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Grapevine

A potpourri of items about people and events in Israel and the Jewish world.

Grapevine, July 25, 2025: A future theocracy?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG with Sheikh Muafak Tarif and members of the Druze delegation.
FROM LEFT: Dr. Elliott Crooke, vice president for faculty , Georgetown University Medical Center; Joshua Rednik, CEO, American Friends of the Hebrew University; Prof. Gary Kupfer, MD, HU-GU partnership lead; Prof. Eli Pikarsky, dean, the Hebrew University, Dr. Anna Riegel

Grapevine July 20, 2025: Lacking patriotism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and his wife, Michal, visit the scene where an Iranian missile landed in Beersheba.

Grapevine: Herzog's rabbinic DNA

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee arrives to a court hearing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 16, 2025.

Grapevine, July 18, 2025: Courting controversy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Grapevine, July 12, 2025: Muslim empathy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 13, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
IMAM HASSEN Chalghoumi (right), Chairman of the Conference of Imams of France, with Dahri Nour Mouhammad, Executive Director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism.

Grapevine: Israel-Iran: Days of yore

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 12, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
An IDF reservist kisses his child before boarding the bus, in Jerusalem, May 2025.

Grapevine: Good, nutritious food in their bellies

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 5, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
IDF soldiers in a swearing in ceremony. February 27, 2025.

Grapevine: Of buses and bomb shelters

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 28, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
People check their phones in a Jerusalem bomb shelter.

Grapevine June 25, 2025: Yesteryear, today and tomorrow

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 25, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ADAM MONTEFIORE.

June 22, 2025: Crisis response

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 22, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli money bills.

Grapevine: Iran was discussed

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 21, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee addresses the media outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025.

Grapevine June 20, 2025: An Arab tragedy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 20, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG offers words of sympathy to grieving husband and father Raja Khatib.

Grapevine: Special needs at center

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 19, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Producer Lawrence Bender in Los Angeles, 2016.

Grapevine, June 15, 2025: A new era?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 15, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PANAMANIAN AMBASSADOR to Israel, Ezra Cohen, presents his credentials to President Isaac Herzog in this file photo.

Grapevine: Ahad Ha’am is back

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 7, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Happy anniversary (illustrative).