Tag: Cities

Hezbollah targets Tel Aviv in volley to central Israel

Rocket sirens sounded across central and northern Israeli communities in cities including Tel Aviv, Netanya, Ramat Gan, Herzliya and others. Alarms also sounded in cities located in the Upper Galilee region and Nahariya. According...

Dilemmas

We are faced with a situation in which difficult choices have to be made. The story of creation which we read in Synagogues last week tells us in the first few sentences that the world...

Interior Ministry suspends ties with Haaretz after publisher’s controversial Gaza war speech

The Interior Ministry announced Thursday it would suspend all cooperation and advertising with the Haaretz newspaper following controversial remarks made by the paper's publisher, Amos Schocken, at a conference in London where he criticized Israeli policies...

Days of judgment

One of the prayers recited during Rosh Hashanah services deals with what may lie ahead in the year to come. Michael Kuttner We are reminded at this time of the year that our lives are fleeting...

Palestinian Authority education: No room for a two-state solution

The current war in the Middle East often leads policymakers to think of a two-state solution as a panacea for peace. However, Palestinian Authority texts feature three fundamentals which belie any possibility of peace: 1. Delegitimization of...

Oct. 7 forever altered the global Jewish existence

For nearly a century, Jews in places like America, Canada, Great Britain and Australia took for granted their connection to and comfort within their homes and nations. Even if antisemitism still dwelt at the...
A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered at the Oct. 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

The real lessons of Oct. 7 must not be ignored

The first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in southern Israel adds yet another sacred date to a calendar already filled with those devoted to mourning tragedies in Jewish history. But the fresh...

Britain’s response to October 7 has been shameful

What do you say? What do you say to a bereaved father who waits, broken- hearted, for the head of his murdered son to be returned by his killers? What do you say to a...

Israel is quite right to pre-empt an onslaught, and act accordingly

Amid the drama of Israel’s devastating booby traps and precision air strikes against Hezbollah, it is easy to lose sight of what is really at stake. With ex-diplomats and academic experts filling the airwaves with...

Deradicalizing Gaza Before ‘the Day After’

or Americans like me, who’ve known their country at war only in the Middle East, one of the most interesting things about World War II is the lack of a postwar insurgency. After the...