Monthly Archives: January 2024
As intense fighting ends in north Gaza, IDF finds 100 rocket sites
Israel's war against Hamas entered its 102nd day on Tuesday, with rocket-alert sirens sounding in western Negev communities.
Over the past 24 hours, IDF forces located some 100 rocket installations and 60 ready-to-launch rockets in...
Trump pledges to solve ‘horrible’ situation in Israel quickly if elected
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel would not have been attacked on Oct. 7 if he had still been president, and pledged to "solve" the "horrible" situation in the Jewish state...
Israeli high-tech thrived in 2023 amid war, political unrest
Despite the challenges judicial reform protests and the war against Hamas posed for the Israeli economy, the Jewish state’s high-tech industry emerged from 2023 with remarkable strength, according to a report issued on Monday.
“The...
‘My heart is split in two’: Families mark 100 days of captivity
“My heart is split in two,” said Zvika Mor, whose 23-year-old son Eitan remains captive in Gaza.
As Israel on Sunday marked 100 days since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, Mor said, “On the one hand,...
Nova massacre survivors launch $53.6m lawsuit against the state
Forty-two survivors of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre at the Supernova music festival at Kibbutz Re'im are suing the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency and Israel Police for negligence, and are claiming 200 million shekels ($53.6...
US aid to Israel is vital, but so is addressing the border crisis
One of the standard tropes of American politics since World War II is the complaint that domestic concerns are being slighted while Washington funds either foreign aid or military commitments abroad. Since the United...
Dangerously Ignored Intersections: Palestinian Statehood and Regional Nuclear War
When Israel completes its obligatory counter-terrorism war in Gaza, the issue of Palestinian statehood will insistently be raised. This perilous resurrection is foreseeable even though any de facto reward for Hamas criminality would be unconscionable. Still,...
Talking trees
I remember once teasing a friend whose birthday is on Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for Trees. I told him: “Make like a tree and grow up!”
Tu B’Shevat, literally the 15th of the Hebrew month...
A talk with God about the Holocaust
For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. His parents somehow survived the German Nazi onslaught...
‘New York Times’ to Jews: Forget thy right hand
Marc Tracy's New York Times article on Jan. 14 refers to "left-wing" Jews and a "left-wing" Jewish publication, and a "far-right" Israeli government and its "extreme-right ministers." The avian metaphors add up to the culture reporter to...