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Jan 1, 2024, 10:53 PM

A War to End All Wars?

It may be the case for those who live through any war that, for their own mental health, they need to see it as of such scale and scope that it has the capacity to bring ever-lasting peace. One...

Nov 22, 2023, 8:27 AM

In Search of a Good Ending

The world seems focussed on ceasefires and humanitarian pauses, with a passing mention of the desirability of a two-state solution. Israel’s Defence Forces meanwhile are moving through consecutive phases of a seemingly ordered campaign with clear objectives: The elimination...

Nov 7, 2023, 3:01 PM

Why won’t Israel’s story stick?

IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Nagari addresses international media, October 2023

Most eruptions of violence involving Israel are characterised at least on the part of diaspora Jews – and by those parts of the Israeli home audience concerned with the views of the outside world – by extreme frustration. “If...

Oct 27, 2023, 5:29 PM

Two State Dreamland

The 7 October massacre of tens of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists changed everything and – not so surprisingly – nothing. It is less than a month. The bodies of lives destroyed are still being buried. More...

Oct 10, 2023, 1:02 PM

The Questions I Don’t Hear Being Asked

In Israel and around the world, we are glued to the news feeds, as fresh details of the horrors since Saturday morning emerge and their inevitable consequences play out. With wall-to-wall coverage across every available outlet, not to mention...

Mar 29, 2022, 2:58 PM

Pesach Nightmares

Preparing for Pesach 2022: picture my own

It always starts around this time. When the mishloach manot from Purim have been eaten, so you are feeling a bit overweight anyway, and the supermarkets have pushed all the cleaning products to the front of the store to...

Jan 9, 2022, 6:28 PM

Don’t take it out on the testers

Magen David Adom workers conduct COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at an MDA testing center in Jerusalem on January 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With so many waiting for so long, tempers fray, but the volunteers, among them my daughter, are already working 11-hour shifts, barely stopping for a drink

Nov 14, 2021, 12:56 PM

Inside Israel’s weekend wildfires

We thought our weekend getaway was paradise, until wildfires forced us to discover a different kind of haven

Apr 7, 2020, 7:58 AM

Lockdown Seder: Small but still special

There is so much I'm conscious we will not have this Seder night. Like most of us I’ve spent recent weeks scaling back and scaling back on my hopes and the reality of how we will celebrate. But faced with...

Mar 22, 2020, 11:40 AM

Canine Comfort in the Time of Corona

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When I became a dog owner to my own surprise a year ago, I had little idea what to expect. Since our miniature schnauzer, Lyra, joined us, she has caused chaos and exposed our innate laziness, all our good...

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Danielle Nagler is an international journalist and businesswoman born in the UK and now based in Israel.

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