“Our own citizens we can’t do anything about; heck, that’s our voter base.” Ben-Gurion Airport, May 19 – The Ministry of Health eliminated the requirement this week for all incoming passengers to undergo swabbing for the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, instead leaving ...
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Mr. Zikri refers to the group of well-paid athletes, none of whom know who he is or how much of his money and psyche he has invested in supporting them, as “we.” Jerusalem, May 11 – A resident of Israel’s ...
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“Is this one of those things where we change the long-established definition of a term so we can paint Israel as violating it, like we did with ‘seller-colonialism,’ ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and ‘genocide’?” Tel Aviv, April 28 – The holder of ...
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“Abraham Accords, my foot,” he spat, using a dismissive Hebrew idiom that literally translates as “it interests my grandmother.” Ofakim, April 20 – A high schooler disparaged the unprecedented recent détente between Israel and several longtime Arab enemies by noting ...
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The same family also owns no television, but not because of philosophical objection to mass media content. Jerusalem, April 6 – Israel’s market for the previous generation of cellular devices now mainly features clientele who for religious and community-standards reasons ...
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“You can’t be too careful in the service of God,” the drinkers explain, intoxicated by, among other things, their pursuit of righteousness. Jerusalem, March 30 – The approaching Jewish festival of Passover, during which the Torah bars the possession, let ...
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“I suppose I could try to elicit clues in a roundabout way.” Jerusalem, March 21 – Confusion and apprehension seized a local husband today following his realization that he could not remember the exchange in which he and his spouse ...
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The Ukraine crisis, has made the situation tense enough that his parents are primed to believe anything about Russian capabilities and intentions. Kiryat Bialik, March 10 – A local adolescent expressed relief today that Putin’s forces have been disrupting geolocation service ...
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Witnesses observed Cherniak driving the vehicle to the grocery store and back, forced to take a roundabout route because of a traffic signal that hung too low to allow the vehicle passage with its missile rack elevated to operational height. ...
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The man gushed with the enthusiasm of someone manifestly unaware that he has been expelled, despoiled, genocided and ethnically cleansed, according to numerous international NGO reports. Fureidis, February 17 – A prominent resident of this predominantly-Arab town in northern Israel ...
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