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Israel

World

My Grandfather the Zionist

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

Abraham Riesman New York Jun 2021 30min Permalink

World

Why Did You Throw Stones?

A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.

Rachel Kushner n+1 May 2021 20min Permalink

Tech World

Inside Israel’s Lucrative — and Secretive — Cybersurveillance Industry

The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

Amos Barshad Rest of World Mar 2021 Permalink

World Religion

Next Year in Jerusalem

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

Ellen Willis Rolling Stone Apr 1977 1h20min Permalink

World

BDS: How a Controversial Non-violent Movement Has Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Debate

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

Nathan Thrall The Guardian Aug 2018 30min Permalink

World Food

Let's Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again

An essay on how we misremember our youth.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Saveur Jul 2017 Permalink

World

Israel’s Invisible Filipino Work Force

To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?

Ruth Margalit New York Times Magazine May 2017 20min Permalink

Science

How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down

After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.

Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Nov 2016 30min Permalink

Religion Travel

My Holy Land Vacation

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

Tom Bissell Harper's Jul 2016 40min Permalink

Crime

Hidden Damages

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

M.R. O'Conner The Atavist Magazine Jan 2016 50min Permalink

World

Who Killed the 20th Century’s Greatest Spy?

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

Simon Parkin The Guardian Sep 2015 25min Permalink

World

Operation Red Falcon

He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.

Ronen Bergman The Atavist Magazine Apr 2015 1h10min Permalink

World

The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and Watched It Crumble

“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”

Ben Birnbaum, Amir Tibon New Republic Jul 2014 40min Permalink

World

In 2000, a Newspaper Headline Opened a Wound in Israeli Society. It Still Hasn't Healed.

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet May 2014 30min Permalink

Business Tech

A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Startup That Was Going to Change the World

Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.

Max Chafkin Fast Company Apr 2014 35min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Traitor

The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.

Seymour Hersh New Yorker Jan 1999 25min Permalink

World

The General

An Israeli journalist’s six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.

Ari Shavit New Yorker Jan 2006 35min Permalink

Arts World

The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.

Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2013 40min Permalink

Best Article Business World

Buried Secrets

How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jul 2013 45min Permalink

Crime World

How Life of Spy Ben Zygier Unravelled

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

Jason Koutsoukis The Sydney Morning Herald Mar 2013 15min Permalink

Sports World

How Soccer Explains Israel

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

Amos Barshad Grantland Mar 2013 30min Permalink

Sports

The All-Stars of David

On the Israeli national baseball team.

Charles Bethea Details Mar 2013 Permalink

Politics World

The Party Faithful

The rise of Israel’s far right.

David Remnick New Yorker Jan 2013 35min Permalink

World

One Martyr Down

An investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier in Lebanon.

Adam Day Legion Jan 2012 35min Permalink

World

The Tunnels of Gaza

Life and death in an underground economy.

James Verini National Geographic Nov 2012 20min Permalink

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