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Risa LevittThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
I came to Eitan Rosenzweig the way you sometimes come to people who have already left — through their work, through other people’s grief, through...
There are sirens and there are sirens. The Yom HaShoah siren sounds at ten in the morning. Two minutes. The country stops — cars pull over, people...
Everyone here is talking about שגרה right now. Routine. When are we going back to it, what will it look like, is this — this strange suspended...
There is a specific kind of 3 a.m. that belongs only to Israel. Wednesday’s 3 a.m. was one of them. It began with two missiles over Jerusalem. Then,...
My Hebrew is functional. It is not pretty. It gets the job done the way a duct-taped suitcase gets the job done — it holds… For years, the words I...
So I wrote a few days ago about watching Sennacherib’s Prism — a 2,700-year-old record of the siege of Jerusalem — get carried into a bomb...
I’ve been in Israel long enough to know the drill but not long enough to be numb to it. When you come to this country as an adult, the sirens never...