Toronto to Ra'anana

I recently read The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower by Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot.  I suppose that my ti...

Browsing around at Steimatzky's bookstore at the Ben Gurion airport, I came across a book by Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A brief history o...

Tuvia Tenenbom's new book, The Lies They Tell , is a natural follow-up to his 2015 offering, Catch the Jew , which I reviewed at that ...

I am writing this post on a plane on the way back from Israel.  I'm on Turkish Airlines, which is one of the few international carriers ...

We took advantage of the hot summer weather to do a bit of travelling around Israel with some special guests.  While it is quite hot in Isra...

Wading into the waters of Israeli political analysis can be hazardous.  The unexpected sometimes becomes reality.  Other times, one can be l...

It is Pesach (Passover) in Israel (and around the world) and it is a very important and widely celebrated holiday here.  There are laws tha...