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Dec 19, 2024, 3:11 AM

Ferris Netanyahu’s day off

A little side-trip for some badly needed self-promotion was reason enough to further delay an endless corruption trial Benjamin Netanyahu enters the Tel Aviv courtroom on December 10, the first day of his testimony in his trial on corruption charges. Israeli...

Dec 6, 2024, 6:48 PM

Lili von Shtupp? Israel would truly exhaust her

‘Tired’ does not begin to describe the fatigue that I and so many others here are feeling these days Protesters gather in Tel Aviv on November 30 to demand that Israel strike a deal for the hostages held in the...

Nov 26, 2024, 5:20 PM

The incredible airfare mindset change

A strange thing happened when my decaying joints could no longer tolerate Cattle Class: I began springing for more expensive airline seats. My body continues to thank me An El Al Boeing 787 in retro livery. Retro prices would be...

Nov 17, 2024, 4:04 PM

A 10 for Bibi? No setting is high enough

I’m not lazy. I’m just a big believer in recycling. So in this age of leaks, theft, pilferage and whatnot, I’ll revisit a column I once wrote and say Bibi, the good times are over I heard it’s about to...

Nov 9, 2024, 8:49 AM

Shirley Valentine’s wall had it easy

Hostages rotting in tunnels, defense ministers switched mid-war over politics, still no clear plan for the day after or a mea culpa from the top. My wall has got it much tougher than Shirley’s I have come to feel...

Nov 3, 2024, 4:26 PM

You want unity? Okay. Whose?

People are telling those of us desperate for a way out of an ever-worsening imbroglio to suffer in silence. Well, tough luck. (But we can still be friends)

Oct 5, 2024, 8:38 AM

Campus freedom fighters, here’s your poster boy!

A Palestinian terrorist and his accomplice make sure one of their victims is dead on October 1 in southern Tel Aviv. (X screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

October 7 is just around the corner. I thought it would be a nice gesture to provide a proper visual for those preparing to celebrate a year since Hamas’s… er, heroic resistance For Israel-haters, it doesn’t get much better than...

Sep 23, 2024, 11:16 PM

The un-defense minister proves he’s the un-Bibi

Gideon Sa’ar, once seeing himself as Israel’s savior, finally acknowledges that it’s not all about him It is safe to say that Gideon Sa’ar has long seen himself as someone worthy of leading Israel. It is now reasonable to say...

Sep 14, 2024, 4:21 PM

The insult that made a man out of Itamar

97-lb weaklings once turned to Charles Atlas. Our minister of national security needs only his personal police force

Sep 2, 2024, 8:39 AM

It was Hamas that killed the six. And yet…

One cannot ignore Netanyahu’s foot-dragging on the hostages. Not after last week’s cabinet meeting

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Lawrence Rifkin is a retired Israeli journalist.