Israel
Commentary on Israel
Op-eds at the Times of Israel since 2011, with a few pieces elsewhere. Newest first.
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HolyLand Historical Atlas
An interactive, trilingual historical atlas of the land, from the ancient period to the present, to be built by scholars of all backgrounds.
2026
2022-2025
- When Tactics Overwhelm Values
- The Fantasy of the Center: A Preliminary Postmortem
- A Conversation I Overheard on the Judicial Overhaul
- Standing up to Big Pita in the Holy Land
- The Gaza Disengagement just died. What happens next?
- Divide Syria
- The criminal underbelly of free newspaper distribution
- You Do Not Vote Yair Lapid?
- The Haredi Covid Riot
2021-2022
- Political Mergers, Right and Left
- 'Is Israel an Apartheid State?' is Not the Right Question
- Must Israel's Jewish Character Be Coercive?
- Gantz, Ya'alon, and Lapid: Expedient Alliances
- Term Limits for the Prime Minister
2019-2020
- Ministry Positions for the Hard Right: My Top Five Picks
- A Post Mortem of the 23rd Election
- Lieberman's a Weak Leftist?
- Too Many Eggs in the Trump Basket
- Israel Has Six Parties...Sort of
- Distracting Us With Gossip
- Spinning Out of Control
- "You're Just Like Orly Levy," Said the Interviewer to Lapid
- Randomness of the Beirut Explosion
- Does Israel Have a Right to be Xenophobic? Q&A
- Arab Parties and Their Place in Israeli Government
- When Heated Rhetoric Gets Too Hot
2013-2018
- The Three State Solution
- Never Again, or Just Never Again to Us? Asylum for the Yazidi
- Celebrating the Killing of a Baby: A Look at the Dark Side of the Force
- Moving the American Embassy and the Soft Bigotry of Infantilizing Expectations
- Palestinian Nakba and Israeli Independence: Telling Two Incomplete Stories
- Learning from Itamar
2011-2012
- Revamping the Allon Plan: Thoughts on the Beinart-Gordis Debate
- But They Are Not Citizens: A Centrist's Response to Dani Dayan
- Time to Not Be Nice
- Enough Already with the Modesty Police
- Reform, Restore, or Rescind: What to do with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel
- Saying Sh'ma without a License, or, How to Get Strip-Searched by Praying at the Kotel
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