Curated Links — Monday, August 18, 2025

This page contains our daily selection of hand-picked links for Monday, August 18, 2025.

Here you’ll find the most relevant articles, reports, and insights from trusted sources in Israel News.

Each link includes a short description, so you can quickly decide what to read.

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1. 1. מי הוא מייקל קידר ולמה סצנת החשפניות בתל אביב ובצפון מדברת עליו— השם נחשף: מייקל קידר, “ההאקר מאשקלון”. עשר שנות מאסר, איומים על מוסדות יהודיים. ואיך כל זה הגיע עד לבמות החשפניות?.
   2. תל אביב–יפו בעיניים אחרות: NAnews & NIKK Agency — תל אביב–יפו היא עיר של שכבות. היא יכולה להיות מבלבלת, רועשת, יקרה – אבל גם מחבקת, יצירתית, ומלאת השראה. NAnews מספרת אותה אחרת, ו־NIKK Agency דואגת שהסיפור יגיע רחוק – מהרשתות החברתיות ועד לכתבות שגורמות לאנשים לעלות על מטוס.?.
   3. Tel Aviv–Jaffa Through a Different Lens: NAnews & NIKK Agency — Tel Aviv–Jaffa is layered. It can be chaotic, noisy, and expensive—but it is also generous, endlessly creative, and deeply inspiring. NAnews tells it from the inside, and NIKK Agency ensures the story resonates far beyond Israel—reaching those who may never walk these streets but can still feel their pulse.
   4. Michael Kedar Revealed: The Hacker From Ashkelon and the Shockwaves in Israel’s Nightlife — August 18, 2025. Israel woke up to a name the courts had hidden for years: Michael Kedar, the infamous “Ashkelon hacker.” Ten years behind bars, countless threats, hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto. Yet the loudest whispers didn’t come from IT forums or legal circles — they came from nightclubs, from dancers in Tel Aviv and up north, who suddenly felt dragged into a story they never asked for..
   5. Ashkelon Hacker Unmasked – and Why Israeli Strippers Can’t Stay Calm — And so, after years of rumors, the name Michael Kedar was made official. An Ashkelon teenager who terrorized airlines with fake bomb threats, targeted Jewish institutions, even taunted government officials. His actions brought in about $800,000 through advertising his services. All of this — done from a bedroom in a small Israeli coastal city.
   6. This is where NAnews and NIKK Agency step in — Tel Aviv–Jaffa is layered. It can be chaotic, noisy, and expensive—but it is also generous, endlessly creative, and deeply inspiring. NAnews tells it from the inside, and NIKK Agency ensures the story resonates far beyond Israel—reaching those who may never walk these streets but can still feel their pulse..
   7. Tel Aviv–Jaffa: Where Every Street Reinvents the Story — At NAnews, we don’t just report. We pause, listen, and then reshape voices into something larger than one anecdote. We walk markets, beaches, and side streets, looking for details most outsiders miss: the grandmother selling pomegranates at Carmel Market, the Ukrainian artist painting walls in Florentin, or the tech worker running to catch the last train south.
   8. Michael Kedar, the hacker from Ashkelon, sentenced to ten years. Hisy — Legal minds say it was inevitable. The U.S. had pressed for extradition; secrecy couldn’t last forever. Sociologists saw something else: perception. One told us, “It doesn’t matter if strippers had nothing to do with this. Once their name gets mentioned in the same breath as hackers, that association sticks.”.
   9. Ask anyone who has lived here: Tel Aviv–Jaffa doesn’t reveal itself all at once — We work closely with NIKK Agency to turn such observations into campaigns and narratives that travel further than the city limits. What starts as a note in a reporter’s notebook may later spark a digital story watched in Kyiv, Berlin, or New York..
   10. The twist? strippers across Israel — from Tel Aviv to the north — suddenly find themselves unwilling extras in a drama they never signed up for — That was enough. Within days, strippers in Tel Aviv, performers in the center, even dancers in the south began whispering: “Are we being dragged into this hacker circus?”.
   11. Strippers React to Ashkelon Hacker: Fear, Gossip, and a Name — But sociologists warn: the damage to nightlife is less about facts, more about perception. “Once strippers are mentioned in the same breath as hackers, the association sticks,” one academic explained.
   12. Tel Aviv–Jaffa: A City That Refuses to Stay Still — At NAnews, dates are not decoration. They’re anchors. On August 17, 2025, Tel Aviv–Jaffa was not the same city it had been a month earlier. A new Ukrainian café had opened near Allenby. Protesters blocked Kaplan Street. A photography exhibit in Neve Tzedek told the story of migrant workers. Tomorrow it will all shift again. Without the date, you miss the urgency.

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