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'Three years later, we need a full accounting.' Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF chief Herzi Halevi, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Daniel Chamovitz

Taking ownership of October 7

We need to ask not only who failed to prevent the catastrophe, but what our leaders did once it began — and whether they have taken responsibility since

Aviv and Liat Beinin Atzili were believed taken hostage in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. Liat was freed by Hamas from Gaza on November 29, 2023. The next day, the kibbutz said Aviv had in fact been killed during the Hamas onslaught. (Courtesy)

Yehuda Beinin

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

The government’s politics of vengeance and dehumanization will not bring my son-in-law back from the dead. It will only create another generation of hatred

The flag on Shilo's grave. Picture by Romi

Romi Sussman

I wish

I want to rewind to a time before I knew where my son’s childhood friend was buried on Mount Herzl

US pro-Palestinian activists during a protest in support of the terror attack against Israel, in New York City, October 8, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Barry Finestone

What I want my non-Jewish friends to see this October 7

Protest Israel’s policies all you like. But when people mark a massacre of Jews by celebrating its perpetrators, something else is happening

Palestinian children sit amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 10, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Donniel Hartman

Israel must defend itself — without defending the indefensible

Rejecting false accusations against Israel must not mean denying its real moral failures. To reclaim our voice, we need to learn to do both

Avigdor Lieberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dan Illouz

October 7th could have been prevented

Very few people in Israeli politics can say that had they been prime minister, October 7th would not have happened. Avigdor Liberman can

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers gather near the border with Gaza before entering the Hamas-run enclave on October 31, 2023. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Nir Asch

Three years on, fare well

In war, we learned to carry one another despite our differences. Now I am trying to bring that way of being together home

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