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2025’s ‘Persons of the Year’: Israeli mothers - opinion

Beyond the statistics, Israeli mothers’ everyday poetry and superhuman courage perpetually inspire.

|ByGIL TROY
SERENA KALISH (pictured) gave birth to her fourth child during a weekend filled with missile-warning sirens and uncertainty. The night of her delivery, sirens rang through the halls of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center as Iranian missiles were intercepted overhead.
A pregnant woman checks her blood sugar levels; illustrative.

Scientists find hidden placental changes linked to gestational diabetes

Researchers identified a previously unknown placental molecular process disrupted by gestational diabetes, helping explain pregnancy complications and long-term health risks for children.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
THE WRITER stands between survivors Maya (right) and Amit. Share the stories of Kfar Aza’s mothers, the writer urges.

Miracles from Kfar Aza: The mothers the world must not forget - opinion

Their courage and relentless devotion to protecting their children is a reminder that motherhood is an extraordinary force for survival.

|ByPAUSHALI LASS
From the movie, 'Once Upon My Mother'

New French film reimagines the Jewish mother archetype through a Moroccan Mizrahi lens - review

The movie is fast-paced, with a kind of sitcom quality. While Once Upon My Mother has its share of clichés in its script and plot, the acting and the basic premise keep it entertaining throughout.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

Pakistan maternity leave termination leads to landmark case with monetary compensation

After being fired while on maternity leave, Islamabad IT expert Zainab Zahra wins a case that could reshape workplace rights in Pakistan.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
Mother with newborn baby in the nursing pillow

'They seem fine, I thought they would be worse,' Silvia Cunio on hostage sons Ariel and David

Silvia Cunio, mother of hostages Ariel and David, describes the emotional moment after receiving a surprise video call from her sons..

OCTOBER 13, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, WALLA
Hostages Ariel and David Cunio on a phone call with their mother, Silvia, ahead of their slated release from Gaza terror captivity, October 13, 2025.

The choice to be child-free: Two Israeli women share thoughts, regrets on not having kids

Those who decide not to have children do so from a mosaic of different feelings, fears, considerations, pressures, and ideals. The Magazine sat down with two such women.

JUNE 23, 2025ByEVE YOUNG, SARAH BEN-NUN
An illustrative image of a woman drinking coffee.

A mother's covenant with the State: A call for action in protecting Israel’s soldiers - opinion

My son will soon be sent into Gaza. I know I have no control over what awaits him there.

JUNE 11, 2025ByJULIE GOLDSTEIN
A SOLDIER makes a greeting sign from a tank fitted with a protective canopy against drone attacks, near the Gaza border, in 2024.

'Conceived in Hope': The stories of biblical women and motherhood - review

'Conceived in Hope' highlights the stories of biblical women and their relationship to mothering.

MAY 18, 2025ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
MIRIAM WATCHES over her infant brother Moses as he floats downstream to Pharaoh’s palace, in this painting by Paul Delaroche.

Actress Amber Heard announces birth of twins in Mother’s Day post

Heard, 39, announced the birth of daughter Agnes and son Ocean on Instagram.

MAY 17, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Amber Heard leaves Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse after the jury announced split verdicts in favor of both her ex-husband Johnny Depp and Heard on their claim and counter-claim in the Depp v. Heard civil defamation trial at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., June 1,

Female children may face greater emotional and immune challenges from prenatal stress, study finds

Maternal stress in late pregnancy may reprogram newborns’ stress and immune systems, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem find.

APRIL 28, 2025ByABIGAIL RUBINSTEIN
Pregnant woman (illustrative)

Hey baby: A festive festival at Azrieli Negev Mall in Beersheba

Azrieli Negev Mall will open its doors on April 21 and 22 for a variety of activities for mothers and babies, including fascinating shows and lectures. And of course, everything is free of charge!

APRIL 13, 2025BySHEVA DAROM
Baby Festival on April 21 and 22

New Israeli comprehensive study examines massive physiological load of childbirth

During pregnancy, the mother’s cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, skeletal, metabolic, endocrine, and immune systems are all affected by fetal demand.

APRIL 6, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
PROF. URI ALON: Over the course of three years, we examined data on Israeli Jews and Arabs, ultra-Orthodox (haredi) and Bedouin women who give birth to large children.

Victims of Turkey's Kurdish militant conflict long for peace

The PKK conflict has killed more than 40,000 people since it began in 1984, leaving tens of thousands wounded, including Turkish security force members, militants, and civilians alike.

MARCH 31, 2025ByREUTERS
Syrian Kurds hold flags as they gather after Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara, in Hasakah, Syria February 27, 2025.

Hostage mother Ruhama Bohbot describes her suffering after seeing Hamas's video of son

Ruhama Bohbot, mother of hostage Elkana Bohbot, spoke with Netanyahu after Hamas released a video showing her son and another captive alive.

MARCH 26, 2025By103FM
Ruhama Bohbot holding a picture of her son, on a poster reading "Don't leave my son behind."