monica weekender

Do not miss the opening video of the #TOIGala, February 15, 2015 at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC.

Credits
Executive Producer: Stephanie O'Neill
Concept and Directing: Eyal Resh
Music Scoring: Daniel Markovich

Alexander and Jennifer Chester, a New York Jewish couple, named their baby boy born in December 2014 after Israeli Druze officer Zidan Saif who sustained critical injuries on the morning of November 18, 2014 when two Palestinian terrorists attacked a synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, killing four Jewish men at prayer. Saif was the first officer at the scene; he was critically injured trying to protect others and later died of his wounds. He left behind a wife and a then-4-month-old daughter. At the Times of Israel Gala on February 15, 2015, the Chesters got the chance to meet with Saif's family and present their little Koby Zidan, now 2 months old.

A Bread and Puppet Theater side-show targeting Ben & Jerry's, August, 2015

Rachelle Fraenkel, the mother of abducted Israeli teenager Naftali Fraenkel - who along with Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach were last seen at a hitchhiking post in the West Bank on June 12 - tells the Times of Israel's founding editor, David Horovitz, she remains optimistic that her son and the two other teenagers will be found, and says that if she has to fall apart, she can "always do it later." (Filming and editing by Ricky Ben-David)