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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
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
The 6,000-year-old skeleton of a shepherd found in the Cave of the Warrior in the Judean Desert. Instead of engaging with long-term processes or the history of dynasties and monarchs, here was an opportunity to understand the life of an ordinary person.
 
Archaeologists Get Up Close and Personal With a Man Who Lived 6,000 Years Ago
 
Hai Ashkenazi | 12.08.2022
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
Gershon Hacohen. “A large number of the questions that can be found rolling from side to side in our public discourse, has to do with whether Zionism was secular-liberal from its outset, or whether there was something else in Zionism.”
 
This Israeli General Has Tough News for Those Who Want to Live Here in Peace
 
Shany Littman | 29.07.2022
 
 
 
Meydad Eliyahu. 'You come from ‘there,’ but I wasn’t so sure what this ‘there’ actually was.'
 
Israeli Artist Explores His Erased Indian Jewish Heritage
 
Ofir Hovav | 18.08.2022
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
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