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Apr 6, 2026, 12:54 PM

2X2: Exposure – Denial, A Novel – A Reality Check

Reality Check in Unrecognized Desert Space (Gemini generated image)

Once it was B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Flak from neighbors. One neighbor heard from another that I like Arabs. I asked how the other neighbor knew. The logo on envelopes sticking...

Feb 2, 2026, 4:42 AM

Stars of David: Jewish pioneers in space and Israel’s cosmic rise

Picture this: a nation reborn from the ashes of history, now launching its gaze to the stars. As NASA prepares for Artemis II this month, a historic orbit around the Moon, Israelis have every reason to look up in...

Jan 10, 2026, 4:38 PM

The Confrontation with Impunity – and Identities

Legal stamp for impunity of human rights offenders.
(genaicreative.art generated by Harriet Gimpel)

Working for a binational organization in Israel with two offices, one in Israel and one in the Palestinian West Bank is a setup for confrontation. I know. I've done it. When I began such an episode in August 2023,...

Harel Ben-Michael

Dec 29, 2025, 8:30 PM

Ben Gvir is Failing – and the Negev Is Paying the Price

“In the Negev, the future of the people of Israel will be tested,” Ben-Gurion once said - and he knew exactly why. In recent years, public awareness has finally begun to awaken to the political abandonment of the Negev:...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Nov 26, 2025, 8:12 PM

The symbol of Israel’s desert heritage

In Parshat Vayetzei (Breisheet 31:34) we read about Rachel and her camel: Rachel had taken the idols, and placed them in the camel’s saddle pillow, and sat upon them… Camels existed in the Land of Israel from before the days of...

Nov 19, 2025, 12:59 PM

My Grandparents’ Legacy and the West Bank

Family Shards (photo by Marc Kornblatt)

The images of young Israelis in the West Bank brandishing guns and clubs, killing Palestinian farmers, torching their crops and property, makes me think of my maternal grandparents. I can only imagine how Papa Sam and Grandma Bessie would...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Nov 7, 2025, 7:26 AM

No National Service, No Vote? Democracies Do Restrict Voting Rights!

The issue of ultra-Orthodox army service has become a very hot topic once again. So hot, in fact, that Yair Lapid – leader of the Opposition and head of the Yesh Atid party, normally a middle-of-the-road politician – announced...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 26, 2025, 1:00 AM

Israel’s Hidden Allies in the Middle East

For decades, the so-called “Arab street” has raged against Israel, yet beneath the surface, a very different story has played out—a story of minorities who saw Israel not as an enemy, but as a lifeline. Kurds, Maronites, Druze, Circassians, Assyrians,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 27, 2025, 1:52 PM

Israel Speaks Truth, World Sides with Jihad

The world is rewarding terror and calling it peace. By rushing to “recognize Palestine,” global elites have handed a victory to Hamas — a jihadist group whose 1988 Charter declares: “There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except...

Sep 11, 2025, 10:07 PM

Poetic Justice, Bah Humbug!

The murder of Charlie Kirk didn’t make me cry, or cheer. It left me shaking my head. As much as I disagreed with his stands on gun violence, Black people, women’s and immigrants’ rights, I wonder if he, ironically, could...

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