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Aug 29, 2026, 9:26 AM

Constructing Peace / Constructing Images: AI and Human Endeavors

Constructing Peace

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude What follows is a catalogue essay for an exhibition that was never mounted. It places an AI-generated image of Gaza reconstruction beside the Board of Peace, a body with a charter, a chairman,...

Aug 28, 2026, 5:45 PM

When the Broadcast Becomes Part of the Attack

For most of history, an atrocity and the telling of it were separate events. An army slaughtered a village. A conqueror displayed the bodies of his enemies. Survivors carried the story elsewhere. Eventually newspapers, photography, radio and television allowed...

Damon Isherwood

Aug 28, 2026, 12:12 PM

The Trial of Meta and Our Need for Distraction

Chairman and chief executive officer of Meta Platforms, Mark Zuckerberg. (Wikimedia, CC-BY-2.0)

The past week has seen one of the world’s most powerful technology companies on trial. The federal case in Oakland concerned allegations that Meta deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled the public about their safety and collected...

Aug 28, 2026, 12:40 AM

Israel Is Building AI’s Safety Layer

On May 28, Anthropic published a 244-page technical report on its newest model and included a number no company has a commercial reason to print. Point a red team at Claude Opus 4.8 while it is driving a web...

David Rosh Pina

Aug 25, 2026, 5:58 PM

The Vision Revolution Israel Is Missing

Amanda Dalbjörn, unsplash

The human augmentation technology that Startup Nation invented and forgot. 1. How Far We Have Come In a previous piece for The Times of Israel, I wrote about how Israel became the world's most consequential computer vision ecosystem, examining breakthroughs, companies,...

Aaron Bornstein

Aug 23, 2026, 7:42 AM

I’m Begging You: Don’t Mistake Slop for AI Writing

I recently read Bret Stephens’s anti-AI op-ed, and it is frustrating how much traction those trying to shut down the use of AI in publishing seem to be gaining. Last month, according to The Guardian, a $2 million crime-novel deal...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:18 PM

Why Your Phone Still Can’t Prove Who You Are

The systems we use to prove who we are still lag behind the rest of our digital lives. Across Israel and the Middle East, people routinely move between government portals, banks, universities, hospitals and employers, each time reconstituting the...

Aug 21, 2026, 12:58 AM

Why the legal sector needs tech that goes beyond ‘good enough’

Two of the largest tech acquisitions in Israeli history closed within months of each other and, for the lawyers on both sides, it also meant two of the largest document reviews in the country’s history landing on desks at...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 21, 2026, 12:34 AM

Light Had Learned to Remember

For thousands of years human beings made images in order to retain what could not remain. A face was carved in stone, painted on a wall, written into an icon, impressed upon a coin. Photography intensified this possibility during...

George K. Stein

Aug 18, 2026, 7:31 PM

HaKatze: Velocity.io

Guy Kirschbaum, founding VP engineering @ Velocity.io, pictured in the Velocity offices.

On the ninth floor of the Hagag building on Tel Aviv’s Ha’arba’ah Street, the office of Velocity.io is surprisingly quiet. Only a sprinkle of desks and meeting rooms take up their sleek minimalist offices. A few years ago, a software...

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