Alex Averbukh
Jazz from Romania
Emil Bizga will front an international lineup over the next few days when he performs in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
In Israel, US sees opportunity for green tech and development
Potent message
Rosh Hashana 5775: Each of us has a special role
Save the IBA’s English news
Diplomats are a particularly influential bunch. IBA news in English helps shape their outlook about Israel.
Know comment: With one hand behind our back
Abbas is part of the problem, not the solution, as the past decade has shown over and over again.
Grapevine: The end of an era
It remains to be seen whether Rivlin who is 10 years younger than Peres was when he took office, will prove to be as energetic
No holds barred: Israel must not make the same mistake twice
Peace came to Europe and the Far East only after the greatest generation totally destroyed Germany and Japan’s capacity to make war.
Media comment: Klinghoffer
Attempts to rewrite history are ubiquitous, but here arguably the most important opera house in the world is participating in this anti-Semitic distortion.
Grapevine: Seizing the moment
Weissglass credited Abbas with bringing about a change in Palestinian attitudes after taking over the leadership of the PLO in November 2004.
Hungary’s dangerous precedent
Anyone who has followed the alarming rise of Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary since its establishment in October 2003, would find the decision of the Supreme Court absolutely incomprehensible.
In my own write: Fall of the mighty
Their ethical failures spread out through society like ripples in a pond when a stone is thrown in.
My word: Spies and stories
Truth and fiction mix inside and outside the espionage world.
Savir's corner: Pollution
In today’s Middle East, there is a dichotomy between moderate pragmatism and fundamentalist, nationalistic extremism.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: We never forgot Jerusalem
Whenever Jews remembered Jerusalem something good came of it. Whenever they forgot Jerusalem, bad things happen.