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A gun massacre in Israel: If an entire nation had PTSD, would it feel like this?

Wars don't end.We like to think that they do. We prefer to think that a signed paper, a back-channel deal, or a UN peacekeeping...

By Bradley Burston | 03:58 PM | 15

Israel's only real state secret. No, it's not an atom bomb.

In a country where everyone knows everything, there is only one genuine state secret. And it has nothing to do with nuclear...

By Bradley Burston | 07:38 PM | 15

Targeting Stephen Hawking and Dustin Hoffman: Right-wing 'pro-Israel' advocacy as hate speech

Professor Steven Plaut teaches business finance and economics at the University of Haifa. He also writes articles, pamphlets and...

By Bradley Burston | 06:21 PM | 116

West of Eden

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity protesters call for a boycott of Israel

Stephen Hawking is now the academic boycott movement’s unlikely poster boy

1. The regrettable decision of world-renowned astro-physicist Stephen Hawking to cancel his participation in the upcoming...

By Chemi Shalev | 09:30 PM | 69

Israeli Peace Now activists protesting in Jerusalem

Of course Israelis want peace, but now's not a good time. Can you come back later?

Jerusalem’s ho-hum reaction to the Arab League’s adoption of the 1967 + land swaps equation for a settlement with the...

By Chemi Shalev | 06:40 PM | 19

Former Bush administration official: Israel may be behind use of chemical arms in Syria

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, believes that...

By Chemi Shalev | 07:17 PM | 57

East Side Story

IDF soldiers patroling along the border with Lebanon, Jan. 31, 2013.

Why did Israel attack Syria now, and why did the Syrians admit it?

Two days before the night when Israeli planes attacked a weapons convoy or "Scientific Research Center" in Syria - according...

By Amos Harel | 07:53 AM | 67

A protester at the Palestinians’ protest camp last week. A new one was built Friday.

Palestinians discover the strength of soft power

U.S. President Barack Obama's carefully timed attack last week on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was apparently the first...

By Amos Harel | 05:34 AM | 20

An illustration of Syrian President Assad is seen riddled with bullets on a wall.

Tipping point in Syria edges closer as West sees signs of Assad's demise

For the past couple months, it's seemed as if everyone has been waiting on two dramatic developments in the Middle East - the...

By Amos Harel | 03:00 AM | 6

The Axis

In official photo, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un confers with Supreme Command.

What Iran has learned from the Korean crisis

The reach of North Korea's long-range rockets is right now of highest concern to decision-makers in the United States and...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 09:31 PM | 20

Yair Lapid gestures as he delivers a speech at his "Yesh Atid" party in Tel Aviv, January 23, 2013.

Yair Lapid, the two Mrs. Cohens, and the infantilization of Israeli economics

As of Sunday night, the most famous woman on the Israeli financial scene is a certain Riki (Rivka) Cohen. She was launched on a...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 11:05 PM | 3

An Iranian technician holds a monkey which has been prepared for riding Iranian rocket into space.

After the monkey that didn't quite make it to space, the Iranian 'stealth bomber'

Iran continues to present unique technological achievements as part of its Ten Days of Dawn, a series of events commemorating...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 08:55 PM | 12

Diplomania

Israel and the Palestinians have launched a mutual charm offensive on Kerry

I wrote a profile in Haaretz last Friday about U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his efforts to reignite the peace process...

By Barak Ravid | 02:19 PM | 11

Yuval Steinitz submitting the report on the al-Dura case to Netanyahu

Report on IDF shooting of Palestinian boy during intifada may cause Israel more damage than good

The report on the investigation of the Mohammed al-Dura affair is probably one of the least relevant documents written by the...

By Barak Ravid | 02:28 AM | 27

Netanyahu holds scripted 'live video-chat' in China

During his current trip to China, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has largely avoided discussing issues related to Israeli...

By Barak Ravid | 08:31 PM

Routine Emergencies

American style 'lone gunman' shooting stuns Israelis

The initial news reports from Be'er Sheva on Monday afternoon told the country that a bank robbery had gone horribly wrong. There...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 07:45 AM | 2

Israeli policemen block ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as members of Women of the Wall (not pictured)

Woman vs. Women of the Wall

Let’s get one thing straight. There are many women in Israel who do not personally identify with the Women of the Wall. Frankly,...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 12:29 PM | 9

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, resting on a double bed in the prime minister's plane.

Bibi and Sara’s flying bed hits major turbulence

For much of last week, it seemed like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on a lucky streak.It was his good fortune to be...

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 07:14 PM | 13

Jerusalem Vivendi

The Journalists Memorial at the Newseum.

One man’s terrorist, another man’s freedom fighter - or journalist

While its noble aim was to honor felled reporters, the Newseum wound up walking into a minefield when it included then deleted from its list of honorees two Gazans who were killed in an Israeli airstrike while working for Al-Aqsa TV.

