Zahava Englard

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Feb 7, 2016, 11:20 PM

Don’t mess with me, I’m unemployed!

The other night, I’m driving along Emek Refaiim in Jerusalem, indulgently basking in the blues, preoccupied with things like my future, job hunting, the fact that I’m no longer in the highly desired age bracket for opportunity, and that...

Jul 27, 2015, 5:11 PM

Why am I moving to Jerusalem?

Sometimes there is no answer to what seems like a simple question. Sometimes the reasons we do things are not quantifiable. Sometimes you just need a change, and a new pair of shoes just won’t cut it. Why are you moving to...

May 13, 2015, 5:31 PM

At the shuk with the living and the dead

A reverie back to that childhood moment when she learned she had family in Israel -- and that she didn't

Feb 27, 2015, 11:06 PM

Herzog is playing a game where nobody wins

How frightening it is that Yizhak Herzog, the leader of the Israeli Labor party and of the opposition at large in the Knesset analyzes and approaches the Iran nuclear crisis with such naïveté. Israelis have always known that should their party...

Jan 7, 2015, 10:59 AM

Out here in the fields

On those young Israelis who aren't sitting at home and warming themselves with mugs of hot chocolate

Aug 21, 2014, 5:01 PM

Selective silence and the seductive stimulus

Despite all the extraordinary technological and medical advances that benefit mankind no cure has been found to reduce or moderate the primal human propensity towards malevolence. Rather, the human inclination towards malice and ruthlessness seems to have intensified in...

Jul 22, 2014, 10:03 PM

Recognizing the righteous

For the population of southern Israel, the bombardment of rockets launched out of Gaza has been a continuous fact of life for well over a decade.But for most Israelis throughout the country we were introduced to a new Gaza...

Jul 22, 2014, 9:52 PM

Recognizing the righteous

For the population of southern Israel, the bombardment of rockets launched out of Gaza has been a continuous fact of life for well over a decade.But for most Israelis throughout the country we were introduced to a new Gaza...

Jul 2, 2014, 12:53 AM

Israel is not cut out for peace

Maybe we don’t deserve peace as we are still stuck in the wilderness. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be reading articles with the following titles, “Cabinet torn over appropriate Israeli response to murder of teens.” Or this one, “Israel wants to...

Jun 15, 2014, 2:04 PM

‘Why should we have any empathy for these boys?’

The wheels are in motion again, wailing over the supposed "occupation." As if terror was never visited upon Tel Aviv. Eyal, Naftali, Gil-ad – our three boys; students, two of whom are sixteen, the other nineteen, unarmed, they were abducted...

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About Me

Author of THE GILBOA IRIS (Gefen Publishing House) and SETTLING FOR MORE: FROM JERSEY TO JUDEA (Urim Publications).