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It was a cold winter night, a few minutes after 3 A.M., but Omar Abdelmajeed As'ad was driving home. Since his return 11 years earlier from a...
Dardaleh! is Israel's new battle cry. Dardaleh – Hebrew slang for a weak kick in soccer – is the latest expression of the right's unquenchable...
Benny Gantz's attendance at Naomi Polani's funeral on Tuesday brought up sweet, pleasant memories of days long gone, before all the troubles began.
Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi was killed April 1 in a strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Two weeks later, Israel is anxiously bracing for what's...
The right wants more, more, more. So do many Israelis who don't consider themselves right-wingers. All the dead, disabled, displaced and starving...
Sunday is the six-month anniversary, and it seems this won't be the war's last six-month milestone; no one in Israel has any idea how to end the worst...
We would all know a great deal less about the occupation were it not for B'Tselem. It wouldn't matter to most Israelis and Israeli media outlets; they...
Israel wants war. More and more war, as much as possible, and perhaps even more. Gone are the days of our childhood, when they told us Israel wants...
Four friends set out. They walk on a road of leveled sand where homes once stood. They walk with determination; from above they don't look scared....
A pretty woman has her picture taken with others in her family. She rests her head on her hand, gazes softly at the camera, a wisp of a smile on her...
The Israeli military is once again preaching morality to the country as a whole. Every time it seems that Israel has beat its addiction to militarism,...
Dear friends and former friends: It's time to sober up from the sobering up.
Terrible news: Another 27 captives have died in the tunnels of evil; some of illnesses and injuries that went untreated, others from beatings and the...
With the war now having passed the 150-day mark, every Israeli should ask themselves honestly: Are we better off now than on October 6, 2023? Are we...
It was a night of death and hunger. When it ended, at least 112 people had been killed and another 760 were injured. Israel tried to deny...
Once again it has been proved that there is no real substitute, no genuine alternative and no true opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu.
There are not many countries so desperate for national honor and pride as much as Israel. Whether it's the Olympics, Eurovision or the backgammon...
Now is the time for the United States, and in its wake the international community, to make a decision: Will the endless cycle of violence between...
Just like the good old days, Israel once again worships its army. The raid that released Louis Norberto Har and Fernando Marman sparked a crescendo of...
All we can do now is to request, beg, cry out: Don't enter Rafah. An Israeli incursion into Rafah will be an attack on the world's biggest displaced...
The terms of the emerging deal with Hamas are being presented by Israel as entailing a "painful price." It is based on the assumption that whatever is...
Two hundred and sixty names of babies whose age was 0; names of babies who didn't get to celebrate their first birthday, nor will they ever celebrate...
After the Yom Kippur War, Israel humbly bowed its head and reshaped itself. The traumatized country drew into itself and mourned. The post-Six Day War...
Isaac Herzog, Yoav Gallant, Israel Katz: Israel's president, defense minister and foreign minister. The president of the International Court of...
An email in English: "My name is Yuval Caspi and I'm the daughter of Dr. Yosef Caspi. You once wrote an article about my father. … I hope you can...
Israelis love their army with a blind, boundless, unconditional love. The Zionist left loves the Israel Defense Forces even more than the right does.
Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours from Jenin to Tul Karm. In three and a half hours you can fly to Rome, or drive to Eilat. But in the...
Let us assume that Israel's position at The Hague is right and just and Israel committed no genocide or anything close to it. So what is this? What do...
Shai Wenkert is the father of 22-year-old Omer Wenkert, who has colitis and is being held hostage by Hamas. Colitis is an accursed chronic disease...
Anyone who sees the pointless continuation of the war and the dimensions of the killing and destruction in the Gaza Strip, who wants to put an end to...
Nobody stood up. So far, as far as is known, not even one case of disobedience has been registered in the IDF since the war broke out, except for one...
At the end of this war, Israel will find itself in a worse situation than when the war began. Even if Israel is able to realize its goals, which...
There is no way to "explain" Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip. Destruction, killing, starvation and siege in such monstrous dimensions can no longer...
Every Sunday and Tuesday, Israeli guards enter Palestinian prisoners' cells, handcuff them and beat them with batons.
What if Benjamin Netanyahu hadn't been prime minister for 16 years – would this terrible war not have broken out?
Journalist Ben Caspit epitomizes the Israeli center. He lives in Hod Hasharon and co-hosts a radio talk show with journalist Yinon Magal, who is on...
We've never before had a war like this, a war of complete consensus, a war of total silence, a war of blind support; a war without objection, without...
As if all this were not enough – the thousands of dead children, the death toll nearing 20,000, the hundreds of thousands uprooted from their homes,...
A bereaved father, whose 8-year-old son was shot dead by soldiers, stood this week at the entrance to his home at the border of the Jenin refugee camp...
Israel’s resumption of the war is its biggest mistake since October 7. A war “heavy in days, heavy in blood,” in the wondrous words of Moshe...
There has already been enough of this war. It must end now, under any circumstances, at any price. There is no point to continue it. Its terrible cost...
This was a roller coaster of a weekend which left no one unmoved. The images of the released hostages, old women and little children, were the stuff...
Giora Eiland is one of the “thinking officers” to have come out of the IDF. Pleasant and eloquent, his demeanor is all moderation and sound...
The next surprise won’t come as a surprise. It may be less deadly than the previous one, October 7, but its price will be steep. When it lands on...
A photo by Associated Press’s Ohad Zwigenberg on the front page of Haaretz was worth a thousand words. It showed an IDF soldier inside a child’s...
The war is still raging, the guns are roaring, but Israel is already wrapping itself up in cushioning layers to protect itself from real...
Is there a difference between children and children? Are the photos of children killed in Jabalya supposed to shock us less than those of children...
A Hamas terrorist was taken out of the debris, carried in his father’s arms. His face is covered with dust, his body jerking like a sack, his stare...