FROM THE BLOGS In death as in life, Yael Dayan is an inconvenient Israeli By Noah Efron Dayan spent her life making the country a more decent place, which may be why the world press stayed silent on her passing

Amos Yadlin Israel’s leadership at a crossroads The coming weeks offer a stark choice: broker a hostage deal and normalize ties with Saudi Arabia or jeopardize Israel’s future

Yohanan Plesner A missed historic opportunity: The Haredi military exemption law This government is rehashing a weak proposal that was meant to be temporary and drawn up before the war changed everything

How Arab intellectuals are failing their publics By Mustapha Ezzarghani Neglecting the conflict’s complexity and the suffering experienced on both sides is a form of laziness – even cowardice

Ariel Beery How anti-Zionists conquered the field of international law As law journal gatekeepers, second-year law students have quietly decimated a profession that the world needs now more than ever

Tamar Sternthal Free of bias? AP’s journalism deserves scrutiny Julie Pace, executive editor of Associated Press, understandably is in full-on damage control mode. Reams of careful analysis have documented the news organization's tendentious coverage of Israel's war with Hamas. Survivors of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre are suing the organization for hiring freelance photographers they say are affiliated with the terror organization and whom they accuse of having advance knowledge of the attacks. And two major customers, McClatchy and Gannett, recently dropped AP content as the media giant bleeds revenue. So times are tough for the 42-year-old news executive. In her...

Running while Jewish: London Marathon edition By Melinda B. Thaler As I ran miles festooned by huge Palestinian flags, with no Union Jack in sight, I tensed up – until some runners and bystanders yelled: Am Yisrael Chai!

Harold Behr The cruelty and cunning of hostage-taking The longer Hamas holds onto the captives, the deeper the divisions within Israel grow and the less the world cares about their plight

Shuki Friedman Drafting Haredim is now an existential issue Before October 7, we thought the IDF could be a ’small and smart army,’ but reality has cruelly slapped us in the face

Targeting ‘Israelites,’ archbishop doesn’t promote peace By David J. Michaels The Catholic leader in San Antonio has posted a barrage of tweets denouncing Israel’s acts of self-defense as akin to Nazism

Scott Kahn The rush to think the worst of Israel… again The world’s eagerness to blame Israel for civilian deaths in the Rafah fire – facts be damned – is just par for the course

Natan Kohn-Magnus Is the war making us more close-minded? The events of Oct. 7 were so traumatic that my intellectual curiosity crashes against the blunt force of the rocket that landed across the street from me

An open letter to Naomi Klein from a progressive Israeli By Jeremy Benstein Zionism is not monolithic – and our blood-soaked conflict is a war between extremists and those who call for compromise

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Yosef Blau The extremists in Israel’s government have to go When the Israeli mainstream is in thrall to the ultranationalist religious fringe, the religious world at large must take a stand to rebalance the country   Andrew Jose Occupying Gaza is Israel’s best path forward To end the thread of large-scale terror attacks, Israel must weaken Palestinian insurgency. Settlement is a key to that end