Gideon Levy

The Haaretz journalist explains why he doesn't regret his decision to bare all in a docu-reality TV series.

The Palestinian village of Sussia has been demolished numerous times in the past four decades, with bulldozers poised to flatten the site again this week. Locals vow to rebuild on the land they own.

Many South Sudanese migrants are being hunted down by the authorities in Israel, including little Venus.

More than a few residents cheered the cruising van, cursed its victims.

'Imagine I would come to Tel Aviv, take a plot of land, build on it and forge documents,' says Hasan, who has not been able to access his land for 20 years.

A visit to the Hatikva neighborhood, where African shopkeepers are afraid to open for business: 'My color has become dangerous.'

One endured torture at the hands of Sinai Bedouin and has an uncertain future, the other is glad to be living and working in a democratic country like Israel and is even reading Ariel Sharon's biography; two faces among a myriad of African refugees.

A visit to Biddya, a once-thriving West Bank town that was forced to rely on agriculture after the start of the second intifada.

If the slogan of the 2011 protest was 'the people demand social justice,' this year's slogan is 'the people demand all kinds of things.'

Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Mofaz are telling their nation and the world: We are leaders in a country of dwarfs, its citizens are all boors and idiots, and we can sell them any lie.

Their town has a problem with robberies, so it was hardly surprising that the three Shawakhah brothers tried to defend their home upon seeing suspicious men in the street one night in March.

The national liberation movement's time came and went. Now we have a state. Neither good citizenship nor misdeeds have anything to do with Zionism anymore.

They may be illegal, but today’s outposts offer a chance to ‘build-your-own-home,’ with all the government services required for a civilized existence.

The festive atmosphere on the way to the Tomb of the Patriarchs contrasts with the desolate, caged-in existence of local Palestinians.

Stone tanks, plastic crocodiles, iron flowers - in practically every city square and under nearly every tree, monuments have sprung up around the country. A tour in honor of Pesach.

The anti-Arab rampage at the Malha Mall last Monday almost missed being reported altogether. People working there say violence by Beitar soccer fans is getting worse.

Avivit Schaer lost her husband and five children in Monday's tragic fire in Rehovot. After the funeral on Tuesday, Rehovot Mayor Rahamim Malul says he is astonished at Avivit's 'enormous spiritual strength.'

A return to Israel's south a week after the rockets from Gaza have fallen silent.

This week, Israel was again split into two states for two peoples: the state of the south and the state of all the rest.

Many locals in the Druze village of Majdal Shams are tormented by the thought that Syrian President Bashar Assad will not be toppled, even if they can't voice their fears.

The workers at the Pri Hagalil factory who fought its closure are overjoyed to be back on the job, but know the roller-coaster ride isn't over yet.

Hatzor Haglilit was quiet yesterday. Most of the stores in the town center were closed at noon. That's how it is when there are no customers; a northern siesta.

Street-cleaners, dishwashers, day laborers - all of them people we pass every day on the street without even glancing at them - gather at yet another ecstatic Eritrean celebration, held in the best central bus station fashion.

Khader Adnan, who is protesting his detention and humiliating treatment, is about to set a record for Israel's longest hunger strike.

Yair Lapid is an outstanding performer, a born stand-up comic. By the faint light of my cellphone I try to jot down his witticisms, which are flying fast and furious, but the people around me are grumbling.