Answering your questions on Hamas, Iran, the occupation, and more
The Iran deal was the first in a series of hugely consequential lies that will shape our country as much as the Middle East
A decade of perverse U.S. policy sets the stage for mass murder
The ideas, institutions, and people that caused the collapse
In train stations and bus shelters, on lamp posts and walls of buildings and nearly any public space, personalized memorials proliferate
My own son shares a name with the American hostage killed by Hamas this week—a named steeped in meaning and Jewish history
Students in Sderot navigate emotional challenges—and missile attacks—as the new academic year approaches
After a Hezbollah rocket murdered 12 kids on a soccer field, a Druze town in the Golan Heights comes together to grieve
Bedouin Israelis share in their country’s grief over lives lost and those held hostage by Hamas since Oct. 7
Knitters and crafters around the world are reviving a symbol of hope as they wait for the return of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7. Here’s the story behind the ribbon.
She was held captive by Hamas in Gaza for 54 days. Now released, she tells her story.
On Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, remembering those who’ve died in battle since Oct. 7, including three U.S.-born ‘lone soldiers’
How Sigalit Shemer tries to cope with the loss of her son Ron, who was killed at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7
A new book shows that a ‘reformed’ and ‘revitalized’ Palestinian Authority would still teach and pay for the murder of Jews
The son of Filipino immigrants, Cydrick Garin grew up in Israel as a ‘temporary resident.’ He worked security for the prime minister, rose through the ranks of the IDF, and became an Israeli citizen before being killed in combat in Gaza.
Instead of playing defense, we should learn how to stand up for ourselves better
More than two dozen Israeli women were pregnant when their husbands were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the ensuing war in Gaza. They have come together to support one another.
The defenders of Kibbutz Alumim fought off Palestinian terror squads on Oct. 7 and saved their homes and families
An Israeli who spent ‘hundreds of hours’ with his country’s most deadly foe assesses his next move
In the aftermath of the Hamas massacre, rates of depression, anxiety, and PTSD are climbing fast, even for those who weren’t directly affected. People who experienced earlier traumas—particularly sexual assault—find themselves newly triggered by the Oct. 7 attacks.
The evidence is in their own poorly fabricated figures
Sagui Dekel-Chen was taken by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. Without him, a family, a community, a country, is incomplete.
For the past two decades, Gershon Hacohen has been a lonely dissenter in the highest ranks of the IDF. Unfortunately, he was proved right.
An IDF reservist describes his recent deployment on the northern front
The tactical victory that Hamas achieved on October 7, with all its scenes of unimaginable horror, has become a leading driver of its strategic defeat
The emirate’s role as a back channel between the U.S. and Iran has metastasized into something far more dangerous
Leveraging the fate of the hostages to compel an Israeli surrender to Hamas is a sick, manipulative strategy that is doomed to political failure
A look at life today inside Israeli communities near the Lebanese border, which have largely evacuated as tensions with Hezbollah rise
‘Let me know of one Palestinian in Gaza who tried to save a Jew and maybe I’ll change my mind’
For Israelis who previously evacuated their homes in Sinai or Gaza, leaving their new homes in northern and southern Israel during the current war against Hamas feels like déjà vu
Even though they’re past the age of regular military service or reserve duty, Druze volunteers are Israel’s second line of defense in the north
People have asked why our university did not disintegrate into chaos after Oct. 7. Here’s the reason.
‘These kids are not in post-trauma—they’re in trauma’
The view from the boulevards, buses, and Zumba classes of Tel Aviv
The mother of a fallen IDF soldier underscores the divergent worldviews of Israel’s patriotic citizens and its privileged elites
The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.
Two months after the Hamas attack, many of Kibbutz Be’eri’s young adults have returned home, with an eye toward the future
I found it unthinkable that any Israeli would elect to live there—especially after Oct. 7. In the wake of a trip to a devastated kibbutz, I realized how wrong I was.
A chronicle of the Biden administration’s increasingly absurd attempts to hide its complicity in the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust
The American secretary of state may think he is borrowing a page from his late predecessor’s Middle East playbook in Gaza. He’s doing the opposite.
The widely misunderstood doctrine of proportionality can have wildly disproportionate consequences
How progressive education made my peers morally confused
After surviving the Hamas massacre, a Thai agricultural worker with severe burns arrived at an Israeli hospital all alone. Now he’s on the road to recovery—and getting more visitors than he can handle.
Our family left Israel for Greece after the Hamas attack, not quite refugees and not quite tourists. After four weeks away, we were ready to head back to Tel Aviv.
In central Tel Aviv, crowds gather to lobby for the release of those kidnapped by Hamas
Visitors to the Rebbe’s tomb ask Hashem for help, while those davening to the golden calf of D.C. politics get spurned
As Israeli soldiers are called into service, informal groups of Israelis are creating religious garments to send to the front lines
China, Russia, and Iran
We’ve read about people losing their jobs because of opinions they’ve posted on the Israel-Hamas war that their employers don’t like. But some employees are also quitting because of things their employers have said—or haven’t said.
Pallywood’s latest global media star is the representative moral and artistic phenomenon of our age
Israeli comedians try to find the humor amid the horrors of the past month
An interview with the artists whose effort to highlight the fate of kidnapped Israeli children ended up underscoring the moral and social rot of our cities and universities
In Israeli restaurants, people are coming together across religious and political lines
On Oct. 7, Rachel Edri was held hostage by Hamas terrorists. One month later, the Israeli grandmother’s image appears on everything from T-shirts to tattoos, cartoons to TikTok videos.
