“We Came to Banish the Darkness” – Between the Light of Reason and the Smartphone Flashlight
The West has forgotten itself… Israel remembers too much
And the light? It’s still there – but it takes courage to turn it on.
December 21, 2025
Israel
2025
A Local Shower With Gusts of Panic
Remember the good old days, when rain was just… rain? When gray skies received at most a footnote like “Take an umbrella,” and not an emergency flash on the front page that made you think aliens had landed in Ayalon Canyon?
December 11, 2025
How Is It Possible That 89% of Israelis Are Happy Living in Israel?
We love this country, because it is ours.
With all the mess, the congestion, the luxury and the madness… and maybe that’s why.
December 6, 2025
Is Haifa Turning From a “Mixed City” Into… an Arab City?
Haifa used to be a “demographic mosaic.” Today it’s more like a graffiti wall after a protest: Everyone is sure they know who painted it, no one admits, and only one thing is clear – something has changed here, and it’s not just real estate prices.
December 1, 2025
Israeli Politics, Episode 46 (Season Finale)
🏁 Politics in Israel is neither hell nor heaven… it is a circus.
But what a wonderful, colorful, crazy circus – which every now and then, in the middle of everything, manages to touch the heart and change reality.
November 26, 2025
How Israel’s Radical Left Took a Sledgehammer to “Statesmanship”
There is an old saying: “If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck – it probably works for you.”
And in Israel in recent years, that duck is the radical discourse of the left: high-pitched voice, right-wing tone, flapping wings in hysteria – and in effect destroying everything that resembles a framework, responsibility, or a functioning state.
November 24, 2025
Middle East Madness, Season 2025: “Alliances of Convenience” 🔥
Coming this fall to a conflict zone near you: the geopolitical soap opera where yesterday’s enemy is tomorrow’s BFF – and the only constant is chaos.
“In the Middle East, peace isn’t the opposite of war—it’s just foreplay.”
November 12, 2025
Hatikvah: The Only National Anthem That Still Believes in Something
As long as there are people here who continue to believe – not in the theory of binationality, but in the historical right of one small and troublesome people to return home – hope is not lost.
And deep down we still have a little bit of Jewish audacity, a little faith, and a little healthy cynicism – it will not disappear either.
November 11, 2025
The City That Never Sleeps — But Now Prays Facing East
Americans are now discovering what we in Israel learned a long time ago: tolerance is great – until someone takes advantage of it to take control of you.
November 5, 2025
Those Who Destroy You Will Come from Within You
Yes, the destroyers and ruiners are among us — in faculty lounges, film festivals, and NGOs with suspiciously generous grants.
But they won’t win.
Because even if they hate themselves, we love this country enough for both of us.
November 1, 2025
