When the bullets of the terrorists pierced the pure hearts of Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee, they had hoped to pierce our hearts as well. They didn’t understand that we as a people are unstoppable. Less ...

Efrat, West Bank -- "Get down, Yoni, we're being shot at!" yelled Mrs. Schwartz to her son on the ground floor of their house. Yoni complied. After several minutes of laying low with his mother and ...

Recently, my neighbor, a soldier in the IDF, took me up to the northern slope of Dagan hill in Efrat to show me the efforts that he and other volunteers, both young and old, make to keep the land as ...

Will the city of Efrat be included in the latest Israeli plans to build new Jewish homes? Its mayor Oded Revivi certainly hopes so. Speaking to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, Revivi said that residents of ...

Renowned Songwriter/ Violinist/ Vocalist Efrat has announced that her poignant new EP We Just Need Love has debuted in the Top 10 of the Folk Alliance International Folk Chart for the month of ...

The Talmud (Sanhedrin 37a) teaches that if a person saves a life, it is as if he were responsible for saving an entire universe. There is an apocryphal story of a child who was drowning in the sea and ...

Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has been summoned for a hearing by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s office to determine if his term in the West Bank settlement will be extended by an additional five ...

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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s term as chief rabbi of Efrat was extended Monday by the Chief Rabbinate for five more years. Riskin turned 75 last month, the age at which municipal rabbis are required to retire ...