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“PLEASE DON’T write about Ya’ir Golan!” a friend begged me, “Anything a leftist like you writes will only harm him!” So I abstained for...
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“PLEASE DON’T write about Ya’ir Golan!” a friend begged me, “Anything a leftist like you writes will only harm him!” So I abstained for...
WHEN DAVID BEN-GURION read out Israel’s declaration of independence (officially: “Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel”) on May 14, 1948, I...
ANTI-SEMITES make me laugh. They are so funny. I know that many will consider this statement frivolous, if not obnoxious, considering all the terrible...
IN 1975, I was stabbed in the chest at the door of my apartment. The assassin missed my heart by millimeters. He was caught...
I LIKE the President of the State of Israel, Reuven (“Rubi”) Rivlin. I like him very much. This may seem a bit strange, since...
IT SEEMS that everything possible has already been said, written, proclaimed, asserted and denied about the incident that is rocking Israel. Everything except the...
ONE OF the most famous lines in German poetry is “Don’t greet me under the lime trees.” The Jewish-German poet Heinrich Heine asks his...
SUDDENLY I remembered where I had seen it before. The same kind of face. The same chin thrust forward, to produce an impression of...
HELP! I am walking into a minefield. I can’t help myself. The minefield has a name: BDS – boycott, divestment, sanctions. I am often...
A FARMER comes to the big town for the first time. He visits the zoo and stands for hours transfixed before the cage of...