By Ilene Prusher | May 17, 2013 | 06:31 PM

Jerusalem breathes new life into an old Ottoman-era train station

The 'First Station,' which opened Tuesday, showcased a rich mix of past and present. Its non-kosher restaurants and commerce on Shabbat may be a test of how well secular and religious Jerusalem can get along in a public space.

By Ilene Prusher | May 14, 2013 | 11:37 PM

Why I must - and can’t - celebrate Jerusalem Day

The Jerusalem I don’t live in - but visit often, largely by dint of my work as a journalist - is not a normal city. Gardens, gelato and Gucci will not bring peace.

By Ilene Prusher | May 8, 2013 | 01:42 PM | 5

Modern Manna

On Jewish food and the American dream

Michael Levine was walking down Rivington Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side some four years ago, when curiosity made him peek...

By Vered Guttman | 01:34 PM

Israeli tiramisu: Try it once, you'll never look back

The humble Israeli white cheese, light and creamy, is an everyday staple in Israel and is the essential secret ingredient in the...

By Vered Guttman | 09:22 AM | 3

Cheesy delights: Two savory Shavuot recipes

Yam, Goat Cheese and Rosemary Quiche Serve with a simple green salad on the side.Yields 11 quicheIngredients:For the dough:1 3/4...

By Vered Guttman | 08:48 AM

Strenger than Fiction

Haredim protest plans to draft them into the military in Jerusalem on March 13.

Memo to Haredim: Jewish pluralism won’t destroy your way of life

Last week I gave some lectures in Switzerland on Israel and its interminable problems. My audience was mostly composed of Jews...

By Carlo Strenger | 02:20 PM | 3

Professor Stephen Hawking sits in his office at University of Cambridge, Cambridge England

Hypocrisy and double standard: An open letter to Stephen Hawking

Dear Professor Hawking,There are many reasons why you are considered one of the world’s leading scientists. As you know very...

By Carlo Strenger | 03:56 PM | 143

Yair Lapid, the Haredim and Israel’s way to normalcy

On Monday Yair Lapid, Israel’s new finance minister, gave his maiden speech in the Knesset. He was responding to a number of...

By Carlo Strenger | 03:44 PM | 9

The Fifth Question

A portion of the wall that runs parallel to route 443, near Maccabim-Reut

Confronting the psychological costs of the occupation

This week’s Nakba Day saw a flurry of commemorations. The Nakba is not a moment in time. The Nakba is an ongoing process,...

By Mira Sucharov | 09:03 PM | 8

Hawking and hypocrisy: Here we go again

Punk is one of those epithets you don’t hear much anymore. But turning on my Facebook feed this morning, there it was,...

By Mira Sucharov | 10:12 PM | 12

A Palestinian protester throws a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes in Hebron

Palestinian stone throwers and Israelis speak different languages

Waal al-Arja said he did not intend to murder anyone when he targeted a car traveling along a West Bank road. That may or may not...

By Mira Sucharov | 07:57 AM | 12

Haaretz Select

In the Orthodox world, a rare dance and an historic gesture

At the Belzer wedding in Jerusalem, attended by thousands of people, the rabbi had a special dance not just with the bride, but with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Such warmth between ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis is not an everyday occurrence.

By Yair Ettinger | Jewish World

WATCH: Minute-by-minute footage of the Be'er Sheva bank shooting spree

By Yanir Yagna | National

An Egyptian shop called 'Hitler'

By Khaled Diab | Opinion | 2

Israel's have-nots will keep paying for Birthright, if Sheldon Adelson has his way

By Itay Ziv | Opinion

The Church of Scotland's parody of Judaism

Even after removing the bluntly anti-Semitic phrasing of its original report, the Church of Scotland's new version has kept intact not only the delegitimization of political Zionism - but of Judaism itself.

By Ben Cohen | Opinion | 24

Videla and the Jews of Argentina: The closing of a painful circle

By Shlomo Papirblat | Jewish World Features

Opinions & Blogs

Israel must stop provoking Assad

The tensions between Israel and Syria have risen in recent weeks, but have yet to blow up. The ruler of Syria, President Bashar...

Ravit Hecht

The stuff incitement is made of

Uzi Baram

The black hole of Israeli leadership

Zvi Bar'el

Lapid, the ever-changing billboard

Yitzhak Laor

Lapid the professional

A.B. Yehoshua

Defining Zionism: The belief that Israel belongs to the entire Jewish people

Dani Dayan

Take land swaps off the table

Aner Shalev

In Israel, Lapid and Netanyahu out-Thatcher Thatcher

Aluf Benn

Aborted yeshiva cuts show Israel can’t wish its minorities away