What will happen to Libya? Assuming the revolutionaries manage to kick Qaddafi out, what kind of government can we expect? Will there be a power vacuum? A civil war? These are some of the questions that I and a few others attempt to answer in a series of short opinion pieces that was published on [...]

Moving from Tel Aviv to Jaffa turned out to be about much more than lower rent and proximity to the sea. In a city plagued by ethnic, national and socio-economic divisions, there is no such thing as an apolitical decision I moved to a mixed Arab-Jewish building in Jaffa last spring, a refugee from the [...]

The following was originally posted on +972 Magazine Hundreds of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday night to protest the death of Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who died on Saturday morning after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces during the weekly anti-fence demonstration. The 36 year-old woman was evacuated to a Ramallah hospital [...]

Danny Rubinstein, one of Israel’s most prominent journalists and an expert on Palestine who speaks fluent Arabic, thinks it very possible that the two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) has been left behind in the dust kicked up by history. In a piece for the US-based quarterly Dissent Magazine, called One State/Two States: Rethinking Israel and [...]

An Israeli director has made a film that imagines a near future in which Israel has ceased to exist, fading into history. Yaron Kaftori’s “2048″ was screened at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque last summer on Tisha b’Av – the date on which observant Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second temples, which preceded [...]