Hagay Hacohen

Hagay Hacohen is a former breaking news desk editor and current contributor for The Jerusalem Post. He writes about a variety of subjects, among them Art, Archeology, and Technology.

Holding a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Warsaw University, he previously worked at the Polish Radio's English language service The News PL. His interests include Polish issues, science fiction and US history.

 Illustrative image of grilled cheese.

Jerusalem highlights: June 6-12

 Johanna Riethmueller

Jerusalem highlights: May 30 – June 5

 Uri Shafir, ‘The Waiting Hollow’

Jerusalem highlights: May 23-29


Jerusalem highlights: May 16 – May 22

 ‘A Bachelorettes’ Apartment’ (see Sunday) at Aspaklaria Theater.

Jerusalem highlights: May 9-15

Jerusalem Cinematheque unveils renovated auditorium

Jerusalem Highlights: May 2-8

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 CROWDS COME OUT to celebrate Mahaneh Yehuda’s 100th birthday.

The Sabra of the future: Imagining life in Israel 77 years from now

“What we call the metropolitan of Tel Aviv stretches between Ashdod and Netanya today. When we hit the 40 million people mark, the entire coast will be built on, from Ashdod to Haifa.”

 A beach in Tel Aviv.

Jerusalem Highlights: April 25 – May 1

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 Artwork by Miryam Adler.

Rain and ashes: 2025 March of the Living commemorates Holocaust, hostages

President Isaac Herzog told the gathered dignitaries that “While we are here, the souls of dozens of Jews still thirst for water and freedom.”

 A handwritten sign in Hebrew on the train tracks to Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025. The sign reads "Waiting for all 59 hostages, now!"

Holocaust survivors to October 7 hostages: ‘We defeated the enemy’

Holocaust survivors, IDF soldiers held in captivity by Hamas terrorists, visited the Auschwitz museum ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A visitor to Auschwitz prayers with his talit in the former Nazi death camp build in occupied Poland

Jerusalem Highlights: April 18-24

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 The music of Jemaa El Fna.

‘Africa Calling’: West African royalty and Zulu magic at Haifa Museum of Art

Visitors will marvel at the vividness of the royal drapes with the emblems of the kings of Dahomey (today Benin) and see the ritual masks used by the Bambara people of Mali.

CYRUS KABIRU, ‘Jaffa Sun,’ diptych, 2019.

Jerusalem highlights: April 11-17

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 People are seen riding bikes in Jerusalem in this illustrative image.