The late writer’s best work reflects the larger anxieties of a society trying to shield its founding ideals against threats from hostile populations

A small act of resistance in the middle of Soho at lunchtime

Setting the record straight on BDS and the call for two states

An Israeli Arab with a huge social media following posts a video a day for a thousand days, ending this week. Where did the journey take him?

Emerging writer Hannah Lillith Assadi, daughter of a Jewish mother and a Palestinian father, finds a home in the desert of the American Southwest

Tablet Fiction: A war correspondent’s Christmas

A surprise visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Oman last month reveals the Jewish state’s shifting foreign policy

Israelis are caught in a trap: A majority believes the occupation can’t continue, but the same majority is convinced it can’t end. Has Israeli philosopher Micah Goodman finally found a way out? 

Two thousand years of suffering and exile help an Israeli NGO teach Syrian and Iraqi refugees to build new lives in Europe

Strong ties between international aid organizations and terrorist groups make the lives of Palestinians and Israelis more miserable

As Palestinian soccer chief is fined for incitement, another painful lesson in the futility of hatred and intimidation

The complex personal history and views of an increasingly competitive New York state Senate candidate for Brooklyn

Mourning the loss of democratic pluralism in the Jewish state

Israel and its neighbor are embroiled in a dispute over the boundaries of resource-rich maritime territories. Which country’s claims are better supported by international maritime law?

A counterfactual history, 1848-2008

In his commencement address at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, the author exhorts the class of 2018, the Jewish leaders of the future, to knock down the walls

Yossi Klein Halevi’s ‘Letters to a Palestinian Neighbor’ may not reach its intended audience, but it may well have another closer to home

Ep. 134: Sen. Joe Lieberman on life after politics, and Skyler Inman on podcasting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Yom Ha’atzmaut: The benefits—and perils—of assimilation in the Jewish state

Was it cheap politics or historical concern and fellow-feeling that motivated the president to declare his allegiance to the millennial capital?

After decades of striving for reconciliation with the Palestinians, legislators on both sides of the aisle consider other options

Meni Naftali worked security for the Israeli prime minister and his wife Sara, and now wants the world to know what they are really like

A philatelist passes on his little square markers of love and loss to his daughter

Episode 105: Writer Annabelle Gurwitch on being her elderly mother’s drug mule; plus the creative duo behind the one-man film ‘Wrestling Jerusalem’

‘While peace with Palestinians may be the preferable instrument for ridding Israel of its undesirable control over millions of Palestinians, it is not the ultimate goal of the Zionist enterprise. It is an instrument.’

The Six-Day War: classified documents unsealed 50 years after the conflict reveal Israeli leaders discussing what to do with the Arabs in Jerusalem and the West Bank, debating how to manage diplomacy with Egypt and Syria, and neglecting to realize the extent of the conundrum they were leaving for us to solve.

Humanity wins, in Jerusalem

Is it better to cooperate with dictatorships and authoritarian regimes and tell half the story with hands tied—or not tell the story at all?

On the 50th anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War, pondering the myth-making stories that define Judaism