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Jun 28, 2026, 4:56 PM

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...

May 19, 2026, 12:07 AM

Still an Activist, Not Yet New York’s Mayor

There are official acts that reveal more about what their author thinks an office is for than any speech could. The video released by the mayor of New York City on Friday evening, in the hour before Jewish New...

May 16, 2026, 6:03 PM

The Eurovision Audience the New York Times Couldn’t See

Spain gave Israel 33 percent of its public vote at Eurovision 2025, in a country whose public opinion is deeply hostile to the Israeli government. The New York Times investigation published on May 11 treats this result as suspicious...

May 12, 2026, 5:58 PM

Eurovision – the Stage that Stopped Being a Given

Tonight in Vienna, Noam Bettan walks onto the Eurovision stage. He is twenty-eight years old. He will sing "Michelle," a pop ballad about ending a toxic relationship, performed partly in French, a nod to his family's roots. Before he...

May 1, 2026, 12:54 AM

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What Yair Garbuz painted back into view

The late artist pushed Israelis to question our automatic – and seemingly common-sense – assumptions about moral superiority

About Me

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