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A wise person once remarked, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be intelligent, but it’s still artificial.” I tested that when I queried my AI, “When did Israel become a nation?” It confidently responded: “Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948, when David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel.” Upon seeing this answer,
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Tucked between Moshe’s falafel stand and Eli’s makolet (small grocery store) on Prophets Street is a little bakery. Each Friday morning without fail, I make my way to this bakery and buy a loaf of challah from Ronnie for our Shabbat dinner. It is one of the special moments of my week. Ronnie always greets
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I have seen everything that’s happening today before. I have lived through these times before. And I know where they lead. I was born in 1924 in Karlsruhe, Germany. As a child, I witnessed Hitler’s rise to power, which began around the time I was nine years old. For the first three years of school,
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Israel is known as a startup nation and a powerhouse of technological and military ingenuity. In recent years, a quieter yet equally revolutionary transformation has been taking place: the rise of women to leadership roles in fields critical to Israel’s security and innovation. From elite units in the IDF to groundbreaking tech startups and government
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“Allahu akbar!” These are often the first words to pierce the subconscious minds of many Jerusalemites in the predawn darkness. They’re not alone. The adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, rings out like clockwork every morning from countless minarets, the thin towers pointing heavenward like green fingers over mosques across cities worldwide. The call stirs
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Thirteen years after the opening shots of the Syrian Civil War rang out on March 15, 2011, the devastating conflict came to an abrupt finale—against all odds and all in just over a week. Damascus fell to a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on December 8, 2024,
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My first encounter with an officer of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was in 1985 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, home of the US Army Field Artillery. Assigned there for the Officers Advanced Course, I was privileged to sponsor one of the allied nation officers in attendance: Captain Nir Granot from Tel Aviv. My wife and
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On the night of November 6, 2024, Maccabi Tel Aviv football club fans left the stadium in Amsterdam after a match between the Israeli team and the local team, Ajax. They flooded into the streets to find what the city’s mayor described as “antisemitic hit-and-run squads” waiting. Multiple gangs of rioters screaming “Free Palestine,” many
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Jenan Matari wrung her hands uneasily as she peered bravely into the camera. “This is a very heavy, uncomfortable video,” she began. Matari paused briefly, as if bracing under the burden of the message she was about to deliver. “We’re going to talk about the existence of Israel as a sadist entity as a whole,”
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A flight from Tel Aviv landed in Dagestan—a southeastern region of Russia bordering the Caspian Sea—on October 30, 2023, just weeks after Hamas’s devastating massacre on October 7. Videos of the incident show a mob from the Muslim-majority region, knowing a plane was arriving from Israel, storming through the airport, searching for anyone Jewish. Some
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