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Gil Mildar

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The Price of Survival

Our existential tragedy is that we suffer from a kind of innocence that borders on complacency. In Israel, beneath the daily rockets and chronic...

09.06.2026 30

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Gil Mildar

The Wrong Truth

I feel the heat on the asphalt of Israel not as a whim of the weather, but as an intimate moral punishment. Sweat drips down the collars of men in...

07.06.2026 50

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Gil Mildar

We Lost the War

There is a chronic fracture between the closed rooms where diplomats draft the future and the thick dust of those who absorb the impact of their...

03.06.2026 60

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The Portrait

In November 1995, Yigal Amir shot Yitzhak Rabin at point-blank range at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. I was in Brazil when it happened, and I remember...

28.05.2026 50

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The Accounting

Here in the valley below Gilboa, where Saul fell and where rockets fall now with much less poetry, I have been watching this war long enough to know...

26.05.2026 60

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The Reflection of Those Who See Us

The most valuable lesson I learned about myself was detachment. Not because it was unattainable, but because I searched for it in the wrong place. I...

25.05.2026 70

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It Will Clear

There are days when consciousness turns on itself and what it finds is not comforting. These are not feelings. They are observations. And it is that...

21.05.2026 60

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My Israel no longer exists.

A long time ago, at the end of the last century, I remember a photograph of Theodor Herzl hanging on the staircase of the Colégio Israelita...

16.05.2026 50

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Israel, the Island

In September 2025, a diplomat from Tuvalu raised a small placard against the creation of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly....

11.05.2026 90

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The Day After

From the Gilboa hills which I look upon every day the stillness seems to belie everything. I see the weariness of a society where war has ceased to be...

04.05.2026 60

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Gil Mildar

The Perimeter

14.04.2025 60

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Gil Mildar

The Same Taste

04.04.2025 50

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Gil Mildar

Vigil.

03.04.2025 40

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Gil Mildar

The Geometry of Cynicism

21.03.2025 50

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Song of Tomorrow

20.03.2025 50

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Gil Mildar