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Yair Weigler, an educator and CEO of an organization called "Teachers for Change," has just returned from a lengthy stint in the reserves.
Tragedies are befalling Israel one after the other. The next impending one will occur on January 20, when Donald Trump is sworn in as president. If...
An ugly, criminal pogrom against Israeli soccer fans took place in Amsterdam on Thursday. Similar pogroms, carried out by settlers, take place almost...
Donald Trump's victory proved in the United States what we have long known here in Israel: When the liberals cannot offer an alternative, the...
When Bezalel Smotrich cries, one can only respond with a bitter laugh. When Uriah Ben-Natan weeps on the grave of his brother Shuvael and eulogizes...
Here is some good news, for a change. Israel acted on Saturday with commendable rationality and restraint.
The Israeli hubris is back, big time. Who would have believed that a year after October 7 it would return, and at such a scale. After we defeated...
There are a few axioms in Israel that cannot be challenged. One of the worst has now come to the fore: We must respond to the Iranian missile attack....
October 7, 2023 has passed; October 7, 2024 will pass on Monday. A year ago, this day seeded disasters the scale of which Israel has never known, and...
A Channel 13 News reporter distributed chocolate to passersby in the city of Carmiel Saturday morning, on live television. A mass-media journalist,...
Israel's wars of choice follow a regular pattern; it's incredible how regular it is. They always begin with the declaration that Israel doesn't want...
After exhausting the great opportunity in Gaza, Israel is turning to exhausting the next great opportunity, a war in Lebanon. When it comes to war,...
We now also have it in writing, in a thousand exploding copies: Israel wants a war, a big one. There is no other way of understanding the glittering...
On Friday, 11 funerals were held in the Jenin refugee camp. Eight of the deceased were camp residents who were killed by the Israeli army; three died...
Israel mourns the six hostages who were killed. The world also mourns them. Their names, their pictures, their life stories and their families led...
Surprise, surprise! Violent Palestinian resistance in the West Bank is raising its head. The human monsters have woken up from their slumber and...
Every morning at 8 A.M., the elementary school I attended would hold roll call in the courtyard, and one of the students, sometimes me, would go the...
Maybe we haven't sufficiently denigrated his lifestyle; in any event, he came by all the denigration honestly. But take note that his many detractors...
Only a few hours separated Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in Jerusalem and the moving, impressive speech by the U.S. president at the...
How easy it is to shock Israelis over rioting settlers. That's not us, we had nothing to do with it. They're not even part of Israel. They are the...
The Israel Defense Forces has decided to downsize the Oketz unit, Unit 7142, ahead of its cancellation. The unit for dogs and their trainers has been...
The B'Tselem report published this week, "Welcome to Hell," isn't only a report about what's happening in Israel's prison facilities; it's a report...
It was the end of a joyous week, the likes of which we haven't seen in ten months. On Wednesday, we took down Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran; on...
Shame on you, senators and congressmen. Last week, you held one of the most shameful sessions ever held on Capitol Hill. You cheered a politician who...
The trumpets of victory sounded immediately. The dust did not yet settle over the mangled tents of the displaced in Mawasi before the studios began...
Like everything in the Israeli military, generals can be divided into three groups. The largest is that of faceless individuals whose names, much less...
Israel is aghast over Roger Waters. Israel is aghast at the October 7 deniers. There is nothing worse today in the eyes of Israelis than to deny the...
Anyone who wants to learn what's happened to Israelis since October 7 is advised to look at the release from prison of Al-Shifa Hospital's director....
Evening fell on the now half-ruined Jenin refugee camp, and the group of men met, as usual, at the camp's pharmacy, El Carmel. There were around 10 of...
A picture is missing from the Tel Aviv plaza known as Hostages Square. A few dozen images are also missing from the nearby Kaplan Street...
At last, justice; the very earliest signs of the beginning of a late, partial justice, yet still a measure of justice. There is no joy in your prime...
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next,...
Eric Clapton has been performing in recent months with a guitar painted black, white, green and red, the colors of the Palestinian flag.
I shall remember them all Monday. I shall remember Pvt. Gideon Bachrach, after whom I am named. I will stand at attention during the Memorial Day...
When photographer Alex Levac wanted to get out of the car for a moment, the soldier asked him: "Are you Jewish?"
All decent Israelis must ask themselves the following questions: Is their country committing war crimes in Gaza? If so, how should they be stopped?...
Here's another record for hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness: Israel's university presidents published a letter saying they are troubled by the...
Almost any attempt to find a sliver of hope in these darkest of dark times is doomed to failure. Having said that, here is a faint ray of light on the...
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...