Ra'anana

From Ra’anana around the world and back: Edan Leshem takes a swing for Sharsheret - interview

“I feel it’s a great cause and that I really want to help,” Leshem said. “I’m just there to support the players and give them the best experience of the tournament.”

EDAN LESHEM, the former top-ranked Israeli professional tennis star, will help organize Friday’s Sharsheret Israel Tennis Tournament in Ra’anana, returning to the courts where his tennis journey began as a child.
Israeli daycare-aged children (illustrative). March 24, 2026.

Three Ra'anana daycare aides arrested on suspicion of abusing toddlers

An illustration of the MOPHET residential project in Ra'anana.

Ra’anana real estate project MOPHET logs over NIS 150m in soft launch sales to global buyers

Border Police officers from the Jerusalem Envelope unit raid the Palestinian village of Bir Nabala, near Ramallah, during an early morning counterterrorism operation to arrest suspects, September 15, 2026.

Israeli man charged with plotting terrorist attack on data center in Ra’anana


First Pride parade held in Raanana

The central Israeli bedroom community of Raanana held its first Pride march.

Israel Pride Parade

Green fields

It was a perfect setting – the Ra’anana park with a fountain playing, green fields as far as the eye can see and the promise of a healthful meal.

Sasha

Non-residents buying more Israeli apartments

Franchi CEO Marcello Incellini said he expects that foreign residents will purchase about 1,200 apartments in Israel in 2019, worth some NIS 4 billion.

Israeli star architect Irma Orenstein helped design the most expensive apartment ever sold in Israel

An Israeli restaurant in a beautiful Raanana setting

The restaurant must be in one of the most beautiful settings in Israel. It’s actually inside the Ra’anana Park, just next to the lake and surrounded by flower beds and tall shading trees.

Mandarin, Ra’anana

A car for the ages

Photographer Mark Osterman focuses on automobile innards in his new exhibit, ‘Anatomy’

Photos from Mark Osterman's 'Anatomy' exhibit

The smell of success

Luzzato is a welcome addition to Ra’anana’s list of kosher restaurant.

Luzzato

The Jerusalem Post Pre-Election Debate in Ra'anana

In cooperation with Matan and the Jewish Outreach Center

The Jerusalem Post Election Debates

An American thing

Sara’s Place in Ra’anana serves up kosher dishes with an American flare.

Sara’s Place

A musical homecoming

Ra’anana Symphonette to feature world-class viola player Gilad Karni

GILAD KARNI: More composers are writing for the viola today

The essential Eitan Ginzburg

An interview with Ra’anana’s current acting mayor – who happens to be gay – about his desire to do another term and ‘Make Ahuza Street great again.’

‘WHEN ALL of my friends left [Ra’anana] to do different things, I stayed because I really love this city – and I love public service.’