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Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin. “I was already in a state of mind that I wouldn’t return. On Friday evening I spoke with my wife on the phone and thought about how to conduct a final conversation now without telling her that I’m not coming back.”

Many Israeli Generals Have PTSD, but This Confession Is Unprecedented

Amos Harel | 19.08.2022

Israeli tanks in the Golan Heights, in 2018. Against the background of the security tensions on the northern border, and in case of an Iranian response to attacks in Syria, the military deployed additional Iron Dome batteries in the Golan Heights.

Analysis || Not Just Missiles and Bombs: How Israel Exercises Soft Power Across the Mideast

Amos Harel | 19.08.2022

Private pools in the northern Druze village of Yarka. Says Reem, a resident who is building her own pool: “The whole attitude every time we arrived at the kibbutz wasn’t pleasant. Going to a pool isn’t meant to entail suffering.”

Why More and More Israeli Arabs Are Getting Private Swimming Pools

Sheren Falah Saab | 19.08.2022

Podcast | In America, "It's the economy, stupid." And in Israel?

“Easter Procession in a Village,” by Vasily Perov. The Jews’ takeover of the vodka business in Ukraine could lead to confrontations with Russian Orthodox priests.

The Link Between the History of Vodka and Antisemitism

Shany Littman | 19.08.2022

From left: New Ukrainian immigrants Arina Asherov, Volodymyr Tkachenko, Valeriaa Aizenberh and Alexandra Katsirova at the Jewish Agency absorption center in Carmiel, northern Israel.

They Escaped Putin's War in Ukraine. Now They Have to Face an Israeli Election

Judy Maltz | 19.08.2022

A Haredi youngster heading to the Golan Beach on the Sea of Galilee last week.

'We Wait for It All Year' || Welcome to Israel's Haredi Vacation Season

Judy Maltz | 18.08.2022

Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Eyeing Quiet, Israel Expands Work Permits for Gazans

Yaniv Kubovich | 19.08.2022

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrives for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron (not seen) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Gaza Battle Leaves New Israel-Egypt Tensions in Its Wake

Amos Harel | 19.08.2022

Former Prime Minister Netanyahu examines a bust of the emperor Titus, during an official visit to Rome, in 2013.

Instead of Fighting Netanyahu, He Should Be Turned Into a God

Ofri Ilany | 20.08.2022

The man in the glass box. Eichmann, at his trial in Jerusalem, 1961. For Arendt, the monster became a joke.

Can Evil Ever Be Banal? Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Great Mistake

Aner Govrin | 20.08.2022

Shiri Sinay.

'My Settlement Is Pastoral and Fun… I’m Dying to Leave'

Danna Frank | 19.08.2022

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking in Tehran in June.

Analysis || Iran's Weapon for Sealing a Nuclear Deal: 'Heroic Flexibility'

Zvi Bar'el | 20.08.2022

Representatives from Iran (R) and the European Union (L) attending a meeting of the joint commission on negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna, Austria, in 2021.

Report: Iran Drops Demand to Remove Its Revolutionary Guards From U.S. Terror List

Haaretz | 20.08.2022

Family members of Khalil Awawdeh at the family house in Hebron, last week

Israel Freezes Detention of Palestinian Hunger Striker as Long as He's Hospitalized

Hagar Shezaf | 19.08.2022

Israel's Hanna Minenko celebrates after winning bronze in the women's triple jump final on Friday.

Israeli Triple Jumper Wins Bronze in European Championship

Ido Rakovsky | 20.08.2022

Meydad Eliyahu. 'You come from ‘there,’ but I wasn’t so sure what this ‘there’ actually was.'

Exhibition on Indian Jews Resists Israel's Culture of Erasure

Ofir Hovav | 18.08.2022

An Israeli F-35 leaving a hangar last year.

Analysis || Empty Words and Lots of Noise: Israel Has No 'Iran Policy'

Alon Pinkas | 19.08.2022

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