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Aug 18, 2026, 6:17 PM

West Bank Outposts Are More Than an Enforcement Failure

Over the past week, Israeli settlers built an illegal outpost beside Palestinian homes in Qusra and blocked the families’ access to them. The first attempt to clear the outpost failed, and after clashes with settler activists who converged on...

Aug 16, 2026, 4:50 PM

The Only Man Not in the Room

When a casualty notification officer knocks on a door in Israel and tells parents that their son has been killed, she now tells them one thing more: that his sperm can be retrieved and that there are only hours...

Aug 7, 2026, 7:33 PM

What Are Memorials For? A Shirt at Mauthausen

In early August, at the Mauthausen memorial in Austria, a young Jewish woman confronted a touring school group. One student wore a “Free Palestine” shirt, while some of his teachers and peers told her that Israel is committing genocide...

Jul 19, 2026, 2:16 AM

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Yaacov Agam: The artist who reread the 2nd commandment

The Fire and Water Fountain, Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv. Credit: roni dadon / PikiWiki Israel, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.

His works refuse the fixed image that claims to reveal everything at once; rather, they insist on sacred multiple interpretations

Jun 21, 2026, 7:03 PM

The First Father We Cannot Understand

On Father's Day we tell stories of devotion, responsibility, and love, and we honor those who accompanied us, taught us, and bore responsibility for the generations to come. Yet there is something worth pausing over in the fact that...

Jun 20, 2026, 9:26 PM

Boycotting Israel Became a Cultural Default

At the end of May, a group of Israeli teenage climbers were due to compete in Brussels. They had registered, been approved, and trained for the event. Then the host venue, Le Camp de Base, informed them that they...

Jun 14, 2026, 5:25 PM

What Gilad Janklowicz Understood About Our Bodies and Television

Gilad Janklowicz, who died on June 9 at the age of 71, spent forty-two years coaching viewers through a screen. A former Israeli decathlon champion, he had moved to California to train for the Olympics until an Achilles injury...

Jun 4, 2026, 10:40 AM

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Gaza’s women get lost in the argument about them

A woman watches as Palestinians retrieve items from the rubble of a destroyed building following overnight Israeli army bombardment on al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, on September 12, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Girls are being handed to older men and women forced to trade sex for food. But instead of trying to protect them, we debate which side is to blame

May 27, 2026, 11:40 PM

Looking Past ‘Silenced No More’

A Google search for the current headline returns the article with the original verb still indexed.

A newspaper does not need to lie to reposition reality. Sometimes it can do so through something far quieter: the placement of uncertainty. On May 12, the New York Times gradually transformed the headline on its coverage of a two-year...

About Me

Sagit Alkobi Fishman is a PhD candidate and President’s Fellow at Bar-Ilan University’s School of Communication, as well as a visual artist working across digital media. Her research focuses on how narratives emerge in collaborative environments and on digital platforms, shaping public discourse. She draws on an interdisciplinary foundation spanning computer science (Technion), philosophy and digital culture (Tel Aviv University), and visual and social design (Holon Institute of Technology).