A few hours in Beer Sheva this morning. The city now has nearly a quarter of a million residents—four times as many as 30 years ago when we first arrived—not counting the more than 100,000 Bedouins who have settled in the surrounding area, living in the open,
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At 5 a.m., after a sudden awakening, I read the proofs of my story "Via Appia," which is to appear in the upcoming issue of the literary journal "Sinn und Form" in Berlin. The short story had been "in my drawer" for ten
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Yesterday, two more Israeli soldiers were killed. And who talks about the many who are wounded? There are a distressing number of young men with war injuries. A symbol of the damage the entire country is suffering. Is the military intervention in Lebanon necessary? Since I live in southern Israel,
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I try to read five different Israeli newspapers every day to reflect the extreme "diversity" of opinions here. I start with the traditionally left-wing HaAretz, followed by the center-left Times of Israel, the popular Yediot Acheronot, and finally the decidedly pro-Israel Israel HaYom and Jerusalem
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Der Spiegel, the mildly antisemitic publication of Germany's conformist intellectuals, has been reveling for the third day in Germany's failed attempt to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. The culprit is... guess what... Israel! As Spiegel Online reported yesterday: "Meanwhile, SPD
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The following text of mine on the topic of “Health in Times of War and Disaster” was recently published in a German magazine, and it surprises even me. Did I really write that? And have I actually experienced all of this? And developed such a strange sense of equanimity in
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Yesterday I received a call from my friend Pavel Hoffmann, a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he was deported with his parents in 1943 at the age of five. He survived and was liberated as a seven-year-old orphan. Both his parents perished in the camp, as
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Since it's Shabbat today, I only looked at the newspapers this evening. There was great concern about the news that the American F-15 jet, shot down during the Iran-Iraq War, had been hit by a Chinese missile: "A senior U.S. official and one of
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My wife broke her right forearm yesterday morning (luckily she's left-handed), and after X-rays, a CT scan, and having a cast put on, she left the hospital in the afternoon—impatient as ever—without properly checking out. As a result, an hour later, a police car
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Yesterday I read an interview that the widely respected historian Noah Harari gave to The New York Times (and which was picked up by our media). It is incredibly naive. He understands nothing about Islam. He describes Hamas’s systematic atrocities as a tactical mistake by their now-killed leader
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26.5. We have simply wonderful spring days, perhaps too wonderful to be true. From the sunrise in the clear blue sky, the air is sparkling, the leaves in the garden are dancing in the morning breeze, shimmering and sparkling as if to tell me: Life is beautiful. It can