Benny Ziffer

It's true that fundamentalism exists in Egypt, but there is also wildness and freedom and art.

The religion of consumerism has long since given rise to several fundamentalist sects, like the television show "Kolbotek," in which the frightening voice of an imam warns believers about a certain firm whose meat products are spoiled, or about another company whose dairy products contain harmful microbes.

On the 30th anniversary of the death of painter Nahum Gutman, a first look at some remarkable pieces from his literary estate.

What a reality show based on the political party may look like.

Ickiness No. 1: illegally employing a migrant whose work permit has elapsed, and thereby explicitly breaking the country's laws, on the assumption that, 'Nobody's going to do anything to me.'

These people live in a place that does not officially exist and is not marked on maps, and from which even those who see it - mainly its immediate neighbors - avert their gaze.

The exhibition 'Angels and Demons' at the Bible Lands Museum focuses on the rich history of sorcery in Judaism.

At the tail end of the dubious list of those that benefited from the oppressive regime that ruled in Turkey was, as mentioned, the State of Israel.

The great actor truly believes that real peace will come only when the Jews learn to curse the Arabs in the style of the Arabs. And only a great actor can mimic that style.

For two full days, our merciful and conscience-driven nation poured its holy wrath down upon Eden Abergil and her Facebook photos of handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinians.

More than anything else, Rafram Hadad told me, he misses the muezzin, whose five daily calls to prayer were the only things that gave him a sense of time and kept him sane during his five months of imprisonment in Libya.

On Tuesday, as befits a historic event, Channel 10 gave extensive coverage to the first, pioneering planeload of Israeli tourists to Antalya - not after 2,000 years as in the usual Zionist narrative, but rather after two months.

Else Lasker-Schuler is alive and well on the Mount of Olives.

Behind the bursts of laughter of Ahad Ha'am 101 hides the message: Let's stop being hypocrites and start being tolerant of each other, no matter what our sexual orientation, or our social, ethnic, religious or national background.

What would Israel do without a sense of siege or the feeling that the entire world is closing in on it, and without the certainty that no matter what it does anti-Semitism will continue to flourish?

The world that is called enlightened proves the extent to which it is the prisoner of racist patterns.

Anyone accepted into the club of developed countries adopts the same contemptuous sneer about getting their hands dirty with productive work