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Oct 9, 2026, 8:42 AM

Lie Down with Palantir, Wake Up Alone

Zach Bryan is a country singer. Born on a military base into a Navy family, an eight-year Navy veteran himself who came of age in rural Oklahoma, he has exploded in recent years into a genre-defying musical phenom well...

Mar 12, 2026, 3:17 PM

‘Save Me Big Yahu’: A new meme and an ancient hatred

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Kids online beg Prime Minister Netanyahu to fix their homework and boost their investments. The joke hides a darker story - and vastly overestimates Bibi's strength

Feb 22, 2026, 3:46 PM

Trump, According to Trump

Every day it’s the same: declaring war at lunch, and back to normal by dinner. I can’t figure out if I should be prepping a costume for the Purim party or buying water crates for the bomb shelter. They’ve...

Dec 29, 2025, 6:19 PM

The Day Television Died – A spoiler-free reckoning with Stranger Things

In the mid-2000s, at the dawn of television’s so-called golden age, a loose consensus formed among cultural critics: The Sopranos had killed cinema. HBO’s flagship series, which concluded in June 2007, introduced a way of building story and character...

Dec 22, 2025, 12:29 PM

The Lord of the Streams

It looks like Netflix won the war. The Warner board rejected Paramount’s $108 billion acquisition offer, opting instead for the streaming giant’s bid, citing “higher value” and “lower risk to shareholders.” Translation: the spreadsheet spoke, and the spreadsheet always wins. So...

Nov 5, 2025, 10:20 AM

My Two Cents on the New York City Mayoral Race

This whole episode is a perfect case study in how Israeli media has abdicated its most basic responsibility: mediating reality for the public. Instead, every global event becomes a prop in a national psychodrama -- a chance for moral...

Nov 1, 2025, 10:54 PM

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Part II

But every Eden has its serpent. The same light that revealed the laws of nature also cast new shadows. When we learned to measure the world, we mistook the measure for meaning. And in the vacuum left by God’s...

Nov 1, 2025, 9:59 PM

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part I

The “horseshoe theory,” attributed to the French writer Jean-Pierre Faye, holds that - contrary to the common view that the far left and the far right sit at opposite ends of the political spectrum - these extremes in fact...

Jul 27, 2025, 3:55 PM

Each in Our Own Victory: An Israeli Identity Crisis

During the June 2025 campaign against Iran, a nationwide survey revealed a deep identity fracture. In the summer of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. What began as a “limited operation” to push Katyusha rockets away from the northern border quickly morphed...

Apr 11, 2025, 5:45 PM

Another brick in the wall

"May God protect the Israelis and the Palestinians—and protect me from their friends," Thomas Friedman once remarked in a usual moment of clarity. A quip that neatly encapsulates the damage done by those self-proclaimed justice warriors who parachuted into...

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About Me

Omer Biran is a news desk editor at Haaretz. He holds an LL.B. and an M.A. in Government from Reichman University, and is writing his master's thesis in International Relations at Bar-Ilan University, focusing on the political discourse surrounding Israel in the 2026 Democratic midterms primaries. Previously, he worked in policy research and media, and hosted the protest-music radio show The Megaphone.