“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a political magician who has run out of tricks, and his stubbornness is stopping the Israeli right from winning convincingly and governing the country,” wrote Shalom Lipner, Senior Fellow of the Middle East program at the...
Israel is locked down again. Some restaurant owners here smashed plates in the streets to protest the nation’s second round of coronavirus restrictions. Other citizens simply went without pizza. Upon learning that just under 12% of recent, ongoing nationwide COVID-19...
On an otherwise ordinary day at a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland, over one hundred fifty years before anyone had laid eyes on an iPhone, American inventor, Alfred Vail, sat beside a device he had developed with his partner, Samuel Morse. While listening to a...
By Cliff Keller — While in Tel Aviv, why not catch a movie on a boat? Israel joined the elite ranks of Canada’s Port Toronto and Washington State’s Port of Everett this month when the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality launched (to use a nautical term) this...
Native Israelis’ perhaps most annoying vice may also be their nation’s saving grace By Cliff Keller —Israel’s “coronavirus cabinet” recently voted to order hospitals here to prepare to serve 2,000 additional coronavirus patients who may soon need ventilators. The...