Noam Bannett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNVqQHLSrs&feature=youtu.be
• Our Experts – the Israel Institute

Books

• Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
• Israel: A Concise History of a National Reborn by Daniel Gordis
• Israel: A History by Sir Martin Gilbert
• How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
•  A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time by Howard Sachar 
• Innocent Abroad by Martin Indyk 

• Lords of the Land by Idith Zertal & Akiva Eldar 
• The Hilltop & Croc Attack, both by Assaf Gavron

Consequences

• Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin & the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron
• Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi
• The Unmaking of Israel & The Accidental Empire, both by Gershom Gorenberg

Biography

• The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner
• Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira 
• Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer 
• Abba Eban Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes.  
• A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz  
• Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul by Daniel Gordis  
• Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon by David Landau 
• Lioness: Golda Meir & the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun
• Jabotinsky: A Life by Hillel Halkin   
• Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich   

Co-Existence

• Letters to my Palestinian Neighbour by Yossi Klein Halevi 
• What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist who Tried to Kill your Wife by David Harris Gershon
• The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan

Zionism

•  The Zionist Ideas by Gil Troy
•  What Do Zionists Believe?  By Colin Shindler
• The Making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri   
• The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz  

   Conflict, Wars and Peace

 

• Israel and the Arabs: An Eyewitness account of War and Peace in the Middle East by Ahron Bregman and Jihan El-Tahri,
• Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 by Akiva Eldar and Idith Zeltar 
• 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris   
• Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict by Benny Morris  
•  The Arab-Israeli Conflict by Kirsten Schulze 
•  A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict byMark Tessler  
• The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Bunton  
•  Catch 67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micha Goodman   
•   The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert   
•  Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren  
•  A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict by Walter Laqueur/Barry Rubin  
• The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross   
•  The Land of Blood and Honey by Martin van Creveld  
• Scars of War, Wounds of Peace by Shlomo Ben Ami 

 

Different Palestinian Perspectives

• I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldein Aboulaish
• The Palestinian People: A History by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal  
• The Question of Palestine  by Edward Said  .
• Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi   
• Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness  by Rashidi Khalidi
• Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement by Yezid Sayigh  
• Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh 
• Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef   
• Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
• The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris
• Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh   

Miracles happen here?

• Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle by  Dan Senor and Saul Singer   
•  A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel by David Horowitz
•  Operation Thunderbolt: The Entebbe Raid by Saul David   
• Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews by  Stephen Spector 

Fiction

• The Source by James Michener
• The Yellow Wind by David Grossman 
• My Michael. Am Oved by Amos Oz  
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman    
• The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret  
• Exodus by  Leon Uris  
• Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story .by Matti Friedman 
• The People Of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu  
• Only Yesterday: A Novel  by Shmuel Yosef Agnon    

More choices

• The Israel Institute Digital Bookshelf  
• Politics in Israel: The Second Republic byAsher Arian  
• Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. By  Ronen Bergman 
• From Beirut to Jerusalem .by Thomas Friedman

 

Aliyah

 

Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)

Nefesh B’Nefesh

 

Synagogues and Yeshivot Online

 

Orthodox

• Yachad liberal Orthodox synagogue at 20 Zeitlin Street (in the Zeitlin School) in Tel Aviv 7.30 am on Zoom followed by Daf Yomi Talmud at 8.00am and a children’s prayer service at 8.30am. Evening prayers at 8.00 pm followed by Torah study (Israel times)
• Radio Kol Barama, a Haredi station in Bnei Brak, is broadcasting prayers at 7.30am (starting with Yishtabach), 2.15pm., and 8.45 pm (Israel times)
• Ichud Olam, Ben Yehuda 86, Tel Aviv with Zoom, details on SCHEDULE | ichudolam

Non-Orthodox

• Kehilat Mevakshei Dereh
• Nava Tehila.org – בית
• Kol Haneshama Community Jerusalem Israel
• Beit Tefillah Israeli TLV 
• Beit Daniel 
• Or Hadash Haifa Israel Reform Congregation

Yeshivot, Seminaries and other learning programmes/institutes online

• Online Beit Midrash – Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Conservative Yeshiva
• WebYeshiva.org
• Elmad by Machon Pardes – Torah Podcasts, Online Jewish Learning, 
• HUC – The Taube Family Campus, Jerusalem
• Vbm Virtual Beit Midrash Har Etzion 
• Shalom Hartman Institute
• Shlomo Hartman Institute iEngage Resource Center
• Pardes 

Israeli Universities Online Programming

 

• Coursera Israel Courses

Some Israeli universities offer online courses or educational content; a selection is listed below:

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Coursera, eTeacher and Online Languages program
• Coursera – Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Hebrew University is proud to be participating, sharing stimulating lectures in fields ranging from Hebrew Literature to Brain Science with students across the world. All it takes is a computer with internet access!  See the Coursera website for our current list of classes
• eTeacher – eTeacher Group is an international leader in online education. The hallmarks of eTeacher’s language courses are live online instruction, flexible hours, and the convenience of learning from the home or office.
• Languages Program – The Hebrew University, in collaboration with The Israel Institute of Biblical Studies , is proud to offer its very first real-time Online Languages Program. The classes are open to students and researchers anywhere in the world who are interested in acquiring or improving their understanding of Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, and Yiddish. 
• Tel Aviv University – https://en-tauonline.tau.ac.il/online_courses
• Haifa
• Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  • Technion
  • Weizmann Institute
  • Israel Institute Resources and Coursera – includes Israel State and Society and a two part course on the Modern History of Israel