Avraham Avi-hai


 Kashrut certificates outside a restaurant in Jerusalem.

Kosher food in Israel is an $800 million racket of corruption - opinion

 A poster advertising Dzigan and Schumacher

The way it really was! Some faces and facets of Yiddish humor

 The Ostbahnhof (Eastern Railway Station) in Vienna, built between 1867 and 1870, was replaced by a new Südbahnhof in 1955, which in turn was demolished in 2009 and replaced by the Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station). Painting based on a photograph by Ellen Harvey: ‘The Disappointed Tourist.’

How it really was: Why did we create Israel? A reminder


How it really was: Israel’s first oil discovery

How ‘The Jerusalem Post’ and I scooped the world

 Levi Eshkol

How it really is! Moral dilemmas and reality

Morally, I should speak out. Realistically, what good would it do? Praise would come from the anti-fascists. But supporters of these right-wing parties would ignore this at best or lash out.

 United Torah Judaism’s chairman, Yitzchak Goldknopf

How it really was: Days of nostalgia, purity and awe

The purity of immersion in nostalgia and its hopes have morphed into the terrible beauty of the great reality we have created.

 A maple tree in Toronto.

How it really is: Guess who doesn’t recognize Israel?

As an Israeli, I resent these people peddling a non-Israeli, anti-Zionist fake “Year in Israel.” As a taxpayer, I resent subsidizing these programs

 People watch the military airshow during Israel's 74th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem, May 5, 2022.

What was Jerusalem like in the 1950s? A hypothetical letter home

Kaleidoscope and cacophony: If I had written a letter to my parents back then

 Jerusalem’s Ben-Yehuda Street in 1950.

Antisemitism in Russia, the US: Fury, fear and hope

The old “Blame-the-Jew” Russian and European syndrome may be paralleled in the US as national dissonance grows in both. And I am afraid.

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses a news conference after his meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Moscow on April 26.

Will Ukraine break the mold of corrupt, antisemitic eastern Europe?

History shows that corruption and antisemitism are endemic in Eastern Europe. Yes, experts know what was, but not what will be.

 President Isaac Herzog and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky address the media after their meeting in Kyiv on October 21, 2021.

Did David Ben-Gurion decline into dementia?

I had direct contact with B-G, which today, in hindsight, seems to indicate that he was already in the initial stage.

 David Ben-Gurion takes former Canadian premier Lester B. Pearson for a walk around Sde Boker on December 5, 1968.

How it really was! Preparing for life in Israel - the serious side

Hachshara was developed by Labor Zionists across the world in the early part of the 20th century to recruit and train agricultural laborers who would build Jewish presence in Palestine.

 The International KB-3 pickup truck, 1948.

How it really was: Preparing for life in Israel

The year was 1948, the place was a 160-acre (624 dunam) farm on the outskirts of Guelph, Ontario.

 Members of the original Kibbutz Kfar Darom, then located in the Gaza Strip, ride mules to work in the fields in 1947