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Jun 21, 2026, 6:12 PM

Three Laws for Living When Life Breaks

Three Laws for Going On Living When Life Breaks Apart I was walking with Yohanita through the park near the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. There, once again, we saw a group of Ukrainians gathered together. Whenever Yohanita sees them, something...

Shlomi Nahumson

Jun 21, 2026, 11:01 AM

Father’s Day without a father: Lessons from children of Israel’s fallen heroes

IDF soldiers place Israeli flags on graves of soldiers during the flag laying ceremony in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2026, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The nation remembers its heroes, but children need to remember their fathers as people: Did he like fishing? Football? Dad jokes?

Daniel Feigelson

May 26, 2026, 8:00 PM

A Memorial Day Concert Review

Yesterday was Memorial Day in the USA, and I went to a concert in Tel-Aviv. What do these things have to do with each other? In principle, nothing, but read on. The concert consisted of three trios for French horn,...

May 3, 2026, 6:35 PM

Coincidence, Providence, and Remembrance: A Yom Hazikaron Story

April 21 was Yom Hazikaron, a day when the entire nation pauses, together, to commemorate our fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Over the past two years, I have been making a pilgrimage to Har Herzl, Israel’s national military...

May 1, 2026, 6:52 PM

The age of Western insanity: why Israel’s armed forces are now the West’s second

Israel is a tiny country, with a population which is a small fraction of the rest of the West. Yet, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) now have more personnel on active duty than any of Australia, Canada, Italy or...

May 1, 2026, 4:42 AM

Israel — Can We Heal Ourselves, or Will the World Ever Let Us? Part I

The convergence of the important Israeli holidays of Spring: Passover, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror), and Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) has just concluded. After my last TOI...

Apr 29, 2026, 11:07 PM

Those Left Behind

Flag - picture by Romi Sussman

Last week, we went to Har Herzl, Israel’s national military cemetery, to pay our respect to those who have fallen so that we may live here. Each year, there is an official ceremony there on the morning of Yom...

Apr 28, 2026, 9:03 AM

Transitions: From Pain to Joy

Every year, following the Passover holiday, Israel enters a somber period culminating in Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut). Eight days earlier, Holocaust Day (Yom HaShoah) is observed with memorials throughout the country. Stories from the ever-decreasing contingent of survivors are...

Apr 26, 2026, 1:18 AM

Relieved. Not. North.

Compass. North. (Gemini-generated)

On Wednesday evening, when Israel's 78th Independence Day came to a close, the relief felt like a metabolic change. Anxiety from the end of the 40-Day War with Iran through Holocaust Memorial Day came with a lull at the...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Apr 26, 2026, 12:51 AM

After Memorial Day, the Question of Shared Memory Remains Unresolved

A date in fragments. A memory yet to cohere. AI-generated image, developed in Photoshop, by Sagit Alkobi Fishman.

Israel’s Memorial Day ceremony still takes place. The siren sounds, the rituals unfold. But the conditions that once allowed it to function as a shared ground of meaning are no longer in place. At the ceremony that opened Israel's Memorial...

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