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That Word Again!

Amnesty International accuses us of being murderous racists committing crimes against humanity but, then, what’s a little constructive criticism between friends?

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Lessons Learned and Unlearned

Eight years ago, a teacher lost his job for being too out-there leftist in class. Now a mini-series is bringing it all back. What is it about this story that we can’t let go of?

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Tantura

“I was a murderer. I did not take prisoners,” says a man who, in 1948, was a soldier for Israel in Tantura.

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Poets of Past & Present

One of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, Avrom Sutzkever, lived and died in Tel Aviv. You can still feel his presence

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Stay a While

Are some Israeli politicians right to worry that if Israelis can enter the U.S. without a visa, some of them will never come back?

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The Ideology of No Ideology

Israel’s new pandemic policy seems to be, “Do what you think is best.” Is Israel having the most free-marketty, Adam-Smithian, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps moment in our almost 74 year history?

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Can’t Spell ‘Plea Bargain’ Without ‘Rage’ and ‘Pain’

Why are so many people so mad about a possible plea bargain that would keep former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of both jail and the Knesset?

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We’ve Only Just Begun

Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid party celebrate ten years in politics, longer than any centrist party ever survived the rough-and-tumble of Israeli politics. What is the secret of their success?

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In the Heights

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett exults that “This is the moment of the Golan Heights.” But should it be?

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Memorial Matters

There never was, and will never be, anyone like Yoram Taharlev, May his Memory Be for a Blessing

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