Benny Ziffer

The unbearable lightness with which Israel allows itself to bestow the title of 'holocaust'– or to refuse to grant it – to whatever it fancies, is in itself scandalous.

There is an inherent contradiction between a person's success at getting a ministerial seat and the possibility that such a person will be an educational paragon.

Only those who understand the Turkish mentality know how similar it is to the Israeli mentality, and this also applies to the persistent bewilderment over 'whether we belong to the East or the West.'

This Passover, Israelis need to liberate themselves from this illusion.

Exoticism and the Levant are the common threads running through two intriguing works, in English, discovered fortuitously by this writer.

Everyone who has a human soul should be moved by a Palestinian and an Israeli making the film '5 Broken Cameras' together.

Excavations at Herodium, near Bethlehem, uncovered the grave of King Herod while disrupting the lives of residents of the Palestinian village surrounding the King's winter palace.

Some claim that if if we speak in the sacred language in our day-to-day life - that makes all of us holy.

We should prefer a prime minister's wife with terrible taste in clothes to the alternative: A prime minister's wife in a religious woman's modest dress, with a hat like an upturned pot on her head.

Believe me, I told her, if you were the Queen of Israel you'd have given up the throne a long time ago and would have fled for your life.

Yair Lapid may believe in his ability to change the county, but those who voted for him believe mainly in his powers of seduction.

A French writer has been gathering anecdotes from random residents of Mediterranean coastal cities as part of Marseille's 2013 City of Culture commemoration.

Were Zuabi to be Jewish woman with the same blunt temperament, what part of the political map would she most naturally belong to?

Israel continues to export its No. 1 prestigious product to the world: a blockbuster show of internal debates, starring a changing cast of the most agonized intellectuals on the planet.

A comedian morning radio program is one of the few remaining islands of humor in Israel.

It is entirely possible that in Spain – before the Jews were expelled in 1942 – my forefathers were utter ragamuffins, among the indigent.

During Operation Pillar of Defense, TV studios filled up with commentators who are supposed to play by the rules of the game, which are always dictated by the government.

General Patreus unfortunately committed the sin of tastelessness by the very fact of his succumbing to the temptation to be a hero of a book about himself.

Haaretz's Benny Ziffer visits a fashion show for the first time in his life.

Last week's comments by Israeli official Amos Gilad about a 'terrible dictatorship' in Egypt were quickly hushed, but as banal as his warning sounded, it hit the nail on the head.

Wandering aimlessly on the liberated streets of the city are the biological and spiritual heirs of the soldiers of those bygone days; the heirs feel no sense of belonging.

Benny Ziffer remembers a country where tolerance was the norm, before it was ruined by its politicians.

The moral is that petitions circulated on the Internet, which are intended to take out contracts to eliminate some individual or organization, are a despicable means.

Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu's book waited on the shelf in the bookshelf for four years before it was finally purchased.

There are no nuances in Zvi Yehezkeli’s series about Islam’s supposed takeover of Europe, broadcast on Channel 10; it seems that nothing lifts the spirits of Israelis more than images of torched cars in Parisian suburbs.