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

Because there is no aggressive surge—in fact settlements have not grown in years

When the American president visits the Western Wall next week as part of his Abrahamic monotheism heritage tour, he’ll be using the Jewish state as a prop—in a fantasy of Middle East peace, starring himself.

And Donald Trump knows ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Who will blink first?

In the first of a series of dispatches from Arab society in Israel, where—and how—should the Bedouin live?

Can anything change the status quo in the territorial dispute between Israelis and Palestinians?

Israel must stop provoking Palestinian violence by welcoming cancer patients, pursuing peace initiatives

The Times concedes one to the outrage trolls, and history weeps