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By the age of two and a half, children can already speak a little. They aren’t weaned yet. At two and a half, they still need a hand when navigating...
When my grandfather turned 70, his friends celebrated his birthday. In the living room of the small apartment on Rosenbaum Street in Tel Aviv, which...
One of the greater achievements Benjamin Netanyahu can chalk up to his credit is the final removal of a two-state solution from the table. Moreover,...
Displays of hatred toward the ultra-Orthodox have increased lately to an unprecedented level. As someone who has sympathetic feelings toward them,...
The Kaplan Street protest should have come to Jerusalem Thursday, to Hagai Street. It’s hard to comprehend that a movement to save democracy was...
We were the future, to borrow the title of a book by Yael Neeman. But now it’s behind us. Tuesday we gathered once again on the banks of the Yarkon...
Do you really want to go on living like this? Living by the sword, war after war, one more unnecessary than the one before, all of them wars of...
Amid the horror and destruction this government has inflicted on us; amid the horror and destruction Benjamin Netanyahu has inflicted on us, and on...
The national whine du jour is “I have no other country.” The French have another country, as do the Swedes, Germans, Congolese and Indians. Only...
This is the essence of the Israeli zeitgeist: first a frenzied wallowing in the cult of mourning and a no less frenzied worshiping of death and the...
May the people of Israel remember its sons and daughters, the faithful and the brave, who sacrificed their lives in the war for the rebirth of Israel,...
Since MK Tally Gotliv burst into our lives, Minister Miri Regev has become a sort of British aristocrat compared to her heir – in royal mannerisms,...
Joseph’s Tomb is Israel’s tomb. This bizarre site in the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus is the new Mini Israel. If the original park, near...
At the end of the great protest, Benny Gantz will be elected prime minister and it will rightly be called a grand, fateful, perhaps even historic...
Israel didn’t want quiet, even for a moment. The agitators’ motives varied but they shared the same goal: fanning, igniting and blowing things up....
A family is informed that their son has fallen in battle. Another family, from the same community, is informed that their son has been wounded and...
Death was one of the threats waiting in ambush for the judicial coup. It could contain anything, but not the threats of the bereaved families and the...
At dawn Saturday, a group of Eritrean workers laid sod alongside a path in Ramat Aviv to Yarkon Park between the Yitzhak Rabin Center, the...
The greatest threat facing Israel is the democratic threat. There is no greater danger to the regime in Israel than its turning into a democracy....
He is still here, much to the chagrin of many, and he is still a key figure, despite the signs of weakening. Benjamin Netanyahu is the only one who...
It’s impossible not to envy the right for its forward charge. Here’s a dream: The center-left wins the next election and forms a government that...
In a single moment Thursday evening, everything came together into one image. An armed man began firing at passersby on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv,...
Moshe Ya’alon is now one of the leaders of the democratic protest movement in Israel. In a moment of very comic relief, he appeared two days ago on...
One can’t help but be impressed by the protest movement. It’s powerful, effective, restrained, creative, sweeping. Kudos to the organizers and the...
When you stand on Hawara’s main street, now under a sort of curfew – the settler thugs pass by, stopping only to provoke the residents, and the...
Amos Harel and Yaniv Kubovich reported Friday in Haaretz that talk among Israel Air Force reserve pilots of refusing to comply with call-up orders or...
The BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement’s dream is rapidly materializing. A key manager in one of the country’s investment firms told...
The mutiny on the Titanic is surprising, impressive and powerful. The passengers who want to impose new rules heralding the beginning of a new regime...
It was one of the most horrible sights I’d encountered under the Israeli occupation. On the floor of a dim cave lay a good-looking young man, his...
The eyes water with emotion, the heart swells with pride: Israel Defense Forces soldiers recovered the bodies of two Jews who were killed in Antakya....
The eyes water with emotion, the heart swells with pride: Israel Defense Forces soldiers recovered the bodies of two Jews who were killed in Antakya....
In the end it’s a class war. The fight for democracy serves as a backdrop, a respectable cloak in terms of principle and ideology. But the real...
The fury is understandable, the anxiety justified. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the concern is not overblown, that the objective of the...
Orna Barbivai is a reserve IDF general, a former minister of economy and the second-ranking member of Yesh Atid. In a party in which only one person...
What were you thinking? That the killing of 146 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2022, according to B’Tselem, most of them noncombatants, would be...
What were you thinking? That the killing of 146 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2022, according to B’Tselem, most of them noncombatants, would be...
Under the bridge on the road between Ein Yabrud and Silwad in the West Bank an atrocity occurred. Under that bridge, last week an IDF soldier shot an...
Once again I did not go to Habima Square, or to Kaplan Street, to join the demonstrations. My legs did not carry me there and my heart kept me from...
Arye Dery is the greatest hope that failed in Israeli politics, where the competition for failed hope is tough and the list of candidates long. Now,...
The new justice minister, with the backing of the prime minister, is carrying out a hostile takeover of the Supreme Court. The uproar that this has...
In the Jenin refugee camp, I saw many beautiful things. Not books of poetry by Rachel or by Natan Alterman, as the narrator of a Naomi Shemer song...
Welcome, Karim Younis, ahlan wa sahlan. I was so happy for your release from prison, like any decent person who saw the moment you returned home after...
Israel’s center-left can continue to wallow in self-pity, blaming the entire world for its downfall – with an emphasis on Arab voters, as if they...
The wave of identification with ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey is heartwarming, even if it barely extends beyond the left. A journalist...
Among the many scare tactics and assaults on the government-to-be – most of them justified – is one that is unacceptable and dangerous. The...
How do you whitewash institutions and organizations that betray their duty, or are openly or covertly partner to the occupation? It’s horrifically...
What if Jana Zakarneh had been a boy? Jana was a 16-year-old who had had a white cat named Lulu, and most probably dreams, too. She had recently been...
Alongside all the apocalyptic descriptions – some of them surely justified – of what is in store for Israel after the new government is sworn in,...