From Israel: ”Vile and Maddening!!”
The meaning of “vile” is fairly obvious. But “maddening”? I am referring to the back-room bargaining and extensive game-playing that have been taking place as...
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From Israel: “So Close and Yet…!!”
“Chik-Chok” is a commonly used Hebrew slang expression that roughly means speedily – one, two, three quick. One might say, no frills. And that, my...
From Israel “Do We Know Where We’re Going??”
The election in Israel is next Tuesday. Here I offer my perspective on what’s happening and what we might expect. First, several background points:...
From Israel: “Buckle Your Seatbelts, Israel!!”
So we’re into election campaign mode. This does not, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that matters will now go smoothly: We’ve got a...
From Israel: “Respite from the Lunacy!”
I wrote in my last posting about the passing of First Lady Nechama Rivlin, z”l. But I return to this subject briefly now because the...
From Israel: “Yikes! They Are Still There”
But of course they are! The myriad of problems Israel faces, that is. How delightful Yom Ha’atzmaut was, with its respite – its sense of...
From Israel: “Sometimes We Weep”
On the day that we no longer know how to weep, we will have lost our humanity. Ori Ansbacher, 19, was a resident of Tekoa...
From Israel: “The Inevitable Is Upon Us”
As has undoubtedly been obvious to many of my readers, even though Israel is in the throes of an election campaign (or the first stage...
From Israel: Scandalous!
I want to return to the issue of the illegal Bedouin outpost of Khan al-Ahmar. It may not seem so to some of my readers,...
From Israel: Jaw Dropping!
I knew that our Mossad was the very best, but this is above and beyond. Many of you are already aware of their incredible feat;...