Alit Karp
Opinion Enforcing Orthodoxy on Yom Kippur
The decision to close the beaches of Lake Kinneret marks yet another milestone in the slope down which secular Israel is sliding
Opinion Must Be a Joke: An Israeli Soldier Who Can’t Look at a Woman
The country needs a new approach so that a male soldier can look straight in the eye not only of a female paratroop instructor but also of those who try to impose their religious, conservative and fanatical nationalist customs
Opinion Ari Shavit Endured an Inquisitorial Public Stoning
One has to also know when it’s time to leave someone who sinned and admitted his transgression and apologized alone, and not go on hounding him forever
Opinion Tamar Zandberg, Go Home!
The new Meretz chairwoman betrayed voters by using the services of a far-right spin doctor and compounded the damage by lying about it
Opinion Say It Ain’t So: A Woman Who Tortures
Many believe that certain behavior is inappropriate for women but fine for men. But a woman with power acts exactly like a man with power; those seeking equal rights must remember egalitarianism
Novelist Joanna Bator Writes of a Poland Where anti-Semitism Thrives - Even Without Jews
Bator went as far as Japan to gain insight into her homeland, Poland, and its anti-Semitism. Now her book, translated into Hebrew, is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Opinion Our Pain, the Pain of the Palestinians
Israel is so sensitive to its own national pain, but ignores and denies that of the Palestinians
Opinion Ari Shavit Has Been Punished Enough
Despite my strong feelings about sexual harassment and having been subjected to it myself, the shaming that is done public figures via social media is disproportionate
Israeli Critics' Choice The Five Books You Have to Read This Summer
To mark national Hebrew Book Week, reviewers from Haaretz and other Israeli media outlets make some recommendations for good reading this summer
Opinion The Stupidity of Marijuana
The opium wars served Europe’s interests in China. Whose interests are served by plunging Israel into a marijuana haze?
Opinion Israel's National Theater Must Perform in Kiryat Arba
Habima, together with the left-wing journalists, authors and poets, should rise up from its prolonged armchair revolution and go forth to settle in the hearts of the settlers, the people of the periphery and others.
Shimon Peres Is Dead. Cue the Crocodile Tears
Farewell to your ashes, Peres. It's not pleasant to say so, but as a public figure, you were buried long ago by those eulogizing you today. And allow me to just add this: Their tears are crocodile tears.
Sorry Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, but Only Israel Will Save Itself From Itself
When we are able stand on our own two feet and not on the feet of America, then perhaps we will be able to climb out of the mud we've created.
Is Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel's Early Days Akin to Nazi Crimes?
The Yemenite children affair is a central theme of Iris Eliya Cohen’s third novel, but the way it’s handled gives pause for thought about the stuff of which best sellers are made in Israel.
Erel Margalit, an Israeli Leftist Who Roars Instead of Whines
The Labor Party legislator wants to replace the government, not be part of it. Not every leftist has to mention the feminist movement with every utterance.
The Spy Who Captivated Me: Israeli Espionage Novel Done Right
The tension and the reversals of fortune generated by agents of the Mossad, the Shin Bet and Hezbollah make ‘The IVF File’ a fine read.
A Jewish Cinderella Story, With a Soap-opera Twist
The daughter of Jewish immigrants and 20th-century American history are the protagonists of Susan Jane Gilman's new novel.
Israel Doesn't Need a President - or Embassies
The president and Foreign Ministry workers abroad do more harm than good; they should get real jobs.
A Military Incursion Into the Israeli Classroom
The minister of education's new plan to reward schools for high military recruitment rates is a cheap play for easy, and dangerous, nationalism. It's much more difficult to educate.
Pleasure and Pain: The Jewish Way
We are hardwired to avoid pain and seek pleasure. A look at how Judaism and Christianity differ in their approaches to indulgence and asceticism.
Who by Fire, Who by Water: Which Is Your Favorite Prayer of All Time?
During this uplifting time before Yom Kippur, we asked artists and intellectuals to share their favorite verses of prayer and poetry with us.
It's a Good Thing My Son Is Serving in Nablus
Even if these others are black and did not exactly arrive at their historical homeland, even if they made their way over a sea of sand rather than an ocean of water, they are starved, beaten, exhausted and bruised.
Mixed Media
A.B. Yehoshua tells Haaretz that while his latest book reexamines a number of his earlier works, it is in no way a 'parting novel'.