Tom Segev

Hotels excite the imagination and provide an illusion of home-like shelter. They are stations on routes of migrations and adventures, escapes and fantasies.

The story of an alleged rape in Mea She'arim that had the whole country in an uproar, 100 years ago.

Before the religious parties took aim at the industry, pigpens could be found nearly everywhere in Israel.

Most dangerous of all is the cliche that there is no one to talk to. That has never been true.

Not a single party running for leadership of the country believes it has a chance to run its capital. The state of Israel has abandoned Jerusalem.

Seven years ago today, it looked as though the world would never again be what it was before the attack on the World Trade Center.

Whoever writes Olmert's biography one day would do well to examine the thesis that he wanted to be Jerusalem mayor because he identified the role with Kollek's penchant for the good life.