Israel
Underrated: Ayelet Shaked
The rising star of Israeli politics
Mounting Mendacity
The Palestinian Authority refuses to accept that Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is holy to all three Abrahamic religions
Gaza Withdrawal Symptoms
Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza has left lasting bitterness
Israel’s Impish Ice-Breaker
Etgar Keret’s memoir The Seven Good Years is mellow but full of deadpan humour about life’s absurdities
NGOs NBG
Tuvia Tenenbom’s Catch The Jew! exposes NGOs’ distortion of the truth in Israel
Israel And Integration
‘Even in Tel Aviv, they know that the words “no comment” are not in my vocabulary’
The Global Politics Of Netanyahu’s Victory
There was more to his controversial statement about Arab votes than Netanyahu’s critics cared to acknowledge
Fait Pas Accompli
‘The gulf between Israel and the Obama administration will continue after Netanyahu’s re-election’
Cage Fighting
‘In addressing inequality we should be careful not to wage war on those elite visions of life, such as the Getty Villa in LA, that do so much to alleviate its mundanity’
The Har Nof Massacre: How Jewish Life Carries On
When Palestinians killed five people at a synagogue in the Jerusalem suburb where my son lives, the response was admirably restrained
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts