Jonathan Cummings
By Jonathan Cummings
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Israel News David Landau, Provocative Israeli Editor, Dies at 67
David Landau, who has died at the age of 67, was one of Israel’s leading journalists. Editor-in-chief of Haaretz from 2004 to 2008, he was the founding editor of the paper’s English-language edition in 1997. To the casual observer, Landau may have appeared something of an enigma. Provocative and forthright on one hand, yet hugely…
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Culture Digging Deep Into the Collective Kitchens of Israel
A recipe book collected from the now-silent dining rooms of Israel’s kibbutzim sounds like a bad joke, a snide swipe at a relic of the old Israel from a couple of Tel Aviv hipsters. This book’s recipe for French Fried Potato Quiche and references to rubber chicken would fit right in. Yet Assi Haim and…
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Opinion Abbas vs. Netanyahu
Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu once again avoided speaking to each other yesterday, as they have done for the past three years. Despite both claiming that they want to restart conflict-ending talks, there was little evidence of that in either leader’s speech to the United Nations’ General Assembly. Abbas was on the attack from the…
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