With flights canceled and prices skyrocketing, many Israelis are spending the summer in their own country out of necessity. But even here, everyday life is becoming increasingly unaffordable. A personal perspective on a constrained summer.
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This summer, we’re staying home
The UN and Western states disproportionately criticize Israel—a political maneuver with biblical echoes.
Regardless of political controversies, a remarkable Israeli superiority in the region has evidently developed in the last year.
Amid secrecy, exhaustion, and a lack of answers, each of us wants to see the goal on the horizon: land, solid ground, stability, normality.
“These children were victims of an evil that this council seems unwilling to address or condemn: Hamas,” Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly said.
While IDF soldiers fight on the front lines, the political leadership is getting lost in ideological trench warfare – and no one is taking the first step toward unity.
A month after Iranian missiles struck the Weizmann Institute, demolishing cancer, heart research and environmental labs, repair work is fast underway.
Those who fail to understand the core religious conflict – the contrast between the biblical sanctification of life and the Islamist glorification of death – will never truly grasp the dynamics of the Middle East conflict.
The rightward shift in Europe and Israel is not only a political but also a spiritual signal.
Love comes later. Israel, with its airstrikes deep in the heart of the Iranian regime, has not only demonstrated military resolve but also sent a clear moral message to the world. Freedom, justice, and the right to exist are non-negotiable.