A.B. Yehoshua

Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua reviews Yehuda Bauer's new book on the Holocaust, which 'breaths truth,' despite the author's claim that his work is a fraud.

A binational state would not arise solely due to Israel’s doings; its establishment also would be abetted by the silent cooperation of Palestinians.

The concept of the Jewish homeland has dominated the discourse for millennia, but now we need to reach definitive conclusions.

The author argues that peace remains elusive because the conflict is unprecedented in human history.

An excerpt from the new novel 'Hesed Sefaradi' ('Spanish Kindness' ), forthcoming in Hebrew from Hasifria Hahadasha.

Labor politician Arie 'Lova' Eliav, who died this week, was successful because of his moral clarity.

Why are we obsessed with calling ourselves a 'democratic Jewish state'? Why not just 'Israel'?

Only a Labor Party led by Amir Peretz, as a strong partner in a future coalition, will be able to lift Israelis out of the garbage.

A short story

Given the ways in which the word 'Zionism' is thrown around both in Israel and outside of it, and the vast permutations it’s gone through over the past decades, perhaps it's time we try to define it realistically.

Just as the PLO was transformed into the Palestinian Authority, so it is time to start treating Hamas not as a 'terror organization,' but as a government.

The concept of Zionism is dear to us, and therefore it is important that it find expression only in its rightful place: in the difference between us and the Jews of the Diaspora.

Attempting to destroy Iran's nuclear potential militarily is liable to drag Israel into a drawn-out war.

Israeli author tells Haaretz columnist that his comparison of Gazan-Israeli death tolls is 'absurd.'

'Materialism' is not a separate bubble. There is no such thing as 'national existence without spiritual content.' Spirituality, for better or for worse, high or low, noble or perverted, correct or mistaken, sane or insane, penetrates every cell of humanity, as long as it survives.

Only a Labor Party led by Amir Peretz, as a strong partner in a future coalition, will be able to lift Israelis out of the garbage.