Like everyone else, I’m happy that the hellish suffering of 20 Jews is about to end. But what’s good for the individual is not always good for the nation, and what’s good for the nation is not always good for the individual.
You’d think we…

Like everyone else, I’m happy that the hellish suffering of 20 Jews is about to end. But what’s good for the individual is not always good for the nation, and what’s good for the nation is not always good for the individual.
You’d think we…

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, as a matter of fact and law.
As Eugene Rostow, a distinguished US legal scholar, who was the Dean of Yale Law School and an Under-Secretary of State explains, the 1920 San Remo Resolution, which was…

Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst. He is the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute; a research associate at the Alma Research and Education Center; and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…
Time and again over the past two years, I wanted to join the national gathering at Hostages Square to show support for my beloved brothers and sisters who were abducted. Yet every time, something stopped me. Something in the air, in the painful…

I have known Erfan Fard since 2020. In his writings, he has consistently criticized the Islamic Republic’s acts of aggression and terrorist operations against Jews and has always defended the Jewish community. When Hamas launched its brutal…