Setting The Facts Straight: 1948
Tel Aviv University Professor Carlo Strenger wrote a piece for the Guardian that discussed the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the 1948 war. While I disagree with many of his...
View ArticleLinkin Park Concert in Tel Aviv
For those of you who are rock music fans, you may be excited to read that Linkin Park, my favorite rock band, is stopping in Tel Aviv on their current European Tour. The band will play in Gan HaYarkon...
View ArticleTel Aviv Missile Warning Time: 90 Seconds
photo © 2004 Ernesto JoryszThe Israel Home Front Command has decreased the warning time for incoming missiles to Israel’s most populated areas. Tel Aviv and Gush Dan residents now have 90 seconds...
View ArticleRecognizing The True Implications of Anti-Semitism
Lest we never fail to recognize the truly nasty and rotten core of the pseudo-intellectual conspiratorial and prejudicial form of bigotry and hatred that is the hallmark of anti-Semitism The most...
View ArticleSyria’s Bashar Assad Threatens Israel
Months of anti-government protests in Syria have left an estimated 3,000 dead. The Western world is looking on without intervening as it did in Libya, but they may not let the killing go on forever...
View ArticleGilad To Be Released – The Agony With The Ecstasy
The mood across Israel was changed in a dramatic fashion on Tuesday last week when the news was made public during the early evening that an agreement had been reached with Hamas for the return of the...
View ArticleTo Run Buses on Shabbat or Not?
The Tel Aviv City Council decided last week to recommend the operation of a bus services in the city on Shabbat. The decision, which was passed by a majority of 13 to 7, threatens to change the...
View ArticleGay Pride in the Holy Land
Last week was Gay Pride Week in Tel Aviv, which culminated on Friday in a huge parade through the streets of the city and along the beach front. Gay pride flags were proudly flying from street lights...
View ArticleSummer Security Assessment
It may be my imagination, but it seems to me that the security situation in Israel somehow seems to heat up when the weather gets hotter. Many of the wars that Israel has had to fight in recent times...
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