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Every wave of immigration to Israel inevitably brings a clash between two worlds: people’s preconceived notions of the country and the complex reality they find upon arrival. For many, this encounter becomes a personal ideological test….

Once upon a time, giant animals walked the earth: sloths as tall as a building, elephants that make today’s look like children, woolly rhinoceroses that towered over the puny humans. Once there were other species of humans too.

Most of the large…

How religion, resentment, and identity politics are eroding the foundations of the state

The Gaza war has transformed Israeli society in ways no previous war has done.

For most of its history, Israel imagined itself as a fortress surrounded…

October 25, 2025

The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries
2267 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Democrat Leader Jeffries:

Do you hear that rattling sound? That is the sound of former mayor Ed Koch turning uncontrollably in his…

It’s well-nigh impossible to take a step anywhere in Israel without encountering some evidence of ancient life, whether from Biblical or Roman times, as well as before and after those periods. There is even evidence of prehistoric Homo…

Why Israel Must Crush Islamic Republic

Over the past year, Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has redrawn the Middle East’s map of power. From Syria to Lebanon, Yemen to Iran itself, Israel’s military has landed blow…

Ego and Suicide prevention

See my previous post Saving Abel, the selfless…

Today, Tel Aviv University opens its doors for the first time since 2023 without the dark clouds of war and the massive absence of student reservists casting a shadow over our classrooms. This offers an opportunity to consider Israel’s…

Before Alabama savagely gas-tortured a seventh man to death—Anthony Boyd on October 23rd—in what many legal observers are calling the longest nitrogen-gassing in history, I insisted “someday and somewhere there’ll be a reckoning for…