IN 1975, I was stabbed in the chest at the door of my apartment. The assassin missed my heart by millimeters. He was caught by

I LIKE the President of the State of Israel, Reuven (“Rubi”) Rivlin. I like him very much. This may seem a bit strange, since he

IT SEEMS that everything possible has already been said, written, proclaimed, asserted and denied about the incident that is rocking Israel.Everything except the main point.

ONE OF the most famous lines in German poetry is “Don’t greet me under the lime trees.”The Jewish-German poet Heinrich Heine asks his sweetheart not

SUDDENLY I remembered where I had seen it before.The same kind of face. The same chin thrust forward, to produce an impression of force and

SO IS Hezbollah a terrorist organization?Of course not.So why has the Arab League decided that they are?Because most of the league’s member states are Sunni

HELP! I am walking into a minefield. I can’t help myself. The minefield has a name: BDS – boycott, divestment, sanctions. I am often asked

A FARMER comes to the big town for the first time. He visits the zoo and stands for hours transfixed before the cage of the

HE APPEARED out of nowhere. Literally. The Israeli Police needed a new commander. The last one had come to the end of his term of

RIGHT AFTER the foundation of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have done good by my people. Utter a wish and