I would have liked to start this Diary entry with happy Chanukah. But just as the Jewish world prepared to light the first candle commemorating the overthrow of Greek tyranny and the restoration of our Temple, the tragic […]
The truth is, we in Israel should be happy – as happy as we can be with three hostages still missing. Things are actually going excellently. Today alone, Israel bombed the secret apartment in the center of Beirut […]
NOTE: This column originally appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Moment Magazine. As I write this, dozens of hostages—living and dead—are still in horrific captivity in the hands of merciless terrorists, and IDF soldiers are still serving […]
Today’s column I can say with some certainty in the knowledge that my opinion is widely shared by most Israelis, falls upon one of the most significant achievements in the entire Gaza War. Because today, after eleven years […]
Is the war over? And if so, why is Hamas still there, heavily armed, murdering at will? Is this what we lost so many of o ur precious sons and daughters to achieve? And is the American President […]
Let me begin by trying, however ineffectively, to encapsulate the absolute joy of the people of Israel that the remaining living hostages kidnapped by Hamas and tortured and starved in their evil tunnels for over two years have […]
Watching our Prime Minister address the mostly empty General Assembly of that increasingly clownlike and irrelevant organization called the United Nations (united in evil, cowardice, brutality, greed and self- interest) I couldn’t help but contrast their “unitedness” to […]
For us Israelis, going into a new year, our minds cannot help but bring the old year with us. What have we learned? What have we lost, and what (is it possible?) have we actually gained? As thousands […]
All of the Israeli information channels are talking about Hamas’s next great propaganda push, and this is going to concentrate on the dead |journalists. Never mind that not a single person is reporting from Gaza without the permission […]