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Netflix’s newest Israeli hit is simplistic and racist, no matter how many times it name-drops the Oslo Accords
“The Girl from Oslo” sees the Middle East conflict in black and white, and carelessly demonizes its Palestinian characters.
How an antisemitic attack gave rise to a pro-IDF social media movement
The #IDFShirtChallenge has users pose wearing their Israel Defense Forces merch to show their support for the army, and to oppose antisemitism.
I was an IDF commander for decades, but my son with autism taught me the true meaning of strength.
Life is a non-stop battle with disability and human frailty. Whether due to injury, illness, accident or aging, disability touches all of us and the ones we love.
Israel uses new surveillance technology to distance itself from the occupation. It’s not working
Up until a few months ago, Israeli Jews were convinced I was lying to them when I told them soldiers go into Palestinian homes to “map” the house and the people living in it. Every night, soldiers entered the homes of “uninvolved civilians” —meaning people who are suspected of nothing other than being Palestinian —not to arrest or seize weapons. Instead they woke everyone up, children and adults alike. Sometimes the soldiers took pictures of them, sometimes they just wrote down their names and then went off into the night.
Israel says 1967 land conquests weren’t planned. Declassified documents tell a more complicated story.
Israel has long asserted that its 1967 land conquests in the Six Day War were unplanned.
Editorial | Changing Israeli prime ministers is not enough
You don’t have to love Naftali Bennett or Yair Lapid to be happy about their agreement Wednesday to form a new Israeli government that ends the reign of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. You don’t have to agree with them about any key issue facing the Jewish state. You don’t have to trust them — and you probably shouldn’t; they’re politicians, after all.
Israel’s proposed coalition agreement offers a rare chance for optimism
Barring any unusual surprises, of which we have already had a great many, Israel will soon have a new government that few could have imagined a few weeks ago.
Growing numbers of Yom Kippur War veterans are seeking PTSD treatment
A growing number of 1973 veterans are seeking PTSD treatment
Israeli Woman Chases Down Man Who Flashed And Tried To Grab Her
A veteran of the Israeli military and a personal trainer, she held the man and asked passers-by to call 911, but no one was willing to get involved.
Some IDF Cadets Listen To Rabbis Over Commanders, Former Defense Minister Says
Religious pre-military academies are creating “private militias,” Avigdor Liberman charged.