The siren inaugurating this year’s Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Survivors and Heroes was launched by Holocaust survivor Miki Zamir and his granddaughter Major Noa Zamir, head of operations at Israel’s Home Front Command. Israel Today: “Consider for […]
A week of waiting. Waiting for a decision to be made; explosions; sirens. Waiting for liberation of the Iranian people, who we in Israel are unaccountably dedicated to and concerned about, no matter that our countries have been […]
Today is the Ninth of Av, the day of the Jewish people’s biggest calamity, the destruction of Jerusalem and the beginning of the torturous exile in a murderous diaspora across Europe and the Middle East punctuated by pogroms […]
So, it’s the day after Yom Kippur. And somehow, even though we’ve done Yom Kippur for 60 years, everything felt different. The fasting. The day in the synagogue immersed in prayer. Even the prayers themselves. It all seemed […]
Despite Nasrallah’s unconvincing denials, in just 25 minutes yesterday morning, Israeli forces destroyed some 7,000 Hezbollah rockets at hundreds of sites in southern Lebanon. Intelligence sources believe this represents 99% of what Hezbollah had been planning to launch […]
Weeks ago I read that the Shabak was running out of room in the holding facilities set up for captured Hamas terrorists. The article said something about the “legality” of the conditions of overcrowding of these places. And […]
There is a line in the Regeneration Trilogy about WWI written by one of my favorite authors, Pat Barker, that rings so very true these days: “People are saturated with tragedy. They simply can’t respond anymore.” This is […]
Yesterday I wrote you about the idiotic Rabbis Law that is being pushed through by Aryeh Deri’s Shas party, which will triple the number of paid government-appointed rabbis in the country, and amounts to a haredi party slush […]
To live in Israel today, June 16, 2024, is to open your Facebook account and to see post after post of beautiful young people, young couples, parents, children, grandmothers and grandfathers and to realize that they are all […]