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Sep 18, 2025, 4:46 PM

The Tears of Friedrich Merz

Unterzeichnung des Koalitionsvertrages der 21. Wahlperiode des Bundestages

The Tears of Friedrich Merz When the German chancellor gave his speech for the reopening of Munich’s traditional old synagogue in the Reichenbachstrasse, he was visibly moved and struggled to hold back his tears. It was an authentic, emotional, almost...

Apr 8, 2024, 9:11 PM

A Palestinian State Alongside Israel Isn’t a Prize for Hamas – It’s a Punishment

Palestinians are pushing for the unilateral recognition of a state at the UN. Prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced that Spain intends to recognize Palestinian statehood soon, in an aggressive move that disregards Israeli interests. It is time for Israel...

Dec 7, 2023, 12:15 AM

Absence of moral clarity bewilders Israelis

In a hearing this week in Congress, the presidents of three of the top universities in the US refused to answer "yes" to the repeated question of whether calls for genocide of Jewish people violate campus rules on harassment....

Oct 18, 2023, 2:22 PM

This war is about Israel’s existence

There has been an almost unprecedented, worldwide show of solidarity for Israel after October 7th. But there have also been reactions that Israelis have always been confronted with: People who still think terror attacks are about a fight for...

Nov 25, 2022, 5:11 PM

Why German intellectuals link Nakba and Holocaust

There is a widespread – and incorrect – view in Germany that the State of Israel defines itself as the answer to the Shoah

Aug 18, 2016, 3:57 PM

Goodbye, Daniel Josefsohn

Self portrait of a a 'punk rock provocateur' (courtesy / copyright Daniel Josefsohn)

The bad-boy photographer who died this week found a visual language to address the tense Germans-Jewish relationship

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Miriam Dagan is a German-Israeli TV journalist and writer based in Israel.