Yitzhak Laor

Judge Menachem Finkelstein's book on Natan Alterman's political poetry obfuscates history in ways the poet rejected, possibly due to his own needs to justify his actions while serving as military advocate general.

The Berliner Ensemble offers a last opportunity to see Brechtian acting, wherein text and actor separate from each other before your eyes, and irony floods the stage.

The language used in a 400-year-old guide to formulation of legal documents reveals much about Jews and their religion, then and now

The rise of the extreme right requires a descent into a mythical world in which there is no chronology. No one asks any longer about the logic behind a given action. No one casts doubt any longer on the motives behind military operations.

Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat could have congratulated Mohammed Bakri on his decision to return to the Hebrew stage, being one of the more significant Arab artists contributing to Israeli culture.

Israeli mobility is great enough to accept Mizrahim into the elite - but on one condition: They must repudiate what is taking place down below. To be accepted into the elite, one must not be a rightist, and it's also better not to be religious. And even in the Likud party, one is only allowed to talk about how 'the left is to blame for it all.'

The looming expulsion of thousands will be carried out with the silent agreement of enlightened members of society, because maintaining a Jewish majority is an ideological common denominator for the overwhelming majority of Israelis.

Those who are fighting to save the Yarkon Park in the southern Sharon, Timna, the Samar dunes and what is left of the Dead Sea are the buds of a late bloom - perhaps too late.