Gideon Levy

The two major news developments of the past few weeks have not stirred much emotion at the Jenin refugee camp;a local Hamas activist explains why the Palestinians are so disillusioned.

Palestinians desperate to earn a living are becoming bolder about getting into Israel to find work. The IDF response? Dogs.

Several laborers have been injured by dog attacks; when laborers tried to file complaints with police, they were arrested on suspicion of tearing the fence.

Yoel Shalit reveals that 'Emperor' Netanyahu 'is naked' in Mount Herzl outburst, exposing how little the government is doing to secure the release of his captive brother Gilad Shalit.

When Menachem Begin spoke that night 30 years ago, responding to Dudu Topaz's racial slur the previous evening, it was clear the election had been decided

It is not Guantanamo Bay and Abbottabad that will make America the promised land; but it's serving as an example in Tunis, Benghazi and Cairo.

You might expect such a tourism-loving people to open its eyes and ears to what can be seen and heard around the globe. Instead, we keep walling ourselves in against what the world thinks and feels.

Gideon Levy takes a trial run on one of the bikes that will soon be available for rent in Tel Aviv, a project that promises to become a major tourist attraction; annual membership costs NIS 240; there are 150 stations across the city.

The Freedom Theater management says Juliano Khamis 'was the model of a freedom fighter to the children of the camp, a symbol of our culture and our struggle ... Had the bullets that hit his back seen his eyes, they would have begged forgiveness.'

Juliano Mer-Khamis was one of the most talented theater actors to ever emerge here was also the most courageous of them.

Munir Dweik, our regular taxi driver in Gaza, spent his teen years working in the Hatikva quarter's chicken market. This week he paid a return visit

The co-founder of Kibbutz Lahav served as ambassador to Angola.

The truly sad days were those in which a man who was tourism minister, transportation minister and president harassed and raped.

While the villages were busy clearing away ruins and rescuing bodies - and increasingly high levels of radiation were measured - it seemed like life as usual in Tokyo.

Catastrophe inches closer every day, and the radiation map on the front page of the Japan Times just gets worse. It seems, more than ever, that Fukushima could become Hiroshima.

Smoke billowed upward from the crippled nuclear plant, prompting the unavoidable question of whether Fukushima would turn into Hiroshima

Monday the residents returned, removing the sludge by hand and with wheelbarrows, and forming mountains in front of each house from the contents.

For someone coming here from a country where two days of nonstop rain is considered a natural disaster, it's impossible to comprehend this calm and restraint.

An old rattletrap, some despondent villagers, a unit of Civil Administration soldiers and some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country.

A private outing in Hebron, following the education minister's decision to encourage schoolchildren to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs

Bad memories of the Hawara checkpoint, abandoned this week by the IDF: winter and summer, in rain and burning sun, we would stop here and wait.

Residents of Jenin's refugee camp closely followed events in the land of the Nile, in a mood of melancholy jealousy.

This week it was impossible for Israeli journalists who do not hold a foreign passport to enter Egypt to fulfill a journalist's passionate desire to be there now, especially now.

Khalil Givati-Rapp, a medic in the Nahal Brigade, could no longer bear the role society had forced upon him.

The Defense Minister turned Israel into the only state in the West, not counting the United States, that lacks a Labor party, a Socio-Democrat party or a left wing.