3+ hour, 47+ min ago  (289+ words) (Or, it has been three days since Yom Hazikaron, and I am still seething). That didn't last long. Because, barely a month later, an army bus arrived on the kibbutz and took all the Israeli men away, as the war…...

19+ hour, 36+ min ago  (737+ words) This week, Israel marked its 78th Independence Day. For me, it was not an abstract commemoration'it was something lived, witnessed, and deeply felt across two distinct yet connected moments. At my grandchild's school, children marched with Israeli flags, singing with unrestrained…...

21+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1226+ words) Over the past week, I stepped outside my usual media habits and into a different information ecosystem, one that a growing share of younger Americans, especially young men, experience every day. What I found wasn't just a different set of…...

22+ hour, 41+ min ago  (371+ words) Blame or Build'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page There's…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (679+ words) To understand why this effort now hangs in the balance, we need to look beyond the mechanics of the proposal and focus on the politics behind it. The outcome will not be determined by technical design, but by how Hamas…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (388+ words) There are seven major polling firms in Israel: Lazar, Filber, Kantar, Maagar Mochot, Migdam, Yossi Taktika, and Direct Polls. Five of these seven firms show a consistent stalemate between the two blocs while two, Filber and Direct Polls, show a…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (521+ words) I don't remember the me who was not yet a Zionist. But I do remember that my Zionism was born alongside an unconditional love for Israel. As a teenager enamored with my Young Judaea youth movement, I viewed Israel as…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (942+ words) Comparing the Fates of Israel and Argentina " Real and Counterfactual'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (917+ words) Finding logic in a country that defies every pattern by showing up for each other. I was standing in my kitchen a few days ago, staring at a pile of laundry that seemed to be reproducing by fission, when the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (305+ words) For me, the most striking'and humorous'moment comes when Dovi, portraying a representative of the Haredi perspective, quips: Yet the challenge is not merely how to initiate this conversation, but how to engage it with depth, clarity, and intellectual honesty. And…...