Ofra, the Mayflower of the Settlements
The author of ‘The Hilltop’ revisits the lands and people Amos Oz confronted in the early 1980s to see how far the West Bank settlements have come, and where they are headed
A Plan for Peace
Is America about to adopt the Israeli prime minister’s 20-year-old plan for a durable settlement between Israel and the Palestinians?
Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel
As a wave of anti-Israel hate spreads from elite college campuses to public high schools, some Massachusetts parents wanted to fight back. But they were not joined by the major Jewish organizations. What happened in Newton?
The Brilliance of Batya Gur, Israel’s Greatest Detective Author
The late writer’s best work reflects the larger anxieties of a society trying to shield its founding ideals against threats from hostile populations
Free Palestine
A small act of resistance in the middle of Soho at lunchtime
The ‘Peaceful’ Movement to Destroy Israel
Setting the record straight on BDS and the call for two states
The Message of Nas
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?
The Great Jewish-Palestinian American Novel
Emerging writer Hannah Lillith Assadi, daughter of a Jewish mother and a Palestinian father, finds a home in the desert of the American Southwest
Winter in the Promised Land
Tablet Fiction: A war correspondent’s Christmas
Israel’s New Diplomatic Horizon
A surprise visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Oman last month reveals the Jewish state’s shifting foreign policy
The Escape Artist
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?
Creative Trauma
Two thousand years of suffering and exile help an Israeli NGO teach Syrian and Iraqi refugees to build new lives in Europe
No Way to Treat Children
Strong ties between international aid organizations and terrorist groups make the lives of Palestinians and Israelis more miserable
BREAKING: Palestinian Incitement Achieves Absolutely Nothing Yet Again
As Palestinian soccer chief is fined for incitement, another painful lesson in the futility of hatred and intimidation
Who Is Julia Salazar?
The complex personal history and views of an increasingly competitive New York state Senate candidate for Brooklyn
Losing Hope in Israel, Looking to Jordan
Mourning the loss of democratic pluralism in the Jewish state
Block 9: Flashpoint for the Next Lebanon War?
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?
Those People, Over There
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
Return to Sender
Yossi Klein Halevi’s ‘Letters to a Palestinian Neighbor’ may not reach its intended audience, but it may well have another closer to home
Checks and Balances
Ep. 134: Sen. Joe Lieberman on life after politics, and Skyler Inman on podcasting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israeli Arabs Are Choosing Jewish Schools
Yom Ha’atzmaut: The benefits—and perils—of assimilation in the Jewish state
Trump, Jerusalem, and the Jews
Was it cheap politics or historical concern and fellow-feeling that motivated the president to declare his allegiance to the millennial capital?
Israeli MKs Ask a Loaded Question: What Would Victory Over the Palestinians Look Like?
After decades of striving for reconciliation with the Palestinians, legislators on both sides of the aisle consider other options
Bibi Netanyahu’s Nightmare Speaks
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
The Stamp Collector
A philatelist passes on his little square markers of love and loss to his daughter
We Are Family
Episode 105: Writer Annabelle Gurwitch on being her elderly mother’s drug mule; plus the creative duo behind the one-man film ‘Wrestling Jerusalem’
Peace With the Palestinians Was a Bust. Here’s What Israel Should Do Next.
‘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.’
Israeli Security Cabinet Secret Transcripts Part II, The Accidental Occupation
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.