Feeling abandoned by their community after the Hamas attack, Jewish knitters close ranks
It turns out that ‘white people’ often means Jews
Traveling Route 232 in the days after the Hamas attacks
No matter how many innocents are murdered, Western intellectuals will never stop making excuses for terrorists
A brutal massacre nearly a century ago in Judaism’s second-holiest city makes clear that murderous Palestinian rage against Jews has little to do with Israel or Zionism
As reservists are called into duty, foreign workers leave the country, and Palestinian workers are denied entry, Israeli agriculture faces a labor shortage. Volunteers are rushing to fill the gaps.
A letter from Tel Aviv
In difficult times, Jews are finding comfort in familiar things: challah, candles, and Friday night dinner
We have so much to chat about—as soon as the war we never wanted is over
Some thoughts on the first pogrom of the 21st century
A call for a mass rally in Washington in support of Jewish students and Israel
I’ve lived in places all around the world. But since the Hamas attacks, I’ve realized why this is where I want to be, and where I want my kids to grow up.
How the Oct. 7 massacres in Israel gave birth to a global pogrom
With the initial claims of the hospital story debunked, all that is left is the eternal guilt and villainy of the Jewish people
For countless long hours, on Oct. 7, the darkest of dark days, the state vanished. But then, in the midst of a war for survival against armed savages, an exceptional, unparalleled heroism emerged, a heroism that we had almost forgotten existed.
In northern Israel, Galilee Medical Center is already moving patients, canceling procedures, and training doctors in anticipation of a second front opening
In this week’s Torah portion, we read about Abraham’s journey to the Promised Land. What’s often overlooked is that his father accompanied him. It’s a lesson that resonates today, as we see the importance of political leaders, organizations, and friends standing by our side to defend Israel.
A startling string of policy failures shows the hollowness of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its servile wunderkind, Jake Sullivan
I’ve found a home on the progressive left for years—even after I noticed a common blind spot around Jewish issues. But the reaction to the murderous attacks on Israeli civilians was the final straw.
After the Hamas attack of October 7, many Israeli couples changed their plans—moving up dates, or downsizing or postponing ceremonies. Other couples never made it to the chuppah.
That means destroying Hezbollah and striking Iran. Anything less is a major strategic defeat for Israel and the U.S.
Is Ukraine the winner?
Saar Margolis was born on Kibbutz Kissufim. On October 7, he was killed there, defending the kibbutz against Hamas terrorists. But his family, evacuated to a hotel near the Dead Sea, had to mourn him in an unfamiliar place.
Biden’s visit puts Israel in mortal danger
The Jewish state has long been a useful villain in Egyptian conspiracy theories. Now that might be backfiring on Egyptians and Gazans at once.
Spending 10 days ‘on the bus’ almost 20 years ago made me feel connected to Israel for the first time. Following the Hamas attack this month, I realized how much that sense of connection has endured.
The art world’s deafening silence after the Hamas attack in Israel
I stood up for Israel and have been talked down to ever since
The West is fighting for its future, and these are the front lines
You’re in an abusive relationship. It’s time to speak out.
Yazmeen Deyhimi’s journey from a young ADL ‘No Place for Hate’ intern to Hamas campaigner to apologizing on social media is a study in the profound political confusion of the campus woke
We must challenge professors and students who tacitly endorse antisemitic violence in the guise of ‘resistance’
During the campaign against ISIS in Mosul, the U.S. flattened a large city with far less provocation—while observing all the rules of modern war
How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon
Black Americans know the pains and the agony of being terrorized. Celebrating it is an outrage, and an insult—to us.
The D.C. blame game is about avoiding responsibility while protecting a policy that is written in blood
Intelligence failures are never about the details. In Israel’s case, the operational and conceptual failures that led to Saturday’s massacre are even more disturbing.
Israeli restaurants and hotels offer free food and shelter for displaced civilians—as well as grieving families and soldiers preparing for battle
Hamas targets the Jews because of what Judaism represents: the moral system underpinning Western culture
A chat with clinical psychologist Esther Altmann to help parents who are unsure what to say—and what not to say
Why so many misread the Palestinian terror group’s openly stated intentions and motives
Many of us who live far away from the war, but are paying close attention to what’s happening in Israel, feel isolated or lonely—even though we’re more connected than ever to other people
No. Because it was missing the only word that matters.
Because I’m both Black and Jewish, I know hatred when I see it. And in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel, I’m seeing plenty.
There are no sides in this war. There is only mourning.
What can non-Jews do to stand by the Jewish community during this crisis?
Eyewitness audio accounts from the Hamas massacre in Israel, 2023
A few years back you were a bunch of activists. Now Jews are being murdered in cold blood and you haven’t said a word.
A Tablet roundtable with Tony Badran, Michael Doran, Jacob Siegel, Lee Smith, and Gadi Taub
It’s time for us to reckon with the hopelessness at the heart of Arab and Western ‘liberationist’ ideology
Iran-backed terror army threatens to execute hostages on live broadcasts, after massacring nearly a thousand civilians inside Israel
One survivor who’d returned to the scene later in the day to look for his friends spoke, in a breaking voice, of what he’d seen. Of the bodies, mainly of young women, lying cold and mutilated. Of scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot at point-blank. Of cars, perforated by bullets or blown up by grenades.
The State of Israel was created with one overarching purpose: to prevent the slaughter of Jews from ever happening again. On Saturday, it failed miserably to do that.
A tragic political misjudgment about Hamas’ intentions
