A twenty-something, computer-hacker genius, Mossad spy goes native in Iran: that’s the plot of Israel’s newest mega-hit TV series. But what’s it tell us about how Israelis see Persian politics and culture?

How’d Israel go from being COVID heroes to COVID zeros?

Why ’o why does an Army need a radio station?

As statues of Columbus get toppled in America, and statues of Leopold II get ripped down in Belgium, are there memorials and statues in Israel we’d be better or mothballing or melting down?

Would a small, “symbolic” annexation of lands in the West Bank sidestep the worst consequences of the bigger annexation authorized by the Trump peace plan?

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox have a plan, inspired by the pandemic, to make weddings smaller and cheaper. Should the rest of us do the same thing?

On a hill in the foothills of Samaria, live eight young, Israeli settler women, aged 13 to 19, alone, without running water and electricity. What are they doing there?!

A new documentary aims to explain the surprising success of the LGBTQA community in Israel. Why are so many LGBTQA folks hating on it?

For 28 years, HaHaganah fought underground to protect Jews in Palestine and to end British rule, and ever since, the organization and its fighters have been lionized in Israel as heroes. Has the time come to focus on the darkest of their deeds?

It’s like a koan: Is a cemetery that stopped being a cemetery more than a hundred years ago still a cemetery? (Answer: When your backhoe turns up 19th century graves, it is.)